43 NETectonics: New Advances in Structural Geology and Tectonics in the Appalachians

Monday, 20 March 2017
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  MINIMUM FINITE SHEAR STRAIN ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR STRAIN LOCALIZATION AT THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SANDHILL CORNER SHEAR ZONE, MAINE, USA
  Erik Anderson, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME and Scott Johnson, University of Maine, Orono, ME
  291291 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  THE MONROE HIGH STRAIN ZONE:  A NEWLY RECOGNIZED FEATURE IN THE NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM OF SOUTH – CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MAINE
  Stephen G. Pollock, Saco, ME and Christie Rowe, McGill University, Montreal, QC and Mark Swanson, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME and Catherine Ross, McGill University, Montreall, QC
  291409 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  MULTIPLE DEFORMATION OF CHLORITE-GRADE LATE ORDOVICIAN TO EARLY DEVONIAN STRATA IN EASTERN MAINE
  Allan Ludman, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY
  290457 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY REGION IN SOUTH-CENTRAL VERMONT AND WEST-CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE
  Gregory Walsh, Montpelier, VT and John Aleinikoff, Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center, Denver, CO and Peter Valley, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Arthur Merschat, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Ryan J. McAleer, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Nicholas M. Ratcliffe, Reston, VA and Peter Thompson, Post Mills, VT and Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center, Denver, CO and Mary K. Roden-Tice, Plattsburgh, NY and Sean P. Regan, U.S. Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT
  290895 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  NEW ZIRCON AND MONAZITE U-TH-PB SIMS AGES FOR METAPLUTONIC AND METAPELITIC GNEISSES IN THE PALMER ZONE OF TRANSPRESSION, CENTRAL MA AND CT: CONSTRAINTS ON TIMING OF DEFORMATION, HIGH GRADE METAMORPHISM AND DELAMINATION(?)
  David P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Matthew Massey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and James K. McCulla, Irving, TX
  290356 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  PRE- AND SYN-KINEMATIC P-T CONSTRAINTS ACROSS A ZONE OF TRANSPRESSION, VERTICAL EXTRUSION, AND LATERAL ESCAPE IN THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  Matthew Massey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Christopher A. Berg, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA and David P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  291167 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  A CASE FOR ALLEGHANIAN 'MINI' INDENTER TECTONICS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  Yvette D. Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Robert Wintsch, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Allison R. Severson, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Miriam B. Attenoukon, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  289934 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  THE TECTONIC STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES AND SOUTHEASTERN CANADA FROM SEISMOLOGICAL STUDIES
  John E. Ebel, Boston College, Weston, MA
  290670 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST AND MANTLE LITHOSPHERE ACROSS THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TOPOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION AND EOCENE VOLCANISM
  Maureen Long, Yale UniversityGeology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT and Margaret H. Benoit, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  291307 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  REFINING SHORTENING STYLES IN THE APPALACHIANS BY THE INCORPORATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC DATA
  Ashley Ace, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Nadine McQuarrie, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Peter B. Sak, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA and Bob Grundy, Inflection Energy, Denver, CO and Barrett Lavergne, Inflection Energy, Denver, CO
  289884 (Theme Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  REFINING BALANCED CROSS SECTION KINEMATIC SEQUENCES WITH FLEXURAL AND EROSIONAL FORWARD MODELING
  Joshua E.S. Olsen, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Nadine McQuarrie, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Ashley Ace, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  290467 (Theme Sessions)