2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19–22 October 2014)

Session No. 326
Wednesday, 22 October 2014: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
121 (Vancouver Convention Centre-West)

T4. Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution II

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division

 

Larry S. Lane, Keith Dewing, Victoria Pease, Gordon Neil Oakey, John Shimeld and Randell A. Stephenson, Advocates
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1:00 PM
DETRITAL ZIRCON CONSTRAINTS ON ARCTIC ALASKA FORELAND BASIN EVOLUTION: BROOKIAN CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY, CLASTIC PROGRADATION, PROVENANCE, AND OROGENIC EXHUMATION
LEASE, Richard O., U.S. Geological Survey, 4210 University Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, HOUSEKNECHT, David W., U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 956, Reston, VA 20192 and KYLANDER-CLARK, Andrew R.C., Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
1:15 PM
ESCAPE OF THE RUBY TERRANE FROM ARCTIC ALASKA DURING MESOZOIC ROTATIONAL OPENING OF CANADA BASIN
TILL, Alison B.1, ROESKE, Sarah2 and DUMOULIN, Julie A.1, (1)USGS, 4210 University Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, (2)Geology Department, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616
1:30 PM
DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM ALASKA'S ACCRETED TERRANES AND THEIR PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAUNAS FROM ARCTIC REGIONS OF EURASIA AND ADJOINING PARTS OF LAURENTIA (WESTERN & ARCTIC NORTH AMERICA)
BLODGETT, Robert B., Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, AK 99502 and BARANOV, Valeryi V., Institute of Diamond and Precious Metals Geology, Yakutsk Research Center, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Lenina 39, Yakutsk, 677980, Russia
1:45 PM
TIMING AND EMPLACEMENT OF THE WHALE MOUNTAIN ALLOCHTHON IN THE NORTHEAST BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA; A POTENTIAL LINK BETWEEN DEVONIAN TECTONISM ALONG THE CORDILLERAN AND ARCTIC MARGINS OF NORTH AMERICA
JOHNSON, Benjmain, Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, 98 Beechurst Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506, TORO, Jaime, Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 98 Beechurst Ave, 330 Brooks Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506, BENOWITZ, Jeff, Geophysical Institute and Geochronology Laboratory, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775 and HOURIGAN, Jeremy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 94305
2:00 PM
A NEW TECTONIC MAP OF ALASKA NORTH OF 60°
MOORE, Thomas E., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 969, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and BOX, Stephen E., U.S. Geological Survey, 904 W. Riverside Ave, Room 202, Spokane, WA 99201
2:15 PM
CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS OF BENNETT ISLAND, EAST SIBERIAN SEA: HIGH ARCTIC GEODYNAMICS
TEGNER, Christian, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Hoegh-Guldbergsgade 2, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark and PEASE, Victoria, Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
2:30 PM
THE DELONG ISLANDS AND ARCTIC TECTONIC RECONSTUCTIONS
PEASE, Victoria, Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden and TEGNER, Christian, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Hoegh-Guldbergsgade 2, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark
2:45 PM
THE PALEOZOIC HISTORY OF THE NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS: PROVENANCE, PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND PLATE RECONSTRUCTION
ERSHOVA, Victoria, Regional geology, Saint Petersburg State University, University emb. 7-9, Saint Petersburg, 199094, PROKOPIEV, Andrei, Laboratory Of Geodynamics, and Regional Geology, Diamond and Precious Metal Geology, 39, Lenin Avenue, Yakutsk, Russia, KHUDOLEY, Andrey, Regional geology, Saint Petersburg State University, University emb. 7-9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, SOBOLEV, Nikolay, Karpinsky Russian Geology Research Institute, VSEGEI, 74 Sredny Prospect, St. Petersburg, R-89787 and PETROV, Eugeny, Karpinsky Russian Geology Research Institute, VSEGEI, 74 Sredny Prospect, St. Petersburg, R-119017, Russia
 
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF WRANGEL ISLAND, ARCTIC RUSSIA
MILLER, Elizabeth L., Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, DUMITRU, Trevor, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Bldg 320, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-2115 and MEISLING, K.E., Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305
3:30 PM
THE ROLE OF CHUKOTKA DURING OPENING OF THE AMERASIAN BASIN: A NEW PALEOGEOGRAPHIC MODEL FOR THE ARCTIC DURING THE MESOZOIC
TORO, Jaime, Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 and AMATO, Jeffrey M., Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003
3:45 PM
THE ROLE OF THE PAI-KHOI FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARCTIC URALIDES, RUSSIAN ARCTIC
CURTIS, Michael L., LOPEZ-MIR, Berta and HEILBRONN, Gloria, CASP, 181a Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DH, United Kingdom
4:00 PM
RECONSTRUCTION OF TECTONIC EVENTS IN SOUTHERN TAIMYR, ARCTIC RUSSIA, BASED ON PROVENANCE U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON INVESTIGATIONS OF LATE PALEOZOIC TO MESOZOIC SEDIMENTS
ZHANG, Xiaojing, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm Universirty, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden and PEASE, Victoria, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
4:15 PM
NEW VESTIGES OF EARLY CALEDONIAN SUBDUCTION IN THE HIGH ARCTIC
KOSMINSKA, Karolina, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, Kraków, 30-059, Poland, MAJKA, Jaroslaw, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, SE-75236, Sweden, MANECKI, Maciej, Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and MAZUR, Stanislaw, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, Warszawa, 00-818
4:30 PM
THE EARLY CAMBRIAN BASIN REORGANIZATION AND RELEVANT TECTONICS IN CENTRAL BALTICA: DETRITAL ZIRCON CHRONOLOGY OF THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN SANDSTONES IN ESTONIA
ISOZAKI, Yukio1, POLDVERE, Anna2, BAUERT, Heikki3, AOKI, Kazumasa4, NAKAHATA, Hiroki5, SAKATA, Shuhei6 and HIRATA, Takafumi6, (1)Univ Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan, (2)Geological Survey of Estonia, Kadaka tee 82, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia, (3)Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinnn, 19086, Estonia, (4)The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan, (5)Dept. Earth Science and Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan, (6)Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
 
4:45 PM
Discussion
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