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Activity

2025

• CONSTRAINING THE POLYMETAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS AND GRAMPIAN TERRANES, SCOTLAND: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM MONAZITE AND XENOTIME U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• TITANITE AND MONAZITE CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF METAMORPHISM AND PENETRATIVE DEFORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS TERRANE, SCOTLAND
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• INTEGRATING MULTISYSTEM GEO- AND THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOBAROMETRIC DATA TO DEVELOP EVOLUTIONARY TECTONIC MODELS FOR THE PALEOZOIC LAURENTIAN MARGIN: HONORING THE OUTSTANDING CAREER OF ROB STRACHAN
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• DEVELOPMENT OF A U-TH-PB MONAZITE DATING PROCEDURE USING EPMA AT VIRGINIA TECH
  31 Metamorphic and Deformational Processes in Collisional Zones (Posters)
  Friday, 21 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah ABC
• FLUID PULSES DURING SUBDUCTION AND THEIR IMPACTS ON FLUID COMPOSITION, ROCK VOLUME, AND METASOMATISM
  10 Metamorphic and Deformational Processes in Collisional Zones
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Appalachian B

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2024

• MONAZITE AS A MONITOR OF SUPRASOLIDUS CORDIERITE GROWTH AND BREAKDOWN: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE NANGA PARBAT MASSIF
  T139 State-of-the-Art and Future Directions in Petrology and Petrochronology II: A Session in Honor of Chris Yakymchuk, University of Waterloo, GSA MGPV Early Geological Career Awardee for 2024
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  206B
• PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME CONSTRAINTS ON THE METAMORPHISM OF MAFIC GRANULITES AND META-IRONSTONES OF THE PIKWITONEI GRANULITE DOMAIN, MANITOBA
  T139 State-of-the-Art and Future Directions in Petrology and Petrochronology II: A Session in Honor of Chris Yakymchuk, University of Waterloo, GSA MGPV Early Geological Career Awardee for 2024
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  206B

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2023

• PROGRADE METAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE NANGA PARBAT MASSIF: A RECORD OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE GEODYNAMICS, PALEOGENE COLLISION, OR BOTH?
  T174 Unravelling Timescales of Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Crustal Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B

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2022

• EXHUMATION RATE AND REACTION HISTORY OF PLEISTOCENE MIGMATITES FROM THE WESTERN HIMALAYA: INSIGHTS FROM CHEMICAL ZONATION IN GARNET
  48 Tectono-Metamorphic Processes at Convergent Boundaries: Insights from the Grenville Orogen, Northeastern North America, and Beyond (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Freedom Hall A
• HOW DOES GARNET CRYSTALLIZE DURING METAMORPHISM?
  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
• A MODERN PULSE OF PLATE-VELOCITY EXHUMATION AND DIACHRONOUS CRUSTAL MELTING IN THE NANGA PARBAT MASSIF
  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

• A MODERN PULSE OF ULTRAFAST MID-CRUSTAL EXTRUSION AND DIACHRONOUS CRUSTAL MELTING IN THE NANGA PARBAT MASSIF
  T233 Metamorphism into the 21st Century II—A Celebration of the Career of Mike Brown
  Wednesday, 13 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 252 (Hybrid Room)
• NEOARCHEAN POLYMETAMORPHISM AND CRUSTAL MELTING DUE TO MAGMATIC HEAT ADVECTION IN THE NORTHERN WYOMING PROVINCE: INSIGHTS FROM GARNET PETROCHRONOLOGY AND THERMAL MODELING
  T233 Metamorphism into the 21st Century II—A Celebration of the Career of Mike Brown
  Wednesday, 13 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 252 (Hybrid Room)
• METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE MEGUMA TERRANE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  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

