Northeastern Section - 42nd Annual Meeting (12–14 March 2007)
Session No. 45 Wednesday, 14 March 2007
8:40 AM-12:00 PM, University of New Hampshire: Holloway Commons, Piscataqua

T6. Isotopic and Other Indicators of Sediment Provenance and Basement Character

Sandra M. Barr and S.D. Samson, Presiding
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45-18:40 AM DO SEDIMENTS LIE (OR ARE THEY JUST COY)? NEW APPROACHES IN ADVANCING PROVENANCE STUDIES: SAMSON, Scott D., Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse Univeristy, Syracuse, NY 13244, sdsamson@syr.edu
45-29:00 AM SM-ND ISOTOPIC AND WHOLE-ROCK CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS OF LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC AND CAMBRIAN SEDIMENTARY AND METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE CALEDONIAN HIGHLANDS (AVALONIA), SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK: SATKOSKI, Aaron1, BARR, Sandra1, and SAMSON, Scott2, (1) Department of Geology, Acadia University, 12 University Avenue, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada, aaron.satkoski@acadiau.ca, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244
45-39:20 AM PROVENANCE STUDIES IN THE MEGUMA TERRANE, SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: BARR, Sandra M.1, WHITE, Chris E.2, WALDRON, John W.F.3, SAMSON, Scott D.4, SATKOSKI, Aaron M.1, HEAMAN, Larry M.3, SIMONETTI, Antonio3, REYNOLDS, Peter5, and TOOLE, Ryan M.1, (1) Department of Geology, Acadia Univ, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada, sandra.barr@acadiau.ca, (2) Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 698, Halifax, NS B3J 2T9, Canada, (3) Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada, (4) Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244, (5) Earth Sciences, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS B3H3J5, Canada
45-49:40 AM REINTERPRETING THE PROVENANCE OF EASTERN LAURENTIAN LATE PROTEROZOIC RIFT FILL: NEW WHOLE-ROCK PB ISOTOPIC CONTRAINTS: BREAM, Brendan R.1, LOEWY, Staci2, HATCHER, Robert D. Jr3, and MILLER, Calvin1, (1) Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B #351805, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235, brendan.bream@vanderbilt.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, (3) Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 Earth and Planetary Sciences Bldg, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
 10:00 AM Break
45-510:15 AM GRAPTOLITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND K-BENTONITE TEPHROCHRONOLOGY FROM A CORE SECTION THROUGH THE UTICA, TRENTON, AND BLACK RIVER GROUPS NEAR BALSTON SPA, NEW YORK: ROLOSON, Melissa1, MITCHELL, C.E.1, SELL, B.K.2, SAMSON, S.D.2, BAIRD, G.3, and LESLIE, S.A.4, (1) Dept. of Geology, Univ at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, roloson2@buffalo.edu, (2) Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, (3) Dept. of Geoscience, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063, (4) Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204
45-610:35 AM AVALONIA: A NEOPROTEROZOIC LOW-18O TERRANE: POTTER, Joanna1, LONGSTAFFE, Frederick J.1, and BARR, Sandra M.2, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada, jpotter6@uwo.ca, (2) Department of Geology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada
45-710:55 AM MAGMA SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS OF CAMBRIAN VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE ELLSWORTH TERRANE, PENOBSCOT BAY AREA, MAINE: SCHULZ, Klaus J., U.S. Geol Survey, 954 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, kschulz@usgs.gov, STEWART, David B., 926A National Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, and POLLOCK, Jeff, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State Univ, Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695
45-811:15 AM U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF AVALONIA: CONSTRAINTS ON THE OPENING OF THE RHEIC OCEAN: POLLOCK, Jeff, Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, jpolloc@ncsu.edu, HIBBARD, Jim P., Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, and O'BRIEN, Seán, Geological Survey of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF A1B 4J6
45-911:35 AM ANCIENT LAURENTIAN DETRITAL ZIRCON IN THE SOUTHERN UPLANDS TERRANE, BRITISH CALEDONIDES: WALDRON, John W.F.1, FLOYD, James D.2, HEAMAN, Larry M.1, and SIMONETTI, Antonio1, (1) Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada, john.waldron@ualberta.ca, (2) British Geol Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, United Kingdom
 11:55 AM Discussion & Concluding Remarks

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