Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks: The Whole of the Orogen—From the Crystalline Internides to the Sedimentary Foreland

William Thomas, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

363436 (Technical Sessions)

8:25 AM

U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND PB ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF THE EXOTIC MARS HILL TERRANE-TRANSFER HYPOTHESIS: COMPELLING LINKS BETWEEN SOUTHEASTERN LAURENTIA AND THE PARAGUÁ CRATON OF SOUTHWESTERN AMAZONIA

David P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

362180 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

SHRIMP U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE GLOBE MASSIF AND CONNECTIONS WITH THE FRENCH BROAD MASSIF

Arthur Merschat, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Ryan J. McAleer, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Mark Carter, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Jorge Vazquez, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

362300 (Technical Sessions)

9:05 AM

DECIPHERING THE “FOOTPRINT” OF THE NEOACADIAN METAMORPHIC EVENT IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS: INSIGHTS FROM 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

Brandon Spencer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Ryan Thigpen, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Arthur Merschat, USGS, Zionville, NC and Nicholas E. Powell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and C.S. McDonald, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

362173 (Technical Sessions)

9:25 AM

MAPPING THE DEFORMATION PATTERNS OF THE GREENVILLE 1X2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS SURFACE IN COMPARISON TO SEISMIC ANISOTROPY TO PREDICT SUBSURFACE DIPPING FAULTS

Makayla Mather, University of North Dakota Geology, Grand Forks, ND and Zulliet Cabrera Gomez, State of New York- Oneota, Oneota, NY and Michael Frothingham, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO and Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Kevin Mahan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

361537 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

EVALUATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALLEGHANIAN METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS

Harold Stowell, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Elizabeth M. Bollen, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

362326 (Technical Sessions)

10:20 AM

A POSSIBLE NEOACADIAN METAMORPHIC BELT IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA: METAMORPHISM OF THE PUMPKINVINE CREEK FORMATION AND THE MAD INDIAN GROUP

Elizabeth M. Bollen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Hannah Dickson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Harold H. Stowell, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

362349 (Technical Sessions)

10:40 AM

U-PB ZIRCON AGE ESTIMATES FOR METAMORPHISM OF THE ASHLAND SUPERGROUP, EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF ALABAMA RECORDS DIACHRONOUS METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN PIEDMONT

Adelie Ionescu, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and Matthew McKay, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

362351 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

GEOCHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF MAFIC, INTERMEDIATE, AND FELSIC ROCKS OF THE NORTH FLORIDA VOLCANIC SERIES

Ryan T. Deasy, USGS Northeast Section, Bloomington, IN and Mary Lupo, Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee, FL

361585 (Technical Sessions)

11:20 AM

REVISITING THE MILLER AND GEOLOGISTS RANGES, CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS: SINGLE-CRYSTAL 40AR/39AR AGES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

I. Dogancan Yasar, Auburn University, Auburn, AL and Kyle W. Parsons, Auburn University, Auburn, AL and Willis Hames, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

362066 (Technical Sessions)

11 D3. Southern Appalachian and Analogous Terranes I

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