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Cordilleran Section - 111th Annual Meeting (11–13 May 2015)

Session No. 1
Monday, 11 May 2015: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Lecture Hall (ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building)

S1. Origins and Orogenies of Arctic Alaska: Honoring the Career of Alison Till, U.S. Geological Survey–Anchorage

 

Sarah M. Roeske, Julie A. Dumoulin, James V. Jones III, David W. Houseknecht and Richard O. Lease, Conveners
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:05 AM
EVIDENCE OF ARC MAGMA GENESIS IN A PALEO-MANTLE WEDGE, THE HIGASHI-AKAISHI PERIDOTITE, JAPAN
TILL, Christy B.1, GUILD, Meghan1, GROVE, Timothy2 and CARLSON, Richard3, (1)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, (2)Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, (3)Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, cbtill@asu.edu, cbtill@asu.edu
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8:25 AM
ACCOMMODATION OF MESOZOIC ROTATIONAL OPENING OF CANADA BASIN: THE ROLE OF THE RUBY TERRANE
TILL, Alison B., USGS, 4210 University Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508 and ROESKE, Sarah M., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, atill@usgs.gov, atill@usgs.gov
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8:45 AM
GENERATION OF THE RUBY BATHOLITH, NORTH-CENTRAL ALASKA, BY AN EARLY CRETACEOUS SHORT-LIVED VOLUMINOUS INTRUSIVE EVENT
ROESKE, Sarah M., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, MCCLELLAND, William C., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 and TILL, Alison B., USGS, 4210 University Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, smroeske@ucdavis.edu, smroeske@ucdavis.edu
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9:05 AM
MID-CRETACEOUS MAGMATISM OF THE BERING STRAIT REGION (SEWARD PENINSULA, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, AND CHUKOTKA): A REVIEW WITH NEW ZIRCON U-PB AGES
AMATO, Jeffrey M., Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001/MSC 3AB, Las Cruces, NM 88003 and GOTTLIEB, Eric S., Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, amato@nmsu.edu, amato@nmsu.edu
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9:25 AM
TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE MESOZOIC SOUTH ANYUI SUTURE ZONE, EASTERN RUSSIA: A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ARCTIC REGION
TORO, Jaime, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia Univ, 425 White Hall, P.O. Box 6300, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, AMATO, Jeffrey M., Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001/MSC 3AB, Las Cruces, NM 88003, AKININ, Vyacheslav V., Russian Academy of Sciences, NEISRI, Portovaya 16, Magadan, 685000, Russia, HAMPTON, Brian A., Dept. of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 and TUCHKOVA, Marainna, Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia, jtoro@geo.wvu.edu, jtoro@geo.wvu.edu
 
9:45 AM
Break
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10:00 AM
ELLESMERIAN OROGEN BENEATH THE ALASKA BEAUFORT SHELF
HOUSEKNECHT, David W., U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 956, Reston, VA 20192 and CONNORS, Christopher D., Department of Geology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450, dhouse@usgs.gov, dhouse@usgs.gov
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10:20 AM
EARLY PALEOZOIC ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH SLOPE SUBTERRANE: EVIDENCE FROM AN ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX EXPOSED IN THE NORTHEASTERN BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA
JOHNSON, Benjamin, Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, 98 Beechurst Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506, STRAUSS, Justin V., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, TORO, Jaime, Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 and BENOWITZ, Jeff, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, bgjohnson@mix.wvu.edu, bgjohnson@mix.wvu.edu
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10:40 AM
BERRIASIAN TO THE HOLOCENE PROVENANCE CHANGES IN THE COLVILLE FORELAND BASIN, NORTHERN ALASKA:  DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB RESULTS FROM THE DALTON HIGHWAY CORRIDOR
MOORE, Thomas E., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and O'SULLIVAN, Paul B., GeoSep Services, 1521 Pine Cone Road, Moscow, ID 87872-9709, tmoore@usgs.gov, tmoore@usgs.gov
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11:00 AM
COLVILLE BASIN RESPONSE TO ARCTIC TECTONICS AND CLIMATE: 3rd AND HIGHER ORDER APTIAN-ALBIAN DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES
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, rlease@usgs.gov, rlease@usgs.gov
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11:20 AM
EARLY BROOKIAN OROGENESIS AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERASIA BASIN OF THE ARCTIC: ARE THEY SIMULTANEOUS?
MILLER, Elizabeth L. and GOTTLIEB, E.S., Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, elmiller@stanford.edu, elmiller@stanford.edu
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11:40 AM
DEXTRAL MOTION ON THE KUGRUK SHEAR ZONE, SEWARD PENINSULA, DURING OPENING OF THE CANADA BASIN
TORO, Jaime, Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 and AMATO, Jeffrey M., Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001/MSC 3AB, Las Cruces, NM 88003, jtoro@geo.wvu.edu, jtoro@geo.wvu.edu
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