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Activity

2023

• FAILED RIFTS AND INTRACONTINENTAL EARTHQUAKES: HOW ARE THEY RELATED?
  T90 Deformation in Continental Interiors from the Rock Record to Modern Intraplate Seismicity
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  326

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2022

• INSIGHTS FROM THE FAILED MIDCONTINENT RIFT INTO THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTAL RIFTS, PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS, AND OTHER FAILED RIFTS
  72 GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division 50th Anniversary Special Session and George Woollard Lecture I
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  205

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2021

• COMPARING ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE VOLUMES OF LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES ASSOCIATED WITH PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS
  T102 Rifts, Rifted Margins, Backarcs, and Spreading Ridges: Understanding Extensional Processes across Tectonic Settings and Time Scales II
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B115/B116 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• REVISITING HOTSPOTS AND CONTINENTAL BREAKUP – UPDATING THE CLASSICAL THREE-ARM MODEL
  T74 Volcanism and Tectonics along Rifts and Volcanic Arcs: Understanding the Relationships between Timing, Volumes, and Distributions I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOLCANIC PASSIVE MARGINS AND ADJACENT LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES
  T74 Volcanism and Tectonics along Rifts and Volcanic Arcs: Understanding the Relationships between Timing, Volumes, and Distributions I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• NEOPROTEROZOIC SEDIMENTATION IN THE LAURENTIAN MIDCONTINENT: DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE OF THE JACOBSVILLE SANDSTONE, LAKE SUPERIOR BASIN, USA AND CANADA
  2 Insights into Processes of Proterozoic Crustal Growth, Modification, and Stabilization in the North-Central U.S. Continental Interior
  Monday, 18 May 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  French River Room 1
• UNSCRAMBLING THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND GRENVILLE FRONT USING GRAVITY DATA
  46 The Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• CONTROVERSIES ABOUT THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT'S HISTORY AND GRENVILLE-AGE DEFORMATION DURING RODINIA'S FORMATION
  T205 Unconventional Ideas and Outrageous Hypotheses (Posters): In Honor of Warren B. Hamilton
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• EXPLORING THE ROLE OF HOTSPOTS IN INITIATING CONTINENTAL BREAKUP FROM VOLCANIC VOLUMES AT RIFTED MARGINS
  T205 Unconventional Ideas and Outrageous Hypotheses (Posters): In Honor of Warren B. Hamilton
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• UNSCRAMBLING THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND GRENVILLE FRONT IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
  T60 Precambrian Linkages across Laurentia: Looking for Geological, Geophysical, and Paleogeographic Connections and Controversies Associated with the Growth and Tectonic Evolution of Laurentia from the Neoarchean to the Neoproterozoic II
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229B, North Building

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2018

• IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GRENVILLE OROGENY AND ASSEMBLY OF RODINIA FROM GRAVITY ANOMALIES ALONG THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND GRENVILLE FRONT IN CANADA
  T158 Beyond EarthScope in the Eastern U.S.—What We've Learned and What Needs Doing Next
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• BARSCOPE - EXTENDING EARTHSCOPE BETWEEN THE APPALACHIANS AND THE ROCKIES
  T158 Beyond EarthScope in the Eastern U.S.—What We've Learned and What Needs Doing Next
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• OPENING OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT DURING THE ASSEMBLY OF RODINIA
  T91 Different Roads to Rodinia: Re-Analysis of the Geochronology and Tectonic Evolution of Precambrian Sedimentary and Crystalline Basement Terranes in Southeastern Laurentia
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• MAGMATIC PLUMBING DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF THE KEWEENAWAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE MICHIPICOTEN ISLAND FORMATION
  T119 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• SILICIC VOLCANISM OF THE PORCUPINE VOLCANICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMA DIFFERENTIATION DURING THE TERMINAL STAGES OF VOLCANISM WITHIN THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  T119 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• PRECAMBRIAN RIFT SYSTEMS IN NORTH AMERICA COMPARED TO OTHER CONTINENTAL RIFTS AROUND THE WORLD
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION IN THE TERMINAL STAGES OF THE KEWEENAWAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE: GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE PORCUPINE MOUNTAINS
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• TERMINAL STAGES OF A DYING RIFT
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• CONSTRAINING THE GEOCHEMICAL RESERVOIRS CONTRIBUTING TO VOLCANISM IN THE KEWEENAW LIP
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242