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS: THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING GARNET NUCLEATION?
  T201 From the Micro to Macro in Metamorphic Geology: Constraining Tectono-Metamorphic Processes with High-Resolution Approaches
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SLOW DIFFERENTIATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST IN AN ARCHEAN GRANULITE TERRANE
  T111 Granulite Terranes and Evolution of Continental Lower Crust: Insights from the Canadian Shield and Beyond I
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• MICROSTRUCTURAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CONTROLS ON THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF GARNET AND STAUROLITE: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MEGUMA TERRANE, NOVA SCOTIA
  60 Appalachian Petrology: A Session to Honor the Career of Dr. Robert J. Tracy (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• CHEMICAL ZONING IN GARNET AS EVIDENCE FOR THE RAPID EXHUMATION OF UHP ROCKS
  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
• THE PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME HISTORY OF CALEDONIAN KYA-KFS-MUS ASSEMBLAGES FROM LOFOTEN, NORWAY, BASED ON MODELING OF ELEMENTAL ZONING IN GARNET AND 40AR/39AR AGE GRADIENTS IN MUSCOVITE
  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
• METAMORPHIC PATHS RECORD THE CONTRACTION AND THE EXTENSION THAT LED TO FORMATION OF THE DEATH VALLEY TURTLEBACKS
  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
• NEOARCHEAN POLYMETAMORPHISM IN THE WYOMING PROVINCE RECORDED BY ZONED GARNET PETROCHRONOLOGY
  T119 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• COMBINED ALLANITE-MONAZITE PETROCHRONOLOGY ON POLYMETAMORPHIC MIGMATITES FROM THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS
  T120 A Life in Mineralogy and Petrology: A Session in Honor of Robert J. Tracy (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• CONTRASTING RECORDS OF MONAZITE FLUID ALTERATION IN NORTHERN SCOTLAND
  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
• QUATERNARY PARTIAL MELTING IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYAN SYNTAXIS: INSIGHTS FROM MONAZITE PETROCHRONOLOGY OF EARTH’S YOUNGEST MIGMATITES
  T119 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHICALLY CONTROLLED VOID SPACE AT GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN EXHUMED METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  T56 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• ESTIMATING MAGNITUDES OF SHEAR HEATING IN STRIKE-SLIP SHEAR ZONES
  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
• APPLYING GARNET-MONAZITE THERMOMETRY TO SCANDIAN THRUST SHEETS IN NORTHWEST SCOTLAND
  10 Recent Advances and New Approaches in the Study of Faults and Shear Zones in Orogenic Systems (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom

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2018

• NANOSCALE INVESTIGATION OF GARNET GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  T165 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present, and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 240-241
• TIMESCALES OF TRANSIENT BRITTLE DEFORMATION IN SUBDUCTING SLABS: CONSTRAINTS FROM DIFFUSION MODELING FROM THE MONVISO OPHIOLITE
  T165 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present, and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 240-241
• ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM OF ARCHEAN CONTINENTAL CRUST: INSIGHTS FROM THE PETROCHRONOLOGY ARSENAL
  16 Petrologic Insights on Modern and Ancient Plate Margins II: The Volcanic, Plutonic, and Metamorphic Records
  Sunday, 18 March 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  University Amphitheater

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2017

• SM/ND GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE PATHS OF ECLOGITES FROM SYROS, GREECE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES AND WATER LOSS FROM THE SUBDUCTING SLAB
  T176 Petrochronology: Advances and Applications to Petrogenesis and Tectonics (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• CONSTRAINING THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE POLYMETAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE MARTINSVILLE CONTACT AUREOLE
  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
• PETROLOGY AND MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SCARBORO FORMATION, JEFFERSON, MAINE
  14 NETectonics: New Advances in Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology in the Appalachians (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Urban, 17th Floor

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2016

• ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM OF THE ARCHEAN PIKWITONEI GRANULITE DOMAIN
  270 Heat and Mass Transfer through Earth’s Crust during Metamorphism
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF GARNET GROWTH ZONING IN METAPELITES: CAN IT INFORM US ABOUT GROWTH PROCESSES?
  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
• THREE KINDS OF METAMORPHIC PULSES: GEODYNAMIC, THERMODYNAMIC, KINETIC
  T27 Rates in Metamorphism and Tectonism: From Mineral Growth to Orogenesis
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3B
• THE GHOST OF A CRATON'S PAST
  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

