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Activity

2024

• TESTING MODELS OF LI-PEGMATITE PETROGENESIS USING DIRECT DATING METHODS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS
  T208 Lithium Clays, Brines and Pegmatites in the Americas: Challenges of a Critical Metal for the Energy Transition
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207C
• NEW GEOCHRONOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS THE EVOLUTION OF AN ACTIVE MARGIN IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  T201 Geologic History of the Northern Sierra Nevada, a Persistent and Evolving Active Margin Along Western North America (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE AND MINERALOGY OF CRETACEOUS TO MODERN HEAVY MINERAL SANDS OF THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN, SOUTHEASTERN USA
  T100 Linking Mineral Resources and Their Geologic Framework: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Critical Minerals Research (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE MOSCA CREEK WINDOW AT GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, SOUTHERN COLORADO: NEW INSIGHTS INTO LARAMIDE CONTRACTION, OLIGOCENE CONTACT METAMORPHISM AND RIO GRANDE RIFT EXTENSION
  T118 Best Student Geologic Map Competition (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• GEOCHEMICAL, GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND METALLOGENIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CRETACEOUS MAGMATISM AND MINERALIZATION IN EASTERN ALASKA: A NEW PIERCING ZONE ALONG THE TERTIARY TINTINA FAULT
  T1 Linking Mineral Resources and Their Geologic Framework I: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Critical Minerals Research
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  212A
• “SOURCE TO SINK” TI-ZR-REE PLACER DEPOSITS IN U.S. ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN SEDIMENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
  T51 Linking Mineral Resources and Their Geologic Framework II: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Critical Minerals Research
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  212A
• THE NEOPROTEROZOIC RIFTING OF WESTERN LAURENTIA: A SINGLE EVENT OR TWO RIFTING PROCESSES?
  T21 North American Cordilleran Margin Tectonic Framework: Paleozoic and Precambrian
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304A
• PINPOINTING PALEO-DRAINAGE DIVIDES AND RIVER CONFLUENCES USING DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS
  18 Landscape Evolution and Geomorphology of the Greater Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies
  Wednesday, 15 May 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Cedar Ballroom
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE AND MINERALOGY OF CRETACEOUS TO MODERN HEAVY MINERAL SANDS WITHIN ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN SEDIMENTS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US
  34 In the Field or in the Lab: Revealing Hidden Signals from Minerals
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Swannanoa
• 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
• 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
• USING THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOTEK MULTI-SENSOR CORE LOGGER SYSTEM TO ANALYZE AND PRESERVE CORE FROM THE OLD HICKORY HEAVY MINERAL DEPOSIT, SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
  53 Cores and Rocks from the Southeast Atlantic Continental Margin to Facilitate Interstate Correlation of Along-Strike Units: A Hands-On Poster Session to Support Symposium 2 (Posters)
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• SQUEEZING BLOOD (OR ZIRCONS) FROM A STONE: A SILURIAN U-PB ZIRCON AGE FOR MAFIC METAVOLCANIC ROCKS CONSTRAINS TIMING OF SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE TECTONICS, SUCCESSOR BASIN FORMATION, AND METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE
  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
• LITHIUM PEGMATITE MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: PROJECT OVERVIEW AND PRELIMINARY GRADE AND TONNAGE MODEL
  24 D2. Economic and Engineering Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• 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
• A CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF MAINE’S SPODUMENE-BEARING PEGMATITES
  13 Economic Geology and Critical Mineral Resources
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Piscataquog Room
• GENETIC LINKS BETWEEN LITHIUM PEGMATITES AND THE ACADIAN ALTIPLANO AND THE ROLE OF PALEOCLIMATE
  13 Economic Geology and Critical Mineral Resources
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Piscataquog Room

