A review of the geology and geologic history of the Northern Appalachian region, including uplift and erosion, volcanic activity and extension, granite formation, metamorphism, deformation, and sedimentation, all in a plate-tectonic theoretical context.
This spring the GEODES club is planning a week-long field excursion to look at the geology of the Northern Appalachians. This seminar is being offered in anticipation of that trip. Readings are listed below.
GEODES Field Trip Guidebook, 1993.
McLelland and Isachsen, 1986, Synthesis of the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and their Tectonic Setting within the Southwestern Grenville Province, p. 75-94 in Moore, Davidson and Baer (editors), The Grenville Province, GAC Special Paper 31.
pages 10-15, 25-26, and 29-32, and 40-42, in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
Boudette and Boone, 1976, Pre-Silurian Stratigraphic Succession in Central Western Maine, p. 79-96 in Page (editor), Contributions to the Stratigraphy of New England, GSA Memoir 148.
pages 73-85 in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
pages 101-103, 106-107, 113-114 in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
Zen, 1961, Geological Society of America Bulletin, volume 72, pages 267-280. (KSC doesn't have this far back)
Stanley and Ratcliff, 1985, Geological Society of America Bulletin, volume 96, pages 1227-1250.
pages 151-155 in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
pages 134-139, 148-151 in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
Laird, 1984, American Journal of Science, volume 284, pages 376-413.
pages 124- Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
Stanley et al, 1984, American Journal of Science, volume 284, pages 559-595.
Tracy et al., 1984, American Journal of Science, volume 284, pages 530-558.
Gilles Bonin, Geology of Asbestos Deposits on and around the Properties of Lac D'Aminate du Quebec, LTEE.
pages 6-26 in Billings, 1956, The Geology of New Hampshire (Sedimentary Rocks)
pages 46-52, 121-125, 147-148 in Billings, 1956, The Geology of New Hampshire (Igneous Rocks)
Bedrock Geological Map of NH
pages 117-120, 123-126 in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
Naylor, 1968, Origin and Regional Relationships of the Core-Rocks of the Oliverian Domes
Naylor, 1969, Geological Society of America Bulleting, volume 80, pages 405-427 (age and origin)
Zartman and Leo, 1985, American Journal of Science, volume 285, pages 267-280 (radiometric ages)
Tucker and Robinson, 1990, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 102, 1404-1419.
Lyons et al, 1986, American Journal of Science, volume 286, pages 489-509
Hatch, 1988, American Journal of Science, volume 288, pages 1-18
Green and Guidotti, 1968, The Boundary Mountains Anticlinorium in Northern New Hampshire and Northwestern Maine
180-182, Paleogeography, DNAG volume
183-184, Connecticut Valley and Merrimack Trough, DNAG volume
185-186, Early Devonian Flysch Basin(s), DNAG volume
186-187 Silurian unconformity, DNAG volume
*Billings, 1956, The Bedrock Geology of New Hamsphire, pp. 21-35.
Osberg, Moench, and Warner, 1968, Stratigraphy of the Merrimack Synclinorium in west-central Maine (Reprint from the Billings Volume).
*Moench, 1970, Pre-metamorphic down-to-basin faulting, folding, and tectonic dewatering, Rangeley area, western Maine. GSA Bulletin, vol. 81, pp. 1463-1469.
Hall, Pollock, and Dolan, 1976, Lower Devonian Seboomook Formation and Matagamon Sandstone, northern Maine: A Flysch basin-margin delta complex. GSA Memoir 148, pp. 57-64 (see also, Trip C3, NEGIC 1994)
Moench, Pankiwskyi, Boone, Boudette, Ludman, Newell and Vehrs (1982). Geologic map of the western interior of Maine. United States Geological Survey.
*Hatch, Moench, and Lyons, 1983, Silurian-Lower Devonian stratigraphy of eastern and south-central New Hampshire, American Journal of Science, vol. 283, pp. 739-761.
*Chamberlain, C. P., J. B. Thompson and T. Allen (1988). Stratigraphic and Structural Relationships of the Fall Mountain Nappe. Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont and North-Central Massachusetts. NEIGC. 32-39.
Pankiwskyj, Ludman, Griffin, and Berry, 1976, Stratigraphic relationships on the Southeast Limb of the Merrimack Synclinorium in central and west-central Maine. GSA Memoir 146, pp. 263-280.
