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Activity

2024

• COMPARISON OF THE LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURES ACROSS LAURENTIA AND PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA, IRELAND, AND GREAT BRITAIN
  39 Unraveling Appalachian Orogenic Events Using Geological and Geophysical Methods (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• CRUSTAL STRUCTURE ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND AND THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
  39 Unraveling Appalachian Orogenic Events Using Geological and Geophysical Methods (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• INSIGHTS FROM LAYERED ANISOTROPY BENEATH SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND: FROM ANCIENT TECTONISM TO PRESENT-DAY MANTLE FLOW
  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

• NEW INSIGHTS INTO CRUSTAL AND MANTLE STRUCTURE BENEATH THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS FROM TEMPORARY BROADBAND SEISMIC DEPLOYMENTS AND INTEGRATION WITH GEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
  T226 Geological and Geophysical Constraints on Orogenic Architecture as Windows to Tectonic Style Through Time
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  326
• CONSTRAINTS ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE MORETOWN TERRANE AND THE TACONIC OROGENY IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS: DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM THE CRAM HILL FORMATION, VERMONT
  32 Taconic Orogeny in the North, Central, and Southern Appalachians: Tectonics of the Early Paleozoic Margin of Laurentia
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Regency Ballroom B

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2022

• A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OFFSET IN CRUSTAL THICKNESS BENEATH NORTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  47 Tectonic Evolution of Eastern North America: Insights from Geology and Geophysics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Freedom Hall A
• EXPLORING THE ORIGINS OF SHALLOW MANTLE BOUNDARIES BENEATH NEW ENGLAND
  47 Tectonic Evolution of Eastern North America: Insights from Geology and Geophysics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Freedom Hall A

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2021

• SKS SPLITTING AND UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY BENEATH THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE DENSE SEISCONN ARRAY
  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

• IAPETUS SHRUGGED: THE EARLY RIFTING RECORD OF LAURENTIA IN THE NEW ENGLAND AND QUÉBEC APPALACHIANS AND THE GENERATION OF PERI-LAURENTIAN MICROCONTINENTS
  3 The Appalachians, from North to South, from Crust to Mantle I
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• EVIDENCE FOR SALINIC AND ACADIAN REACTIVATION OF TACONIC THRUSTS ALONG THE WESTERN GREEN MOUNTAIN FRONT
  3 The Appalachians, from North to South, from Crust to Mantle I
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B

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2019

• FANTASTIC MAPS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM: CREATING A NEW GENERATION OF GEOLOGIC MAPS FOR TEACHING STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND CROSS-SECTION CONSTRUCTION
  T265 Innovative Tools for Mapping, Modelling, and Sharing 3D Geological Data: Drones, Photogrammetry, Lidar, Virtual, and Augmented Reality (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• DO TOPOGRAPHIC BARRIERS PREVENT HINTERLAND DETRITUS FROM REACHING FORELAND BASINS? TWO EXAMPLES FROM THE TACONIC AND ACADIAN OROGENIES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T243 New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen I
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• GEOCHRONOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR SALINIC THRUSTING AND ACADIAN REACTIVATION OF EXTERNAL BASEMENT MASSIFS IN WESTERN NEW ENGLAND AND OVERPRINTING OF THE ORDOVICIAN TACONIC THRUST BELT
  T243 New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen I
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• IMPROVING GEOLOGIC MAPPING WITH COMPUTATIONAL FIELD GEOLOGY
  T72 Innovative Tools for Mapping, Modelling, and Sharing 3D Geological Data: Drones, Photogrammetry, Lidar, Virtual, and Augmented Reality
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 102AB, West Building
• STRATIGRAPHIC, TECTONIC, AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE ACADIAN OROGENY FROM DETRITAL AND IGNEOUS ZIRCON DATING OF ROCKS FROM THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY-GASPE BASIN IN MASSACHUSETTS AND VERMONT
  46 Detrital Mineral Constraints on Appalachian-Caledonide Tectonics
  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Massachusetts Room

