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Activity

2024

• CORRELATION OF EASTERN BLUE RIDGE LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA­–VIRGINIA BORDER: ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE AND LYNCHBURG GROUP
  32 Interstate Collaboration in the Southeast US–State Geological Surveys Working Towards Stratigraphic and Lithologic Equivalencies to Address Mapping Discrepancies More Effectively I
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• UPDATED LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE ALLIGATOR BACK METAMORPHIC SUITE, FOCUSED ON MAPPING IN SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
  32 Interstate Collaboration in the Southeast US–State Geological Surveys Working Towards Stratigraphic and Lithologic Equivalencies to Address Mapping Discrepancies More Effectively I
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MAFIC AND ULTRAMAFIC UNITS IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA: COMPARISON OF THE ASHE AND ALLIGATOR BACK METAMORPHIC SUITES AND THE LYNCHBURG FORMATION
  32 Interstate Collaboration in the Southeast US–State Geological Surveys Working Towards Stratigraphic and Lithologic Equivalencies to Address Mapping Discrepancies More Effectively I
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• COSMOGENIC 26AL/10BE ISOCHRON BURIAL DATING REVEALS MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
  34 In the Field or in the Lab: Revealing Hidden Signals from Minerals
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Swannanoa
• EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS OF THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST SHEET: COMPARISON OF QUARTZ MICROSTRUCTURAL DATA FROM THE CATFACE AND IRON MOUNTAIN FAULTS, NC-VA-TN
  51 Undergraduate Research Poster Session II (Posters)
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• AUGMENTING GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND TERRANE CHARACTERIZATION WITH NEW GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE EASTERN PIEDMONT IN SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  37 Piedmont Geology in the Southern Appalachian Orogen: New Insights from Geologic Mapping, Geochemical, and Geochronological Studies
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon A
• GREENSCHIST-FACIES METAMORPHISM AND THE GENESIS OF AN ORTHOPHYLLITE – ROANOKE RAPIDS TERRANE, NORTH CAROLINA
  37 Piedmont Geology in the Southern Appalachian Orogen: New Insights from Geologic Mapping, Geochemical, and Geochronological Studies
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon A
• IN THE LAND OF UNCONFORMITIES: TIME AND SPACE RELATIONS OF COMPLEX 763-740 MA VOLCANOGENIC-GLACIOGENIC ROCKS IN THE GREATER MOUNT ROGERS TRISTATE AREA OF VA, NC, AND TN
  1 Spanning an Orogen–From the Scandinavian Caledonides of Norway to the Southernmost Appalachians of Alabama I: In Honor of the Career of James F. Tull
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• GEOLOGIC MAPPING TRANSECT ALONG THE ROANOKE RIVER IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: INSIGHTS INTO THE ROANOKE RAPIDS TERRANE
  29 Piedmont Geology in the Southern Appalachian Orogen: New Insights from Geologic Mapping, Geochemical, and Geochronological Studies (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• SYNTHESIS OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC BASEMENT OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
  35 Deciphering a Cryptic Geologic Record: New Insights from Field and Lab Investigations of the Appalachians in the United States and Canada
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Pemigewasset Room
• GEOCHEMICAL AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ORDOVICIAN BRONSON HILL ARC AND SILURIAN AND DEVONIAN CONNECTICUT VALLEY TROUGH: EASTERN VERMONT AND WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA
  19 Unraveling Appalachian Orogenic Events Using Geological and Geophysical Methods
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Merrimack Room

