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Activity

2025

• NEW PALEOLATITUDE CONSTRAINT FOR AVALONIA AND LAURENTIA AT 415 MA FROM THE KNOYDART FORMATION RED BEDS, ANTIGONISH HIGHLANDS, NOVA SCOTIA
  18 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens II: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Saturday, 29 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  120
• DECONSTRUCTING THE "IAPETUS SUTURE": DIACHRONOUS ACCRETION OF TERRANE ASSEMBLAGES IN THE APPALACHIAN COLLAGE
  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
• DEFORMATION OF A CONTINENTAL MARGIN DURING SUBDUCTION POLARITY REVERSAL: APPALACHIANS OF WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND
  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

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2024

• TERRANE ASSEMBLAGE MAP OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN AND WESTERN CALEDONIDE OROGENS
  24 Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• NOT THE NEOACADIAN OROGENY
  19 Unraveling Appalachian Orogenic Events Using Geological and Geophysical Methods
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Merrimack Room
• KINEMATICS OF THE ROUND HEAD THRUST, WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND: INTEGRATING 2D SEISMIC INTERPRETATION AND 3D MODELING
  19 Unraveling Appalachian Orogenic Events Using Geological and Geophysical Methods
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Merrimack Room
• AN UPDATED GEOLOGIC MAP OF PORT AU PORT PENINSULA, NEWFOUNDLAND, USING SUBSURFACE 3D MODELING
  24 Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• IS BRITAIN DIVIDED BY AN ACADIAN SUTURE?
  10 Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Geological Connections Among Northwest Africa, Europe, and Eastern North America II – A Session Honoring the Career of Sandra M. Barr
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Pemigewasset Room
• A COMPARISON AMONG THE MEGUMA TERRANE OF EASTERN CANADA, THE SEHOUL BLOCK OF NW AFRICA, THE HARLECH DOME OF NORTH WALES, AND THE SOUTH PORTUGUESE ZONE OF SOUTHERN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
  10 Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Geological Connections Among Northwest Africa, Europe, and Eastern North America II – A Session Honoring the Career of Sandra M. Barr
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Pemigewasset Room

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2023

• GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE SERPENTINITE OF DEER ISLE AND THE PERIDOTITE OF LITTLE DEER ISLE, PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE: IMPLICATIONS FOR MID-CAMBRIAN TECTONICS OF THE APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  6 Drivers of Cordilleran Magmatic Processes and Geochemistry (Posters)
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room
• USING DETRITAL ZIRCON LASER ABLATION SPLIT-STREAM U-PB-HF DATA TO UNTANGLE LAURENTIAN AND GONDWANAN SOURCES IN SEDIMENTS OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY - GASPE BELT
  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

• INTEGRATING DIVERSE DATA SETS FROM THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN AND ACCRETED TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND WESTERN CALEDONIDES
  26 Tectonic Evolution of Eastern North America: Insights from Geology and Geophysics
  Monday, 21 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Commonwealth Salon 4
• ALONG-STRIKE VARIATIONS IN THE DEFORMED LAURENTIAN MARGIN IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS: ROLE OF INHERITED MARGIN GEOMETRY AND COLLIDING ARCS
  26 Tectonic Evolution of Eastern North America: Insights from Geology and Geophysics
  Monday, 21 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Commonwealth Salon 4

