2 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts I: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.

Thursday, 12 April 2018
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 301 C

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  EVOLUTION OF THE BLUE RIDGE BASEMENT COMPLEX IN THE EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS: EVIDENCE FROM ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ND-PB ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF BASEMENT GNEISSES
  D.P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and S.D. Samson, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY and Eric Tohver, Universidade de São Paolo, São Paolo
  312157 (Symposia Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE (P-T) ESTIMATES FROM MINERALOGIC THERMOBAROMETRY IN AND NEAR THE WAYAH GRANULITE CORE, NC, INCLUDING NEW ZIRCONIUM-IN-RUTILE TEMPERATURES (ZRT): IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC HISTORY, PRESERVATION OF PEAK T, AND POST-PEAK RE-EQUILIBRATION
  James O. Eckert, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Jay J. Ague, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  309695 (Symposia Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  USING EBSD AND MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS TO CONSTRAIN DEFORMATION CONDITIONS IN THE BLUE RIDGE
  Jamie Levine, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Gabriele Casale, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Jeffrey Rahl, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA and Taylor D. Craig, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Claire P. Martin, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  312220 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  LONGSTANDING PROBLEMS REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION AND CONDITIONS OF TACONIAN AND ALLEGHANIAN METAMORPHISM IN THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE, WITH NEW PTT CONSTRAINTS FROM THE MURPHY SYNCLINORIUM
  Willis E. Hames, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  313071 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  NOT YOUR FATHER’S TACONIC OROGENY: SIGNIFICANCE OF AN IAPETUS-FACING, LAURENTIAN PLATE ORDOVICIAN ARC-BACKARC SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  Clinton Barineau, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA and James Tull, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Chris Holm-Denoma, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO
  312189 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  GEOMETRY OF THRUST TRAJECTORIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HINTERLAND OF GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
  James Tull, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  312361 (Symposia Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  MESOPROTEROZOIC TO CENOZOIC FAULTS AND FAULT ZONES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPLEX TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE
  Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  312659 (Symposia Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  THE BLUE RIDGE-PIEDMONT BOUNDARY IN VIRGINIA: A TRANSPRESSIONAL FRONTIER
  Christopher M. Bailey, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA and Aubrey Vaughan, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  313185 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE ELK HILL COMPLEX AND LAKESIDE FAULT ZONE, CENTRAL VIRGINIA PIEDMONT
  Ryan J. McAleer, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Mark W. Carter, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and David Spears, Division of Geology and Mineral Resour, Charlottesville, VA and Sean P. Regan, U.S. Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT and William Burton, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA
  312083 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  INSIGHTS INTO THE GEOMETRY AND EVOLUTION OF THE CHATHAM FAULT AND DAN RIVER BASIN NEAR CHATHAM, VIRGINIA
  Kathleen F. Warrell, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Christopher Potter, U.S. Geological Survey, Piscataway, NJ and MaryAnn Love Malinconico, Easton, PA
  312878 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  A DISCUSSION ON THE ALLOCHTHONOUS HISTORY OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN TERRANE GIVEN NEW EVIDENCE FROM ITS NORTHEASTERN EXTENT
  Matthew T. Huebner, Lettis Consultants International, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA and Justin R. Rehrer, Nashville, TN and Robert Hatcher, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  312728 (Symposia Sessions)