Session: Petrotectonic History of the Blue Ridge Belt: Faults, Fault Blocks, Terrains, and Ophiolites (South-Central Section (37th) and Southeastern Section (52nd), GSA Joint Annual Meeting (March 12

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THE MARS HILL TERRANE: EXTENT, AGE, AND ORIGIN OF THE OLDEST ROCKS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN USA

BERQUIST, Peter J.¹, MILLER, C.¹, WOODEN, J.², FULLAGAR, P.³, OWNBY, S.⁴ and CARRIGAN, C.⁴, (1)Department of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, 5717 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37240, (2)U.S. Geol Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (3)Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (4)Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, peter.j.berquist@vanderbilt.edu, peter.j.berquist@vanderbilt.edu

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WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BASEMENT OF NORTHEAST TN AND NORTHWESTERN NC: AGE, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPS TO PROTEROZOIC ROCKS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN USA

OFFICER, Nathan D., Earth and Environmental Science, Vanderbilt Univ, 1805 Station B, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235, BERQUIST, P.J., Dept. of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, 37235, MILLER, C.F., Dept. of Geology, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235, FULLAGAR, P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, WOODEN, Joe, U.S. Geol Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and CARRIGAN, Charles W., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, nathan.d.officer@vanderbilt.edu, nathan.d.officer@vanderbilt.edu

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LATE DEFORMATION FABRICS NEAR THE WESTERN AND EASTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY, EASTERN SMOKY MOUNTAINS

ANDERSON, Eric D., Geolgical Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 and MOECHER, David P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, edande0@uky.edu, edande0@uky.edu

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TACONIAN METAMORPHISM IN EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INFERRED FROM U-TH-PB MONAZITE CHEMICAL AGES

MOECHER, David P.¹, TRACY, Robert J.² and ANDERSON, Eric D.¹, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, (2)Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, moker@uky.edu, moker@uky.edu

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CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN

RAYMOND, Loren A., Department of Geology, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC 28608, LOVE, Anthony B., PO Box 522, Boone, NC 28607-0522 and SWANSON, Samuel E., Department of Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, raymondla@appstate.edu, raymondla@appstate.edu

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SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE TERRANES AND PROBLEMS WITH ROCK UNITS, AGES, AND TIMING OF EVENTS: READ THE DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPS

HATCHER Jr, Robert D.¹, BREAM, Brendan R.¹ and ECKERT Jr, James O.², (1)Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, 306 Geological Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, (2)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, bobmap@utk.edu, bobmap@utk.edu

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DEFINING THE HAYESVILLE FAULT AND TERRANE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL-EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA-NORTH CAROLINA

ECKERT Jr, James O., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univ, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109 and HATCHER Jr, Robert D., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, 306 Geological Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, 5wvsmh001@sneakemail.com, 5wvsmh001@sneakemail.com

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METAMORPHIC AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE-WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY AS EXPOSED BETWEEN SOCO AND BALSAM GAP, WESTERN NC

MASSEY, Matthew A. and MOECHER, David P., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, mamass1@pop.uky.edu, mamass1@pop.uky.edu

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KINEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MONOCLINIC AND TRICLINIC HIGH-STRAIN ZONES IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE

BAILEY, Christopher M., Dept. of Geology, College of William & Mary, Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187, cmbail@wm.edu, cmbail@wm.edu

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DEFORMATION PARTITIONING AMONG STRUCTURAL BLOCKS IN THE PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT OF THE NORTHERN BLUE RIDGE

CAMPBELL, Patricia A., Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Slippery Rock Univ, Slippery Rock, PA 16057 and GOODMAN, Michael, Atlas America, 311 Rouser Road, Moon Township, PA 15108, patricia.campbell@sru.edu, patricia.campbell@sru.edu

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PETROLOGY AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF ROCKS FROM THE CHATTAHOOCHEE TUNNEL PROJECT, BREVARD FAULT ZONE, ATLANTA GA

BEDELL, Adam¹, RODEN, Michael¹ and RAYMER, Jack², (1)Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, (2)Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc, 6801 Governors Lake Parkway, Norcross, GA 30071, geode@arches.uga.edu, geode@arches.uga.edu

South-Central Section (37th) and Southeastern Section (52nd), GSA Joint Annual Meeting (March 12–14, 2003)

T1. Petrotectonic History of the Blue Ridge Belt: Faults, Fault Blocks, Terrains, and Ophiolites