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2021

• BUILDING KINEMATIC MODELS FOR IAPETUS OCEAN CLOSURE
  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

• THE EARLY DEVONIAN INITIATION OF PANGEA AMALGAMATION: NEW INSIGHTS FROM PALEOMAGNETIC AND GEOLOGICAL DATA
  T198 Assembling Laurentia: Paleozoic Mobile Margins I
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• TOWARDS A KINEMATIC MODEL FOR IAPETUS OCEAN CLOSURE
  T133 From Rodinia to Pangea: Evolution of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen I
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• USING CONSTRAINED 3-D GRAVITY INVERSION TO INVESTIGATE ALONG-STRIKE ONSHORE TO OFFSHORE CRUSTAL-SCALE APPALACHIAN OROGENIC TRENDS IN ATLANTIC CANADA
  T80 Structure and Dynamics of the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SALT TECTONICS IN A STRIKE-SLIP BASIN: BAY ST. GEORGE SUBBASIN, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
  T80 Structure and Dynamics of the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• A TRANS-IAPETUS TRANSFORM CONTROL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE RHEIC OCEAN
  T70 Recent Advances in Supercontinents: Paleogeography, Geodynamics, and Paleoclimate Evolution I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• DETRITAL ZIRCON LASER ABLATION SPLIT-STREAM U-PB-HF DATA FROM ORDOVICIAN TO DEVONIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY – GASPÉ BELT: FINGERPRINTING LAURENTIAN AND GONDWANAN SOURCES
  63 New Developments in the Understanding of Pre-Appalachian Rocks of Eastern North America
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Regency Ballroom A
• A KINEMATIC MODEL FOR IAPETUS OCEAN CLOSURE
  3 The Appalachians, from North to South, from Crust to Mantle I
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom B

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2019

• DIACHRONOUS COLLISION AT THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN DURING APPALACHIAN-CALEDONIDE OROGENESIS
  T243 New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen I
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• TRANSVERSE STRUCTURES DEVELOPED DURING INDIA – ASIA COLLISION IN THE GANGA FORELAND BASIN, NEPAL
  T292 From Oceanic Subduction to Inter-Continental Collision: Examples of Convergent Margin Processes in Non-Collisional and Collisional Settings
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 231ABC, North Building
• PROVENANCE OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND APPALACHIAN FORELAND BASINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONICS OF THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN
  46 Detrital Mineral Constraints on Appalachian-Caledonide Tectonics
  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Massachusetts Room
• CHARACTERIZATION OF CAMBRIAN SANDSTONES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE MODERN ATLANTIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANE AFFINITIES IN THE APPALACHIAN–CALEDONIDE OROGEN
  26 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes and Their Origins: What Do We Really Know?
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Vermont Room
• NEW U-PB DETRITAL AND IGNEOUS ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGICAL RESULTS FROM THE ST. CROIX TERRANE AND ISLESBORO BLOCK, PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE
  32 Detrital Mineral Constraints on Appalachian-Caledonide Tectonics (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Casco Bay Hall

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2018

• TRACING SUTURES IN AN ACCRETIONARY OROGEN: DIACHRONOUS PALAEOZOIC ACCRETION OF PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND CALEDONIDES
  51 Orogenic Sutures—Recognition, Characterization, and Tectonic Implications
  Tuesday, 20 March 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Diamond Ballroom II
• DIACHRONOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE TACONIAN PRO-ARC BASIN IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
  4 Evolution of the Taconic Foreland: Insights into Active Margins and Global Climate Change
  Sunday, 18 March 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Diamond Ballroom II

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2017

• BLOCK-IN-MATRIX ROCKS AT THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HUMBER ARM ALLOCHTHON, PORT AU PORT PENINSULA, NEWFOUNDLAND APPALACHIANS
  T322 Polygenetic Mélanges: A Glimpse on Tectono-Sedimentary Recycling in Convergent Margins
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 5

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2016

• LINKING PENOBSCOT AND TACONIC DEFORMATION EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND CALEDONIDES
  30 Integrating Complementary Records of Paleozoic Orogenies in the Appalachians: Bridging the Foreland and Hinterland
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 2
• THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HUMBER ARM ALLOCHTHON: A RECORD OF FORELAND BASIN SEDIMENTATION AND TERRANE ACCRETION IN THE NEWFOUNDLAND APPALACHIANS
  30 Integrating Complementary Records of Paleozoic Orogenies in the Appalachians: Bridging the Foreland and Hinterland
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 2

