15 New Insights from Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Sedimentology on Accreted Terranes of Western North America II

Tuesday, 1 April 2003
2:15 PM - 4:50 PM

Presentations

• 2:15 PM
  WESTERN CANADIAN CORDILLERAN TERRANES: NEW INSIGHTS FROM MICROPALEONTOLOGY AND TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES
  Charles M. Henderson, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  51985 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:55 PM
  EXTENSIONAL TECTONISM AND TERRANE DISPERSION IN THE CORDILLERA—EXAMPLES FROM NORTHERN ALASKA AND BAJA CALIFORNIA
  Thomas E. Moore, Menlo Park, CA
  51959 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:30 PM
  PALEONTOLOGICAL DATABASE APPLICATIONS FOR ALASKAN TERRANE STUDIES
  Ning Zhang, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR and Robert B. Blodgett, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR and George D. Stanley, Univ. Montana, Missoula, MT
  51979 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:50 PM
  CAMBRIAN TRILOBITES OF SIBERIAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC ASPECT FROM SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PROVENANCE OF THE FAREWELL TERRANE
  Sadie A. Kingsbury, The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, The Webb Schools, Claremont, CA and Loren E. Babcock, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and Robert B. Blodgett, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR
  52354 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:10 PM
  GOING "DOWN UNDER" TO TEST THE URALIAN SEAWAY HYPOTHESIS FOR SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF ALASKA’S ALEXANDER TERRANE
  Constance M. Soja, Colgate Univ, Hamilton, NY and Luke Dwyer, Colgate Univ, Hamilton, NY and Brian White, Smith College, Northampton, MA
  48579 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:30 PM
  PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES OF EMSIAN (LATE EARLY DEVONIAN) GASTROPODS FROM LIMESTONE MOUNTAIN, MEDFRA B-4 QUADRANGLE, WEST-CENTRAL ALASKA (FAREWELL TERRANE)
  Jiri Fryda, 118 21 Praha 1, N/A and Robert B. Blodgett, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR
  51976 (THEME SESSIONS)