Joint 69th Annual Southeastern / 55th Annual Northeastern Section Meeting - 2020

Session No. 14
Friday, 20 March 2020: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Regency Ballroom B (Hyatt Regency Reston)

S2. The Appalachians, from North to South, from Crust to Mantle II

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division

 

Allison R. Severson, Yvette D. Kuiper, Maureen D. Long, Lara S. Wagner and Christopher M. Bailey, Conveners
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Start Time
1:30 PM
THE TECTONIC CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH-PRESSURE GRANULITE AND ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS IN THE ACADIAN/NEOACADIAN CENTRAL MAINE TERRANE
KELLER, Duncan S. and AGUE, Jay J., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, POB 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109
1:50 PM
SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA FROM FULL-WAVE AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING
GAO, Haiying, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 627 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003
2:10 PM
EXTREME NEO-ACADIAN CRUSTAL SHORTENING AND VERTICAL/LATERAL EXTRUSION IN NEW ENGLAND DUE TO OBLIQUE COLLISION/TRANSPRESSION ACCOMMODATED BY LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION
MOECHER, David P., Earth & Env. Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053 and MASSEY, Matthew A., Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0107
2:30 PM
APPALACHIAN OROGEN STRUCTURAL STYLES IN THE APPALACHIAN FORELAND BASIN: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF NEOACADIAN AND YOUNGER FAULT-BEND FOLDS AND OTHER ANTICLINES OBSERVED IN SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA IN PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
JACOBI, Robert D., Geology, University at Buffalo, 126 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, ECKERT, Craig, Geologic Consultant, Bradford Woods, PA 15015, STARR, Joel, Geologic Consultant, Pittsburgh, PA, PA 15241 and MATHUR, Ryan, Department of Geology, Juniata College, 1700 Moore Street, Huntingdon, PA 16652
2:50 PM
A STRUCTURAL, GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL BOUNDARY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS: AN ALLEGHANIAN FRONT?
SEVERSON, Allison R.1, KUIPER, Yvette D.1, LONG, Maureen D.2 and PIPKIN, Jonese3, (1)Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, (2)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, (3)Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223
3:10 PM
THE ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE: EARLIER AND HOTTER THAN PREVIOUSLY RECOGNIZED
LEVINE, Jamie S.F.1, CASALE, Gabriele1, MCALEER, Ryan J.2, MERSCHAT, Arthur2 and POWELL, Nicholas E.1, (1)Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State University, 572 Rivers Street, Boone, NC 28608, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192
3:30 PM
METEORIC SOURCE OF GEOFLUIDS IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS FOLD-THRUST BELT AND FORELAND CHALLENGES OROGENIC FLUID EXPULSION HYPOTHESIS; EVIDENCE FROM REGIONAL CLAY DIAGENESIS
VAN DER PLUIJM, Ben, BOLES, Austin and LYNCH, Erin, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 North University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005
3:50 PM
THE SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
EBEL, John E., Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
4:10 PM
LONG-LIVED AND LOCALIZED POST-OROGENIC MAGMATISM ON THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN MARGIN: INSIGHTS FROM ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY
KINNEY, Sean T.1, MACLENNAN, Scott A.2, SETERA, Jacob3, SCHOENE, Blair2, VANTONGEREN, Jill3, STRAUSS, Justin V.4, BRADLEY, Dwight4, HART, Austin5, TOWN, Caleb Forrest4 and OLSEN, Paul E.1, (1)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-1000, (2)Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, (3)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, (4)Department of Earth Science, Dartmouth College, HB 6105 Fairchild Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, (5)US Forest Service, White Mountain National Forest, 33 Kancamagus Hwy, Conway, NH 03818
4:30 PM
THE WESTERN NEW ENGLAND-QUEBEC IGNEOUS PROVINCE OF VERMONT AND NEW YORK: AN EXAMPLE OF POSTRIFT MAGMATISM AND NORMAL FAULTING FROM THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
COOPER BOEMMELS, Jennifer, Geosciences, UConn, 354 Mansfield Road U-1045, Beach Hall Room 207, Storrs, CT 06473, CRESPI, Jean, Department of Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, AMIDON, William H., Department of Geology, Middlebury College, 14 Old Chapel Road, Middlebury, VT 05753, FLEMING, Thomas H., Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 and WEBB, Laura E., Geology, University of Vermont, 180 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT 05405
4:50 PM
LITHOSPHERIC LOSS BENEATH THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS AND COMPARISONS WITH THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
LONG, Maureen D.1, BENOIT, Margaret H.2, EVANS, Rob L.3, BYRNES, Joseph4, BEZADA, Maximiliano5, MITTAL, Ved1, KING, Scott D.6, KIRBY, Eric7 and LEVIN, Vadim8, (1)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, (2)National Science Foundation, Earthscope Program, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314, (3)Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Clark South 172, MS 24, Woods Hole, MA 02543, (4)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (5)Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (6)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, (7)College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, (8)Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066
5:10 PM
HALF A CENTURY OF MODERN APPALACHIAN TECTONICS—ARE WE THERE YET?
HATCHER Jr., Robert D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
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