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Activity

2021

• METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE MEGUMA TERRANE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  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

• TONIAN ALKALI ANORTHOSITE, FERRONORITE, AND GABBRO IN THE LOWER COVERDALE PLUTONIC SUITE, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: AN AMAZONIAN PART OF GANDERIAN BASEMENT?
  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

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2019

• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY IN GANDERIAN AND AVALONIAN TERRANES OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
  46 Detrital Mineral Constraints on Appalachian-Caledonide Tectonics
  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Massachusetts Room
• NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES FROM THE CALEDONIAN HIGHLANDS, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMATIC EVOLUTION IN AVALONIA
  54 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes and Their Origins: What Do We Really Know? (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Casco Bay Hall
• THE COBEQUID HIGHLANDS, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: EXTENDING THE AVALONIAN GEOLOGICAL RECORD BACK TO THE EARLY NEOPROTEROZOIC
  26 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes and Their Origins: What Do We Really Know?
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Vermont Room
• CONTRASTING AVALONIAN AND GANDERIAN CRUST USING LU–HF-ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION AND MODEL AGES OF NEOPROTEROZOIC MAGMATIC ZIRCON GRAINS
  26 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes and Their Origins: What Do We Really Know?
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Vermont Room
• DECIPHERING TECTONOMAGMATIC EVENTS IN THE GANDERIAN ASPY TERRANE OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: JUXTAPOSED EARLY EDIACARAN THROUGH DEVONIAN ARC AND WITHIN-PLATE PLUTONS
  16 The Roles of Geochronology and Geochemistry of Granitoid Plutons in Deciphering Orogenic Events
  Sunday, 17 March 2019

  3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

  Massachusetts Room
• U-PB (ZIRCON) AGE, PETROLOGY, AND TECTONIC SETTING OF THE CANAAN RIVER PLUTON, SOUTHEASTERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
  16 The Roles of Geochronology and Geochemistry of Granitoid Plutons in Deciphering Orogenic Events
  Sunday, 17 March 2019

  3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

  Massachusetts Room

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2018

• IMPACT OF HISTORICAL LOGGING AND HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT ON AN UPLAND RIVER SYSTEM, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: A PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
  3 Paleolimnological Records of Landscape Change
  Sunday, 18 March 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Emerald Ballroom I

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2017

• FROM MAPPING TO COMPILATION: BUILDING A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  27 Back to the Basics: Focusing on Fieldwork in Today’s Geological Studies
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 9:50 AM

  Allegheny, 17th Floor
• DETRITAL MUSCOVITE FROM THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY ZONE IN ATLANTIC CANADA: AGE, PROVENANCE, AND EFFECTS OF LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM ON 40AR/39AR SYSTEMATICS
  30 NETectonics: New Advances in Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology in the Appalachians
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF GRANITOID PLUTONS, WESTERN MAINE
  30 NETectonics: New Advances in Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology in the Appalachians
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level

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2016

• USING PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND XRF TO INVESTIGATE METAL SEQUESTRATION, MOBILITY AND BIOAVAILABILITY IN SHALLOW LAKES: CASE STUDIES FROM NOVA SCOTIA CANADA
  54 Records of Environmental Change from Lacustrine Archives
  Wednesday, 23 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 6
• PALEOLIMNOLOGY AND LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON WATER QUALITY AT ALTA LAKE, WHISTLER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT
  54 Records of Environmental Change from Lacustrine Archives
  Wednesday, 23 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Room 6
• THE CHETICAMP AREA, CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA: A GEOLOGICAL ENIGMA PARTLY RESOLVED BY MAPPING, U-PB (ZIRCON) GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND PETROLOGY
  50 Applications of Geochemistry and Geochronology to Understanding Tectonic Processes: In Honor of Raymond A. Coish
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM

  Meeting Room 6
• ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN GLOBAL BOUNDARY STRATOTYPE SECTION, CHAPEL ISLAND, RANDOM, AND BRIGUS FORMATIONS,  SOUTHEASTERN NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
  36 Insights from Microfossils, from Terrestrial to Marine Environments (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Convention Hall

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2015

• ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN GLOBAL BOUNDARY STRATOTYPE SECTION, CHAPEL ISLAND AND RANDOM FORMATIONS, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
  123 Paleontology: Fossils of the Neoproterozoic (Posters)
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• THE HIGH HEAD MEMBER TRACE FOSSILS OF NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: A REMARKABLE ASSEMBLAGE OF LOWER CAMBRIAN DEEP-WATER ICHNOFOSSILS
  T20 Eat, Prey, Love, and Burrow: Tracing Animal Behavior through Time
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 315
• TERRANE FORENSICS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  17 Terrane Forensics—Where Did They Come From and Which Are Related?
  Monday, 23 March 2015