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2023

• PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF A POTENTIAL MESOZOIC SANIDINE MONITOR STANDARD FOR 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T128 Unravelling Timescales of Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Crustal Evolution II
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  327
• USGI COMPILATIONS IN THE BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA–SOUTH CAROLINA–TENNESSEE–VIRGINIA: TOWARD A SEAMLESS GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  52 Small-Scale Geologic Mapping in the Northeastern U.S.: Addressing the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s Goals for a Seamless, National 2D/3D Geologic Framework Model of the United States (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• RECONSTRUCTING THE PALEOZOIC STRUCTURAL, METAMORPHIC, AND EXHUMATIONAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT
  40 Alleghanian Overprinting of Pre-Alleghanian Accreted Terranes
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• DID THE BREVARD FAULT ZONE CONTROL NEOACADIAN CHANNEL AND ESCAPE FLOW IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT? EVIDENCE FROM MONAZITE U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND REE GEOCHEMISTRY
  40 Alleghanian Overprinting of Pre-Alleghanian Accreted Terranes
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SPARTA EAST, SPARTA WEST, AND PARTS OF THE GLADE VALLEY AND WHITEHEAD 7.5-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA, AND THE EPICENTRAL AREA OF THE AUGUST 2020 MW 5.1 EARTHQUAKE NEAR SPARTA, NC
  36 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, 3-D Geological Models, Digital Mapping Techniques, Map Derivatives, and Digital Map Preparation (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• PLEISTOCENE FAULTING AND SEDIMENTATION IN THE VICINITY OF THE 2020 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA EARTHQUAKE REVEALED BY COSMOGENIC 26AL/10BE BURIAL DATING
  30 Geomorphic Evolution of River Corridors in the Eastern United States from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• GEOTRAVERSE ALONG THE MEHERRIN RIVER IN SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: AN UPDATE OF USGS GEOLOGIC MAPPING ON THE WESTERN HALF OF THE EMPORIA 30X60-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
  36 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, 3-D Geological Models, Digital Mapping Techniques, Map Derivatives, and Digital Map Preparation (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• NEW TERRANE MAP FROM DETAILED MAPPING AND AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICS OF PARTS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PIEDMONT, VIRGINIA, USA
  37 Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• LIDAR USED TO DELINEATE MAP-SCALE FOLDS IN AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES EASTERN BLUE RIDGE ROCKS, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  37 Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• GEOLOGIC AND PALEOLIQUEFACTION CONSTRAINTS ON PAST SEISMICITY IN THE EPICENTRAL AREA OF THE 9 AUGUST 2020 M5.1 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, EARTHQUAKE
  3 Geological, Seismological, and Paleoseismological Research into Eastern North American Earthquakes
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Lake Audubon
• INVESTIGATIONS OF SURFACE RUPTURE CAUSED BY THE 2020 MW 5.1 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, USA EARTHQUAKE AND ASSOCIATED PALEOSEISMOLOGY OF THE LITTLE RIVER FAULT
  3 Geological, Seismological, and Paleoseismological Research into Eastern North American Earthquakes
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Lake Audubon
• BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, NEW YORK
  12 The Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Regency Ballroom A

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2022

• PLEISTOCENE COSMOGENIC 26AL/10BE ISOCHRON BURIAL AGES OF SURFICIAL DEPOSITS IN THE BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA: POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS WITH PALEOCLIMATE AND NEOTECTONICS
  200 D8. Recent Advances in Geochronology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION EXPOSED ALONG STRANDS OF THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST SHEET IN THE MOUNTAIN CITY WINDOW, NORTH CAROLINA–TENNESSEE–VIRGINIA
  T147 Structural Analysis of Polyphase Deformation from Orogen to Thin Section I: A Special Session in Honor of Sharon Mosher
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  605
• INTEGRATING PETROLOGY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND THERMOCHRONOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE COMPLEX PALEOZOIC TECTONOMETAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGENIC CORE
  T147 Structural Analysis of Polyphase Deformation from Orogen to Thin Section I: A Special Session in Honor of Sharon Mosher
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  605
• LONG-LIVED CRUSTAL DEFORMATION AND REACTIVATION IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE NEAR SPARTA, NC
  T3 Crustal Deformation: How and When? Linking Long-Term Landscape Signatures with Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  507
• SURFACE RUPTURE FROM THE 9 AUGUST 2020, MW 5.1 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA EARTHQUAKE AND POSSIBLE PALEOSEISMICITY: EVIDENCE FROM DETAILED BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGIC MAPPING
  43 Intraplate Earthquakes in Central and Eastern USA
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 201/202
• A TALE OF TWO QUAKES: COMPARING THE 2011 M5.7 MINERAL VA AND THE 2020 M5.1 SPARTA NC EARTHQUAKES FROM A GEOLOGIC MAPPING VIEWPOINT
  43 Intraplate Earthquakes in Central and Eastern USA
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 201/202
• THREE PALEOZOIC APPALACHIAN OROGENIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN CRYSTALLINE CORE: BOXES WITH BROKEN EDGES?
  14 Appalachian Orogenies: When and How Do They Start and End?
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 212
• UNRAVELING LOW-TEMPERATURE COOLING IN THE BLUE RIDGE, VA AND NC, THROUGH 40AR/39AR ANALYSIS AND GRAIN-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION OF K-FELDSPAR
  14 Appalachian Orogenies: When and How Do They Start and End?
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 212
• NEW BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, NORTHERN NEW YORK
  32 Tectono-Metamorphic Processes at Convergent Boundaries: Insights from the Grenville Orogen, Northeastern North America, and Beyond
  Monday, 21 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Commonwealth Salon 4