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2023

• EVALUATING NATURAL AND INDUCED BIAS IN DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS STRATA IN THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, USA
  T245 Advances in Detrital Heavy Minerals: Applications and Methods (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• A STEP TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE HIGH AND LOW LATITUDE BASE-LEVEL AND CLIMATE RECORDS ACROSS THE EARLY PERMIAN
  T267 Time Machine: Earth’s Deep-Time Geography—Data, Reconstructions, Challenges
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  320
• THE WEDOWEE-EMUCKFAW-DAHLONEGA BACK-ARC BASIN AND DADEVILLE COMPLEX ARC: A LAURENTIAN MARGIN ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN SUPRASUBDUCTION COMPLEX IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS
  T137 The Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic Evolution of the Eastern Laurentian Margin—Tectonic, Stratigraphic, Sedimentologic, and Geochronologic Evidence I: In Honor of William A. “Bill” Thomas
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  317 / 318
• NEW GEO- AND THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ARCHITECTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE SUWANNEE TERRANE, FLORIDA, USA
  40 Alleghanian Overprinting of Pre-Alleghanian Accreted Terranes
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE MARBLE HILL HORNBLENDE SCHIST, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS (USA)
  46 D12. Geochronology, Sediments, and Stratigraphy (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• NEW GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE EASTERNMOST PIEDMONT AND COASTAL-PLAIN BASEMENT IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND
  40 Alleghanian Overprinting of Pre-Alleghanian Accreted Terranes
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• PRELIMINARY BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP AND RELATED STUDIES OF THE ROXBURY AND WOODBURY 7.5-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, WESTERN CONNECTICUT UPLANDS
  37 Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• NEOPROTEROZOIC DIKES OF THE NORTHEASTERN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
  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

• GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND EXPLORATION FOR LI-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE RUMFORD SERIES IN THE OXFORD COUNTY PEGMATITE FIELD, ME, USA
  T257 The Geology and Environmental Impacts of Lithium Resources in North America and other Globally Significant Deposits II
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  603
• ENIGMATIC AGES OF TITANITE IN DENALI FAULT ZONE MYLONITES - DO THEY RECORD THE INCEPTION OF NORTHERN CORDILLERAN ACCRETION?
  T174 Future Directions in Tectonics and Lithospheric Processes: A Session for Early Career Researchers (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• NEW INSIGHTS ON THE IMPACT OF YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT TRACK ON MAJOR DRAINAGE REORGANIZATION OF THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST
  T75 The Legacy of Kenneth L. Pierce: Interdisciplinary Studies along the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot and Beyond I
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  605
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE AND MINERALOGY OF HEAVY MINERAL SANDS FROM THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN ADJACENT TO THE FALL LINE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US
  T4 Critical Minerals and Framework Geology: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities I
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  601
• EDIACARAN VOLCANIC REMNANTS OF THE STIRLING QUARTZITE, NEVADA: PETROGENETICS AND POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP TO CONTINENTAL RIFTING EVENTS
  27 D27. Recent Advances in Igneous Petrology and Volcanology (Posters)
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• MULTIPLE PHASES OF WESTERN LAURENTIAN RIFTING: ABORTED EARLY EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN VOLCANIC EVENTS?
  27 D27. Recent Advances in Igneous Petrology and Volcanology (Posters)
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND VEIN TEXTURES IN THE GOODPASTER DISTRICT, ALASKA
  T5 Metals in Hydrothermal Systems: From Source to Sink
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4C
• PROTEROZOIC TO EARLY PALEOZOIC METAMORPHIC REMNANTS OF MAFIC VOLCANISM, SAN FELIPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA
  27 D27. Recent Advances in Igneous Petrology and Volcanology (Posters)
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• THE MESOPROTEROZOIC PICURIS OROGENY IN THE CENTRAL COLORADO FRONT RANGE
  T39 Evaluation of Proterozoic Tectonic Styles in North America and Their Influence on Phanerozoic Structures and Mineralization
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  507
• EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN RIFT RELATED VOLCANISM IN WESTERN LAURENTIA: ABORTED RIFT EVENT(S)?
  18 Neo-Insights into the Neoproterozoic of Western North America
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 112

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2021

• LATE MESOZOIC TERRANE ASSEMBLY IN THE NORTHWESTERN CORDILLERA THROUGH THE LENS OF SILICICLASTIC SUCCESSIONS IN EASTERN INTERIOR ALASKA
  T143 Insights into Cordilleran Tectonics and Magmatism from the Sedimentary Record
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 255 (Hybrid Room)
• GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF THE DINWIDDIE TERRANE, CENTRAL-EASTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT, USA
  16 D3. Southern Appalachian and Analogous Terranes II
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  FMR, Inc. Room
• NEW DETRITAL ZIRCON DATA FROM WESTERN CONNECTICUT PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO TERRANE AFFINITIES AND MAP PATTERNS OF REGIONAL LITHOLOGIES
  13 Pre-Atlantic Geological Connections among Northwest Africa, Southern Europe, and Eastern North America
  Monday, 15 March 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:20 PM