  3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom South

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2014

• KINETIC AND FLUID CONTROL OF MINERAL GROWTH AND ISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION DURING VERY LOW- TO LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM
  T24 Mechanisms, Rates, and Timescales of Texture Formation in Metamorphic Rocks I
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  122
• FIELD RELATIONSHIPS, PETROLOGY, AND PETROGENESIS OF NEOPROTEROZOIC PLUTONS IN THE SOUTHERN COBEQUID HIGHLANDS, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  9 Petrology, Igneous / Metamorphic / Experimental (Posters)
  Sunday, 23 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Freedom Hall A
• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON DIMICTIC LAKES IN HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, NOVA SCOTIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT
  5 Emerging Techniques and Applications in Paleolimnology
  Sunday, 23 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Heritage Salon D

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2013

• TRACKING AVALONIA:  PRELIMINARY PALEOMAGNETIC DATA FROM THE MIRA TERRANE, SOUTHEASTERN CAPE BRETON ISLAND, CANADA
  T361 Paleomagnetism of the Americas and Europe and Their Surroundings: Questions Answered, Questions Remaining, and Questions to Come (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• NEW GEOLOGICAL MAPS OF THE GOLDENVILLE AND HALIFAX GROUPS, SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA: AN INVESTMENT IN UNDERSTANDING THE MEGUMA TERRANE AND ITS RESOURCES
  37 The Northern Appalachians: What Have We Learned in the Past 40 Years? A Symposium in Honor of J. Christopher Hepburn (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• WILL WE EVER UNDERSTAND AVALONIA?
  2 The Northern Appalachians I: What Have We Learned in the Past 40 Years? A Symposium in Honor of J. Christopher Hepburn
  Monday, 18 March 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Madison Room

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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
• THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF MODERN BEDROCK MAPPING IN TECTONIC INTERPRETATIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE ANTIGONISH HIGHLANDS, NORTHERN MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  34 Future Directions in Appalachian Tectonics: Building on Recent Lithotectonic Syntheses II
  Monday, 19 March 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Capital Rooms 2 & 3
• PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL RECORDS OF POST-GLACIAL WETLAND EVOLUTION FROM THE CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS REGION, EASTERN CANADA
  36 Mercury Dynamics in Northeastern North America
  Monday, 19 March 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Capital Room 1
• THE LOWER COVERDALE PLUTONIC SUITE: CA. 975 MA FE-TI-P FERRONORITE AND ALKALI ANORTHOSITE IN THE GANDERIAN BROOKVILLE TERRANE, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
  34 Future Directions in Appalachian Tectonics: Building on Recent Lithotectonic Syntheses II
  Monday, 19 March 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 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

• NEW BIOSTRATIGRAPHICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE LOWER CAMBRIAN RATCLIFFE BROOK FORMATION, IN AVALONIA OF SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, FROM ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS
  173 Paleontology (Posters) III: Biogeography, Biostratigraphy, and Taphonomy
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• CONSTRAINTS ON THE TECTONIC SETTING OF DEVONIAN MAGMATISM AND OROGENESIS
  68 Devonian Orogenesis in the Appalachian-Caledonian Mountain Belt—Where, When, and What Caused It?
  Tuesday, 22 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Frick
• TECTONIC SETTING(S) OF DEVONIAN MAGMATIC ROCKS IN SE NEW ENGLAND AND THE GULF OF MAINE
  68 Devonian Orogenesis in the Appalachian-Caledonian Mountain Belt—Where, When, and What Caused It?
  Tuesday, 22 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Frick

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2010

• CONFIGURATION, TIMING, AND IMPACTS OF THE ARRIVAL OF AVALONIA AND MEGUMA IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  75 Laurentian-Gondwanan Interactions in the Paleozoic II
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Liberty B
• 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
• ACCRETIONARY IMPLICATIONS OF PALEOMAGNETIC OVERPRINTS IN PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND AND CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA
  75 Laurentian-Gondwanan Interactions in the Paleozoic II
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  Liberty B
• HOW REGIONAL BEDROCK MAPPING REMOVED “BASEMENT” FROM THE MEGUMA TERRANE OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  52 It All Starts in the Field (Posters): In Honor of Wallace A. Bothner
  Monday, 15 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  International ABCDF

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2009

• DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM CONGLOMERATE AND SANDSTONE UNITS OF NEW BRUNSWICK AND COASTAL MAINE: PALEOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS FOR GANDERIA AND THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF WESTERN GONDWANA
  47 Provenance and Orogenic History of Ganderia: Key Element in the Mid-Paleozoic Accretionary History of the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 24 March 2009

