GSA Connects 2023 Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Session No. 135
Monday, 16 October 2023: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
329 (David L Lawrence Convention Center)

T139. Assembling a Craton: Recent Insights into Precambrian Assembly and Growth of Laurentia and Its Cratonic Components

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

 

Amy Block, Benjamin Drenth and James V. Jones III, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
FORMATION AND AMALGAMATION OF ARCHEAN CRATONS: FIVE OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS (Invited Presentation)
FROST, Carol, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, 1000 E University Ave, Geology Dept 3006, Laramie, WY 82071
1:55 PM
CRATON ASSEMBLY AND FRAGMENTATION (Invited Presentation)
BLEEKER, Wouter, Ottawa, ON K1A0E8, Canada
2:15 PM
NEW GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYING AND GEOCHRONOLOGY: REFINING GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE SUPERIOR PROVINCE OF NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA, USA
BLOCK, Amy, Minnesota Geological Survey, 2609 Territorial Road, St. Paul, MN 55114, SOUDERS, Kate, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO 80225, DRENTH, Benjamin, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, W 6th Kipling St., MS 964, Denver, CO 80225, HUDAK III, George J., Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55811, SAARI, Stacy, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Hibbing, MN 55746 and HIRSCH, Aaron C., University of Minnesota, Minnesota Geological Survey, 2609 Territorial Road, St. Paul, MN 55114
2:30 PM
THE NEOARCHEAN MENTOR ANORTHOSITE INTRUSIVE COMPLEX: THE LARGEST ANORTHOSITE INTRUSION OF THE SUPERIOR PROVINCE?
DRENTH, Benjamin, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, W 6th Kipling St., MS 964, Denver, CO 80225, BLOCK, Amy, Minnesota Geological Survey, 2609 Territorial Road, St. Paul, MN 55114, HUDAK III, George J., Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55811, SOUDERS, Kate, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO 80225 and SAARI, Stacy, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Hibbing, MN 55746
2:45 PM
THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN WYOMING PROVINCE CONSTRAINS ITS INTEGRATION INTO THE CRATONIC BASEMENT OF LAURENTIA
HARMS, Tekla, Department of Geology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002 and BALDWIN, Julia, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812
 
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
PALEOPROTEROZOIC IRON-FORMATIONS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION IN TIME AND SPACE
CANNON, William, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center, Reston, VA 20192-0001, JONES III, Jamey, U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508 and DRENTH, Benjamin, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, W 6th Kipling St., MS 964, Denver, CO 80225
3:30 PM
3:45 PM
DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE LATE PALEOPROTEROZOIC POUDRE BASIN IN THE NORTHERN COLORADO FRONT RANGE: INSIGHTS INTO TECTONIC PROCESSES AND CRUST GENERATION
BAIRD, Graham B.1, MÜLLER, Simone2, CAMPUZANO, Narassa1, MUELLER, Ethan1 and MACMILLAN, Keaton1, (1)Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 100, 501 20th St., Greeley, CO 80639, (2)Piteau Associates, 2500 N Tucson Blvd #100, Tucson, AZ 85716
4:00 PM
AN OVERVIEW OF THE PINWARE–BARABOO–PICURIS OROGEN: A 1.52–1.37 GA MESOPROTEROZOIC, TRANS–LAURENTIAN OROGENIC BELT
DANIEL, Christopher G., Geology & Environmental Geosciences, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837
4:15 PM
THE LATE INVOLVEMENT OF LAURENTIA IN RODINIA ASSEMBLY
GERVAIS, Felix1, BEAUDRY, Alexandre1, KAVANAGH-LEPAGE, Charles1, GUILMETTE, Carl2 and LARSON, Kyle P.3, (1)Civil Geological and Mining engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, CANADA, (2)Département de Géologie et de Génie Géologique, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada, (3)Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
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