| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1074 | 1981 | Gerhard William Leo | USGS | Trondhjemites associated with Oliverian domes, western New Hampshire and central Massachusetts |
| 2 | 1074 | 1981 | Nicholas Ratcliffe | USGS | Some thoughts on problems in dating the Taconic orogeny in western New England |
| 3 | 1074 | 1981 | Peter Robinson | University of Massachusetts | Plate tectonics and the Acadian orogeny of southern New England |
| 4 | 1075 | 1981 | Erich Dimroth | University of Québec | Diagenetic redox reactions, seafloor metamorphism, and the Precambrian atmosphere |
| 5 | 1075 | 1981 | Helaine W. Markewich; Milan Pavich |
USGS | Can soil and weathering profiles really be used to date surfaces -- and what would mean if they could? |
| 6 | 1076 | 1981 | H. William Menard | USGS | Epeirogenyof islands |
| 7 | 1076 | 1981 | Phillip E. Brown | USGS | Tungsten skarn formation at Pine Creek, California |
| 8 | 1076 | 1981 | George R. Rossman | California Institute of Technology | Gems and technology |
| 9 | 1077 | 1981 | Charles R. Warren | USGS | Defrosting of the Berkshires |
| 10 | 1077 | 1981 | Thomas G. Gibson | USGS/US National Museum | Facies and sea level changes in Paleocene strata, eastern Gulf Coast |
| 11 | 1077 | 1981 | Antonio V. Segovia | University of Maryland | Morphotectonics; regmites; regmatic zones; and crustal blocks |
| 12 | 1078 | 1981 | David R. Wones | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Contributions of geochemistry and petrology to the tectonics of the eastern Maine |
| 13 | 1078 | 1981 | W. R. Van Schmus | University of Kansas | Proterozoic development of the midcontinent region |
| 14 | 1078 | 1981 | B. Clark Burchfiel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Andean-type margin of Mesozoic California |
| 15 | 1079 | 1981 | Norman L. Hatch | USGS | Structural history of some domes and isoclines |
| 16 | 1079 | 1981 | Robert J. Tracy | Yale University | Xenoliths and basinites: a petrologic model for Tahitian volcanism (what Lacroix and Daly didn't know) |
| 17 | 1079 | 1981 | Nicholas Hotton III | National Museum of Natural History | Hot-blooded dinosaurs -- why bother? |
| 18 | SP34 | 1981 | Amos Salvador | University of Texas, Austin | Late Triassic-Jurassic paleogeography and origin of Gulf of Mexico |
| 19 | 1080 | 1981 | Roy A. Bailey | USGS | Mount St. Helens and the USGS volcanic hazards program |
| 20 | 1080 | 1981 | Leo J. Hickey | National Museum of Natural History | Plant evidence on dinosaur extinction -- out with a bang or a whimper? (Best Paper 1981) |
| 21 | 1080 | 1981 | John F. Sutter | USGS | Late Cretaceous collisional tectonics along the Montagua fault zone, Guatemala |
| 22 | 1081 | 1981 | Emi Ito | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Hydrothermal alteration of oceanic gabbros |
| 23 | 1081 | 1981 | Michael Engel | Geophysical Laboratory | Detection of amino acids and hydrocarbons in the 3.8 billion-year-old Isua rock, southwest Greenland (2nd Best Paper 1981) |
| 24 | 1081 | 1981 | Edward A. Flinn | NASA | Applications of space technology to geodynamics |
| 25 | 1082 | 1981 | Richard P. Sheldon | USGS | The ice-ring origin of the Earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere, and the Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic eons |
| 26 | 1082 | 1981 | George R. Helz; George A. Setlock; Scott A. Sinex |
University of Maryland | 210-lead sedimentation chronology: the representative sampling problem |
| 27 | 1082 | 1981 | Richard S. Fiske | National Museum of Natural History | Explosive activity among scientists, civil authorities, volcanoes, and the news media -- two recent examples from the eastern Caribbean |
| 28 | 1083 | 1981 | Robert M. Hazen; Lawrence W. Finger |
Geophysical Laboratory | The density paradox and other puzzles: insights from P-T crystallography on crust-mantle phase equilibria |
| 29 | 1083 | 1981 | Maria Luisa B. Crawford | Bryn Mawr College | Metamorphic and structural history across the Work Channel Lineament, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia |
| 30 | 1083 | 1981 | Wayne R. Sigleo | USGS | Impact of climatic change and early man on late Quaternary landscape evolution in Tasmania, Australia |
| 31 | 1084 | 1981 | Marc Einaudi | Stanford University/Geophysical Laboratory | Geological and mineralogical contrasts between tungsten, copper, and zinc skarns: implications for environments of ore deposition |
| 32 | 1084 | 1981 | David R. Veblen | Johns Hopkins University | High resolution microscopy of mineral structures and defects |
| 33 | 1084 | 1981 | Richard W. Carlson | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Contrasting chronology of crust -- mantle differentiation on the Earth and moon |
| 34 | 1085 | 1981 | Judith Ehlen | US Army Topographic Laboratory | Identifying igneous rocks on air photos by interpreting photo tone and photo texture |
| 35 | 1085 | 1981 | Mark Settle | NASA | Preliminary results of the MAGSAT Mission |
| 36 | 1085 | 1981 | Leonard F. Konikow | USGS | Aquifer contamination and reclamation at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado |
| 37 | 1086 | 1981 | Anthony J. Naldrett | University of Toronto | Tectonics, magmatism, and magmatic ores |
| 38 | 1086 | 1981 | Dan Miller | US Department of Interior | Update on oil and gas activities in the western overthrust belt |
| 39 | 1087 | 1981 | Douglas W. Rankin | USGS | Two ash-flow tuffs of the Appalachian orogen --- contrasts of magmatism and tectonic settings. (Presidential Address) |