Session No. 10 Thursday, March 13, 2003

1:00 PM-5:20 PM, University of Memphis Conference Center: Fogelman Executive Center 123
T1. Petrotectonic History of the Blue Ridge Belt: Faults, Fault Blocks, Terrains, and Ophiolites
Loren A. Raymond and Calvin F. Miller, Presiding
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10-11:00 PM THE MARS HILL TERRANE: EXTENT, AGE, AND ORIGIN OF THE OLDEST ROCKS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN USA: BERQUIST, Peter J.1, MILLER, C.1, WOODEN, J.2, FULLAGAR, P.3, OWNBY, S.4, and CARRIGAN, C.4, (1) Department of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, 5717 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37240, peter.j.berquist@vanderbilt.edu, (2) U.S. Geol Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (3) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (4) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063
10-21:20 PM WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BASEMENT OF NORTHEAST TN AND NORTHWESTERN NC: AGE, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPS TO PROTEROZOIC ROCKS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN USA: OFFICER, Nathan D., Earth and Environmental Science, Vanderbilt Univ, 1805 Station B, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235, nathan.d.officer@vanderbilt.edu, BERQUIST, P.J., Dept. of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, 37235, MILLER, C.F., Dept. of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235, FULLAGAR, P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, WOODEN, Joe, U.S. Geol Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, and CARRIGAN, Charles W., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063
10-31:40 PM LATE DEFORMATION FABRICS NEAR THE WESTERN AND EASTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY, EASTERN SMOKY MOUNTAINS: ANDERSON, Eric D., Geolgical Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, edande0@uky.edu and MOECHER, David P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506
10-42:00 PM TACONIAN METAMORPHISM IN EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INFERRED FROM U-TH-PB MONAZITE CHEMICAL AGES: MOECHER, David P.1, TRACY, Robert J.2, and ANDERSON, Eric D.1, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, moker@uky.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
10-52:20 PM CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN: RAYMOND, Loren A., Department of Geology, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC 28608, raymondla@appstate.edu, LOVE, Anthony B., PO Box 522, Boone, NC 28607-0522, and SWANSON, Samuel E., Department of Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
10-62:40 PM SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE TERRANES AND PROBLEMS WITH ROCK UNITS, AGES, AND TIMING OF EVENTS: READ THE DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPS: HATCHER, Robert D. Jr1, BREAM, Brendan R.1, and ECKERT, James O. Jr2, (1) Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, 306 Geological Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, bobmap@utk.edu, (2) Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109
 3:00 PM Break
10-73:20 PM DEFINING THE HAYESVILLE FAULT AND TERRANE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL-EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA-NORTH CAROLINA: ECKERT, James O. Jr, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univ, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, 5wvsmh001@sneakemail.com and HATCHER, Robert D. Jr, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, 306 Geological Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
10-83:40 PM METAMORPHIC AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE-WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY AS EXPOSED BETWEEN SOCO AND BALSAM GAP, WESTERN NC: MASSEY, Matthew A., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, mamass1@pop.uky.edu and MOECHER, David P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506
10-94:00 PM KINEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MONOCLINIC AND TRICLINIC HIGH-STRAIN ZONES IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE: BAILEY, Christopher M., Dept. of Geology, College of William & Mary, Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187, cmbail@wm.edu.
10-104:20 PM DEFORMATION PARTITIONING AMONG STRUCTURAL BLOCKS IN THE PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT OF THE NORTHERN BLUE RIDGE: CAMPBELL, Patricia A., Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Slippery Rock Univ, Slippery Rock, PA 16057, patricia.campbell@sru.edu and GOODMAN, Michael, Atlas America, 311 Rouser Road, Moon Township, PA 15108
10-114:40 PM PETROLOGY AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF ROCKS FROM THE CHATTAHOOCHEE TUNNEL PROJECT, BREVARD FAULT ZONE, ATLANTA GA: BEDELL, Adam1, RODEN, Michael1, and RAYMER, Jack2, (1) Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, geode@arches.uga.edu, (2) Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc, 6801 Governors Lake Parkway, Norcross, GA 30071

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