T75 Rift-Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Subduction Zone Tectonics of Collisional Orogens: Comparative Analysis of the Circum-Mediterranean and Appalachian-Caledonian Orogenic Belts

Sunday, 1 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 341

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  ALPS-APPALACHIANS COMPARISON: WORTHWHILE EXERCISE OR “APPLES AND ORANGES?”
  Robert D. Hatcher, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
  269738 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  CONTINENT-PROXIMAL BACKARC BASIN DEVELOPMENT AND CLOSURE IN THE NORWEGIAN CALEDONIDES, NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND ANATOLIAN TETHYSIDES
  Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, OH and Harald Furnes, University of Bergen, Bergen
  262066 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  CORRELATING TERRANES AND THERMOTECTONIC HISTORIES OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND, USA
  William Burton, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Michael J. Kunk, Reston, VA and Christopher M. Bailey, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA and Ryan J. McAleer, Reston, VA and David Spears, Division of Geology and Mineral Resour, Charlottesville, VA
  260821 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  DISMEMBERED OPHIOLITES OF THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE OF NW NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  Loren Raymond, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Arthur J. Merschat, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  270454 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  THE DYNAMICS OF TACONIAN SUBDUCTION ZONE METAMORPHISM AND EXHUMATION: INSIGHTS FROM POLYMETAMORPHOSED MAFIC ROCKS IN THE VERMONT APPALACHIANS
  Ian W. Honsberger, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
  270485 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  A SUBDUCTED OCEANIC SPREADING RIDGE MODEL FOR MID-PALEOZOIC EASTERN NEW ENGLAND AND SOUTHERN MARITIME CANADA
  Yvette D. Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  264695 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  CENOZOIC TECTONICS OF THE ALPINE-CARPATHIAN-MEDITERRANEAN SYSTEM: HOW MANY PLATES, HOW MANY SUBDUCTION ZONES?
  Walter Kurz, University of Graz, Graz and Harald Fritz, University of Graz, Graz and Andreas Woelfler, Universityof Hannover, Hannover
  264473 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  PONTIDES - AN ACCRETIONARY OROGEN IN THE CIRCUM-MEDITERRANEAN REGION
  Aral Okay, Istanbul, N/A
  261993 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF OLISTOSTROMES (SEDIMENTARY MÉLANGES) IN THE APENNINE AND APPALACHIAN OROGENIC BELTS AND THE PROCESSES OF THEIR FORMATION
  Andrea Festa, Department of Earth Sciences, Torino and Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, OH and Kei Ogata, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Gian Andrea Pini, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste
  262106 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  SERPENTINITE MELANGES IN THE WESTERN ALPS METAOPHIOLITES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN DETECTING THE PRIMARY PHYSIOGRAPHY OF OCEANIC MANTLE-SEDIMENT INTERFACE
  Paola Tartarotti, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, MILANO and Andrea Festa, Department of Earth Sciences, Torino and Luca Benciolini, Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, sezione Georisorse e Territorio, Udine and Gianni Balestro, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Torino
  263977 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  REMNANTS OF A LATE JURASSIC DETACHMENT SHEAR ZONE IN THE MONVISO META-OPHIOLITE COMPLEX (WESTERN ALPS)
  Gianni Balestro, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Torino and Andrea Festa, Department of Earth Sciences, Torino and Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, OH and Paola Tartarotti, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, MILANO
  265255 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  TETHYAN OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION AND OCEANIC CORE COMPLEX OPHIOLITES OF CALABRIA AND BASILICATA, SOUTHERN ITALY
  David Shimabukuro, Sacramento, CA and Claire Battistella, California State University, Sacramento, CA and Walter Alvarez, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  270105 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:05 PM
  STRUCTURE OF THE YARLUNG-ZANGBO SUTURE ZONE (TIBET): NATURE & TIMING OF OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE FORMATION AND COLLISIONAL EVENTS IN EASTERN NEOTETHYS
  Yanxue Xie, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, OH
  261940 (Technical Sessions)