Ludman, 1976, Fossil-based Stratigraphy in the Merrimack Synclinorium, central Maine. GSA Memoir 148, pp. 65-78
*Eusden, Bothner and Hussey, 1987, The Kearsarge-Central Maine Synclinorium in southeastern New Hampshire and southeastern Maine. American Journal of Science, v. 287, pp. 242-264.
Boucot and Thompson, 1963, Metamorphosed Silurian brachiopods from New Hampshire. GSA Bull. vol 74, pp. 1313-1334.
Boucot and Rumble, 1980, Regionally metamorphosed (high sillimanite zone, granulite facies) Early Devonian fossils from the Littleton Formation of New Hampshire. Journal of Paleontology, vol 54, pp. 188-195.
Harris, Hatch, and Dutro, 1983, Late Silurian conodonts update the metamorphosed Fitch Formation, Littleton area, New Hampshire. American Journal of Science, v. 283, pp. 722-738.
DNAG volume: 197-211, Acadian Structural Features, New England
Robinson, P. and L. M. Hall (1979). Tectonic Synthesis of Southern New England. The Caledonides in the USA - Geological Excursions in the Northeast Appalachians. Weston, Massachusetts, Weston Observatory. 73-82. (REPRINT)
Thompson, J. B., P. Robinson, T. Clifford and N. Trask (1968). Nappes and Gneiss Domes in West-Central New England. Studies of Appalachian Geology: Northern and Maritime. New York, John Wiley and Sons. 203-218. (REPRINT)
Robinson, Thompson & Elbert, 1991, The nappe theory in the connecticut valley region: Thirty five years since Jim Thompson's first proposal. American Mineralogist, 76, 689-712. (LIBRARY)
Chamberlain, C. P., Thompson, J. B. & Allen, T., 1988. Stratigraphic and structural relationships of the Fall Mountain Nappe. In: Bothner, W. A. (ed.) Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont and North-Central Massachusetts. New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th Annual Meeting, 32-39. (GUIDEBOOK)
Eusden, J. D., Jr., 1988. Stratigraphy, Structure and Metamorphism of the "Dorsal Zone", Central New Hampshire. In: Bothner, W. A. (ed.) Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont and North-Central Massachusetts. New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th Annual Meeting, 40-59. (GUIDEBOOK)
Eusden, J. D., W. A. Bothner and A. M. Hussey (1987). "The Kearsarge-Central Maine Synclinorium of southeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine: Stratigraphic and structural relations of an inverted section." American Journal of Science 287: 242-264. (LIBRARY)
Eusden, Garesche, Johnson, Maconochie, Peters, Rosbrook, and Widmann, 1994, Bedrock Geology, Stratigraphy, and Ductile Structure of the Alpine Zone in the Presidential Range, New Hampshire: Tectonic Implications for the Acadian Orogeny, Geological Society of America Bulletin, submitted manuscript. (REPRINT)
Allen, 1992, Geology and Structure of a "Hot Spot" Migmatite Zone, New Hampshire; Chapter 2 of: Allen, T. (1992). Migmatite Systematics and Geology, Carter Dome - Wild River Region, White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College. (REPRINT)
Thompson, J. B. and S. A. Norton, Paleozoic regional metamorphism in New England and adjacent areas:, in Studies of Appalachian Geology - Northern and Maritime, edited by Zen, White, Hadley and Thompson, pp 319-327, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1968. [REPRINT]
Chamberlain, C. P. and J. B. Lyons, Pressure, temperature and metamorphic zonation studies of pelitic schists in the Merrimack Synclinorium, south central New Hampshire, American Mineralogist, 68, 530-540, 1983. [LIBRARY]
Guidotti, C. V. and J. T. Cheney (1989) "Metamorphism in Western Maine: An Overview" in Chamberlain and Robinson (editors), Styles of Metamorphism with Depth in the Central Acadian High, New England, p. 17-37 [GUIDEBOOK]
Spear, F. S., (1992) "Inverted Metamorphism, P-T Paths and Cooling History of West Central New Hampshire: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Central New England" in Robinson and Brady (editors), NEIGC Guidebook for Fieldtrips in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts and Adjacent States, p. 446-466. [GUIDEBOOK]