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2021

• DEFINING METAMORPHIC TIMING, EXTENT, AND CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT—INSIGHTS FROM MONAZITE XENOTIME GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T204 Metamorphism into the 21st Century I—A Celebration of the Career of Mike Brown
  Wednesday, 13 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 252 (Hybrid Room)
• UNDERSTANDING GRADIENTS IN THE DIFFERENTIAL STRESS DRIVING FLOW: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CRUSTAL ESCAPE FLOW MODEL IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT
  T165 Structural Geology and Tectonics Division 40th Anniversary Symposium: Drivers of Orogenesis (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 257 (Hybrid Room)
• SHRIMP U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE GLOBE MASSIF AND CONNECTIONS WITH THE FRENCH BROAD MASSIF
  11 D3. Southern Appalachian and Analogous Terranes I
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  FMR, Inc. Room
• 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
  11 D3. Southern Appalachian and Analogous Terranes I
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  FMR, Inc. Room
• INTEGRATED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS OF NEW YORK
  3 Insights about the Tectonic Evolution of Eastern North America from Rocks, Seismic Data, Experiments, and Models
  Sunday, 14 March 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Monson

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2020

• BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: A SUMMARY OF FIELD RELATIONS AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LATE TONIAN TO CRYOGENIAN INTRACONTINENTAL RIFTING OF RODINIA IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE
  T198 Assembling Laurentia: Paleozoic Mobile Margins I
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SURFACE RUPTURE FROM THE 9 AUGUST 2020, MW 5.1 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA EARTHQUAKE AND CONNECTIONS WITH BEDROCK GEOLOGY
  Current Understanding of Intraplate Seismicity and Surface Deformation Associated with the August 9th, 2020 Mw 5.1 Earthquake Near Sparta, North Carolina
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Auditorium
• CONSTRAINING LATE TONIAN CLIMATE THROUGH U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE GLACIGENIC KONNAROCK FORMATION FROM SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, USA
  T110 Evolving Perspectives on the Tonian Biosphere and Environmental Change
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SURFACE DEFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE MW 5.1 SPARTA, NC, EARTHQUAKE
  Current Understanding of Intraplate Seismicity and Surface Deformation Associated with the August 9th, 2020 Mw 5.1 Earthquake Near Sparta, North Carolina
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Auditorium
• AN EARLY AND HOT ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T160 From Rodinia to Pangea: Evolution of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen II
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• TESTING THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CHANNEL FLOW MODEL IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT USING INTEGRATED ISOCHEMICAL PSUEDOSECTION MODELING AND GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T80 Structure and Dynamics of the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• CONSTRAINTS ON THE EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS OF THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST SHEET: DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES FROM THE CATFACE AND IRON MOUNTAIN FAULTS, TN-VA
  31 D25. Structural Geology & Tectonics I
  Monday, 26 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• NEW SHRIMP U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE GLOBE MASSIF, GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WINDOW, NC
  28 The Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• FIELD, TEXTURAL, AND GEOCHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS FROM RHYOLITES ALONG THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE MOUNT ROGERS AND KONNAROCK FORMATIONS, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
  44 D19. Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• INTEGRATED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS OF NEW YORK
  28 The Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• TECTONIC IMPLICATION OF NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES IN THE BRONSON HILL ARC: WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA
  43 Appalachian Petrology: A Session to Honor the Career of Dr. Robert J. Tracy
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• THE ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE: EARLIER AND HOTTER THAN PREVIOUSLY RECOGNIZED
  14 The Appalachians, from North to South, from Crust to Mantle II
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Regency Ballroom B

