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Activity

2025

• TECTONIC VS MAGMATIC CONTROLS DURING EOCENE ARC GRANITOID PLUTON CONSTRUCTION, ALASKA RANGE, AK
  16 Tectonic Controls on Cenozoic Magmatism in the Cordillera
  Thursday, 3 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Fresno
• DEVELOPMENT OF INVERTED METAMORPHIC ISOGRADS DURING PROGRESSIVE NON-COAXIAL FLOW AND CONTRACTIONAL UPLIFT IN COAST MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  23 Cordilleran Tectonics: Integrating Field and Analytical Approaches I (Posters)
  Thursday, 3 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  River/City View
• TESTING ALTERNATIVE MODALS OF ANORTHOSITE EMPLACEMENT IN THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
  28 Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 March 2025

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  North Great Hall
• TESTING PETROGENETIC MODELS OF ANORTHOSITE MAGMATISM I: ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SAMPLES OF THE MARCY MASSIF, ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, GRENVILLE PROVINCE
  28 Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 March 2025

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  North Great Hall
• TESTING PETROGENETIC MODELS OF ANORTHOSITE MAGMATISM II: ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF CROSS-CUTTING LITHOLOGIES OF THE MARCY MASSIF, ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, GRENVILLE PROVINCE
  28 Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 March 2025

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  North Great Hall
• TIMING OF ANORTHOSITE EMPLACEMENT, SKARN FORMATION, AND METEORIC WATER INFILTRATION IN THE WILLSBORO-LEWIS WOLLASTONITE DISTRICT (ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, NEW YORK)
  2 Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  120

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2024

• K-PG TERMINAL SUTURING OF THE INSULAR BELT DURING CONTRACTIONAL UPLIFT OF MELT-WEAKENED NORTH AMERICA, CLEARWATER AND COAST MOUNTAINS, AK
  T145 Oblique Motion on the North American Cordilleran Margin II: Jurassic to Paleogene
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  304B
• TERRANE RELATIONSHIPS ALONG THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE TOGIAK ARC, SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
  T93 Oblique Motion on the North American Cordilleran Margin I: Jurassic to Paleogene
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304B
• PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION AND THE FORMATION OF AN INVERTED METAMORPHIC BELT, COAST MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  T48 Oblique Motion on the North American Cordilleran Margin: Jurassic to Paleogene (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• TESTING MODELS OF ANORTHOSITE PETROGENESIS WITH TANDEM LA-ICP-MS AND CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MARCY MASSIF, ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, GRENVILLE PROVINCE, NY
  T36 New Advances and Applications of CA-TIMS U/Pb Geochronology and CA Method in the Earth Sciences: A Session in Honor of James Mattinson (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• INTERPLAY BETWEEN ARC PLUTONISM AND STRAIN PARTITIONING ALONG THE DENALI FAULT, ALASKA
  17 Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains II
  Wednesday, 15 May 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Maple Ballroom
• GEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON MELT SOURCE AND FRACTIONATION OF LITHIUM-MINERALIZED RARE METAL GRANITES, SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA
  1 Recent Advances in Mineral Resources Research and Exploration
  Wednesday, 15 May 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Birch Ballroom
• SYNTHESIS OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC BASEMENT OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
  35 Deciphering a Cryptic Geologic Record: New Insights from Field and Lab Investigations of the Appalachians in the United States and Canada
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Pemigewasset Room

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2023

• INTEGRATED GEOCHEMISTRY AND (U-TH)/HE DATING OF DETRITAL MAGNETITE AS A PROVENANCE TOOL IN ALASKA’S GEOLOGIC AND METALLOGENIC TERRANES
  T263 Advances in Detrital Heavy Minerals: Applications and Methods
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  325
• KINEMATIC CONTROLS DURING INCREMENTAL PLUTON GROWTH, MCGONAGALL PLUTON, ALASKA RANGE, ALASKA
  T174 Unravelling Timescales of Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Crustal Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• ATHABASCA ANALOG FOR TIBETAN LOWER CRUSTAL FLOW AND STRAIN PARTITIONING
  T160 Exploring Strain Partitioning and Kinematic Evolution of the Lithosphere I: In Honor of Micah Jessup
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  326
• 400 MILLION YEARS OF MAGMATISM IN THE NORTHERN NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA: U-PB AND HF-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF BEDROCK ZIRCON FROM THE YUKON-TANANA UPLAND, EASTERN ALASKA, USA
  T95 Linking Critical Minerals and the Geologic Framework of North America: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities (Posters)
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• HUNTING FOR CRYPTIC CRETACEOUS - EARLY CENOZOIC STRIKE-SLIP DISPLACEMENT IN THE NORTHERN CORDILLERA
  27 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera III: Evolving and Emerging Models
  Friday, 19 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1
• INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT OF THE MCGONAGALL PLUTON ALONG AN ACTIVE DENALI FAULT, ALASKA – STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON THE GROWTH OF AN ARC MAGMATIC SYSTEM
  5 Evolution of Transcrustal Cordilleran Arc Systems (Posters)
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room
• BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS, NEW YORK
  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