Tracy, R. J. and P. Robinson, Evolution of Metamorphic Belts: Information from Detailed Petrologic Studies, in The Caledonides in the USA - Geological Excursions in the Northeast Appalachians, edited by J. W. Skehan and P. H. Osberg, pp 189-193, Weston Observatory, Weston, Massachusetts, 1979. [REPRINT]
Chamberlain, C. P. (1986). "Evidence for the repeated folding of isotherms during regional metamorphism." Journal of Petrology 27: 63-89. [REPRINT]
Chamberlain, C. P. and D. Rumble (1988). "Thermal anomalies in a regional metamorphic terrane: an isotopic study of the role of fluids." Journal of Petrology 29(6): 1215-1232. [REPRINT]
Chamberlain, C. P. and L. J. Sonder, Heat producing elements and the thermal and baric patterns of metamorphic belts, Science, 250, 763-769, 1990. [LIBRARY]
Lux, D. R., J. J. DeYoreo, C. V. Guidotti and E. R. Decker, The role of plutonism in low-pressure metamorphic belt formation, Nature, 323, 794-797, 1986. [LIBRARY]
Guidotti, C. V. (1974). "Transition from staurolite to sillimanite zone, Rangeley Quadrangle, Maine." Geological Society of America Bulletin 85: 475-490.
Robinson, P., R. J. Tracy, K. Hollocher, H. N. Berry and J. A. Thomson (1989) "Basement and cover in the Acadian metamorphic high of central Massachusetts" in Chamberlain and Robinson (editors), Styles of Metamorphism with Depth in the Central Acadian High, New England, p.
D. Rumble, J. M. Ferry, F. S. Spear, C. P. Chamberalian (1993) Petrologic and Isotopic Studies in Metamorphic Rocks of Eastern Vermont and Western New Hampshire, Chapter E in Cheney and Hepburn (editors) Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States, GSA.
C. V. Guidotti and M. J. Holdaway (1993) Petrology and Field Relations of Successive Metamorphic Events in Pelites of West-Central Maine, Chapter L in Cheney and Hepburn (editors) Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States, GSA.
pages 53-65, 125-129, 146-147 in Billings, 1956, The Geology of New Hampshire (make reference to the Bedrock Geological Map of NH that hangs in room 203) [BOOK]
Nielson, D. L., R. G. Clark, et al. (1976). Gravity models and mode of emplacement of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series. Geological Society of America Memoir 146: 301-318. [BOOK]
Lyons, J. B. and D. E. Livingston (1977). "Rb-Sr age of New Hampshire Plutonic Series." Geological Society of America Bulletin 88: 1808-1812. [LIBRARY]
Clark, R. G. and J. B. Lyons (1986). "Petrogenesis of the Kinsman intrusive suite peraluminous granitoids of western New Hampshire." Journal of Petrology 27(6): 1365-1393. [LIBRARY]
Harrison, T. M., J. N. Aleinikoff, et al. (1987). "Observations and controls on the occurrence of inherited zircon in Concord-type granitoids, New Hampshire." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 51: 2549-2558. [REPRINT]
Aleinifkoff, J. N., et al. (1985) Carboniferous U-Pb age of the Sebago batholith, southwestern Maine: Metamorphic and tectonic implications. GSA Bulletin, v. 96, pp. 990-996. [LIBRARY]
Chamberlain, C. P. and P. C. England (1985). "The Acadian Thermal History of the Merrimack Synclinorium in New Hampshire." Journal of Geology 93: 593-602. [LIBRARY]
Lyons, J. B. (1988). Geology of the Penacook and Mount Kearsarge Quadrangles, New Hampshire. Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont and North-Central Massachusetts. W. A. Bothner, NEIGC. 80: 60-69. (Particularly stops 5, 7 & 10) [GUIDEBOOK]
Rankin, D. W. (1994). Early Devionian Explosive Silicic Volcanism and associated Earlly and Middle Devonian Clastic Sedimentation that brackets the Acadian Orogeny, Traveler Mountain. NEIGC 1994 Guidebook, pp. 135-146. [GUIDEBOOK]
Gabais, C., R. Hon, L. S. Hanson. (1994) A Geochemical investigation of Early Devonian Intrusions inthe Monson-Greenville Area. NEIGC 1994 Guidebook, pp. 239-257. [GUIDEBOOK]
pages 187-190 (skim) in the Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen DNAG volume.