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2019

• PROVENANCE OF EASTERN BLUE RIDGE LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS, NC–VA: IMPLICATIONS FOR A PERI-GONDWANAN SOURCE
  T291 New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen II
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE: A NATURAL LABORATORY TO EXAMINE CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF FAULT ZONES AT DIFFERENT CRUSTAL LEVELS
  25 Recent Advances and New Approaches in the Study of Faults and Shear Zones in Orogenic Systems
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Pinckney Room
• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE KONNAROCK 7.5–MINUTE QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA
  4 Gondwana vs. Laurentia: Terrane Accretion and Crustal Growth in the Southeastern United States (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• THE FALL MOUNTAIN NAPPE: A POSSIBLE ACADIAN D1 MAP-SCALE SHEATH FOLD IN THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM, SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE
  1 Geology, Structure, Geochronology, and Tectonics in Southern New England I: An Eclectic Session in Honor of Robert P. Wintsch
  Sunday, 17 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  New Hampshire Room
• REACTION SOFTENING AND THE AGE OF THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST: #STRUCTURALPETROLOGY
  1 Geology, Structure, Geochronology, and Tectonics in Southern New England I: An Eclectic Session in Honor of Robert P. Wintsch
  Sunday, 17 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  New Hampshire Room

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2018

• WALKER TOP GRANITOID, EASTERN INNER PIEDMONT CAT SQUARE TERRANE, NORTH CAROLINA: ENIGMATIC PLUTONS AT BEST
  T66 Different Personalities of Granites and Rhyolites: Silicic Magmas from the Lower Crust to the Surface II—A Session in Honor of Calvin Miller, Recipient of the MGPV Distinguished Geological Career Award
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 240-241
• PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MOUNT ROGERS AREA, VA–NC–TN
  28 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr. (Posters)
  Friday, 13 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301 DE/Henley Concourse
• A COMPARISON OF THE ACADIAN AND NEOACADIAN OROGENIES IN THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  13 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts II: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 301 C
• TRANSITIONING FROM CHANNEL TO ‘ESCAPE’ FLOW IN LARGE HOT COLLISIONAL SYSTEMS: COMBINING STUDIES FROM THE HIMALAYAN AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN (NEOACADIAN) OROGENIC SYSTEMS
  13 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts II: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 301 C
• DISTRIBUTION, GEOLOGIC SETTING, AND RARE-EARTH ELEMENT (REE) POTENTIAL OF HISTORIC IRON DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
  40 The Adirondack Mountains and the Grenville Orogenic Cycle: New Results and Syntheses Regarding the Timing and Nature of Deformation, Metamorphism, Intrusion, and Formation of Ore Deposits II: A Session Honoring the Work of Bruce Selleck
  Monday, 19 March 2018

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Emerald Ballroom II
• DETACHMENT, ORE MINERALIZATION, AND PROGRESSIVE UPLIFT OF THE MARCY MASSIF DURING THE GRENVILLE OROGENIC CYCLE, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, NY
  28 The Adirondack Mountains and the Grenville Orogenic Cycle: New Results and Syntheses Regarding the Timing and Nature of Deformation, Metamorphism, Intrusion, and Formation of Ore Deposits I: A Session Honoring the Work of Bruce Selleck
  Monday, 19 March 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Emerald Ballroom II

