52 Combining Geology and Geophysics in the Appalachians

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Diamond Ballroom I

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  SEISMIC PROPERTIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICAN CRUST FROM ARCHEAN TO PHANEROZOIC: A REVIEW
  Fiona Darbyshire, Université du Québec à Montréal GEOTOP, Montréal, QC
  310331 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  THE PHASE-VELOCITY SIGNATURE OF LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION IN CENTRAL CANADA AND THE NORTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES
  Anna Foster, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, QC and Fiona Darbyshire, Université du Québec à Montréal GEOTOP, Montréal, QC and Andrew J. Schaeffer, Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Division, Vancouver, BC
  311081 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  SEISMIC EVIDENCE OF ASTHENOSPHERE UPWELLING DRIVING THE UPLIFT OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
  Xiaotao Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Haiying Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
  310496 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  CORRELATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONS OF SEISMIC MOHO WITH TECTONIC TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
  Cong Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Haiying Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Michael L. Williams, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Vadim Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  310569 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  DEEP TEXTURE OF THE APPALACHIAN TERRANES
  Stephen Elkington, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Janine Hlavaty, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Vadim Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Yiran Li, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  311299 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE ACROSS NORTHERN CONNECTICUT: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE SEISCONN EXPERIMENT
  Maureen Long, Yale UniversityGeology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT and John C. Aragon, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Heather Ford, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Gillian Goldhagen, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Xiaotao Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Haiying Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Yvette Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  310661 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  UPPER MANTLE DYNAMICS BENEATH NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK: RISING CURRENTS AND FALLING FRAGMENTS
  William Menke, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Vadim Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Maureen Long, Yale UniversityGeology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT and Mingduo Ted Dong, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Yiran Li, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  311208 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  APPALACHIAN GREAT GRAVITY GRADIENT: GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR ITS AGE AND ORIGIN
  Donald U. Wise, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  311019 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  WHITHER THE ALLEGHANIAN SUTURE?
  James H. Knapp, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Susannah K. Boote, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and David J. Herman, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and James Hibbard, Raleigh, NC
  310401 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  DOES WEST AFRICAN CRUST EXTEND INTO SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND?
  Yvette D. Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  311164 (Theme Sessions)