pages 233-237 in DNAG volume (an introduction to the Alleghanian in general)
pages 288-294 & 298-318 (but especially 298-301) in DNAG volume (Alleghanian in Northern Appalachians)
pages 417-430 in DNAG voluem (Late Paleozoic Thermal evolution)
Wintsch et al, 1993, Alleghanian Assembly of Proterozoic and Paleozoic Lithotectonic Terranes in South Central New England: New Constraints from Geochronology and Petrology, chapter H, Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States, 1993 Boston GSA, Volume 1.
Mosher et al, 1993, Alleghanian and Avalonian Tectonism in Southeastern New England, chapter BB, Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States, 1993 Boston GSA, Volume 2.
Harrison, Spear, and Heizler, 1989, Geochronologic studies in central New England: Post-Acadian hinged and differential uplift. Geology. v. 17, p. 185-189. [REPRINT]
Lux and West, 1993, New 40Ar/39Ar mica ages from eastern New Hampshire and southern Maine: Implications for the exhumation history of the region. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, n. 2, p. 35. (abstract). [REPRINT]
Eusden and Lux, 1994, Slow Late Paleozoic exhumation in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire as determined by the 40Ar/39Ar relief method. Geology. v. 22, p. 909-912. [REPRINT]
see also: bottom of page 14 to top of page 15, and bottom of page 18 to bottom of page 19 in JBT's Guide to Continent-Ocean Transect E-1.
Doherty and Lyons, 1980, Mesozoic erosion rates in northern New England. GSA Bull. v. 91, p. 16-20. [LIBRARY]
Zartman, et al. 1970, A Permian disturbance of K-Ar ages in New England--its occurrence and cause. GSA Bull. v. 81, p 3359-3373. [LIBRARY]
West, Lux, and Hussey, 1993, Contrasting thermal histories across Flying Point fault, southwestern Maine: Evidence for Mesozoic displacement. GSA Bull. v. 105, p. 1478-1490. [LIBRARY]
Chamberlain, C. P. and P. C. England (1985). "The Acadian Thermal History of the Merrimack Synclinorium in New Hampshire." Journal of Geology 93: 593-602. [LIBRARY]
pages 69-89 and 129-135 in Billings, 1956, The Geology of New Hampshire (make reference to the Bedrock Geological Map of NH that hangs in room 203. Also, note that this was written prior to almost all radiometric dating). [BOOK]
Eby, Kruger, and Creasy, 1992, Geology, geochronolgy, and geochemistry of the White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire. GSA Special Paper 268. [REPRINT]
Foland, K. A. and J. C. Allen (1991). "Magma sources for Mesozoic anorogenic granites of the White Mountain series, New England, USA." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 109: 195-211. [REPRINT]
McHone and Butler, 1984, Mesozoic igneous provinces of New England and the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. GSA Bull. 95: 757-765. [LIBRARY]
Foland, K. A. and H. Faul (1977). "Ages of the White Mountain intrusives, New Hamphsire, Vermont and Maine, USA." American Journal of Science 277: 888-904. [LIBRARY]
Chapman, C. A. (1976). "Structural evolution of the White Mountain Magma Series." Geological Society of America Memoir 146: 281-300. [BOOK]
Foland, K. A., A. W. Quinn, et al. (1971). "K-Ar and Rb-Sr Jurassic and Cretaceous ages for intrusives of the White Mountain Magma Series, northern New Hampshire." American Journal of Science 270: 321-330. [LIBRARY]
Armstrong, R. L. and E. Stump (1971). "Additional K-Ar dates, White Mountain Magma Series, New England." American Journal of Science 270: 331-333. [LIBRARY]
Bedard et al, 1987, The Megantic intrusive compex, Quebec: a study of the derivation of silica-oversaturated anorogenic magmas of alkaline affinity. Journal of Petrology 28:355-388.
Foland and Loiselle, 1981, Oliverian syenites of the Pliny Range, northern New Hampshire. GSA Bull. 92:179-188.