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2018

• STRATIGRAPHY AND PROVENANCE OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY-GASPE BASIN IN WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: EVIDENCE FOR A TOPOGRAPHIC BARRIER BETWEEN THE ACADIAN HINTERLAND AND FORELAND
  41 Petrologic, Structural, and Tectonic Interpretations in Northern New England II: A Session Honoring the Work of Jo Laird and Peter J. Thompson
  Monday, 19 March 2018

  1:50 PM - 5:30 PM

  Emerald Ballroom III

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2017

• STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY-GASPE TROUGH IN MASSACHUSETTS AND VERMONT: CONSTRAINTS FROM LA-ICPMS DATES FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON AND CA-IDTIMS DATES FROM VOLCANIC ROCKS
  T15 The Dynamics of Tectono-Sedimentary Systems During Basin Formation and Fill I
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom 6C

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2016

• TECTONIC EXHUMATION OF MID-CRUSTAL ROCKS RECORDED BY TEXTURAL UNCONFORMITIES IN GARNET FROM THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  T108 Fifty Years of Innovation in Petrology and Orogenic Systems I: A Tribute to Lincoln Hollister
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 205
• EVIDENCE FOR THE EVOLVING PLATE GEOMETRY IN THE TACONIC HINTERLAND OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FORELAND BASIN DEPOSITS
  30 Integrating Complementary Records of Paleozoic Orogenies in the Appalachians: Bridging the Foreland and Hinterland
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 2
• INTEGRATING FORELAND AND HINTERLAND DATA: TOWARD A GREATER SYNTHESIS OF APPALACHIAN TECTONICS AND OROGENESIS
  30 Integrating Complementary Records of Paleozoic Orogenies in the Appalachians: Bridging the Foreland and Hinterland
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 2
• DETRITAL ZIRCON CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE OF THE GRANVILLE DOME MANTLING SEQUENCE
  50 Applications of Geochemistry and Geochronology to Understanding Tectonic Processes: In Honor of Raymond A. Coish
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM

  Meeting Room 6

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2015

• THE ENDURING IMPACT OF E-AN ZEN ON TACONIC GEOLOGY
  T196 Zen and Now: Honoring the Legacy of E-an Zen's Contributions to Geology
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 317
• COMBINING RECTIFIED HIGH-RESOLUTION GIGAPAN IMAGES AND AN INTERACTIVE STRAIN PROGRAM TO TEST THE RF-PHI METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF CONGLOMERATES
  T12 Digital Technology in Real and Virtual Geoscience Experiences I
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 339
• WAS THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN SHELBURNE FALLS ARC BUILT ON GONDWANAN CRUST CLOSE TO LAURENTIA?
  30 Terrane Forensics—Where Did They Come From and Which Are Related? II
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• UNITING TACONIC HINTERLAND DEFORMATION WITH ORDOVICIAN FORELAND DEPOSITION IN NEW ENGLAND
  30 Terrane Forensics—Where Did They Come From and Which Are Related? II
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• A STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF FOLDED BASCOM FM., US HIGHWAY 279 IN NORTH BENNINGTON, VT
  40 Updating the Orogen: Along-Strike Tectonic Correlations and Comparisons in the Northeastern Appalachians (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Presidential Ballroom
• DETRITAL ZIRCON CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE OF THE POPLAR MOUNTAIN GNEISS IN THE PELHAM DOME: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC SETTING OF THE BRONSON HILL ARC
  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
• THE STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY MAPPING CHALLENGE: AN EVOLVING TOOL FOR ONLINE GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION
  6 Disruptive Technology and Geoscience Education
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Gifford Room

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2014

• VISUALIZING DEFORMATION WITH AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM: LINKING SHAPE CHANGE WITH GRAPHICAL AND MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF STRAIN
  T153 Spatial Thinking in Geoscience Teaching, Learning, and Professional Practice
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  210
• AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM FOR VISUALIZING AND ESTIMATING STRAIN IN DEFORMED CONGLOMERATES
  T127 Digital Geology Sandpit II (Digital Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C

