Session No. 14 Thursday, March 27, 2003

1:40 PM-5:00 PM, Westin Hotel: Atlantic Ballroom
S4. New Developments in Understanding of the Avalon Terrane from the southern Appalachians to Newfoundland II
J. B. Murphy and Margaret D. Thompson, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
14-11:40 PM REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GOLD HILL FAULT ZONE, CAROLINA ZONE OF NORTH CAROLINA: HIBBARD, J.P.1, STANDARD, I.D.1, MILLER, B.V.2, HAMES, W.E.3, and LAVALLEE, S.B.3, (1) MEAS, NC State U, Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695, jim_hibbard@ncsu.edu, (2) Dept. of Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (3) Dept. of Geology, Auburn U, Auburn, AL 36830
14-22:00 PM U-PB ZIRCON AND TITANITE AGES FROM ROCKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GOLD HILL FAULT ZONE, CAROLINA ZONE OF NORTH CAROLINA: RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES: MILLER, Brent V.1, HIBBARD, James P.2, STANDARD, Issac D.3, HAMES, Willis E.4, and LAVALLEE, Sarah B.4, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, bvmiller@email.unc.edu, (2) Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State Univ, 1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, (3) Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, (4) Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL 36830
14-32:20 PM NEW SHRIMP U-PB AGES FOR LATE PROTEROZOIC AND PALEOZOIC IGNEOUS ROCKS IN THE AVALON AND BRONSON HILL TERRANES OF SOUTH-CENTRAL CONNECTICUT: CONFIRMATIONS AND SURPRISES: ALEINIKOFF, John N.1, WINTSCH, Robert P.2, SCOTT, Robert B.3, WALSH, Gregory J.4, and YACOB, Ezra Y.1, (1) U.S. Geol Survey, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, jaleinikoff@usgs.gov, (2) Geological Sciences, , Bloomington, IN 47405, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, wintsch@indiana.edu, (3) U.S. Geol Survey, MS 913, Denver, CO 80225, (4) U.S. Geol Survey, P.O. Box 628, Montpelier, VT 05601
14-42:40 PM P-T-T CONDITIONS OF THE MASSABESIC GNEISS COMPLEX, NEW HAMPSHIRE: ALLEGHANIAN LOADING AND EXHUMATION OF A PORTION OF THE AVALON TERRANE: DORAIS, Michael J., Geology, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT 84602, dorais@byu.edu, WINTSCH, Robert P., Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405, and KUNK, Michael J., United States Geol Survey, MS 963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
 3:00 PM Discussion

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