Geological Society of America

8:05 AM

BUILDING KINEMATIC MODELS FOR IAPETUS OCEAN CLOSURE

John Waldron, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Sandra Barr, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS and Phil J.A. McCausland, University of Western Ontario, Dept Earth Sciences, London, ON and David I. Schofield, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh and Lei Wu, McGill University, Montréal, QC and Douglas Reusch, University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME

361670 (Theme Sessions)

8:25 AM

DETRITAL ZIRCON SOURCE EVOLUTION DURING THE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS COLLISION IN THE NORTHERN MOROCCAN VARISCIDES

Cristina Accotto, University of Granada, Granada and David Martínez, University of Granada, Granada and Antonio Azor, University of Granada, Granada and Antonio Jabaloy-Sánchez, University of Granada, Granada

361360 (Theme Sessions)

8:45 AM

A COMPARISON OF THE CAMBRIAN PRE-RIFT, SYN-RIFT AND BREAK-UP PULSES THROUGHOUT THE ATLAS‒OSSA-MORENA‒NORTH ARMORICAN RIFT (NW AFRICA AND SW EUROPE) AND WESTERN AVALONIA (ATLANTIC CANADA)

Javier Alvaro, (CSIC-UCM),, Madrid

361529 (Theme Sessions)

9:05 AM

LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, PETROCHEMISTRY AND U-PB (ZIRCON) AGE CONSTRAINTS OF VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE BONAVISTA PENINSULA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MUSGRAVETOWN GROUP

Andrea Mills, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NF and Hamish Sandeman, Department of Industry, Energy and Tec 50 Elizabeth Avenue, St. John's, NL and Greg Dunning, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), St. John's, NS

361694 (Theme Sessions)

9:25 AM

METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE MEGUMA TERRANE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

Allie Nagurney, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Mark Caddick, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Chris E. White, Halifax, NS

361662 (Theme Sessions)

9:45 AM

UPDATE ON DETRITAL ZIRCON U/PB GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM PROTEROZOIC AND EARLY PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF THE PENOBSCOT BAY INLIER, MAINE

Douglas Reusch, University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME and Justin Strauss, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Langhorne Smith, Smith Stratigraphic LLC, Woodstock, NY

361615 (Theme Sessions)

10:15 AM

AFRICAN AFFINITY OF TONIAN DETRITAL ZIRCON IN AVALONIA OF SOUTHEASTERN-MOST NEW ENGLAND, USA?

Margaret Thompson, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA and C.E. White, Halifax, NS and S.M. Barr, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS

361564 (Theme Sessions)

10:35 AM

NEW DETRITAL ZIRCON DATA FROM WESTERN CONNECTICUT PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO TERRANE AFFINITIES AND MAP PATTERNS OF REGIONAL LITHOLOGIES

William Burton, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Chris Holm-Denoma, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO and Chris Holm-Denoma, USGS, Menlo Park, CA and Robert Wintsch, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Shinae Lee, Chungbuk and Bill Devlin, Rock Bottom Research, Southbury, CT and Gregory Walsh, Montpelier, VT and Nicholas M. Ratcliffe, Reston, VA

361538 (Theme Sessions)

10:55 AM

CHASING CAMERON’S LINE: DETRITAL ZIRCON RESULTS FROM THE MANHATTAN AND HARTLAND SCHIST IN NEW YORK CITY

Steven Jaret, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY and Noa Jaffe, New York, NY and Lisa M. Smith, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Lynsey Spaeth, New York, NY and Nicholas D. Tailby, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Keiji Hammond, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and E. Troy Rasbury, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY and Kathleen Wooton, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY and Denton Ebel, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Emmett DiPadova, New York, NY and Riley Smith, New York, NY and Victoria Yuan, New York, NY

361703 (Theme Sessions)

11:15 AM

FTIR IDENTIFICATION OF SERPENTINE POLYMORPHS IN POLISHED SECTIONS

Erik Schoonover, Hope College, Holland, MI and Erik Schoonover, Hope College, Holland, MI and Celine Martin, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Steven Jaret, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

361743 (Theme Sessions)

11:25 AM

THE EDIACARAN OUARZAZATE GROUP, A METACRATONIC SILICIC LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE (SLIP): NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES FROM OUZELLARH-SIROUA SALIENT (TIFNOUTE VALLEY)

Belkacim Saïd, Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, QC and Morgann Perrot, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC and Joshua H.F.L. Davies, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC and Jean-Paul Liégeois, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren and Moha Ikenne, Faculty of Sciences, Ibnou Zohr University, Agadir, N/A

361648 (Theme Sessions)

11:35 AM

DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY IN NORTHERN APPALACHIAN AVALONIAN TERRANES: INSIGHTS INTO BASIN DEVELOPMENT AND TERRANE JUXTAPOSITIONS

Deanne van Rooyen, Sydney, NS and Sandra Barr, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS and Chris White, Halifax, NS

361656 (Theme Sessions)

11:45 AM

U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE LAMOINE GRANITE, PENOBSCOT BAY INLIER, COASTAL MAINE, USA

Jeff Pollock, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB and Douglas Reusch, University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME and Greg R. Dunning, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF

361840 (Theme Sessions)

11:55 AM

U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND AVALON TERRANE IN THE US APPALACHIANS: EVIDENCE FOR A SEPARATE CRUSTAL BLOCK

Yvette D. Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Daniel P. Murray, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI and Sonia Ellison, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and James L. Crowley, Boise State University, Boise, ID

361678 (Theme Sessions)

12:05 PM

PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANE ASSEMBLY AS REVEALED IN THE NEW BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ESSEX QUADRANGLE, CONNECTICUT

Robert Wintsch, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Ryan T. Deasy, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA

361570 (Theme Sessions)

13 Pre-Atlantic Geological Connections among Northwest Africa, Southern Europe, and Eastern North America

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