• PEEKING THROUGH THE SLAB WINDOW: EXHUMATION OF ACCRETIONARY SEDIMENTS OVER A SLAB WINDOW IN THE WILLOW CREEK AREA, SOUTHERN TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  T218 The Thermal Structure of Subduction Zones: Constraints, Evolution, and Consequences
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  504
• HOW TO BUILD THE MID-CRUSTAL STRENGTH BEAM: THE ROLE OF MELT EMPLACEMENT IN THE UPPER GRANITE GORGE, GRAND CANYON
  250 D36. Recent Advances in Tectonics and Structural Geology
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  504
• COMPOSITIONAL DIVERSIFICATION IN EOCENE ARC PLUTONIC ROCKS ALONG THE DENALI FAULT: IMPLICATIONS FOR ARC MAGMA SOURCES AND EVOLUTION
  T186 Future Directions in Tectonics and Lithospheric Processes: A Session for Early Career Researchers
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  407
• THE GREAT ALASKA ESCAPE ROOM: NEW CONSTRAINTS ON AN OLD ESCAPE TECTONICS IDEA
  T185 Basin Analysis, Strike-Slip Faults, and Tectonics II: Honoring the Contributions of Paul Umhoefer
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  607
• LESSONS LEARNED FROM RESTORATION OF THE CENOZOIC DENALI FAULT SYSTEM
  T185 Basin Analysis, Strike-Slip Faults, and Tectonics II: Honoring the Contributions of Paul Umhoefer
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  607
• PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DENALI FAULT EOCENE ARC PLUTONS
  T171 Source to Surface Magma Thermodynamics and Transport: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting the How, Where, and When of Magma Generation and Evolution during Ascent, Storage, and Eruption (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• USING MONAZITE PETROCHRONOLOGY TO CONSTRAIN THE METAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE MOST DEEPLY EXHUMED ROCKS ALONG THE DENALI FAULT
  T137 Basin Analysis, Strike-Slip Faults, and Tectonics (Posters): Honoring the Contributions of Paul Umhoefer
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• TEMPORAL LINKS BETWEEN DUCTILE SHEARING, PLUTONISM, AND TECTONIC EXHUMATION NEAR THE BOUNDARY OF PARAUTOCHTHONOUS AND ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN CORDILLERA, ALASKA
  T41 Critical Minerals and Framework Geology: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities II
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  601
• REASSESSING THE TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PROTEROZOIC SHEAR ZONES IN CENTRAL ARIZONA: MESOPROTEROZOIC (CA. 1.5 GA) DEFORMATION CONSTRAINED BY PAIRED ZIRCON AND APATITE GEO-THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  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
• TRACKING ALASKA’S PORPHYRY CU SYSTEMS WITH DETRITAL MAGNETITE GEOCHEMISTRY AND (U-TH)/HE DATING
  T44 Using Iron Oxides for Quantitative Reconstruction of Thermal Histories, Paleoenvironments, Hydrothermal Alteration, Planetary Evolution, and Fault Zone Processes
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  502
• GEOCHRONOLOGY OF SKARNS AND ANORTHOSITE IN THE ADIRONDACK HIGH PEAKS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR AGE AND EMPLACEMENT DEPTH OF THE 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
• ADIRONDACK GRABEN AND HALF-GRABEN: COMPLEX HISTORY OF FAULTING AND SEDIMENTATION
  18 D11. Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Sunday, 20 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Freedom Hall A
• MANTLE FLUID CONTRIBUTION TO SPRINGS ALONG THE DENALI FAULT SYSTEM: 3HE/4HE CONSTRAINTS ON THE CRUSTAL SCALE NATURE OF THE MAIN STRAND, HINES CREEK AND SPLAYS
  29 Cryptic and Slow-Moving Quaternary-Active Faults in the Western United States
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 108
• CLIMBING UP THE WALLS: OROGEN-SCALE INVERTED BARROVIAN METAMORPHISM DURING OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE ALONG A REACTIVATED SUTURE ZONE, NORTHERN CORDILLERA
  2 Directly Dating Deformation, Metamorphism, and Metasomatism through Petrochronology I
  Tuesday, 15 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 112

