Session: New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia (Posters) (Cordilleran Section

Session No. 11

Tuesday, 12 May 2015: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Atrium/Hallway (ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building)

T2. New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia (Posters)

Authors will be present from 9 to 11 AM.

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TIME-SLICE MAPS SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRACTIONAL DEFORMATION IN ALASKA NORTH OF 60°N

MOORE, Thomas E., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and BOX, Stephen E., U.S. Geological Survey, 904 W. Riverside Ave, Room 202, Spokane, WA 99201, tmoore@usgs.gov, tmoore@usgs.gov

THE NEW ALASKA GEOLOGIC MAP

WILSON, Frederic H., LABAY, Keith A. and SHEW, Nora, Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 4210 University Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, fwilson@usgs.gov, fwilson@usgs.gov

TESTING TWO HYPOTHESES OF PROTEROZOIC CRUSTAL GROWTH USING GEOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOBAROMETRY ANALYSES OF METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA

LEXVOLD, Angela and DUEBENDORFER, Ernest, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, al2362@nau.edu, al2362@nau.edu

AN INVENTORY OF MIDDLE JURASSIC MOLLUSKS AND THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING AT FOSSIL POINT, LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA

HULTS, Chad P.¹, BLODGETT, Robert B.², STROMQUIST, Linda³, SANTUCCI, Vincent L.⁴, TWEET, Justin S.⁵, SCHRAER, Cynthia D.⁶, SCHRAER, David J.⁶ and WOOD, John R.⁷, (1)National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 240 W. 5th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501, (2)Blodgett & Associates LLC, 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, AK 99502, (3)National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 240 W. 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501, (4)National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, The Pennsylvania State University, 801 Ford Building (Room 813), University Park, PA 16802, (5)Tweet Paleo-Consulting, Cottage Grove, MN 55016, (6)5001 Country Club Lane, Anchorage, AK 99516, (7)National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO 80227, chad_hults@nps.gov, chad_hults@nps.gov

LATE SILURIAN–EARLY DEVONIAN GASTROPOD PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES OF ALASKAN TERRANES: BIOLOGICAL, PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL AND SAMPLING CONSTRAINTS

FRYDA, Jiri¹, BLODGETT, Robert B.² and FRYDOVA, Barbora¹, (1)Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha 6 – Suchdol, 165 21, Czech Republic, (2)Blodgett & Associates LLC, 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, AK 99502, bellerophon@seznam.cz, bellerophon@seznam.cz

A REGIONAL NORTH-SOUTH HIGH LATITUDE PALEOCLIMATIC AND PALEOECOLOGICAL TRANSECT: COMPARISON OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS (MAASTRICHTIAN) PRINCE CREEK AND LOWER CANTWELL FORMATIONS, ALASKA, USA

MCCARTHY, Paul J.¹, FIORILLO, Anthony R.², TOMSICH, Carla S.¹, FLAIG, Peter P.³, SALAZAR JARAMILLO, Susana¹, WRIGHT, T. Colby¹, KOBAYASHI, Yoshitsugu⁴, FOWELL, Sarah J.⁵ and BENOWITZ, Jeff⁶, (1)Dept. of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 755780, 900 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, (2)Perot Museum of Nature and Science, 2201 N. Field St., Dallas, TX 75201, (3)Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78758, (4)Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan, (5)Dept. of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 755780, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5780, (6)Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, pjmccarthy@alaska.edu, pjmccarthy@alaska.edu

ORDOVICIAN ARC ROCKS OF THE YREKA SUBTERRANE, EASTERN KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, AND POSSIBLE LINKS TO THE ALEXANDER TERRANE AND THE ARCTIC CALEDONIDES

SOBOLEVA, A.¹, UDORATINA, O.¹, MILLER, Elizabeth L.², GROVE, M.³, HOURIGAN, Jeremy⁴ and COBLE, Matthew A.², (1)Russian Academy of Sciences Ural Branch, Institute of Geology, Komi Science Center, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, (3)Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, (4)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 94305, aa_soboleva@mail.ru, aa_soboleva@mail.ru

PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNATURE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF AN EARLY JURASSIC (PLIENSBACHIAN) BIVALVE AND BRACHIOPOD FAUNA FROM THE PENINSULAR TERRANE, SOUTHERN TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS, ALASKA

LAZÃR, Iuliana, Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Bucharest, Nicolai Bãlcescu 1, Bucharest, 010041, Romania, SANDY, Michael R., Department of Geology, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-2364 and BLODGETT, Robert B., Blodgett & Associates LLC, 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, AK 99502, RobertBBlodgett@gmail.com, RobertBBlodgett@gmail.com

VIRTUAL GEOLOGIC HIGHWAY GUIDES ACROSS EASTERN ALASKA

NOKLEBERG, Warren J., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, BUNDTZEN, Thomas K., Pacific Rim Geological Consulting, 1129 1st Avenue, Box 81906, Fairbanks, AK 99708, SCHOLL, David W., Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Emeritus, and USGS Emeritus, USGS 345 Middlefield Rd, MS 999, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and STONE, David B., Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775, wnokleberg@usgs.gov, wnokleberg@usgs.gov

VIRTUAL GEOLOGIC HIGHWAY GUIDES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA

MONGER, James W.H., Geological Survey of Canada, 605 Robson Street, Vancouver, CA V6B 5J3, PRICE, Raymond A., Dept. of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 and NOKLEBERG, Warren J., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, j.monger@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca, j.monger@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ALASKAN-ALEUTIAN CONVERGENCE ARC

LIEU, Warren, geosciences, the university of texas at dallas, 800 w. campbell road, richardson, TX 75080 and STERN, Robert, Geosciences Department, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080, wkl082000@utdallas.edu, wkl082000@utdallas.edu

BELEMNITES OF ALASKA—RENEWED STUDY WITH A FOCUS ON LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK

SCHRAER, Cynthia D.¹, HULTS, Chad², DZYUBA, Oksana S.³, BLODGETT, Robert B.⁴, SCHRAER, David J.¹ and CUFFEY, Roger J.⁵, (1)5001 Country Club Lane, Anchorage, AK 99516, (2)National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 240 W. 5th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501, (3)Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia, (4)Blodgett & Associates LLC, 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, AK 99502, (5)Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, 412 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802, qavikagooddog@gmail.com, qavikagooddog@gmail.com

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