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2013

• CREATING AND DISSEMINATING INTERACTIVE 3D GEOLOGIC MODELS
  T209 Geoscience Learning and Practice Enabled through Cyberinformatics and Technology I
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 404
• INTERACTIVE 3D GEOLOGIC MODELS CREATED WITH SKETCHUP
  T47 3-D Visualization in the Geological Science (Digital Posters)
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• VISUALIZING STRUCTURE CONTOURS WITH SKETCHUP: FROM STRIKE AND DIP TO CROSS-SECTION CONSTRUCTION
  52 Innovations in Geoscience Education and Research Using Google Earth and Related Digital Technologies
  Tuesday, 19 March 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM

  Reagan Room
• THE MORETOWN FORMATION: EVIDENCE FOR THE DASHWOODS TERRAIN IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  2 The Northern Appalachians I: What Have We Learned in the Past 40 Years? A Symposium in Honor of J. Christopher Hepburn
  Monday, 18 March 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Madison Room

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2012

• HIGH STRAIN AND DECOUPLED DEFORMATION IN THE MANTLE OF GNEISS DOMES
  T21 Dynamics of Gneiss Domes, Core Complexes, and Orogenic Plateaux
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207D
• INHERITED LITHOSPHERIC CONTRAST BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  34 Future Directions in Appalachian Tectonics: Building on Recent Lithotectonic Syntheses II
  Monday, 19 March 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Capital Rooms 2 & 3

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2011

• EVIDENCE FOR KILOMETER-SCALE FLUID-CONTROLLED REDISTRIBUTION OF GRAPHITE IN THE TACONIC THRUST BELT ON MOUNT GREYLOCK, MASSACHUSETTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR STRAIN LOCALIZATION AND FAULT GROWTH
  T128 Multidisciplinary Studies of Fault System Deformation
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 200A-C
• CREATING INTERACTIVE 3-D MODELS FROM GEOLOGIC MAPS AND CROSS SECTIONS USING GOOGLE SketchUp
  T115 Virtual Reality in Geoscience Education I (Digital Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• AN EMSIAN AGE FOR THE GOSHEN FORMATION IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY- GASPE TROUGH IN MASSACHUSETTS
  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

• EVIDENCE FOR COMPLEX MID-CRUSTAL FLOW IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS FROM REGIONAL GARNET INCLUSION AND ZONING PATTERNS
  T240 Garnet and Its Use in Unraveling Metamorphic and Tectonic Processes
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1CD
• ADDING STRUCTURES TO 3-D GEOLOGIC MAPS
  T172 Virtual Tectonics
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Hall E
• PREFERRED ORIENTATION OF COBBLES AND BOULDERS IN UNSTRAINED ALLUVIAL FAN DEPOSITS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RF-φ ANALYSIS OF DEFORMED CONGLOMERATES
  T172 Virtual Tectonics
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Hall E
• EVIDENCE FOR KILOMETER-SCALE, FLUID-CONTROLLED REDISTRIBUTION OF GRAPHITE IN PELITIC SCHIST IN THE TACONIC THRUST BELT ON MOUNT GREYLOCK, MASSACHUSETTS
  28 It All Starts in the Field: In Honor of Wallace A. Bothner
  Monday, 15 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  International E

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2009

• ENHANCING 3-D VISUALIZATION OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY CONCEPTS
  T68 Spatial Skills in the Geosciences
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B117/118/119

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2008

• External Basement Massifs in the Northern Appalachians: The Link Between Rodinia and Pangea
  T212 Recent Advances in the Understanding of Adirondack and Southern Grenville Province Tectonics II: In Honor of James McLelland
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• COMPOSITE ARC TERRAINS IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  36 NEtectonics: Paleozoic Accretion of Arcs and Microcontinents in the Appalachians: In Honor of Douglas W. Rankin
  Saturday, 29 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• APPLICATIONS OF AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM TO MEASURING HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN IN A THRUST SHEET
  3 NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics I
  Thursday, 27 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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2007

• DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATES FOR EXTERNAL BASEMENT MASSIFS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS: RECONSTRUCTING THE RIFTED LAURENTIAN MARGIN
  T230 Evolution of Appalachian-Ouachita Salients and Recesses from Reentrants [Embayments] and Promontories in the Continental Margin II: Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration of Advances Derived from Bill Thomas’ 1977 American Journal of Science Paper
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
• STRAIN GRADIENTS IN THE DAY MOUNTAIN THRUST SHEET, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  46 Strain Partitioning and Rheological Evolution in Orogens
  Wednesday, 14 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• INTRACRUSTAL WEDGING AND EMPLACEMENT OF EXTERNAL BASEMENT MASSIFS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  3 From Rodinia to Pangea—The Lithotectonic Record of Plate Convergence in Eastern North America I
  Monday, 12 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• FORMATION OF NEW ENGLAND GNEISS DOMES
  12 Rev. James W. Skehan S.J.—Geologist, Teacher, Mentor, Priest: A Jesuit Journey II
  Monday, 12 March 2007

  1:00 PM - 4:45 PM

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2006

• GEOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE EMPLACEMENT OF BASEMENT UPLIFTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  25 New Geochronologic and Isotopic Approaches to Constraining Appalachian Tectonics
  Friday, 24 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• ACCRETION OF NORTHERN APPALACHIAN ARC TERRANES
  14 Frontiers of Appalachian Tectonics II
  Thursday, 23 March 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• SILURIAN SUBDUCTION UNDER THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  21 Time Slices Across the Appalachians: Tectonic Settings of Silurian-Devonian Igneous Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen I
  Tuesday, 21 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2005

• AGE AND STYLE OF EMPLACEMENT OF BASEMENT UPLIFTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  5 Tectonics I
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• THRUSTING IN THE BERKSHIRE MASSIF, WESTERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  26 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session (Posters)
  Tuesday, 15 March 2005

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2004

• TRANSPRESSION, OROGEN-PARALLEL EXTRUSION, AND THE FORMATION OF MANTLED GNEISS DOMES
  T207 Whence the Mountains? New Developments in the Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic Belts: Celebrating the Dynamic Career of Raymond A. Price at the 50-Year Mark IV
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SILURIAN TECTONISM IN THE WESTERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  33 Tectonics
  Friday, 26 March 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2003

• DATING DEFORMATION WITH MONAZITE
  T21 Understanding Coupled Metamorphic and Deformational Processes: Advances in Integrated Textural, Chemical, and Microstructural Analysis
  Sunday, 2 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• ACADIAN TRANSPRESSION, EXTRUSION, AND GNEISS DOME FORMATION IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  40 Evolution of the East Laurentia Continental Margin, Eastern United States–Canada: From Late Proterozoic Rifting to Devonian Collisions II
  Saturday, 29 March 2003

  1:20 PM - 5:00 PM
• TACONIC VERSUS MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC ANATEXIS AND DEFORMATION IN THE BERKSHIRE MASSIF, WESTERN NEW ENGLAND
  21 Paleozoic Arcs in the Northern Appalachian Orogen and Their Accretionary History: 2nd Annual NETectonics Session I
  Friday, 28 March 2003

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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2002

• EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS OF THE ACADIAN OROGENY
  18 Paleozoic Tectonics of the Northern Appalachian Mountains: New Insights and Persistent Problems: First Annual NETectonics Symposium I
  Tuesday, 26 March 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• HOW DO OROGENIES END? AN EXAMPLE FROM THE TACONIC OROGENY IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T110 Arc Terranes in the Appalachians and Caledonides and their Role in Paleozoic Orogenesis II
  Wednesday, 7 November 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• ACADIAN EXTENSION IN WESTERN NEW ENGLAND
  4 Fault Zone Evolution and Convergent Tectonics: A Symposium in Honor of Rolfe Stanley
  Monday, 12 March 2001

  8:15 AM - 12:15 PM
• COMPETING MODELS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SHELBURNE FALLS AND BRONSON HILL ARCS, NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  13 Geologic Evolution of the Northern Appalachians; the Quebec-Vermont Connection
  Monday, 12 March 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Date Unknown

• VISUALIZING STRAIN AND THE RF-PHI METHOD WITH AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM
  83 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)