  Portland

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2020

• U/PB AGE CONSTRAINTS ON HOST ROCK DEPOSITION AND HIGH-T METAMORPHISM AT THE GRAPHITE CREEK FLAKE GRAPHITE DEPOSIT, SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA
  T248 Integrating Geochronological, Geochemical, and Petrological Data—Progress in Petrochronology and Applications
  Friday, 30 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• 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
• NEW AGE CONTROLS ON THE PETERSBURG TERRANE, CENTRAL-EASTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT
  61 D20. Structural Geology, Microstructures, and Geochronology
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• PRELIMINARY U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PROTEROZOIC AND PALEOZOIC ROCKS BENEATH THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN FROM MARYLAND TO SOUTH CAROLINA
  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

• 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
• NEW EVIDENCE FOR ~1.62 GA AND ~1.43 GA DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM IN PROTEROZOIC METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE MOUNT EVANS AREA, CENTRAL COLORADO FRONT RANGE
  T82 Origin and Evolution of Proterozoic Lithosphere in the Western United States
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• ON THE OCCURRENCE OF MESOPROTEROZOIC AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES SAPPHIRINE, SPINEL, PHLOGOPITE, ANORTHITE, AND CORUNDUM IN THE WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO, USA
  T77 A Life in Mineralogy and Petrology: A Session in Honor of Robert J. Tracy
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• REFINING THE PALEOCENE - EOCENE BOUNDARY AND UNDERSTANDING BASIN FILL OF THE HANNA FORMATION IN THE HANNA BASIN, WYOMING
  T125 Advances in Using Sedimentary Data to Constrain the Timing and Rates of Geologic Events and Processes (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• RINGOLD FORMATION SEDIMENTOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, AND PROVENANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANCESTRAL RIVERS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
  19 Landscape Evolution and Tectonic Geomorphology in the Greater Pacific Northwest
  Thursday, 16 May 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:20 PM

  Room C123
• NEW AGE CONTROLS ON THE EMPLACEMENT OF THE PETERSBURG GRANITE AND ON THE ROCKS INTO WHICH IT INTRUDES, CENTRAL-EASTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT, USA
  32 Gondwana vs. Laurentia: Terrane Accretion and Crustal Growth in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Colonial Ballroom
• MARINE MINERAL RESOURCES ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OFFSHORE OF VIRGINIA: NEW INSIGHTS CONCERNING ECONOMIC HEAVY MINERALS
  35 Offshore Research on the Mid- and South-Atlantic Continental Shelf
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  8:20 AM - 11:20 AM

  Rutledge Room
• INVESTIGATING PRE-CRETACEOUS BASEMENT ROCKS BENEATH THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COASTAL PLAIN
  32 Gondwana vs. Laurentia: Terrane Accretion and Crustal Growth in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Colonial Ballroom
• FORMATION OF TOPAZ-ENRICHED GNEISS IN THE EAST-CENTRAL COLORADO FRONT RANGE VIA CRYSTALLIZATION OF MESOPROTEROZOIC HALOGEN-RICH GRANITIC MAGMAS
  3 Microanalyses, Macro Implications: Using Microscale Analyses to Decipher System-to-Regional Scale Processes
  Monday, 25 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Kings Room
• U-PB ZIRCON AND MONAZITE RESULTS FROM GRANITE AND CHARNOCKITE FROM THE MAZAGAN ESCARPMENT, OFFSHORE MOROCCO
  12 Geology, Structure, Geochronology, and Tectonics in Southern New England II: An Eclectic Session in Honor of Robert P. Wintsch
  Sunday, 17 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  New Hampshire Room

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2018

• A STRATIGRAPHIC APPROACH TO INFERRING DEPOSITIONAL AGES FROM DETRITAL GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T42 Frontiers in Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochronology (Posters): A Session in Honor of Dana Medalist Jörg Hermann
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• AGE AND PROVENANCE OF CLASTS IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS POTOMAC GROUP AT PUDDLEDOCK, VIRGINIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PASSIVE MARGIN DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
  1 D39. Tectonics/Tectonophysics
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIAN STRATA IN COLORADO: EVIDENCE FOR APPALACHIAN-DERIVED SEDIMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TIMING OF ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS UPLIFT
  58 Emerging Ideas on the Ancestral Rocky Mountain System
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:20 AM - 10:20 AM