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2017

• DEFORMATION CONDITIONS, KINEMATICS, AND THERMOCHRONOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS ALONG THE GOSSAN LEAD FAULT, THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN BLUE RIDGE IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
  T148 Integrated Approaches to Deciphering Major Crustal Boundaries in Polyphase Orogenic Settings
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 3
• THE LINVILLE FALLS FAULT:  MICROTEXTURAL EVIDENCE FOR OSCILLATION BETWEEN DUCTILE AND BRITTLE CONDITIONS
  20 Tectonics of Blue Ridge and Piedmont Terranes: Insight from Integrated Studies (Posters)
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  James River Ballroom
• DIGITIZATION OF GEOLOGIC MAPS: PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF DR. DOUGLAS RANKIN’S LEGACY MAPS OF THE MOUNT ROGERS AREA, VA–NC–TN
  21 Geologic Maps and Map Derivatives: The Legacy of Mike Higgins (Posters)
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  James River Ballroom
• DIFFERENT THERMAL HISTORIES OF THE WESTERN AND EASTERN BLUE RIDGE AND EMPLACEMENT OF THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST SHEET DOCUMENTED BY 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY, VA– NC–TN
  10 Deciphering Metamorphic Histories in Multiply-Deformed Terranes in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Potomac E
• ALLEGHANIAN DEFORMATION AND RECRYSTALLIZATION IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY OF VT AND NH
  30 NETectonics: New Advances in Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology in the Appalachians
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level
• TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY REGION IN SOUTH-CENTRAL VERMONT AND WEST-CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE
  43 NETectonics: New Advances in Structural Geology and Tectonics in the Appalachians
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level
• BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BELLOWS FALLS AND ALSTEAD 7.5–MINUTE QUADRANGLES, NH–VT:  INSIGHT INTO THE TECTONICS OF THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM
  23 Back to the Basics: Focusing on Fieldwork in Today’s Geological Studies (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom, 17th Floor

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2016

• THE KONNAROCK SNOWBALL FIGHT: USING IMAGE ANALYSIS, RHYTHMITE THICKNESS, AND FACIES ASSOCIATION TO DETERMINE THE ORIGIN OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC KONNAROCK FORMATION
  341 Sediments, Clastic (Posters)
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM AND WESTERN FACIES OF THE CENTRAL MAINE TERRANE, SOUTHERN NH–VT
  1 A New Look at Terrane Affinity of Old Rocks in Western New England: Peri-Laurentian or Peri-Gondwana?
  Monday, 21 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Meeting Room 4

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2015

• THE DETRITAL RECORD OF NEOPROTEROZOIC TO CAMBRIAN ROCKS FROM THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE: PROTRACTED RIFTING, RAPID UNROOFING, AND STABILIZATION OF THE MARGIN
  T341 Deconstructing Rodinia: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Geologic Evolution of Laurentia’s Margins
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 314
• DEFORMATION CONDITIONS, KINEMATICS, AND CHARACTER OF THE FRIES AND GOSSAN-LEAD FAULTS, NORTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T342 Mountains across the Oceans: Caledonian, Variscan, and Appalachian Orogenies through Time
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 308
• SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL COMPLEXITIES OF THE EASTERN LAURENTIAN MARGIN: NEW INSIGHT FROM OLD ROCKS OF THE APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE AND WESTERN PIEDMONT
  T341 Deconstructing Rodinia: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Geologic Evolution of Laurentia’s Margins
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 314
• PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MOUNT ROGERS AREA, VA–NC–TN:  FIELD RELATIONSHIPS OF NEOPROTEROZOIC VOLCANISM AND GLACIATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE
  T38 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• REACTION SOFTENING IN RHYOLITES OF THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION AND CARBONIFEROUS DEFORMATION ON THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST, VA–NC–TN
  T74 Perspectives on Orogenic Evolution, Dating Brittle Faults and Mylonitic Shear Zones, Bending Mountains, and Assembling Supercontinents II: A Session to Honor the Career of Ben Van Der Pluijm
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 343
• DISMEMBERED OPHIOLITES OF THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE OF NW NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  T75 Rift-Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Subduction Zone Tectonics of Collisional Orogens: Comparative Analysis of the Circum-Mediterranean and Appalachian-Caledonian Orogenic Belts
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 341
• STRUCTURE AND TIMING OF NAPPE EVOLUTION IN THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM, BELLOWS FALLS AND ALSTEAD 7.5–MINUTE QUADRANGLES, NH–VT
  39 Contributions to New England Stratigraphy & Structure: In Honor of Robert Moench and Douglas Rankin (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Presidential Ballroom
• LATE PRE-CAMBRIAN CONTINENTAL RIFTING IN THE SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE, VA-NC-TN, REVISITED: HONORING 50 YEARS OF DOUG RANKIN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO APPALACHIAN GEOLOGY
  15 Contributions to New England Stratigraphy & Structure II: In Honor of Robert Moench and Douglas Rankin
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• 40AR/39AR CONSTRAINTS ON THE PALEOZOIC COOLING HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE AND ADJACENT VERMONT
  1 Contributions to New England Stratigraphy & Structure I: In Honor of Robert Moench and Douglas Rankin
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• UNRAVELLING THE PROLONGED HISTORY OF THE GANDERIAN MARGIN OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND
  1 Contributions to New England Stratigraphy & Structure I: In Honor of Robert Moench and Douglas Rankin
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South

