GSA 2020 Connects Online

Session No. 173
Thursday, 29 October 2020: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

T12. Assembling Laurentia: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Rifting and Continental Margin Evolution during Breakup of Rodinia and Pannotia

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; Mineralogical Society of America

 

Francis A. Macdonald and Adolph Yonkee, Advocates
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Start Time
 
10:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:05 AM
CRYOGENIAN RIFTING IN DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (USA)
NELSON, Lyle L.1, SMITH, Emily F.1, HODGIN, Eben B.2, CROWLEY, James L.3, SCHMITZ, Mark D.3 and MACDONALD, Francis A.4, (1)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, (3)Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, (4)Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93109
10:20 AM
GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND DZ ANALYSIS OF NEOPROTEROZOIC TO ORDOVICIAN STRATA IN CENTRAL IDAHO REVEALS A THINNER SECTION WITH UNCONFORMITIES, BUT MARGIN-PARALLEL SIMILARITIES IN LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PROVENANCE
BRENNAN, Daniel T.1, MILTON, Jacob2, LINK, Paul K.2 and PEARSON, David3, (1)Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Techology, Perth, WA 6845, Australia, (2)Idaho State University, 1505 E Hayden St., Pocatello, ID 83201, (3)Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University, 921 S. 8th Avenue Mail Stop 8072, Pocatello, ID 83209-8072
10:35 AM
RECONSTRUCTING THE WESTERN MARGIN OF PRECAMBRIAN LAURENTIA IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: REMOVING THE EFFECTS OF LATE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE ROTATION
TIKOFF, Basil, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, KELSO, Paul R., Department of Geology and Physics, Lake Superior State University, 650 W. Easterday Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783, FAYON, Annia K., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, GASCHNIG, Richard, Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854 and VERVOORT, Jeffrey D., School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
10:50 AM
MACROSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EDIACARAN SYSTEM OF NORTH AMERICA
SEGESSENMAN, Daniel, Geoscience, UW-Madison, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706 and PETERS, Shanan E., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI 53706
11:05 AM
RE-EVALUATING THE NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN TECTONIC HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST LAURENTIA
SMITH, Emily F.1, NELSON, Lyle L.1, HODGIN, Eben B.2, CROWLEY, James L.3 and SCHMITZ, Mark D.3, (1)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Berkeley, 307 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, (3)Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725
11:20 AM
THE LATE GREAT UNCONFORMITY OF THE CENTRAL CANADIAN SHIELD
STURROCK, Colin, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309, FLOWERS, Rebecca M., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 and MACDONALD, Francis A., Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630
11:35 AM
DECIPHERING THE PALEOMAGNETIC CONSTRAINTS ON LAURENTIA'S NEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION (Invited Presentation)
EYSTER, Athena1, WEISS, Benjamin P.1, KARLSTROM, Karl E.2 and MACDONALD, Francis A.3, (1)Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, (2)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (3)Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630
 
11:50 AM
Discussion
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