Southeastern Section–56th Annual Meeting (29–30 March 2007)
Session No. 4 Thursday, 29 March 2007
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Hyatt Regency Savannah on the Historic Riverfront: Ballroom A/B

T18. "Great" Unconformities in the Appalachians: Their Temporal and Tectonic Significance

Christopher M. Bailey and William A. Thomas, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
4-18:20 AM ANATOMY OF AN UNCONFORMITY: CHOWNS, Timothy M., Geosciences, State Univ of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, tchowns@westga.edu
4-28:40 AM INTERPRETING THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF UNCONFORMITIES IN THE APPALACHIAN FORELAND BASIN: ETTENSOHN, Frank R., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506, fettens@uky.edu
4-39:00 AM THE POST-KNOX UNCONFORMITY: PRODUCT OF GLOBAL, NOT REGIONAL PROCESSES: HATCHER, Robert D. Jr, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Science Alliance Center of Excellence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, bobmap@utk.edu and REPETSKI, John E., US Geol Survey, 926A National Ctr, Reston, VA 20192
4-49:20 AM FOUR UNCONFORMITIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN ORDOVICIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN SUCCESSION: THOMAS, William A., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, geowat@uky.edu
 9:40 AM Break
4-510:00 AM CHARACTERISTICS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF REGIONAL UNCONFORMITIES IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN METAMORPHIC TERRANES: TULL, James F., Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, tull@gly.fsu.edu
4-610:20 AM TIME VERSUS TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE: THE DISCONFORMITY AT THE BASE OF THE CHILHOWEE GROUP AND THE NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY: SOUTHWORTH, Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, Ssouthwo@usgs.gov and ALEINIKOFF, John N., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225
4-710:40 AM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC-MESOPROTEROZOIC UNCONFORMITIES IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE: BAILEY, Christopher M., Department of Geology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, cmbail@wm.edu
4-811:00 AM COARSE EPICLASTIC AND VOLCANICLASTIC METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS DEPOSITED ALONG THE LATE PROTEROZOIC/MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC BOUNDARY IN SW VA: HENIKA, William Sinclair, Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, bhenika@vt.edu
4-911:20 AM TWO SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN PIEDMONT PALEOZOIC UNCONFORMITIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE: DENNIS, Allen J., Biology and Geology, University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC 29801-6309, dennis@sc.edu
 11:40 AM Concluding Remarks

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