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2014

• TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY, WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EASTERN VERMONT
  T7 Geology and Hydrology of the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management I
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  214
• STRUCTURE OF THE NORTHEAST END OF THE MOUNTAIN CITY WINDOW, VIRGINIA–NORTH CAROLINA–TENNESSEE
  36 In Honor and Memory of Dr. Robert B. Neuman: New Directions in Southern Appalachian Geologic Research, Foreland to Hinterland
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Assembly Hall
• STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE: VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
  36 In Honor and Memory of Dr. Robert B. Neuman: New Directions in Southern Appalachian Geologic Research, Foreland to Hinterland
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Assembly Hall
• TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND EXHUMATION OF THE LOWER STRUCTURAL LEVELS OF THE BRONSON HILL ANTICLINORIUM IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND ADJACENT VERMONT
  51 Echoes of Exhumation: Comparing Exhumation Processes of the Ancient Appalachians to Those of Currently Active Orogens
  Monday, 24 March 2014

  1:30 PM - 5:50 PM

  Heritage Salon D
• KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE - DIGITAL BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING TECHNIQUES IN THE EASTERN REGION OF THE USGS
  34 Embracing Digital Technologies and the Geoweb: The Changing Philosophies and Practices of Geologic Mapping II
  Monday, 24 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Commonwealth Salon 4
• CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND ACCRETIONARY HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS
  2 Tectonic Links between the Northern and Southern Appalachians
  Sunday, 23 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Commonwealth Salon 3

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2013

• NEOPROTEROZOIC UNROOFING HISTORY AND CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN GRENVILLE BASEMENT FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES AND MORPHOLOGY
  T360 Modern Techniques, Models, and Interpretations of Ancient Orogens: 125 Years of Progress in Understanding the Grenville and Appalachian Orogens of Eastern North America (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• MAPPING AND KINEMATIC INTERPRETATION OF THE FRIES AND GOSSAN-LEAD FAULTS IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
  T247 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D