  Kachina Room
• PROVENANCE OF THE CRETACEOUS POTOMAC GROUP FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON ANALYSIS, CENTRAL-EASTERN VIRGINIA
  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
• 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
• NOT YOUR FATHER’S TACONIC OROGENY: SIGNIFICANCE OF AN IAPETUS-FACING, LAURENTIAN PLATE ORDOVICIAN ARC-BACKARC SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  2 Longstanding Problems and New Ideas About the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachians and Other Mountain Belts I: In Honor of the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301 C
• CHARACTERIZING THE SOUTHWESTERN EXTENT OF THE NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM, A MID-PALEOZOIC CRUSTAL-SCALE STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEM IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  56 Petrologic, Structural, and Tectonic Interpretations in Northern New England: A Session Honoring the Work of Jo Laird and Peter J. Thompson (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 March 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Champlain Exhibition Hall

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2017

• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCES OF QUARTZOSE METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS FROM PARAUTOCHTHONOUS NORTH AMERICA, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA
  T344 New Perspectives on Cordilleran Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Metallogeny
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 5
• LATE PERMIAN (CA. 267–257 MA) MAGMATISM, DEFORMATION, AND METAMORPHISM AND LITHOTECTONIC ASSOCIATIONS OF THE LADUE RIVER UNIT IN EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA
  T389 New Perspectives on Cordilleran Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Metallogeny (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE OF THE RINGOLD FORMATION WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANCESTRAL COLUMBIA AND SNAKE RIVER DRAINAGE AND REGIONAL TECTONIC UPLIFT
  T214 Challenges in Tectonics: Dynamic Interactions among Earth-Surface Processes, Landscape Evolution, and Tectonics I
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 4
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN-PERMIAN INGLESIDE FORMATION IN NORTHERN COLORADO: EVIDENCE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF APPALACHIAN ZIRCONS AT THE ANCESTRAL ROCKIES
  T182 The Dynamics of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• UNRAVELING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE YUKON-TANANA TERRANE AND PARAUTOCHTHONOUS NORTH AMERICA IN EASTERN ALASKA
  T148 Integrated Approaches to Deciphering Major Crustal Boundaries in Polyphase Orogenic Settings
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 3
• BUILDING A UNIFIED TECTONIC MODEL FOR THE TACONIC OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS
  27 Plutonism and Volcanism in the Appalachians and Beyond
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Shenandoah H
• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA: A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT ADVANCES IN MAPPING, GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND TECTONIC INTERPRETATION
  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
• PETROGENETIC SETTING OF ORDOVICIAN PLUTONISM, EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, ALABAMA
  27 Plutonism and Volcanism in the Appalachians and Beyond
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Shenandoah H
• 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

