Cordilleran Section - 101st Annual Meeting (April 29–May 1, 2005)
Session No. 16 Friday, April 29, 2005
1:15 PM-5:20 PM, Fairmont Hotel: Gold

S2. Tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera, SWEAT Connection and Beyond I: A Session in Honor of Eldridge Moores

Yildirim Dilek and John Wakabayashi, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:15 PM Introductory Remarks
16-11:20 PM THE NOBLE (BUT NEGLECTED) HISTORY OF GEOLOGY AS A SCIENCE: A TRIBUTE TO ELDRIDGE MOORES: ALVAREZ, Walter, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, platetec@berkeley.edu.
16-21:40 PM SUBDUCTION RECYCLES CONTINENTAL CRUST TO THE MANTLE AT A RATE THAT IF APPLIED TO THE PAST BRINGS A CHALLENGING SWEAT TO SUPERCONTINENT RECONSTRUCTION: SCHOLL, David W., Geophysics, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305, dscholl@pangea.stanford.edu and VON HUENE, Roland, Geology, Univ of California Davis, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
16-32:00 PM NEOPROTEROZOIC RECONSTRUCTIONS: SMITH, Alan G., Earth Sciences, Univ of Cambridge, Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, ags1@esc.cam.ac.uk.
16-42:20 PM SWEATING IT OUT IN ANTARCTICA, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO ELDRIDGE MOORES: STUMP, Edmund, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, ed.stump@asu.edu.
16-52:40 PM ANALOGUE OF THE U.S. CORDILLERA ON THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF NEOPROTEROZOIC GONDWANA: NANCE, R. Damian, Department of Geological Sciences, 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, nance@ohio.edu, MURPHY, J. Brendan, Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, and KEPPIE, J. Duncan, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF, 04510
16-63:00 PM TRANSFORMING THE SIBERIAN CRATON FROM SW LAURENTIA TO THE URAL MOUNTAINS AND ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES FROM THE APPALACHIANS TO THE CORDILLERA: SEARS, Jim, Geology, The Univ of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT 59801, jwsears@selway.umt.edu and WRIGHT, Jim, Geology, Univ of Georgia, GGS Bldg, Athens, GA 30602
 3:20 PM Break
16-73:40 PM DETRITAL ZIRCON AND MONAZITE FROM THE HYLAND GROUP (NORTHERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA AND ALASKA): EVIDENCE FOR INTRACORDILLERAN “GRENVILLE” BASEMENT: ROSS, Gerald M.1, FRIEDMAN, Richard2, and MORTENSEN, James K.2, (1) Kupa'a Farm, Box 458, Kula, HI 96790, lavaboy@verizon.net, (2) Earth and Ocean Sciences, The Univ of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
16-84:00 PM REINTERPRETING THE SWEAT HYPOTHESIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EDIACARAN CYCLOMEDUSOIDS: THE BASK CONNECTION (BALTICA-ALASKA-SIBERIA-KLAMATH: LINDSLEY-GRIFFIN, Nancy1, FARMER, Jack D.2, GRIFFIN, John R.1, and MANKINEN, Edward A.3, (1) Geosciences, Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, nlg@unl.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, Arizona State Univ, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, (3) US Geol Survey, MS-937, 345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
16-94:20 PM PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT IN THE PINACATE REGION OF NW SONORA, MEXICO: POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS TO NORTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA?: NOURSE, Jonathan A., Department of Geological Sciences, California State Polytechnic Univ, Pomona, CA 91768, janourse@csupomona.edu and PREMO, Wayne R., USGS, DFC, Denver, CO 80225
16-104:40 PM STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, AND U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PALEOPROTEROZOIC GNEISSES IN SIERRA HORNADAY AND CERRO EL AGUILA, NW SONORA, MEXICO: FINGERPRINTS AT THE TRUNCATED MARGIN OF LAURENTIA: ESPINOZA, Miguelangel1, NOURSE, J.A.1, PREMO, W.R.2, and IRIONDO, A.3, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, California State Polytechnic Univ, Pomona, CA 91768, mespinoza@csupomona.edu, (2) USGS, DFS, Denver, CO 80225, (3) Centro de Geosciences, UNAM, Queretaro, 76230, Mexico
16-115:00 PM THE APPLICATION OF SWEAT METHODOLOGY TO NEOPROTEROZOIC RIFTING IN NORTHERN INDIA: OLIVER, Douglas H., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, dholiver@uark.edu.

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