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Activity

2023

• LATE-STAGE (CA. 745-740 MA) FELSIC VOLCANISM IN THE MOUNT ROGERS AREA, SW VA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ABORTED RIFTING AND ONSET OF GLACIATION
  T96 35th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition (Posters)
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• UAS EVALUATION OF A 2020 DEBRIS FLOW THAT LED TO A FIERY TRAIN DERAILMENT IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY
  T55 These Old Mountains Still Got It: Natural Hazards of the Evolving Appalachian Mountain Belt
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  317 / 318
• NEOPROTEROZOIC TO PALEOZOIC TECTONICS IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE: COMPLEX CONTACTS IN AN INVERTED EXTENSIONAL TO COMPRESSIONAL SEQUENCE
  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
• GLACIERS AND VOLCANISM: INVESTIGATING THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC KONNAROCK AND MOUNT ROGERS FORMATIONS, SW VA
  9 D7. Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology (Posters)
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• ANALYSIS OF GREISEN-FORMING ANOROGENIC GRANITOIDS IN IRISH CREEK, VIRGINIA
  21 Undergraduate Research Poster Session I (Posters)
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• COMPARISON OF DIABASE DIKES FROM AMHERST COUNTY, VA, VIA THIN SECTION AND XRF ANALYSIS
  21 Undergraduate Research Poster Session I (Posters)
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2022

• IMPLEMENTATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN, RISK ANALYSIS, AND HAZARD MITIGATION OF ROCK SLOPES IN VIRGINIA
  4 Geosciences for a Sustainable Future
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  North Meeting Room 206

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2021

• VOLCANOES TO GLACIERS: NEOPROTEROZOIC RIFT BASINS IN A PALEOZOIC OROGEN, SW VIRGINIA
  15 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, 3D Geological Models, Digital Mapping Techniques, Map Derivatives, and Digital Map Preparation (Posters)
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Syn Terra Corporation Room

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2020

• TRANSGRESSIONS, REGRESSIONS, AND STABILIZATION OF THE CAMBRIAN PASSIVE MARGIN: THE CHILHOWEE GROUP IN SW VA
  18 Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Transitions on the Appalachian, Laurentian Margin
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

  Lake Audubon

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2019

• SCANNING, PANNING, AND PROCESSING: DELINEATION OF IGNEOUS DIKE ORIENTATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIAN BATHOLITH, CHILE
  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
• IMPLEMENTATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FOR THE DESIGN, RISK ANALYSIS, AND HAZARD MITIGATION OF ROCK SLOPES FOR THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  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
• NEOPROTEROZOIC TO CAMBRIAN RIFT-TO-DRIFT SEDIMENTATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA
  37 A Window into Regional Deformation and Sedimentation through Geo-, Thermo-, and Petrochronology (Posters)
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom

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2018

• EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL NEW ROCK FALLS AT NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK, VIRGINIA, USING GEOPHYSICS, UAS 3-D PHOTOGRAMMETRY, LIDAR, AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS
  T202 Environmental & Engineering Geology Division
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 134
• CRYPTIC FAULTING AND BASIN INVERSION REVEALED THROUGH GEOCHRONOLOGY OF VOLCANIC CLASTS IN CONGLOMERATE, REFINED USING 3-D MODELS OBTAINED BY UAS
  T142 Geologic Mapping in the Twenty-First Century: Innovative Applications of Technology and Strategies to Aid Field-Based Studies
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 242
• FUTURE DEVELOPMENT GUIDED BY ANALYSIS OF THE PAST: FIELD TO LAB STUDY OF RIFT-TO-DRIFT DEPOSITS IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC TO EARLY CAMBRIAN CHILHOWEE GROUP, SW VA
  T96 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• MAPPING THE VIRGINIAN JUNGLE: FIELD EDUCATION AMONGST RIFT-TO-DRIFT DEPOSITS OF THE CHILHOWEE GROUP, SW VA
  T55 Undergraduate Research Talks: The Next Step in Student Research Projects
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 141
• RAPID PROGRESSION FROM INTRACONTINENTAL VOLCANISM TO GLACIATION: EVIDENCE FROM NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATA IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF SW VA
  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
• FROM OUTCROP TO REGION: REVEALING THE STRATIGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK OF THE UPPERMOST MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA, THROUGH DETAILED OUTCROP ANALYSIS
  11 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301 DE/Henley Concourse