• P-T PATHS FROM SYROS, GREECE, AND CONSTRAINTS ON SUBDUCTION ZONE FLUID GENERATION
  T306 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• LIMITATIONS AND UTILITY OF SM-ND GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE WYOMING CRATON
  T305 Metamorphic, Metasomatic, and Igneous Processes in the Mid- and Deep Continental Crust: Mechanisms and Processes That Impact Mass Transport and Rheology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• P-T PATH OF SHORT-LIVED NEOARCHEAN GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHISM OF THE WYOMING CRATON
  T281 Metamorphic, Metasomatic, and Igneous Processes in the Mid- and Deep Continental Crust: Mechanisms and Processes That Impact Mass Transport and Rheology
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 317
• SAMARIUM/NEODYMIUM GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ECLOGITES FROM SYROS, GREECE
  T306 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• INSIGHTS INTO SUBDUCTION ZONE FLUID CHEMISTRIES FROM FLUID INCLUSIONS IN BLUESCHIST FROM SIFNOS, GREECE
  T306 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF BLUESCHIST LINKS GARNET GROWTH TO PROGRESSIVE SUBDUCTION ZONE DEHYDRATION IN THE CYCLADIC BLUESCHIST UNIT OF SYROS, GREECE
  T306 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• A (VERY) BRIEF HISTORY OF SUBDUCTION: INSIGHTS FROM THERMODYNAMIC AND GEODYNAMIC MODELS
  T168 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 341
• SYROS, GREECE: A GEOCHEMICAL WINDOW INTO SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES
  T142 Bridging Two Continents (Posters): Advances in Crustal Subduction and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• VARIATIONS IN BRUCITE COMPOSITION AND ABUNDANCE IN COMPOSITIONAL DOMAINS IN A SERPENTINIZED HARZBURGITE
  T168 Subduction, Fluids, Accessory Minerals, and Trace Elements: A Celebration of Sorena Sorensen's Career
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 341
• CONTACT METAMORPHISM AND THE RELEASE OF CARBON AND SULFUR VOLATILES: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DIABASE EMPLACEMENT
  28 Geochemistry (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• SHOOTING AT A MOVING TARGET: A MULTI-SCALAR APPROACH TO THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM
  34 Metamorphism from Zeolite Facies to UHP and UHT with Emphasis on Models for Predicting Metamorphic Mineral Stability
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Rose
• THE EFFECTS OF INITIAL BULK ROCK AND VOLATILE CHEMISTRY ON SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES
  34 Metamorphism from Zeolite Facies to UHP and UHT with Emphasis on Models for Predicting Metamorphic Mineral Stability
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Rose
• HYBRID IGNEOUS ROCKS AND THE PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE OF DEEP-CRUSTAL UHT METAMORPHISM
  34 Metamorphism from Zeolite Facies to UHP and UHT with Emphasis on Models for Predicting Metamorphic Mineral Stability
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Rose

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2014

• CHEMICAL POTENTIALS: THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE CONDITIONS OF GARNET NUCLEATION?
  29 Metamorphism in the Southeast and Beyond
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Duck Pond
• INCLUSION THERMOBAROMETRY: BEYOND QUARTZ
  49 Implementing Recent Innovations in Thermobarometry to Constrain Igneous and Metamorphic Evolution
  Monday, 24 March 2014

  3:45 PM - 5:35 PM

  Commonwealth Salons 1-2

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2013

• HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING AND ANALYSIS OF LAMELLAR MICROSTRUCTURES IN UHP GARNET, ITALIAN ALPS
  T323 STAMP: Structure, Tectonics, and Metamorphic Petrology I
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 506
• GARNET ZONING IMPLIES SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MIGRATION OF THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE, SUTLEJ VALLEY, NW INDIA
  T404 Through the Looking Glass: Microstructural Insights into Tectonic Processes
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• DECOMPRESSIONAL GARNET GROWTH DURING PROGRADE METAMORPHISM IN CALEDONIAN THRUST SHEETS, NW SCOTLAND
  T323 STAMP: Structure, Tectonics, and Metamorphic Petrology I
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 506
• IS THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF LOCAL MINERAL EQUILIBRIA REQUIRED TO ELUCIDATE HIGH TEMPERATURE P-T EVOLUTION?
  T287 Hot Topics: Understanding Metamorphic Processes in the Middle to Lower Crust
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 502
• FORMATION OF CORUNDUM-BEARING RESIDUUM ASSEMBLAGES DURING RAPID CONTACT HEATING AND EXTRACTION OF HIGH-SI MELT FROM A PELITIC XENOLITH, CORTLANDT COMPLEX, NY
  T287 Hot Topics: Understanding Metamorphic Processes in the Middle to Lower Crust
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 502
• PULSED GARNET GROWTH AND DEHYDRATION DURING SUBDUCTION, SIFNOS, GREECE
  T211 Dating the Prograde Path in Metamorphic Rocks: Methods, Advances, Limitations, and Applications
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502

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2012

• IMPROVING PRESSURE ESTIMATION IN HIGH PRESSURE TERRANES WITH RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY: NEW CALIBRATION AND AN IMPLEMENTATION ON BLUESCHISTS FROM SIFNOS, GREECE
  T148 From Composition and Modal Space, to Biopyriboles, to the Thermodynamics of Metamorphism: The Influence of James B. Thompson, Jr., on Present and Future Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, and Northern Appalachian Geology
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208B
• GARNET GROWTH ZONING IN METAPELITES: NOT SO SIMPLE AFTER ALL, AND REVEALING MORE THAN WE ONCE THOUGHT?
  T148 From Composition and Modal Space, to Biopyriboles, to the Thermodynamics of Metamorphism: The Influence of James B. Thompson, Jr., on Present and Future Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, and Northern Appalachian Geology
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208B
• MELTING OF METAPELITIC XENOLITHS IN MAFIC MAGMA, MELT REMOVAL, AND RESIDUUM FORMATION AT 0.8 GPA
  T148 From Composition and Modal Space, to Biopyriboles, to the Thermodynamics of Metamorphism: The Influence of James B. Thompson, Jr., on Present and Future Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, and Northern Appalachian Geology
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208B