4 Assembling Laurentia: Turning Points in the Geologic Evolution of the North American Continent

Monday, 26 October 2020
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Auditorium

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  LAURENTIA 2020: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN THE PAST DECADE?
  Steven Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
  355014 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  THE ARCHEAN EON AND NORTH AMERICA: OUTSTANDING ISSUES AND CURRENT RESEARCH
  Ben Frieman, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  360262 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  DIVERSITY IN EOARCHEAN METAMORPHISMS FROM ULTRA-HIGH-PRESSURE TO LOW-PRESSURE (<250 TO >1000°C/GPA) EXPLAINED BY PLATE MOVEMENTS IN DEEP TIME
  Allen Nutman, University of Wollongong, Wollongong and Vickie Bennett, Australian National University, Canberra and Clark Friend, Tiddington and Keewook Yi, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang
  360936 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE SEISMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CRATONIC MANTLE LITHOSPHERE
  Heather Ford, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Andrew Birkey, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  360993 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  PALEOPROTEROZOIC EARTH: SETTING A TEMPLATE FOR MODERN TECTONICS AND RELATED GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES
  David Corrigan, Ottawa, ON
  354244 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  A FLATTENING OF THE (OXYGEN) CURVE: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECTONICS AND PROTEROZOIC OXYGENATION TRENDS
  Camille Partin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
  357265 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  GEON 14 ENIGMAS AND ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF EARLY MESOPROTEROZOIC NORTH AMERICA
  Christopher G. Daniel, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA and Aphrodite Indares, Memorial UniversityEarth Sciences, St John's, NL and John W. Goodge, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN and David P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  359095 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF LAURENTIA IN THE LATE MESOPROTEROZOIC AND ITS ROLE WITHIN THE SUPERCONTINENT RODINIA
  Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  355077 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:42 PM
  DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EARLY GRENVILLIAN OROGENY AND MID-CONTINENT RIFTING DURING THE LATE MESOPROTEROZOIC
  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Igor Eufrasio de Oliveira, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Trevor Bollmann, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Emily Wolin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Pete Hollings, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON and Andrew Frederiksen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
  358866 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  700-540 MA TIME-SLICE IN NORTH AMERICA
  Francis Macdonald, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  354856 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  PALEOZOIC ACCRETION AND TRANSLATION OF TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS, ARCTIC AND CORDILLERA
  Alex Zagorevski, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON and Cees van Staal, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC
  357370 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  LATE TRIASSIC TO MID-CRETACEOUS RECONSTRUCTION OF MEXICO
  Cathy Busby, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
  356641 (Technical Sessions)