Northeastern Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (27-29 March 2008)
Session No. 28 Friday, 28 March 2008
1:00 PM-4:10 PM, Hyatt Regency Buffalo: Regency Ballroom

T6. Evolution of the Taconian Foreland Basin: Timing of Late Ordovician Sedimentological and Tectonic Events as Seen From Outcrop and Subsurface Sources II

Gordon Baird, Charles E. Mitchell and Carlton E. Brett, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:00 PM Introductory Remarks
28-11:10 PM LOWER TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE APPALACHIANS: IS THERE ANY NEED FOR IMPROVEMENTS?: MALETZ, Jorg, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 772 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY 14260-3050, jorgm@buffalo.edu
28-21:30 PM APATITE TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF LATE ORDOVICIAN K-BENTONITES: CONTENTION, CLUSTERS, AND CORRELATIONS: SELL, Bryan K., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, bksell@syr.edu, SAMSON, Scott, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, and MITCHELL, Charles, Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
28-31:50 PM INTRODUCING THE BALSAMIAN, NEW SUBSTAGE OF THE EARLY CHATFIELDIAN (MOHAWKIAN, LATE ORDOVICIAN): CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE GUTTENBERG δ 13C EXCURSION (GICE) IN NEW YORK STATE AND ONTARIO: BARTA, Nathanael C., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, tbr.stratigraphyman@gmail.com, BERGSTROM, Stig M., Ohio State Univ - Columbus, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1308, SALTZMAN, Matthew R., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, and BIRGER, Schmitz, Deparment of Geology, GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Lund University, Sölvegatan 13, SE- 223 62, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden
28-42:10 PM THE MOHAWK VALLEY DRILL CORE BONANZA:NEW INSIGHTS RELATING TO THE POST-SAUK SUCCESSION AS SEEN THROUGH CORE AND OUTCROP PERSPECTIVES: BAIRD, G.C., Department of Geosciences, S.U.N.Y. Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063, Gordon.Baird@fredonia.edu and BRETT, C.E., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
 2:30 PM Break
28-52:50 PM FURTHER CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE OF THE TACONIC FORELAND BASE FILL IN EASTERN NY: GRAPTOLITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY FROM CORE 75NY2, BALSTON SPA, NY: ROLOSON, Melissa1, MITCHELL, Charles E.1, SELL, Bryan2, SAMSON, Scott D.2, and BAIRD, Gordon3, (1) Dept. of Geology, Univ at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, roloson2@buffalo.edu, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, (3) Dept. of Geoscience, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
28-63:10 PM DELINEATING THE UTICA FORMATION: FROM OUTCROP TO SUBSURFACE: NYAHAY, Richard E., Reservoir Characterization Group, New York State Museum, Room 3140 C.E.C, Albany, NY 12230, rnyahay@mail.nysed.gov and MARTIN, John P., NYSERDA, 17 Columbia Circle, Albany, NY 12203
28-73:30 PM WHAT THE CRATON CAN TELL US ABOUT APPALACHIAN TECTONICS FROM IAPETAN OPENING THROUGH THE TACONIC OROGENY: JACOBI, Robert D.1, AGLE, Paul1, LOEWENSTEIN, Stuart2, MITCHELL, Charles1, SMITH, Gerald2, KIM, Jon3, GALE, Marjorie3, and BECKER, Larry3, (1) Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, rdjacobi@geology.buffalo.edu, (2) Nornew, 1404 Sweet Home Rd, Suite 12, Amherst, NY 14228, (3) Vermont Geological Survey, Waterbury, VT 05671
 3:50 PM Concluding Remarks

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