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2017

• DIFFERENTIATING THE UNDIFFERENTIATED: MAPPING COMPLEX NEOPROTEROZOIC VOLCANIC AND GLACIOGENIC STRATIGRAPHY IN THE MOUNT ROGERS AREA, SW VA
  T153 Sigma Gamma Epsilon-Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• ENGAGING STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES IN GEOLOGIC MAPPING USING COMPACT UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS - (TINY DRONES)
  T81 New Tools in the Geologist’s Toolbelt: Using Technology to Educate and Inspire Others about Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• BASIN INVERSION OF NEOPROTEROZOIC VOLCANO-SEDIMENTARY STRATIGRAPHY IN THE MOUNT ROGERS REGION, SW VA
  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
• SEDIMENT SIZE ANALYSIS OF OUTER BANKS SAND SAMPLES
  5 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  James River Ballroom

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2016

• BOY SCOUTS ROCK: UPDATING AND DIGITIZING LEGACY GEOLOGIC INFORMATION FOR THE BLUE RIDGE SCOUT RESERVATION
  321 Recent Advances in Environmental Geoscience (Posters)
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• ERUPTIVE SEQUENCE AND PROCESSES IN A NEOPROTEROZOIC INTRACONTINENTAL RIFT: THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA
  T237 Sigma Gamma Epsilon—Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• REASSESSMENT OF STRATIGRAPHY IN A NEOPROTEROZOIC INTRACONTINENTAL RIFT: THE VOLCANOGENIC MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA
  167 Precambrian Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• BRACKETING THE AGE OF NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATION IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE
  167 Precambrian Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• PAPER TO PIXELS: MODERNIZING A LEGACY GEOLOGIC MAP USING GIS/GPS TECHNOLOGY
  30 Undergraduate Research: In Honor of Mike Higgins (Posters)
  Friday, 1 April 2016

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2015

• 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
• 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
• INVESTIGATING THE ORIGIN OF GRANITE CLASTS IN CONGLOMERATES OF THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA
  T210 Sigma Gamma Epsilon—Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• GEOCHEMISTRY OF RHYOLITE CLASTS FROM THE LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• TESTING AGE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA, THROUGH PROVENANCE ANALYSIS OF CONGLOMERATES
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• ASSESSING VOLCANISM IN THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA: STRATIGRAPHIC PLACEMENT OF THE BEARPEN RHYOLITE
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom

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2014

• 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
• 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
• PROVENANCE OF CONGLOMERATES IN THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VA, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEOPROTEROZOIC GEOLOGIC HISTORY IN THE BLUE RIDGE
  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
• THE CRYOGENIAN INTRA-CONTINENTAL RIFTING OF RODINIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
  11 Volcanology, Magmatism, Geochemistry
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Cascades
• REDEFINING BOUNDARIES IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION THROUGH DETAILED MAPPING OF RHYOLITE CONTACTS
  8 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Latham A/B/C
• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BEARPEN RHYOLITE, A PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED UNIT IN THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION
  23 Undergraduate Research in the Southeastern Section (Posters)
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Latham A/B/C

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2012

• USE OF THE PORTABLE XRF IN CLASS PROJECTS: PERKS AND PITFALLS
  T242 New Strategies for Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology (MPVG) to Geoscience Majors and General Education Students (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• BASEMENT-COVER CONTACT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MESOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS AND THE NEOPROTEROZOIC MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE
  T96 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• NEOPROTEROZOIC ALLUVIAL FAN SEDIMENTATION IN THE MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINA
  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
• CLAST ANALYSIS AND SPATIAL VARIATION OF ALLUVIAL FAN CONGLOMERATES IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, BLUE RIDGE, SW VIRGINIA
  13 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 (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• FELDSPAR AS A PROVENANCE INDICATOR IN METASANDSTONE OF THE LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA
  1 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Saturday, 31 March 2012

  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• PROVENANCE OF MODERN LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT, MOUNTAIN LAKE, SW VIRGINIA
  1 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Saturday, 31 March 2012

  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2011

• DETAILED MAPPING OF THE LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA: EVIDENCE FOR CRUSTAL INSTABILITY PRECEEDING BREAKUP OF RODINIA
  T262 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• IMPLEMENTATION OF MODERN TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DIGITAL MAPPING IN THE LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA
  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
• PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF METASANDSTONES IN THE RIFT-RELATED MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SW VIRGINIA
  1 Graduate and Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Thursday, 24 March 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2010

• INITIAL RIFTING OF THE RODINIAN SUPERCONTINENT: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM THE LOWER MOUNT ROGERS FORMATION, SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA
  T124 Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources (Posters)
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D