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Table of Contents - Memoir 206

From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region

Edited by Richard P. Tollo, Mervin J. Bartholomew, James P. Hibbard, and Paul M. Karabinos

Cover Photo Caption		vii
Preface Richard P. Tollo, Mervin J. Bartholomew, James P. Hibbard, and Paul M. Karabinos		ix
Acknowledgments		xi
Introduction to the Appalachian Region
1.	The Appalachian orogen: A brief summary Robert D. Hatcher Jr.	1
Overview of the Precambrian Orogen
2.	Review of the Proterozoic evolution of the Grenville Province, its Adirondack outlier, and the Mesoproterozoic inliers of the Appalachians James M. McLelland, Bruce W. Selleck, and M.E. Bickford	21
Overview of the Paleozoic Orogen
3.	Comparative analysis of the geological evolution of the northern and southern Appalachian orogen: Late Ordovician–Permian James P. Hibbard, Cees R. van Staal, and Douglas W. Rankin	51
Northern Section
4.	The Laurentian margin of northeastern North America John S. Allen, William A. Thomas, and Denis Lavoie	71
5.	Magmatism in the Vermont Appalachians Raymond A. Coish	91
6.	Orogenic curvature in the northern Taconic allochthon and its relation to footwall geometry Jean M. Crespi, H. Ray Underwood, and Yu-Chang Chan	111
7.	The Rivière-des-Plante ultramafic Complex, southern Québec: Stratigraphy, structure, and implications for the Chain Lakes massif Stéphane De Souza and Alain Tremblay	123
8.	The tectono-thermal evolution of the Waterbury dome, western Connecticut, based on U-Pb and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages Craig Dietsch, Michael J. Kunk, John Aleinikoff, and John F. Sutter	141
9.	Evidence for an orogen-parallel, normal-sense shear zone around the Chester dome, Vermont: A possible template for gneiss dome formation in the New England Appalachians, USA Paul Karabinos, Elizabeth S. Mygatt, Sean M. Cook, and Matthew Student	183
10.	The tectono-stratigraphic framework and evolution of southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire Arthur M. Hussey II, Wallace A. Bothner, and John Aleinikoff	205
11.	High-precision U-Pb zircon dates for Ediacaran granitoid rocks in SE New England: Revised magmatic chronology and correlation with other Avalonian terranes M.D. Thompson, J. Ramezani, S.M. Barr, and O.D. Hermes	231
12.	Lessons from the foreland basin: Northern Appalachian basin perspectives on the Acadian orogeny Charles A. Ver Straeten	251
13.	Geochemistry and origin of Neoproterozoic ironstone deposits in the New Jersey Highlands and implications for the eastern Laurentian rifted margin in the north-central Appalachians, USA Richard A. Volkert, Donald H. Monteverde, Kurt C. Friehauf, Alexander E. Gates, Richard F. Dalton, and Robert C. Smith II	283
14.	Tectonic, magmatic, and metamorphic history of the New Jersey Highlands: New insights from SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology Richard A. Volkert, John N. Aleinikoff, and C. Mark Fanning	307
15.	Lithochemistry of the Lower Paleozoic Goldenville and Halifax groups, southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for stratigraphy, provenance, and tectonic setting of the Meguma terrane Chris E. White and Sandra M. Barr	347
16.	Middle Cambrian to Ordovician arc-backarc development on the leading edge of Ganderia, Newfoundland Appalachians A. Zagorevski, C.R. van Staal, N. Rogers, V.J. McNicoll, and J. Pollock	367
Southern Section
17.	Stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Catoctin volcanics: Implications for mantle evolution during the breakup of Rodinia Robert L. Badger, Kyle T. Ashley, and Brian L. Cousens	397
18.	Orphans of the far-traveled Pulaski thrust sheet: Exotic detached duplexes and their implications for original fold-and-thrust geometry Mervin J. Bartholomew and Sharon E. Lewis	417
