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Activity

2025

• CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF PALEOZOIC METAMORPHISM AND LARGE-SCALE EXTENSION WITHIN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE NORTH OF GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WINDOW
  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

• LARGE-MAGNITUDE PALEOZOIC EXTENSION IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  33 Ductile to Brittle Deformation in the Southern Appalachians: Grenville to Present
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon A
• 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

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2023

• EXTENSIONAL FAULTING IN A CONVERGENT OROGEN, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  24 Early Career Voices of Appalachian Tectonics
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B
• 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

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2022

• 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

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2021

• REGIONAL CONTACT BETWEEN THE ASHE AND ALLIGATOR BACK METAMORPHIC SUITES IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CORRESPONDS TO AN AMPHIBOLITE FACIES NORMAL FAULT
  126 D30. Recent Advances in Structural Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• DETAILED MAPPING AND PALEOSTRESS ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE FAULTS IN THE NORTHERN VETTORE - BOVE FAULT ZONE, SIBILLINI MOUNTAINS, ITALY
  T44 From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from the Sardinia/Corsica Microplate to the Killer Asteroid: Honoring the Career of Walter Alvarez on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 256 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• LINKING TOPOGRAPHIC LINEAMENTS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TO ACTIVE FAULTS
  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
• ENHANCED EROSION AND SLOPE INSTABILITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE ESCARPMENT ALONG FRACTURE-CONTROLLED TOPOGRAPHIC LINEAMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T144 Advances in Tectonic Geomorphology: Building It up and Tearing It Down
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 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
• 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
• BLOCKY BEDROCK BREAKDOWN ALONG POST-OROGENIC FRACTURES SETS: A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  51 D5. Geomorphology & Quaternary Geology
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Thoreau

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2019

• GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CENOZOIC SLIP ON THE BOONE FAULT
  T63 The New Appalachians: Cenozoic Deformation, Drainage Reorganization, and Landscape Disequilibrium in a Paleozoic Orogen
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229A, North Building

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2018

• YOUNG TOPOGRAPHY, NEW FAULTS, AND MANTLE REORGANIZATION IN AN ANCIENT MOUNTAIN RANGE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE APPALACHIANS
  31 Recent Advances in Our Understanding of The Crust and Upper Mantle in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 13 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 301 C

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2017

• AMPHIBOLITE ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE, EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA
  292 D43. Tectonics I (Posters): Advances in Tectonics from Mineralogy and Geochronology
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONERO RIVIERA FROM ANCONA TO PORTONOVO, ITALY
  14 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  James River Ballroom

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2016

• A NEWLY DISCOVERED FAULT ZONE NEAR BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA AND CENOZOIC TOPOGRAPHIC REJUVENATION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
  265 Structural Geology: Active and Ancient Deformation in North America and around the World (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• KINEMATIC VORTICITY ANALYSIS OF THE LINVILLE FALLS THRUST SHEET NEAR BOONE, NC
  265 Structural Geology: Active and Ancient Deformation in North America and around the World (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• POST-OROGENIC UPLIFT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T55 Earth History in the Broadest Context—Tectonics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Big History: Celebrating the Contributions of Walter Alvarez
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3B

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2015

• ESTIMATES ON THE MAGNITUDE AND TIMING OF POST-OROGENIC TOPOGRAPHIC REJUVENATION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS USING ISOSTASY AND DEFORMED COASTAL PLAIN ROCKS
  31 John Dennison Memorial Symposium: Appalachian Geology and Paleozoic Glacio-Eustasy II
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Roberts
• AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF KNICKPOINTS AND COMPARISON OF STREAM DIRECTIONS RELATIVE TO FOLIATION ALONG STREAMS OF THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BLUE RIDGE
  3 In Honor of Hugh H. Mills: Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes in the Southern Appalachians: Landscape Evolution and Practical Applications I
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Rose
• DIACHRONOUS METAMORPHISM BETWEEN AMPHIBOLITE AND ECLOGITE OF THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  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

• AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF KNICKPOINTS IN LONGITUDINAL RIVER PROFILES USING  OPEN-SOURCE R SCRIPT AND A COMBINATION OF NORMALIZED STEEPNESS, SMOOTHED SLOPE, AND SUM OF THE DIFFERENCES
  T216 Automated approaches to Mapping Geological Materials and Landforms (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• DETERMINING THE EXTENT OF ECLOGITE FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE THROUGH GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SURROUNDING AMPHIBOLITE BODIES
  205 Petrology: Metamorphic/Igneous (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• ANALYZING SYMMETRY OF VALLEYS AT STREAM BENDS TO CHARACTERIZE POSSIBLE NEOGENE UPLIFT IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA
  43 Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology (Posters)
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Latham A/B/C

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2013

• DIFFERENTIAL MOVEMENT OF DISCRETE CRUSTAL BLOCKS DURING NEOGENE UPLIFT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE
  T314 Geological and Geomorphological Applications of Digital Terrain Analysis
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF PALEOGENE RED BEDS TO REVEAL THE LOCATION OF THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM AND THE TIMING OF LARAMIDE DEFORMATION, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING
  T290 A Review of Old and New Concepts in Laramide Basin Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 504
• CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE GEOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF LARAMIDE DEFORMATION ALONG THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE BIGHORN BASIN, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING
  T146 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• TWO EPISODES OF LARAMIDE SHORTENING AS REVEALED BY PALEOGENE UNCONFORMITIES NEAR HEART MOUNTAIN, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING
  10 Ancestral Rockies to the Laramide: Developing Structural Styles of the Southern Rockies
  Thursday, 16 May 2013

  8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

  North Conference Room

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2012

• STRUCTURAL AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF PALEOGENE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ALONG THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE BIGHORN BASIN, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING
  209 Innovative Approaches in Structural Geology
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  218AB
• CAMPANIAN PALEOSEISMITES: INDICATORS OF EARLIEST LARAMIDE DEFORMATION IN THE EAGLE FORMATION OF THE ELK BASIN ANTICLINE, WYOMING AND MONTANA
  234 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• CORRELATION OF MAJOR TOPOGRAPHIC LINEAMENTS IN THE NORTH CAROLINA BLUE RIDGE WITH REGIONAL FRACTURE ZONES
  T203 Carolina Geological Society 75th Anniversary: The Geology of the Carolinas
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  213D
• REEVALUATION OF PALEOGENE DEFORMATION ALONG THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING AND MONTANA
  30 Tectonics
  Friday, 11 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado C
• GEOLOGIC SETTING AND TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE SPRUCE PINE, NC MINERAL DISTRICT
  10 Industrial Minerals of the Spruce Pine (NC) District and the Southeast
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 4:10 PM

  Windsor Ballroom, Salon 1

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2011

• CRUSTAL SCALE SHORTENING STRUCTURES BENEATH THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, NC, USA
  T229 Exploring Subsurface Terranes and Buried Basins of Eastern and Central North America—Geology, Geophysics, and Geochronology
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200A-C
• UNC-BEST: A PROGRAM AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL TO TRAIN HIGHLY QUALIFIED EARTH SCIENCE TEACHERS
  21 Building a Foundation in Geoscience Education: Gathering Educators with Professionals to Create a Geoscience Literate Public I
  Friday, 25 March 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon C
• A LIDAR-BASED STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAROLINA BAYS AND COEVAL SAND DUNES
  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

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2010

• A STUDY OF LATE-PROTEROZOIC HOST ROCKS, THEIR STYLE OF ALTERATION AND THE AGE OF MINERALIZATION AT THE DEEP RIVER GOLD PROSPECT, RANDOLPH AND MOORE COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA
  72 Economic and Engineering Geoscience
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Hopkins
• HETEROGENEOUS WRENCH-DOMINATED TRANSPRESSION IN THE DEEP CRUST RECORDED BY THE BURNSVILLE FAULT AND RELATED STRUCTURES, BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ACADIAN OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  47 Strike-Slip and Transpressional Tectonics in the Appalachians and Beyond
  Monday, 15 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Carroll

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2009

• STARTING EARLY: GEOSCIENCE LITERACY AND CAREER EXPLORATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
  29 Geoscience Education (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• THE ROLE OF CHLORITE IN THE TRANSITION FROM BRITTLE TO DUCTILE FAULTING: AN EXAMPLE FROM AN ALLEGHANIAN THRUST IN THE NORTH CAROLINA BLUE RIDGE
  27 Tectonics of the Blue Ridge and Adjacent Areas II: A Session Honoring Professor Loren Raymond
  Friday, 11 April 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM
• DIFFERENCES IN THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THRUST SHEETS IN THE BLUE RIDGE THRUST COMPLEX, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE
  27 Tectonics of the Blue Ridge and Adjacent Areas II: A Session Honoring Professor Loren Raymond
  Friday, 11 April 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM

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2007

• ACTIVE FAULT ZONES IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  33 Cenozoic Tectonics in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 30 March 2007

  1:20 PM - 3:40 PM

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2006

• TERTIARY-TO-RECENT ARCHING AND THE AGE AND ORIGIN OF FRACTURE-CONTROLLED LINEAMENTS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  19 Surficial Geology and Geomorphology in the Appalachians: Progress and Applications
  Thursday, 23 March 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:50 PM

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2004

• RECONSTRUCTING THE TIMING AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN BEARTOOTH UPLIFT USING PALEOSEISMITES AND SYNKINEMATIC ALLUVIAL FANS
  T111 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains III: New Advances in Laramide Deformation and Tectonics of Rocky Mountain Basement-Involved Structures: In Honor of Donald L. Blackstone Jr.
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• STRUCTURAL REFINMENT OF THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE LARAMIDE BEARTOOTH UPLIFT, MONTANA
  T111 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains III: New Advances in Laramide Deformation and Tectonics of Rocky Mountain Basement-Involved Structures: In Honor of Donald L. Blackstone Jr.
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• LARAMIDE PALEOSEISMITES IN THE CLARK'S FORK BASIN, MONTANA AND WYOMING
  25 Structure and Tectonics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 4 May 2004

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• USING EBSD ANALYSIS OF OMPHACITE TO EVALUATE ECLOGITE EXHUMATION MECHANISMS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  38 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Appalachians I
  Friday, 26 March 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2003

• FORCEFULLY INJECTED CLASTIC DIKES AND SILLS ASSOCIATED WITH THE K/T IMPACT TSUNAMI
  240 Sediments, Clastic II
  Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2001

• DIVERSITY OF BASEMENT ROCKS ALONG THE EASTERN-WESTERN BLUE RIDGE CONTACT IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  T11 Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America I
  Monday, 5 November 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• THE TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF 460 MA ECLOGITE ALONG THE TACONIAN SUTURE IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF NORTH CAROLINA
  31 Terrane Boundaries and Paleosubduction Zones in the Inner Piedmont and Blue Ridge: Where are They, What is Their History? (Part A)
  Friday, 6 April 2001

  8:30 AM - 11:40 AM
• PALEOSEISMITES AND TECTONICS OF THE DEEP RIVER TRIASSIC BASIN, NORTH CAROLINA
  20 Triassic Basins of the Southeastern United States
  Thursday, 5 April 2001

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• REGIONAL STRUCTURAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR DATING CENOZOIC UPLIFT OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS
  5 Cenozoic Evolution of the Appalachian Orogen
  Thursday, 5 April 2001

  8:30 AM - 11:00 AM
• THE NATURE AND TIMING OF ACADIAN DEFORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE CONSTRAINED BY THE SPRUCE PINE PLUTONIC SUITE, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  22 Granitoid Plutons, Rocks, and Minerals
  Thursday, 5 April 2001

  1:30 PM - 4:40 PM

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• NEW CONSTRAINTS ON MAGNITUDE AND TIMING OF STRIKE-SLIP MOTION ALONG THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU, SIERRA NACIMIENTO, NEW MEXICO
  T207 Rocky Mountains III: Post-Laramide Uplift and Erosion of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau (Posters)
• K/T IMPACT-RELATED FEATURES AT MOSCOW LANDING, ALABAMA
  61 Stratigraphy (Posters) I
• PLUTON AGES IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE, NORTH CAROLINA: CONSTRAINTS ON TIMING OF TECTONICS AND METAMORPHISM IN DEEP LEVELS OF AN ORDOVICIAN ACCRETIONARY WEDGE COMPLEX
  14 Tectonics (Posters) I
• AN EVALUATION OF THE PALEOZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY OF BLUE RIDGE ROCKS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE GRENVILLE OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  14 Tectonics (Posters) I
• CHARACTERISTICS OF RETROGRADED ECLOGITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WIDESPREAD ECLOGITE FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA
  3 Petrology, Mineralogy, and Economic Geology (Posters)
• DISPARATE U-PB AND SM-ND AGES FROM THE LICK RIDGE ECLOGITE, EASTERN BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE, NORTH CAROLINA
  14 Tectonics (Posters) I
• PETROLOGIC STUDY OF ZONED MINERALS TO DETERMINE THE P-T HISTORY OF THE BLUE RIDGE ECLOGITES, S. APPALACHIANS
  157 Metamorphic Petrology (Posters)