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2016

• LINKING NEOPROTEROZOIC TO CAMBRIAN STRATA FROM SONORA TO UTAH
  T315 The Colorado Scientific Society III: From the Mountains to the Plains—New Concepts and Discoveries in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 402
• VOLCANIC STRATIGRAPHY, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AND TELLURIDE-BEARING EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS OF THE PATTERSON MINING DISTRICT, SWEETWATER MOUNTAINS, CA-NV
  T319 Mineral Resources for Society: Honoring the Career and Contributions to Economic Geology of Jean S. Cline (Posters)
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA, AND THREE IF BY AIR? SEDIMENT TRANSPORT INTO COLORADO BASINS
  T200 Detrital Zircons on the North American Continental Interior II, and Sediment Dispersal
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 403
• IN SITU LA-ICPMS U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF APATITE FROM IOA AND IOCG DEPOSITS, ST. FRANCOIS MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, USA
  T180 Micro-Analytical Techniques in Ore Deposit Research
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301
• INDEPENDENT JURASSIC TO LATE CRETACEOUS DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS DEFINED BY SANDSTONE PETROGRAPHY AND DETRITAL ZIRCONS CONSTRAIN CLOSURE OF THE KAHILTNA-KUSKOKWIM BASIN IN SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
  T267 Plate Tectonics, Arc-Trench Systems, Cordilleran Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, Sandstone Provenance, and Geoarchaeology (Posters): A Celebration of William R. Dickinson's Career
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• SEARCHING FOR THE AERIAL EXTENT OF THE MOUNTAIN PASS CARBONATITE EVENT: EVIDENCE FROM U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PROTEROZOIC ROCKS IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
  167 Precambrian Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• COLORADO MASS EXTINCTION: WEIRD FACIES AND COOL FOSSILS FROM THE END-DEVONIAN DYER FORMATION
  T137 Past and Present Global Biotic Crises: From Microbes to Megafauna
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3C
• NEW GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE FORMATION AND HYDROTHERMAL ENRICHMENT OF THE BOKAN MOUNTAIN PERALKALINE IGNEOUS COMPLEX AND ASSOCIATED HREE DEPOSITS, SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, USA
  T3 Rare Earth and Critical Elements in Ore Deposits
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301
• THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC OF EASTERN COLORADO: REDBEDS, SLIME, SALT, DUNES, AND POSSIBLY AN EXTINCTION?
  T51 The Other Red Planet: Terrestrial Environments and Climates from the Permian and Triassic
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 501
• MAXIMUM DEPOSITIONAL AGES AND PROVENANCE FROM DETRITAL ZIRCONS COMPARED TO PALEONTOLOGIC AGES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEFORMATION TIMING, LOWER GREAT VALLEY SEQUENCE, KNOXVILLE TO LAKE BERRYESSA, WEST OF SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CA
  5 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (Posters)
  Monday, 4 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF TERRANES IN THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA PIEDMONT
  9 Evolving Perspectives on Piedmont Geology: Terrane Studies, Structural Analyses, New Mapping, and Complementary Studies (Posters)
  Thursday, 31 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• REMNANTS OF A PAIRED LAURENTIAN TACONIC ARC/BACK-ARC SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS?
  1 Evolving Perspectives on Piedmont Geology: Terrane Studies, Structural Analyses, New Mapping, and Complementary Studies
  Thursday, 31 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lexington B
• NEW U/PB ZIRCON AGES FROM NORTH ISLESBORO, WESTERN PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE: STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS
  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
• 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
• USING DETRITAL ZIRCON TO CORRELATE AND RECONSTRUCT NEOPROTEROZOIC AND EARLY PALEOZOIC COMPONENTS OF PERI-LAURENTIAN TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN CORDILLERA AND ALASKA
  T341 Deconstructing Rodinia: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Geologic Evolution of Laurentia’s Margins
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 314
• BREAKING UP RODINIA: MAGMATIC AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR A MANTLE PLUME TRIGGER
  T341 Deconstructing Rodinia: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Geologic Evolution of Laurentia’s Margins
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 314
• 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
• TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN MAGMATIC-VOLCANIC SEQUENCES IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT, SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  T342 Mountains across the Oceans: Caledonian, Variscan, and Appalachian Orogenies through Time
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 308
• MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL DISSOLUTION METHODS VERSUS SELECTIVE FRAGMENTATION FOR MINERAL AND FOSSIL SEPARATION AND CONCENTRATES FROM SELECT GEOLOGIC MATERIALS
  T208 An Early Involvement of Undergraduates and K–12 Students in Geological Research Brings a Strong Sense of Ownership and Achievement for Young Researchers (Posters)
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• 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
• FORMATION OF THE KAHILTNA BASIN, ALASKA, BY TIME-TRANSGRESSIVE EARLY TO LATE CRETACEOUS DEXTRAL-OBLIQUE JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO INDEPENDENT DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS
  19 From Alaska and the Appalachians to Lithium Resources and Secular Trends in the Geologic Record: Honoring the Eclectic Geologic Career of Dwight Bradley (Posters)
  Wednesday, 13 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Atrium/Hallway
• REFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS, AGE, AND EXTENT OF THE PERMIAN KLONDIKE ASSEMBLAGE IN EASTERN ALASKA
  10 Tectonics and Metallogeny of the Hinterland of the Yukon and Alaskan Cordillera—Recent Advances and Future Directions
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lecture Hall
• 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
• ALLEGHANIAN DISASSEMBLY OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE ORDOVICIAN BACK-ARC BASIN: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE MULBERRY ROCK RECESS (34°N), NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  16 Ordovician Tectonics of the Appalachians: New Ideas on an Ancient Orogen
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roberts
• ORDOVICIAN EVENTS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS: SYNTHESIZING THE IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY AND METAMORPHIC RECORD OF THE TACONIC OROGENY
  16 Ordovician Tectonics of the Appalachians: New Ideas on an Ancient Orogen
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roberts