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2017

• THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT: A RIFT-LIP HYBRID
  191 D40. Structural Geology and Tectonics: Advances in Understanding Fault Systems, Plate Boundaries and Deformation: Observations and Experiments
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 3
• SHOULD THE "GRENVILLE FRONT" IN THE CENTRAL U.S. BE ERASED FROM GEOLOGIC MAPS?
  T120 Cratonic Assembly in the Precambrian: Forming the Core of Modern and Ancient Landmasses
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 604

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2016

• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BASAL NEOPROTEROZOIC JACOBSVILLE SANDSTONE AT L’ANSE, MI, USA
  T169 Detrital Zircons on the North American Continental Interior (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  15 Structure, Geophysics, Petrology, and Tectonics in the Midcontinent, and Elsewhere
  Monday, 18 April 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lincoln Room

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2015

• AGE OF THE JACOBSVILLE SANDSTONE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  T319 Mountains across the Oceans: Caledonian, Variscan, and Appalachian Orogenies through Time (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  T181 Advances in Crustal Geophysics and Tectonics I: In Honor of G.R. Keller
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 347/348
• GEOHISTORY AND GEOHERITAGE OF THE KEWEENAW AND ISLE ROYALE FAULTS, MICHIGAN
  T110 Geoheritage Matters (Posters)
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• ­NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  16 New Insights into the Midcontinent Rift and Continental Rifting
  Tuesday, 19 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas H
• AGE OF THE JACOBSVILLE SANDSTONE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  16 New Insights into the Midcontinent Rift and Continental Rifting
  Tuesday, 19 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas H
• USING LAKE SUPERIOR PARKS TO PRESENT THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  6 Geoheritage and Place-Based Education
  Tuesday, 19 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 11:20 AM

  Hall of Ideas I
• PLACE-BASED TEACHING WITH THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT: USING GEOLOGIC AND GEOPHYSICAL SIGNATURE OF THE MCRS TO EDUCATE ABOUT TECTONICS
  6 Geoheritage and Place-Based Education
  Tuesday, 19 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 11:20 AM

  Hall of Ideas I

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2014

• MID-CONTINENT RIFT: RIFT, LIP, OR BOTH AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RODINIA RECONSTRUCTIONS
  T148 Birth and Death of Supercontinents
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  118
• USING LAKE SUPERIOR PARKS TO PRESENT THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  T126 Geology and Hydrology of the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT – HOW FAR DOES IT GO?
  9 The Midcontinent Rift System and Beyond: New Developments in Central North American Precambrian Geology
  Thursday, 24 April 2014

  2:40 PM - 5:05 PM

  Arbor 1

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2013

• FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION- THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM SUCCEEDED
  T182 From Extension to Rift to Drift: Geological, Geophysical, and Geodynamic Perspectives
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507

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2012

• ORIGIN OF THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT AND MAGMA VOLUMES
  T215 EarthScope and Geoprisms in Eastern North America: Ongoing Endeavors and a Look Ahead
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  203B

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2011

• LEARNING FROM FAILURE: NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONTINENTAL RIFTING FROM NORTH AMERICA'S FAILED MID-CONTINENT RIFT
  T75 Proterozoic to Modern Rifts: Sedimentary and Volcanic Processes and the Role of Inherited Structures
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200DE
• INVESTIGATING THE CAUSES OF OCEANIC DEPTH ANOMALIES
  T51 Combining Geology and Geophysics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 101H-J
• LEARNING FROM FAILURE: NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONTINENTAL RIFTING FROM NORTH AMERICA'S FAILED MID-CONTINENT RIFT
  2 Evolution of the South Atlantic, Adjacent Continents, and Passive Continental Margins in General
  Monday, 5 September 2011

  11:00 AM - 5:35 PM

  A 125

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2010

• SEISMIC-TOMOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THE TRANSITION FROM LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION TO SEAFLOOR SPREADING IN THE RED SEA
  T124 Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources (Posters)
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• OCEANIC HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION MATTERS
  T139 Combining Geophysics and Geology: The George P. Woollard Award Session
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 6:00 PM

  A105