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2021

• IN-SITU MONAZITE PETROCHRONOLOGY THROUGH AN INVERTED BARROVIAN SEQUENCE, VALDEZ CREEK SHEAR ZONE, CLEARWATER MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  T165 Structural Geology and Tectonics Division 40th Anniversary Symposium: Drivers of Orogenesis (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 257 (Hybrid Room)
• EXPLORING COMPETING GOLD SYSTEM MODELS IN THE VALDEZ CREEK REGION, CLEARWATER MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  T195 Best Student Geologic Map Competition (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• TECTONIC SETTING OF THE C. 1060-1030 MA OTTAWAN-AGED LYON MT. GRANITE, HOST TO THE IRON OXIDE-APATITE DEPOSITS IN THE ADIRONDACKS OF NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE
  T169 Magnetite Apatite (MtAp) Deposits in Space and Time
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  A107–A109
• LONG DISTANCE PLUTONIC RELATIONSHIPS DEMONSTRATE 33 MY OF STRAIN PARTITIONING ALONG THE DENALI FAULT
  T67 From the Afar Rift to Alaskan Arcs (and the Oregon Plateau in between): Honoring the Career and Contributions of William K. Hart
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254 (Hybrid Room)
• TEMPORAL LINKS BETWEEN TECTONIC EXHUMATION, DUCTILE SHEARING, AND WIDESPREAD PLUTONISM NEAR THE BOUNDARY OF PARAUTOCHTHONOUS AND ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN CORDILLERA: EASTERN ALASKA
  127 D32. Recent Advances in Tectonics/Tectonophysics (Posters)
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• THE GHOST OF SUTURES PAST: A RE-EVALUATION OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC YAVAPAI-MAZATZAL PROVINCE BOUNDARY IN SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIA
  T65 Sutures and Suture Zones in the Phanerozoic and Precambrian Orogenic Belts
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A106
• LARGE SCALE CRUSTAL-BLOCK VERTICAL EXTRUSION BETWEEN THE HINES CREEK AND DENALI FAULTS COEVAL WITH SLIP LOCALIZATION ON THE DENALI FAULT SINCE CA. 45 MA: HAYES RANGE, ALASKA
  T6 Feedbacks between Upper-Plate Deformation, Accretion and Alteration and Plate Boundary Processes in Subduction Systems
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  B111
• STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE HATCHER PASS SCHIST, SOUTHERN TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
  T62 Feedbacks between Upper-Plate Deformation, Accretion and Alteration and Plate Boundary Processes in Subduction Systems (Posters)
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A

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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
• OBLIQUE EXTENSION DURING COLLISIONAL OROGENESIS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN GRENVILLE PROVINCE
  T132 Assembling Laurentia: Mesoproterozoic to Early Neoproterozoic Tectonic Evolution of Laurentia and Its Role within the Supercontinent Rodinia I
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE MOORE GULCH SHEAR ZONE: TESTING ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF THE PROTEROZOIC EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL ARIZONA
  6 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Monday, 4 May 2020

  8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  Ballroom A

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2019

• A PLUTONIC BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MAGMA MOTHER: A PETROLOGIC INVESTIGATION INTO THE FORAKER-MCGONAGALL PLUTON PIERCING POINT ALONG THE DENALI FAULT, AK
  T216 Late Cretaceous to Early Paleogene Tectonic Development of the North American Cordillera II
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 231ABC, North Building
• TIMING OF DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM OF GRENVILLIAN METAPELITE, ROCK AND BEAR PONDS AREA, EASTERN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, TICONDEROGA, NY, USA
  T60 Precambrian Linkages across Laurentia: Looking for Geological, Geophysical, and Paleogeographic Connections and Controversies Associated with the Growth and Tectonic Evolution of Laurentia from the Neoarchean to the Neoproterozoic II
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• THE SHAWINIGAN OROGEN IN THE ADIRONDACKS AND LINKAGE TO AMCG PLUTONISM
  47 Geology of the Grenville Orogeny and Adirondack Mountains
  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Vermont Room
• GEOLOGY OF THE ROCK POND REGION, PHARAOH LAKE WILDERNESS AREA, ESSEX COUNTY, NY
  33 Geology of the Grenville Orogeny and Adirondack Mountains (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Casco Bay Hall

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2018

• DECIPHERING TIMING AND KINEMATICS OF DEFORMATION IN THE EASTERN ADIRONDACKS, NEW YORK STATE: WHEN DID THE ANORTHOSITE-MANGERITE-CHARNOCKITE-GRANITE SUITE EXPERIENCE PENETRATIVE DEFORMATION?
  1 D39. Tectonics/Tectonophysics
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239