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2015

• ARC-MICROCONTINENT INTERACTION IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE IAPETUS OCEAN
  T342 Mountains across the Oceans: Caledonian, Variscan, and Appalachian Orogenies through Time
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 308
• INTERPRETATION OF OPHIOLITE COMPLEXES: A TWEETER IN WOOFER’S CLOTHING?
  T24 Perspectives on Orogenic Evolution, Dating Brittle Faults and Mylonitic Shear Zones, Bending Mountains, and Assembling Supercontinents I: A Session to Honor the Career of Ben Van Der Pluijm
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 343
• COLLISION INVESTIGATION: TERRANE FORENSICS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND CALEDONIDES
  30 Terrane Forensics—Where Did They Come From and Which Are Related? II
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• THE YELLOW POINT FORMATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PERIDOTITE CARBONATION, LOBSTER COVE HEAD, WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
  27 Evolution of Minerals in Diverse Environments: Geobiological and Geochemical Aspects (Posters)
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Presidential Ballroom

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2014

• TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND APPALACHIAN STRUCTURAL FRONT
  T197 Applications of Structural Geology and Geomechanics in the Petroleum Industry
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• HOW WAS THE IAPETUS OCEAN INFECTED WITH SUBDUCTION?
  T148 Birth and Death of Supercontinents
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  118

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2013

• GANDERIA-LAURENTIA COLLISION IN THE CALEDONIDES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
  T180 Rifting, Drifting, and Accretion of Microcontinental Terranes: A Recipe for Accretionary Orogens
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 504
• ACCRETION TECTONICS AND ASSEMBLY OF THE COMPOSITE PERI-GONDWANAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN IN THE UK
  T180 Rifting, Drifting, and Accretion of Microcontinental Terranes: A Recipe for Accretionary Orogens
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 504

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2012

• MID-PALEOZOIC STRIKE-SLIP RECONFIGURATION OF THE APPALACHIANS IN ATLANTIC CANADA
  T272 Large-Scale Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Insights into 4-D Evolution through Lateral and Vertical Juxtaposition Recorded in the Rock Record, Geophysical Imaging, and Associated Basin Formation via Large-Scale Translation and Transpression
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• STRUCTURE AND DEFORMATION HISTORY OF THE APPALACHIAN THRUST FRONT IN WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND
  T227 Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon Fold-Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins: Their Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Structural Evolution, and Economic Significance
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207D
• IAPETAN PLATE CONFIGURATIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE APPALACHIAN-CALEDONIDE OROGEN
  T62 Heredity of Appalachian Crust
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• TRANSLATIONAL ODYSSEY OF CAROLINIA: PALEOZOIC BULK KINEMATIC REVERSAL IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  9 Transcurrent Motion in the Southern Appalachians: Comparing Kinematics and Timing across the Orogen
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 4:10 PM

  Grand Ballroom, Salon C1
• WHY WAS THE IAPETUS OCEAN SO SHORT-LIVED?
  1 Modern and Ancient Orogenic Belts
  Sunday, 18 March 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Capital Rooms 2 & 3
• CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN SUCCESSIONS AND DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF NORTH WALES AND NOVA SCOTIA: TERRANE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GANDERIA AND MEGUMIA
  1 Modern and Ancient Orogenic Belts
  Sunday, 18 March 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Capital Rooms 2 & 3

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2011

• APPALACHIAN FORELAND BASINS BENEATH THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
  T146 Structural Geology and Tectonics of Foreland Basins
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200DE
• A CARIBBEAN-STYLE PLATE IN THE IAPETUS OCEAN
  T11 Linking Modern and Ancient Orogens
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200FG

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2010

• LAURENTIA-GONDWANA INTERACTIONS IN THE DETRITAL ZIRCON RECORD OF THE BRITISH CALEDONIDES
  75 Laurentian-Gondwanan Interactions in the Paleozoic II
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Liberty B
• PALEOZOIC BASINS AND THE REACTIVATION OF IAPETAN RIFT STRUCTURES IN THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
  17 The Iapetan Rifted Margin and Rift History of Eastern Laurentia II
  Sunday, 14 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Liberty B