  7:55 AM - 12:00 PM
• URBAN GEOLOGY OF THE HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  31 Geologic Maps as Tools for Resource and Environmental Issues (Posters)
  Monday, 23 March 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• MIDDLE DEVONIAN VOLCANIC AND GRANITIC ROCKS FROM THE GULF OF MAINE
  14 The Boston Basin and Beyond: In Honor of Margaret D. Thompson
  Sunday, 22 March 2009

  12:50 PM - 5:00 PM

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2008

• PROVENANCE OF THE MEGUMA TERRANE, NOVA SCOTIA
  10 Evidence for Provenance of Peri-Gondwanan Terranes
  Thursday, 27 March 2008

  1:00 PM - 5:25 PM
• PROVENANCE STUDIES OF CAMBRIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN AVALONIA, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK AND CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  10 Evidence for Provenance of Peri-Gondwanan Terranes
  Thursday, 27 March 2008

  1:00 PM - 5:25 PM

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2007

• PROVENANCE STUDIES IN THE MEGUMA TERRANE, SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  45 Isotopic and Other Indicators of Sediment Provenance and Basement Character
  Wednesday, 14 March 2007

  8:40 AM - 12:00 PM
• THE NEOACADIAN OROGENY IN THE MEGUMA TERRANE, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  26 The Neo-Acadian Orogeny and Implications for Tectonic and Depositional Setting of Devonian–Carboniferous Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 13 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• NEOACADIAN DEFORMATION WITHIN THE MEGUMA TERRANE
  26 The Neo-Acadian Orogeny and Implications for Tectonic and Depositional Setting of Devonian–Carboniferous Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen
  Tuesday, 13 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• NEW INSIGHTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE MEGUMA GROUP IN SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  5 Time Slices Across the Appalachians: Tectonic and Depositional Settings of Cambro-Ordovician Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen I
  Monday, 20 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2005

• A NEW LOOK AT THE EARLY PALEOZOIC HISTORY OF MEGUMA TERRANE, SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
  26 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session (Posters)
  Tuesday, 15 March 2005

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• UNRAVELLING TERRANES IN SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: THE SAGA CONTINUES
  26 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session (Posters)
  Tuesday, 15 March 2005

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2004

• PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES OF SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: NEW INSIGHTS AND ENIGMAS
  51 Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Appalachians II
  Friday, 26 March 2004

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2003

• PETROLOGY AND TECTONIC SETTING OF THE CARBONIFEROUS WEDGEPORT PLUTON, SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA
  38 Undergraduate Research in the Geological Sciences II (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 March 2003

  8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
• COMMUNICATING THE RELEVANCE OF EARTH SCIENCE WITH A GEOLOGICAL HIGHWAY MAP
  36 Communicating the Critical Relevance of Earth Science I
  Saturday, 29 March 2003

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• BASEMENT BLOCKS IN SOUTHWESTERN CAPE BRETON ISLAND AND ADJACENT MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE AVALON TERRANE
  9 New Developments in Understanding of the Avalon Terrane from the southern Appalachians to Newfoundland I
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON STRATIGRAPHY, DEFORMATION, AND METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHWESTERN MEGUMA TERRANE, NOVA SCOTIA
  7 Structural and Metamorphic Geology (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCON IN QUARTZITE FROM AVALON AND ADJACENT TERRANES
  9 New Developments in Understanding of the Avalon Terrane from the southern Appalachians to Newfoundland I
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• ACADIAN METAMORPHISM WITH AN ALLEGHANIAN OVERPRINT: WHITE ROCK FORMATION, YARMOUTH AREA, SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA
  12 Structural and Metamorphic Geology
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  1:40 PM - 5:00 PM

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2002

• THE MYTH OF "AVALONIA": DID IT CONSTITUTE A SINGLE TERRANE OR SEVERAL DIFFERENT TERRANES IN THE EARLY PALEOZOIC?
  18 Paleozoic Tectonics of the Northern Appalachian Mountains: New Insights and Persistent Problems: First Annual NETectonics Symposium I
  Tuesday, 26 March 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND "TERRANOLOGY": THE ON-GOING ROLE OF U-PB DATING IN UNRAVELLING TERRANES IN SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
  6 Advances in Geochronology and Thermochronology in the Appalachian Orogen
  Thursday, 5 April 2001

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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• SILURIAN MAGMATISM IN NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA - NOT AN OVERSTEP SEQUENCE AMONG TERRANES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  40 Caledonian Magmatism: Cross-Atlantic Connections (Posters)
• STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, AND 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE LOCHABER-MULGRAVE AREA, NOVA SCOTIA
  18 Tectonics, Structural Geology, and Geophysics (Posters)