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2014

• U-PB ZIRCON AGES AND MINERALOGY OF THE DORA BAY INTRUSIVE COMPLEX AND HEAVY REE-BEARING PEGMATITE DIKES
  T299 Geologic Processes That Influence the Tectonic Development and Economic Resources of the Northern North American Cordillera (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• LATE CRETACEOUS THROUGH OLIGOCENE MAGMATIC AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN ALASKA RANGE
  T299 Geologic Processes That Influence the Tectonic Development and Economic Resources of the Northern North American Cordillera (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• THREE EPISODES OF VOLCANISM AND EROSION DURING NEOPROTEROZOIC EXTENSION IN EASTERN LAURENTIA REVEALED BY U-PB DATING OF ZIRCON FROM CLASTS OF RHYOLITE AND DETRITAL ZIRCON FROM SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
  T27 Precambrian Sedimentology: From the Field to the Laboratory I
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  204
• NEOPROTEROZOIC GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF EASTERN LAURENTIA: EVIDENCE FROM U-PB DATING OF ZIRCON FROM RHYOLITE CLASTS IN MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION CONGLOMERATES, SW VA, USA
  T27 Precambrian Sedimentology: From the Field to the Laboratory I
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  204
• THE SEA OF JAPAN AS A CENOZOIC ANALOGUE FOR THE ORDOVICIAN WEDOWEE-EMUCKFAW-DAHLONEGA BACK-ARC BASIN: SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  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

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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
• A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MAPPING, GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LAURENTIAN MARGIN ROCKS: PART I – LATEST NEOPROTEROZOIC THROUGH ORDOVICIAN
  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
• A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MAPPING, GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LAURENTIAN MARGIN ROCKS: PART II – SILURIAN THROUGH PERMIAN
  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

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2012

• 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
• THREE PHASES OF TACONIC ACCRETIONARY OROGENESIS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• GROWING EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENCE OF LAURENTIAN MARGIN ORDOVICIAN BACK-ARC BASIN(S) IN 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

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2011

• 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

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2010

• RECOGNITION OF A REGIONAL ORDOVICIAN VALMY FORMATION THRUST SHEET: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON AND EXPLORATION FOR CONCEALED CARLIN-TYPE GOLD DEPOSITS
  T243 New Insights on the Tectonic, Magmatic, Paleobiogeographic, and Metallogenic Evolution of Terranes in the North American Cordillera from Alaska to California I
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 406
• WAS LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATION ALONG THE CORDILLERA A DRIVING FORCE FOR ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN UPLIFTS?
  T123 Orogeny: Relating Rigid Plates to Diffuse Lithospheric Deformation (Posters)
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• STRATIGRAPHY AND ANTLER AGE DEFORMATION OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON AND THRUST ZONE AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CARLIN-TYPE GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE INDEPENDENCE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN NEVADA
  T105 Neoproterozoic through Cretaceous Evolution of the North American Cordilleran Margin: Contrasting Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoenvironments (Posters)
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• An Ordovician Accretionary Orogen in the Southern Appalachians-Part 1: Geochemistry of Coeval Igneous Rocks
  T291 Gondwana-Laurentia Terrane Transfers During the Pangean and Rodinian Supercontinent Cycles
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• An Ordovician Accretionary Orogen in the Southern Appalachians – Part 2: Tectonic Model
  T291 Gondwana-Laurentia Terrane Transfers During the Pangean and Rodinian Supercontinent Cycles
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• EXAMINING THE ROLE OF EXTENSIONAL ACCRETIONARY OROGENESIS IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE: ISOTOPIC, GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE
  25 New Geochronologic and Isotopic Approaches to Constraining Appalachian Tectonics
  Friday, 24 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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• Integrative Approach to Elucidate the Stratigraphy and Structure of the Roberts Mountains Allochthon and the Gold Deposits That It Conceals in the Independence Range of North Central Nevada, USA
  305 Stratigraphy (Posters)