19.	The Alleghanian deformational sequence at the foreland junction of the Central and Southern Appalachians Mervin J. Bartholomew and Amy E. Whitaker	431
20.	A model for Iapetan rifting of Laurentia based on Neoproterozoic dikes and related rocks William C. Burton and Scott Southworth	455
21.	Temporal and spatial changes in deformation conditions during the formation of the Central Appalachian fold-and-thrust belt: Evidence from joints, vein mineral paragenesis, and fluid inclusions Mark A. Evans	477
22.	Crustal fluid evolution during deformation, uplift, and exhumation of the southeastern Piedmont of the Southern Appalachians: Late Paleozoic through Mesozoic rifting Mark A. Evans and Mervin J. Bartholomew	553
23.	Extensional structures of the Alabama Promontory and Black Warrior foreland basin: Styles and relationship to the Appalachian fold-thrust belt Richard H. Groshong Jr., W. Brown Hawkins Jr., Jack C. Pashin, and Dennis L. Harry	579
24.	Alleghanian plutonism in the Suwannee terrane, USA: Implications for late Paleozoic tectonic models Ann L. Heatherington, Paul A. Mueller, and Joseph L. Wooden	607
25.	Ordovician volcanic-arc terrane in the Central Appalachian Piedmont of Maryland and Virginia: SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology, field relations, and tectonic significance J. Wright Horton Jr., John N. Aleinikoff, Avery Ala Drake Jr., and C. Mark Fanning	621
26.	Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont crystalline terranes Arthur J. Merschat, Robert D. Hatcher Jr., Brendan R. Bream, Calvin F. Miller, Heather E. Byars, Matthew P. Gatewood, and Joseph L. Wooden	661
27.	Three tectonothermal pulses recorded in eclogite and amphibolite of the Eastern Blue Ridge, Southern Appalachians Brent V. Miller, Kevin G. Stewart, and Donna L. Whitney	701
28.	Geochemical and geochronological evidence for Devonian magmatism revealed in the Maidens gneiss, Goochland terrane, Virginia Brent E. Owens, Robert Buchwaldt, and Catherine R. Shirvell	725
29.	Depositional and tectonic setting of the Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic rocks of the Virgilina sequence and Albemarle Group, North Carolina Jeffrey C. Pollock, James P. Hibbard, and Paul J. Sylvester	739
30.	S and Z buckle folds as shear-sense indicators in the ductile realm: Field examples from the Grenville Province of Ontario and the Appalachians of South Carolina Walfried M. Schwerdtner, Sheng J. Lu, and Daniel Landa	773
31.	Mesoproterozoic magmatism and deformation in the northern Blue Ridge, Virginia and Maryland: Application of SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology and integrated field studies in the definition of Grenvillian tectonic history Scott Southworth, John N. Aleinikoff, Richard P. Tollo, Christopher M. Bailey, William C. Burton, Paul C. Hackley, and C. Mark Fanning	795
32.	Geologic history of the Pine Mountain window, Alabama and Georgia: Insights from a new geologic map and U-Pb isotopic dates M.G. Steltenpohl, R.D. Hatcher Jr., P.A. Mueller, A.L. Heatherington, and J.L. Wooden	837
33.	Thermomagmatic evolution of Mesoproterozoic crust in the Blue Ridge of SW Virginia and NW North Carolina: Evidence from U-Pb geochronology and zircon geothermometry Richard P. Tollo, John N. Aleinikoff, Joseph L. Wooden, Frank K. Mazdab, Scott Southworth, and C. Mark Fanning	859
34.	Interactions between the southern Appalachian–Ouachita orogenic belt and basement faults in the orogenic footwall and foreland William A. Thomas	897
35.	Heterogeneous wrench-dominated transpression in the deep crust recorded by the Burnsville fault and related structures, Blue Ridge, North Carolina: Implications for the Acadian orogeny in the Southern Appalachians Cheryl Waters-Tormey and Kevin Stewart	917
36.	Southern Appalachian Laurentian margin initial drift-facies sequences: Implications for margin evolution James F. Tull, David T. Allison, Stephen E. Whiting, and Nick L. John	935