Foland et al., 1986, 40Ar/39Ar ages for plutons of the Monteregian Hills, Quebec: evidence for a single episode of Cretaceous magmatism. GSA Bull. 97:966-974
Foland et al., 1988, Nd and Sr isotopic signatures of Mesozoic plutons in northeastern North America. Geology 16:684-687
Henderson, Pendelbury, and Foland, 1989, Mineralogy and petrology of the Red Hill igneous complex, New Hampshire, USA. Journal of Petrology 30: 627-666.
Eby, 1985, Age relations, chemistry and petrogenesis of mafic alkaline dikes from the Monteregian Hills and younger White Mountain igneous provinces, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22:1103-1111
Randall and Foland, 1986, Age and time span of emplacement of the Pliny Range complex, northern New Hampshire. GSA Bull. 97:595-602.
Brooks, John, 1989, the Geology and geochemistry of the Agamenticus complex, York, Maine. NEIGC Guidebook to Field Trips (1989)
Crough, 1981, Mesozoic hotspot epeirogeny in eastern North America. Geology 9:2-6.
Creasy, J. W. (1986). Geology of the Eastern Portion of the White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire. Guidebook for Field Trips in Southwestern Maine. D. W. Newberg, NEIGC. 78: 124-137.
Creasy, J. W. (1974). Mineralogy and petrology of the White Mountain Batholith, Franconia and Crawford Notch Quadrangles, New Hampshire, Harvard University.
Creasy, J. W. and G. N. Eby (1983). "The White Mountain Batholith as a model of Mesozoic felsic magmatism in New England." Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 15: 549.
Davie, E. I. (1975). Petrology of a composite ring dike, White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire, Middlebury College.
Eby, G. N. and J. W. Creasy (1983). "Strontium and lead isotope geology of the Jurassic White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire." Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 15: 188.
Loiselle, M. (1978). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Belknap Mountains Complex and Pliny Range, White Mountain Series, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
pages 11-18 in JBT's Guide to Continent-Ocean Transect E-1 [REPRINT]
1988 DNAG Volume on the Atlantic Continental Margin
Poag, 1982, Stratigraphic reference section for Georges Bank Basin; Depositional model for New England passive margin. AAPG Bull. 66: 1021-1041 [LIBRARY]
Kaye, 1983, Discovery of a late Triassic basin north of Boston and some implications as to post-Paleozoic tectonics in northeastern Massachusetts. American Journal of Science, 283: 1060-1079. [LIBRARY]
McHone and Butler, 1984, Mesozoic igneous provinces of New England and the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. GSA Bull. 95: 757-765. [LIBRARY]
Hutchinson and others, 1986, Rift basins of the Long Island Platform, GSA Bull, 97: 688-702 [LIBRARY]
Hutchinson and others, 1988, USGS deep seismic survey reflection profile across the Gulf of Maine. GSA Bull. 100: 172-184 [LIBRARY]
Bloom, 1963, Late-Pliestocene changes in sea level and postglacial & crustal rebound in coastal Maine. American Journal of Science, 261: 862-879. {SORRY, NOT AVAILABLE}
Koteff and Pessl, 1981, Systematic Ice Retreat in New England, USGS Professional Paper 1179. [REPRINT]
Larsen and Koteff, 1988, Deglaciation of the Connecticut Valley: Vernon, VT to Westmoreland, NH. NEIGC Guidebook to Field Trips, pp. 103-125. [GUIDEBOOK]
(see also: Ridge, 1988, The Quaternary geology of the upper Ashuelot, lower Cold River, and Warren Brook valleys of southwestern New Hampshire. NEIGC Guidebook to Field Trips, pp. 176-208.) [GUIDEBOOK]
Kelley, Belknap, and FitzGerald, 1993, Sea Level change, coastal processes, and shoreline development in northern New England. Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States (GSA). [GUIDEBOOK]
Weddle, Koteff, Thompson, Retelle, and Marvinney, 1993, The late glacial marine invasion of coastal central New England (Northeastern Massachusetts-Southwestern Maine). Field Trip Guidebook for the Northeastern United States (GSA). [GUIDEBOOK]
Koteff, 1994, The Late Glacial Marine Invasion of Coastal Central New England (Southeastern New Hampshire-Southwestern Maine). NHGS Field Trip Guidebook. [REPRINT]