2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Session No. 230 Wednesday, 31 October 2007
2:00 PM-5:30 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 401/402

T116. Evolution of Appalachian-Ouachita Salients and Recesses from Reentrants [Embayments] and Promontories in the Continental Margin II: Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration of Advances Derived from Bill Thomas’ 1977 American Journal of Science Paper

Allen J. Dennis and Jim Hibbard, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
230-12:00 PM NEOPROTEROZOIC TO CAMBRIAN RIFT ARCHITECTURE OF EASTERN LAURENTIA: A PROLONGED RECORD OF EXTENSION BEFORE AND AFTER DEVELOPMENT OF THE IAPETUS OCEAN: SOUTHWORTH, Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, Ssouthwo@usgs.gov, ALEINIKOFF, John N., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 963, DFC, Denver, CO 80225, BAILEY, Christopher, Department of Geology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, RANKIN, D.W., US Geol Survey, Mail Stop 926, Reston, VA 20192, and TOLLO, Richard P., Geological Sciences Program, George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052
230-22:15 PM NEOPROTEROZOIC TO ORDOVICIAN RIFT-DRIFT STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AND QUEBEC SALIENTS AND THE NEW YORK RECESS: LAPORTA, Philip C. Jr, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Ctr, City Univ of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, PLaPorta@laportageol.com and BREWER-LAPORTA, Margaret C., Natural and Social Sciences, SUNY Purchase and LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants, 5 First Street #73, Warwick, NY 10990
230-32:30 PM PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION OF THE LAURENTIAN RIFTED MARGIN ON THE ST. LAWRENCE PROMONTORY: ALLEN, John Stefan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Research Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, john-allen@uky.edu and THOMAS, William A., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053
230-42:45 PM DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATES FOR EXTERNAL BASEMENT MASSIFS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS: RECONSTRUCTING THE RIFTED LAURENTIAN MARGIN: KARABINOS, Paul, Dept. Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, pkarabin@williams.edu and PYLE, Joseph M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, JRSC 1W19, 110 8th St, Troy, NY 12180
230-53:00 PM EVALUATION OF THE APPLICABILITY OF KINEMATIC MODELS OF TRANSPRESSION TO A REACTIVATED IAPETAN FRACTURE ZONE IN THE TACONIC OROGEN: CRESPI, Jean M., Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, jean.crespi@uconn.edu
230-63:15 PM MAGMATISM ASSOCIATED WITH COLLISIONAL TECTONICS: CORRELATION WITH PRE-COLLISION DEPOCENTERS AND GEOMETRY OF RIFTED MARGINS OF THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN OROGEN: SINHA, A. Krishna, Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, pitlab@vt.edu, THOMAS, William A., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, and HATCHER, Robert D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 Earth and Planetary Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996
230-73:30 PM SUBDUCTION INITIATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE ALABAMA PROMONTORY VOLCANIC ARC: BARINEAU, Clinton I., Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University, 108 Carraway Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4100, barineau@gly.fsu.edu and TULL, James F., Geological Sciences, Florida State University, 108 Carraway Bldg, Tallahassee, FL 32306
230-83:45 PM THE INFLUENCE OF LAURENTIAN PROMONTORIES AND REENTRANTS ON APPALACHIAN, FORELAND-BASIN SEDIMENTATION AND STRATIGRAPHY: ETTENSOHN, Frank R., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506, fettens@uky.edu
230-94:00 PM THE EFFECT OF THE CAROLINA PROMONTORY ON THE PARTITIONING OF THE APPALACHIAN BASIN IN THE MIDDLE TO LATE PENNSYLVANIAN: NADON, Gregory C., Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Lab, Athens, OH 45701, nadon@ohio.edu, SCHNEIDER, David, Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, DODSON, Scott, Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Clippinger Labs 316, Athens, OH 45701, and GEHRELS, George, Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
230-104:15 PM REACTIVATION OF LAURENTIAN MARGIN STRUCTURES IN LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATION, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARITIMES BASIN, NORTHERN APPALACHIANS: WALDRON, John W.F., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G2E3 Canada, john.waldron@ualberta.ca
230-114:30 PM VARIATIONS IN LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE ALONG THE OUACHITA BELT AND THEIR RELATION TO TRANSFORM OFFSETS: MICKUS, Kevin, Dept. of Geosciences, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, kevinmickus@missouristate.edu, THOMAS, William A., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, and KELLER, G. Randy, School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd, Norman, OK 73019
 4:45 PM Discussion

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