Session: The Iapetan Rifted Margin and Rift History of Eastern Laurentia I (Northeastern Section (45th Annual) and Southeastern Section (59th Annual) Joint Meeting (13-16 March 2010))

Session No. 5

Sunday, 14 March 2010: 8:00 AM-12:05 PM

Liberty B (Sheraton Baltimore City Center)

T1. The Iapetan Rifted Margin and Rift History of Eastern Laurentia I

William A. Thomas and Denis Lavoie, Advocates

Paper #

Start Time

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

CAMBRIAN DEEP MARINE COARSE-GRAINED CHANNEL-FILL SUCCESSIONS IN EASTERN QUEBEC; THE RECORD OF EUSTATIC AND TECTONIC EVENTS ALONG THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN

LAVOIE, Denis, Quebec Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 490 de la Couronne, Quebec City, QC G1K 9A9, Canada, denis.lavoie@NRCan.gc.ca, denis.lavoie@NRCan.gc.ca

8:25 AM

THE PENNSYLVANIA SALIENT: AN EXAMPLE OF THE RAGGED IAPTEAN RIFTED MARGIN OF LAURENTIA

JACOBI, Robert D.¹, LOEWENSTEIN, Stuart¹, LEAVER, Al¹, SMITH, Gerald², MARTIN, John³ and MROZ, Thomas⁴, (1)Norse Energy Corp. USA, 3556 Lake Shore Road, Suite 700, Buffalo, NY 14219, (2)Norse Energy Corp. USA, 3556 Lake Shore Road, Buffalo, NY 14219, (3)NYSERDA, 17 Columbia Circle, Albany, NY 12203, (4)USDOE/NETL, 3610 Collins Ferry Road, PO Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26507-0880, RJacobi@norseenergy.com, RJacobi@norseenergy.com

8:45 AM

DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM THE WESTERN PIEDMONT OF PENNSYLVANIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERRANE BOUNDARIES AND THE EARLY PALEOZOIC LAURENTIAN MARGIN

BLACKMER, Gale, Dcnr, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, 3240 Schoolhouse Road, Middletown, PA 17057 and BOSBYSHELL, Howell, Department of Geology and Astronomy, West Chester Univ, 750 South Church Street, West Chester, PA 19383, gblackmer@pa.gov, gblackmer@pa.gov

9:05 AM

STRATIGRAPHY AND TECTONIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ROCKS OF THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA EMBAYMENT: FRAMEWORK OF THE WESTERN PIEDMONT WESTMINSTER TERRANE, FREDERICK VALLEY SYNCLINORIUM, AND BLUE RIDGE-SOUTH MOUNTAIN ANTICLINORIUM, MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA

SOUTHWORTH, Scott¹, WINTSCH, R.P.², KUNK, Michael J.³, DRAKE, Avery Ala, Jr⁴, MULVEY, B.K.², NAESER, Charles N.³ and NAESER, Nancy⁴, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, ssouthwo@usgs.gov, ssouthwo@usgs.gov

9:25 AM

A MODEL FOR IAPETAN RIFTING OF LAURENTIA BASED ON NEOPROTEROZOIC DIKES AND RELATED ROCKS

BURTON, William C., U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192 and SOUTHWORTH, Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, bburton@usgs.gov, bburton@usgs.gov

9:45 AM

PROVENANCE ANALYSIS OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC OCOEE SUPERGROUP, EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, NC/TN

CHAKRABORTY, Suvankar, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University Of Kentucky, 101 Slone Research Building, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, MOECHER, David, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 and SAMSON, Scott D., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, schak4@uky.edu, schak4@uky.edu

10:05 AM

Break

10:25 AM

EVIDENCE FOR LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC DEPOSITION OF THE OCOEE SUPERGROUP: SHRIMP U-PB AND TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF DIAGENETIC XENOTIME AND MONAZITE

ALEINIKOFF, John N., USGS, Denver Federal Center, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, SOUTHWORTH, Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, FANNING, C. Mark, PRISE, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Univ, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia and MAZDAB, F.K., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, jaleinikoff@usgs.gov, jaleinikoff@usgs.gov

10:45 AM

THE “GREAT SMOKY GROUP, OCOEE SUPERGROUP” IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA; LATE PROTEROZOIC RIFT-FILL DEPOSITS OR MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN THRUST-BASIN DEPOSITS?

HIGGINS, Michael W., The Geologic Mapping Institute, 1752 Timber Bluff Drive, Clayton, GA 30525-6011, mhiggins@mindspring.com, mhiggins@mindspring.com

11:05 AM

A NEW WORKING MODEL FOR DEPOSITION AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHILHOWEE GROUP IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF VIRGINIA

SMOOT, Joseph P., U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 926A, National Center, Reston, VA 20192 and SOUTHWORTH, Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, jpsmoot@usgs.gov, jpsmoot@usgs.gov

11:25 AM

EVOLUTION OF THE LAURENTIAN RIFTED MARGIN IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS

TULL, James F., Geological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, tull@gly.fsu.edu, tull@gly.fsu.edu

11:45 AM

TRANSFORM-PARALLEL AND RIFT-PARALLEL INTRACRATONIC FAULT SYSTEMS AROUND THE OUACHITA EMBAYMENT OF THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN OF SOUTHERN LAURENTIA

THOMAS, William A., Geological Survey of Alabama, 420 Hackberry Lane, P. O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999, geowat@uky.edu, geowat@uky.edu

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