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2012

• DISTRIBUTION AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEOZOIC FAULTS AND HIGH-STRAIN ZONES OF THE BLUE RIDGE, SOUTHERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  T133 Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones II
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208A
• PROVENANCE OF BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT TERRANES FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND WHOLE-ROCK ISOTOPIC DATA, NC–SC–GA–TN
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• MINERALOGY, PETROCHEMISTRY, AND METAMORPHIC CHANGES IN METAULTRAMAFIC ROCKS ACROSS THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE OF NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN STRATA OF THE APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE: MT. ROGERS, VA AREA
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• LATE MESOPROTEROZOIC (CA. 1.0 GA) DEPOSITION OF PROTOLITHS OF THE CARVERS GAP AND CLOUDLAND GNEISSES, MARS HILL TERRANE, NC-TN: NEW SHRIMP U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCON AND MONAZITE
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• PALEOZOIC ASSEMBLY OF THE BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT RECORDED BY METAMORPHIC ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY
  25 Terranes of the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont: Insights into Their Tectonic Heritage and Incorporation into the Orogen from Recent Geochronologic, Isotopic, Provenance, and Field Studies II
  Monday, 2 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Windsor Ballroom
• BASIS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC TERRANE ANALYSIS
  19 Terranes of the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont: Insights into Their Tectonic Heritage and Incorporation into the Orogen from Recent Geochronologic, Isotopic, Provenance, and Field Studies I
  Monday, 2 April 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Windsor Ballroom
• AMALGAMATION AND BREAKUP OF EASTERN RODINIA, PART I: THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  19 Terranes of the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont: Insights into Their Tectonic Heritage and Incorporation into the Orogen from Recent Geochronologic, Isotopic, Provenance, and Field Studies I
  Monday, 2 April 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Windsor Ballroom
• IMPLICATIONS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE INNER PIEDMONT FROM THE SOUTHWEST END OF THE CAT SQUARE TERRANE, CENTRAL GEORGIA
  19 Terranes of the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont: Insights into Their Tectonic Heritage and Incorporation into the Orogen from Recent Geochronologic, Isotopic, Provenance, and Field Studies I
  Monday, 2 April 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Windsor Ballroom
• OROGEN-SCALE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEXTRAL STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS: LINKS BETWEEN TERRANE COLLISION, DEFORMATION AND CLASTIC WEDGE SEDIMENTATION
  9 Transcurrent Motion in the Southern Appalachians: Comparing Kinematics and Timing across the Orogen
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 4:10 PM

  Grand Ballroom, Salon C1
• OPEN SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT OF FABRICS IN THE PARTRIDGE FORMATION, ALSTEAD, NH
  42 High-Strain Zone Kinematics, From the Microscopic to the Macroscopic Scale (Posters)
  Monday, 19 March 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Ballrooms A & C and Ballroom Pre-function Area

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2011

• THE RAZOR RIDGE VOLCANIC CENTER AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOUNT ROGERS AND KONNAROCK FORMATIONS
  T11 Linking Modern and Ancient Orogens
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200FG
• NEW GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND RESEARCH IN THE GEORGE WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, CHEROKEE AND PISGAH NATIONAL FORESTS, APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE, VA-NC-TN
  49 Tectonics: Recent Advances in Tectonics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 200A-C
• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE MOUTH OF WILSON AND SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE GRASSY CREEK 7.5-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, NC-VA: ASHE-BASEMENT CONTACT REVISITED
  16 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Thursday, 24 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• NEW INSIGHT INTO INNER PIEDMONT (AND BLUE RIDGE) GEOLOGY FROM DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND MODERN GEOCHRONOLOGY
  4 Piedmont Geology: New Mapping and New Perspectives
  Thursday, 24 March 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 106
• THE STRUCTURE AND PETROLOGY OF THE PEDEN METAULTRAMAFIC BODY, NW NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  16 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Thursday, 24 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• CONFIRMATION OF THE ACADIAN–NEOACADIAN OROGENY DRIVEN BY MID-PALEOZOIC ACCRETION OF THE CAROLINA SUPERTERRANE IN THE SOUTHERN–CENTRAL APPALACHIANS
  68 Devonian Orogenesis in the Appalachian-Caledonian Mountain Belt—Where, When, and What Caused It?
  Tuesday, 22 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Frick

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2010

• SHRIMP U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM THE CARVERS GAP GRANULITE GNEISS: NEW EVIDENCE FOR A MISSING RECORD OF SEDIMENTATION AND METAMORPHISM IN THE APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE
  T14 Innovative Techniques and Applications for Detrital Thermo- and Geochronologic Data
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207
• A REVIEW OF THE FIELD RELATIONSHIPS AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE CAT SQUARE TERRANE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR MIDDLE PALEOZOIC ACCRETION OF THE CAROLINA SUPERTERRANE
  59 Laurentian-Gondwanan Interactions in the Paleozoic I
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  Liberty B

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2003

• P-T EVOLUTION OF THE YAMBE PERIDOTITE, NORTHERN NEW CALEDONIA: HIGH-P ULTRAMYLONITE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE EMPLACEMENT OF 'PROGRADE SUBDUCTION ZONE' PERIDOTITE
  T219 Phase Relations, High P-T Terrains, P-T-ometry and Plate Pushing IV: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst
  Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM