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Activity

2025

• ASSEMBLY OF FORELAND AND HINTERLAND ALLOCHTHONS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA: IN-SEQUENCE TO OUT-OF-SEQUENCE THRUSTING AT THE MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN BOUNDARY
  12 D3. North American Rifts, Faults, and Tectonic Activity
  Monday, 10 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  114

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2024

• MIDDLE PALEOZOIC SUCCESSOR BASIN SEQUENCES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WESTERN BLUE RIDGE/TALLADEGA BELT: CELEBRATING DECADES OF WORK AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC EVOLUTION
  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
• 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

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2023

• 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
• ALLATOONA FAULT: CHARACTERISTICS AND EXTENT OF THE YOUNGEST THRUST IN THE APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE KINEMATIC SEQUENCE
  53 D3. Structural Geology, Tectonics, Petrology, and Planetary Geology
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• WHAT IS THE TECTONIC RELATIONSHIP OF THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN BLOUNTIAN FORELAND BASIN TO THE TACONIC OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS?
  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
• RECONCILING COLLISIONAL AND ACCRETIONARY OROGENIC MODELS FOR THE TACONIC OROGENY IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS
  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 SILURIAN AGE FOR THE MARBLE HILL HORNBLENDE SCHIST: IMPLICATIONS FOR IGNEOUS ACTIVITY AND METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  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
• GEOMETRY, KINEMATIC EVOLUTION, AND TIMING OF CRYSTALLINE THRUST SHEETS AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES ALONG THE WEST FLANK OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN IN ALABAMA AND GEORGIA, USA
  14 Appalachian Orogenies: When and How Do They Start and End?
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 212

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2020

• GEOLOGIC RELATIONSHIPS AT THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS OF THE BREVARD ZONE IN ALABAMA
  61 D20. Structural Geology, Microstructures, and Geochronology
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• MIDDLE PALEOZOIC SUCCESSOR BASIN SEQUENCES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WESTERN BLUE RIDGE/TALLADEGA BELT: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC EVOLUTION
  43 Appalachian Petrology: A Session to Honor the Career of Dr. Robert J. Tracy
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax
• AN UPDATED GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA: A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT ADVANCES IN MAPPING, GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND TECTONIC INTERPRETATION
  49 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• EXTENT AND STRUCTURAL SETTING OF THE ORDOVICIAN DADEVILLE VOLCANIC ARC COMPLEX IN GEORGIA
  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
• THE WEDOWEE-EMUCKFAW-DAHLONEGA BASIN AND DADEVILLE COMPLEX: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BREVARD ZONE OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA
  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

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2018

• FOSSILS RECOVERED FROM ROCKS CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO THE NEOPROTEROZOIC WALDEN CREEK GROUP IN THE EPPERSON SYNCLINORIUM OF THE APPALACHIAN WESTERN BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE, CALL FOR STRATIGRAPHIC REASSIGNMENT
  21 D13. Petrology, Structure, and Tectonics
  Friday, 13 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 300 C
• GEOMETRY OF THRUST TRAJECTORIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HINTERLAND OF GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
  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
• 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

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2017

• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX AND OPELIKA GROUP, APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA
  293 D56. Tectonics II (Posters): Avdances in Tectonics from Crust/Mantle Structure
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• 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

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2016

• 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

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2015

• THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX OF EASTERN ALABAMA AND WESTERN GEORGIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE “MISSING” TACONIC ARC IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  T342 Mountains across the Oceans: Caledonian, Variscan, and Appalachian Orogenies through Time
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 308
• 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
• RELATIONSHIPS PERTAINING TO STRATIGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENTS OF APPALACHIAN WESTERN BLUE RIDGE STRATIGRAPHY UNDER CURRENT REEVALUATION, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE
  46 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• GEOLOGY OF THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX IN THE CAMP HILL AND THORNTON 7.5′ QUADRANGLES, APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT OF ALABAMA
  46 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• 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
• REEVALUATING STRATIGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENTS OF APPALACHIAN WESTERN BLUE RIDGE STRATIGRAPHY, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE
  20 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• GEOLOGY OF THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX IN THE CAMP HILL 7.5′ QUADRANGLE, APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT OF ALABAMA
  20 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• 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
• DISTRIBUTIONS OF 40AR/39AR MINERAL AGES AND METAMORPHIC ISOGRADS IN REGIONALLY METAMORPHOSED LITHOLOGIES OF THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE AND TALLADEGA BELT, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  10 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom

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2014

• ALTERNATIVE TECTONIC MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLOUNTIAN FORELAND CLASTIC WEDGE
  24 Structural Geology & Tectonics
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Solitude

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2013

• 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

• 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
• EVOLUTION OF THE MURPHY SYNCLINORIUM, SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
  2 Structural Geology and Tectonics
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  8:00 AM - 10:20 AM

  Windsor Ballroom, Salon 2