Recent Abstracts

Thompson, M.D., 2018, Stratigraphy and structure of the Cambridge Formation, Boston Basin, Massachusetts:  News from Underground:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 2, ISSN 0016-759 . doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NE-309735

Thompson, M.D., 2017, Bedrock Geology of the Boston South 7.5' quadrangle, Middlesex, Nordolk and and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6, ISSN 0016-7592 . doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-296471

Kuiper, Y.D., Thompson , M.D., Barr, S.M., White, C.W., Hepburn, J.C., and Crowley, J.L., 2017, Detrital zircon analysis of basement in the COST No. G-1 well, Georges Bank, offshore Massachusetts:  Fragments of West African crust?:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, No. 2. doi: 10.1130/abs/2017NE-289931

Thompson, M.D., Ramezani, J., and Grunow, A.M., 2016, Within-plate tectonic setting of Paleozoic alkalic suites in SE New England, USA:  Constraints from CA-TIMS U-Pb geochronology and paleomagnetism: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, No. 7. doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-282310

Beltzer, A., Southard, P., Seaman, S., Wise, D., and Thompson, M., 2016, Implications of compositional and textural variety in the Cape Ann Pluton:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, No. 2.doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272754

Thompson, M.D., and Ramezani, R., 2016, Mid-Silurian Cape Ann Pluton, NE Massachusetts:  U-Pb CA-TIMS geochronology and lingering lithotectonic questions:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, No. 2.doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-271834

Thompson, M.D., 2015, Structural geology of the Newton 7.5-minute quadrangle, Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 7, p. 146. 

Thompson, M.D., and Barr, S.M., 2015, Paleomagnetic possibilities (and perils) in reconstructing Late Neoproterozoic Avalonian paleogeography: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 3, p 64. 

Thompson, Margaret D., 2013, GSA and Massachusetts state geologic maps:  a lasting tradition:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, p. 214.

Brown, Laurie, Thompson, Margaret D., Grunow, Anne, Barr, Sandra M., and White, Chris E., 2013, Tracking Avalonia:  Preliminary paleomagnetic data from the Mira terrane, southeastern Cape Breton Island, Canada:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, p. 810.

Thompson, M.D., Ramezani, J., and Crowley, J., 2013, U-Pb geochronology of the Roxbury Conglomerate, greater Boston, MA:  Implications for Avalonian tectonics in SE New England: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 1, p. 63.  

Thompson, M.D., Barr, S.M., and Grunow, A.M., 2012, Avalonian perspectives on Neoproterozoic paleogeography:  Evidence from Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry and detrital zircon geochronology in SE New England USA:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, no. 1., in press. 

Thompson, M.D., Barr, S.M., Mortensen, J.K., White, C.E., and Hermes, O.D., 2011, Tectonic setting(s) of Devonian magmatic rocks in SE New England and the Gulf of Maine: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 1, p. 159. 

Thompson, M.D., Grunow, A.M., Barr, S.M., and White, C.E., 2010, Accretionary implications of paleomagnetic overprints in peri-Gondwanan terranes of southeastern New England and Cape Breton Island:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 1, p. 173. 

Grunow, A.G., Thompson, M.D., Barr, S.M., and White, C.E., 2009, Paleomagnetic Progress in peri-Gondwanan terranes of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: Eos,Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 90, no. 22, Joint Assembly Supplement, Abstract U21A-02.

Barr, Sandra M., Mortensen, James, K., Hermes, O. Don, Thompson, Margaret D., and White, Chris, 2009, Middle Devonian volcanic and granitic rocks from the Gulf of Maine: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, no. 3, p. 19. 

Hawkins, D.P., Thompson, M.D., and Wiebe, R.A., 2009, A strategy for paleomagnetic investigation of intrusive complexes in the northern Appalachians: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, no. 3, p. 19.

Thompson, M.D., and Ramezani, J., 2008, Refined ages of Paleozoic plutons as constraints on Avalonian accretion in southeastern New England:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.  40, no. 2, p. 14.