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22–25 SEPTEMBER  PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA

Advocates: Daniel S. Jones; Joshua Feinberg Advocate: Abani Ranjan Samal
This session seeks to bring together field and laboratory stud- This session will address the role of geologists in mineral
ies using geochemical, genetic, and mineralogical approaches to exploration and mining of a deposit, ensuring sustainable
understand the interactions between microorganisms and sulfide mineral resource management and enabling the mineral industry
minerals within any geologic or anthropogenic environment and to deliver value and quality of life to society.
time scale.
T45. Porphyry Copper and Related Mineral
T41. New Voices in Geobiology Deposits of Arizona, the Basin and Range
Cosponsor: GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division Province, and Beyond
Disciplines: Geomicrobiology, Paleontology, Biogeography/ Cosponsors: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology
Biostratigraphy, Environmental Geoscience Division; Arizona Geological Society
Advocates: Trinity L. Hamilton; Rowan C. Martindale; Victoria Disciplines: Economic Geology, Structural Geology,
Petryshyn; Simon A.F. Darroch; Lydia S. Tackett; David Gold; Geochemistry
Andrew D. Putt; Amanda Lynn Godbold Advocates: Sarah Elizabeth Baxter; Michael Conway
This session will bring together new research focusing on the This session focuses on the geology of porphyry copper
interplay between geologic and biologic processes with a special deposits, their related (and much larger) magmatic-hydrothermal
emphasis on new field sites, novel materials/methods, and the systems, and their temporal evolution within and without the
development/refinement of proxies. Basin and Range Province.

GEOCHRONOLOGY T46. Investigations of Hydrothermal Systems:
Advances and Challenges
T42. Zircon and Beyond: Quantitative Cosponsor: GSA Hydrogeology Division
Methods for Characterizing Provenance in Disciplines: Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Hydrogeology
Modern and Ancient Sediment Routing Systems Advocates: Martin S. Appold; Hector Lamadrid; Marek Locmelis
Cosponsors: GSA Geochronology Division; GSA Mineralogy, This session aims to highlight recent progress in the study of
Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division hydrothermal systems, including advances in methodologies,
Disciplines: Geochronology, Sediments, Clastic, Mineralogy/ case studies of individual active and fossil hydrothermal
Crystallography systems, and the identification of future research needs.
Advocates: Paul J. Sylvester; A. Kate Souders; Zane Jobe;
Glenn R. Sharman T47. A Metal Rhythm: Understanding
Sedimentary “source-to-sink” models depend on quantitative Cyclical Processes in Mineralization
methods for characterizing detrital provenance. We seek Disciplines: Economic Geology, Geochronology, Geochemistry
contributions that improve provenance interpretations, Advocates: Sean Gaynor; Josh Rosera; Celestine N. Mercer
particularly using complementary, multi-mineral chronometers, Research increasingly shows that many economic ore deposits
isotope/chemical tracers, field-based datasets, and novel form via cyclical processes that commonly obscure their petroge-
statistical or quantitative techniques. netic interpretation. This session seeks research illuminating
cyclical relationships or petrologic evidence resistant to alteration
T43. Diversifying Geochronology: Innovations in to better delineate the pulsed histories of ore deposits.
Techniques, Applications, and Perspectives
Cosponsors: GSA Geochronology Division; On To the Future; TECTONICS/TECTONOPHYSICS
Association for Women Geoscientists; GSA Mineralogy,
Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA T48. Unconventional Ideas and Outrageous
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Hypotheses: In Honor of Warren B. Hamilton
Discipline: Geochronology Cosponsor: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Advocates: Julie C. Fosdick; Leah Morgan; George Gehrels; Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Structural Geology,
Alan D. Rooney Planetary Geology
This session calls for abstracts themed around the broad array of Advocates: Gillian Foulger; K. Howard; Donna M. Jurdy
innovations in techniques, applications, emerging instrumentation, This is an interdisciplinary session to present and discuss new,
building diversity in geochronology, and improving access to train- innovative ideas from any branch of earth or planetary science,
ing and outreach opportunities. Contributions from students, early including field geology, geophysics, petrology, early evolution of
career scientists, and underrepresented groups are encouraged. Earth, and the geology of the terrestrial planets.
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY T49. The Paradox Basin Revealed
Cosponsors: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division;
T44. Sustainable Mineral Resource GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geochronology
Management: Role of Geoscientists Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
Cosponsor: Society of Economic Geologists Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Sediments, Clastic,
Discipline: Economic Geology Sediments, Carbonates

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