| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1132 | 1985 | Paul Karabinos | Williams College | Thrust Fault Geometry in the Taconic Allochthon and Grenville Massif in Western New England |
| 2 | 1132 | 1985 | Paul P. Hearn | USGS | Evidence of Alleghenian brine migration in the central Appalachian Basin: Implications for lead-zinc mineralization |
| 3 | 1132 | 1985 | Pamela Heald | USGS | Mineralogical variations in the Creede district, Colorado: Implications for the district-wide hydrology |
| 4 | 1133 | 1985 | Bonnie A. McGregor | USGS | Similarities between submarine canyon processes and those of a fluvial system |
| 5 | 1133 | 1985 | Frank Edward Senftle | USGS | The magnetic susceptibility of coal and coal constituents |
| 6 | 1133 | 1985 | Joan Fitzpatrick | USGS | Recent advances in X-ray diffractometry |
| 7 | 1134 | 1985 | Eileen McLellan | University of Maryland | Mineral assemblages as evidence of fluid availability during retrograde metamorphism |
| 8 | 1134 | 1985 | Michael J. Kunk | USGS | 40Ar - 39Ar age spectrum dating of biotite and sanidine from Middle Ordovician bentonites of Sweden: A comparison with results from Eastern North America |
| 9 | 1134 | 1985 | Roger Nielsen | University of Maryland | The petrogenesis of the intermediate lavas of the Ocate Volcanic field, Northern New Mexico |
| 10 | 1135 | 1985 | John S. Schlee | USGS | The impact of multichannel seismic-reflection data on understanding of continental margin structure and stratigraphy |
| 11 | 1135 | 1985 | J. Nathalie Valette-Silver | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Study of erosion history using 10Be profiles. Impact of agriculture on erosion in the Chesapeake Bay area |
| 12 | 1135 | 1985 | Paul G. Silver | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Detection of an on-land spreading event at Cerro Prieto |
| 13 | 1136 | 1985 | Douglas A. Bassett | National Museum of Wales | In celebration of the geologic map (2nd Best Paper 1985) |
| 14 | 1136 | 1985 | Phillip A. Candela | University of Maryland | Some petrological effects of magmatic vapor evolution: Bowen's Demon is alive and well! |
| 15 | 1136 | 1985 | Juergen Reinhardt | USGS | Cretaceous-Paleozoic relations in the northern Mississippi Embayment |
| 16 | 1137 | 1985 | John Suppe | Princeton University | Present-day arc-continent collision in Taiwan |
| 17 | 1137 | 1985 | E-an Zen | USGS | Thoughts terranical, thoughts uplifting: some crustal inferences from high-pressure plutons of the Western Cordillera |
| 18 | 1137 | 1985 | Carl Koteff | USGS | Postglacial uplift: evidence for delayed isostatic response |
| 19 | 1138 | 1985 | Robert D. Hatcher | University of South Carolina | Scientific justification for the Southern Appalachian deep drill hole |
| 20 | 1138 | 1985 | Sorena S. Sorensen | National Museum of Natural History | Metamorphic geology of the Catalina Schist Terrane: A Mesozoic subduction complex of Southern California |
| 21 | 1138 | 1985 | Charles R. Bacon | USGS, Menlo Park | The precursory and climactic eruptions of Mount Mazama and collapse of Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon |
| 22 | 1139 | 1985 | Lincoln S. Hollister | Princeton University | Crustal deformation and regional metamorphism across a terrane boundary, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia |
| 23 | 1139 | 1985 | Preston Ercelle Cloud Jr. | University of California, Santa Barbara | Precambrian is an anachronism! |
| 24 | 1139 | 1985 | Harold Masursky | USGS, Flagstaff | Recent advances in the exploration of Mars and Venus |
| 25 | 1140 | 1985 | Robert B. Jacobson | Johns Hopkins University/USGS | Landslide magnitude and frequency, Buffalo Creek, Marion County, West Virginia |
| 26 | 1140 | 1985 | James E. Fassett | USGS | The Tertiary(?) dinosaurs of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico |
| 27 | 1140 | 1985 | James F. Allan | National Museum of Natural History | The Colima graben, a Pliocene to recent rift of the Mexican volcanic belt, southwestern Mexico |
| 28 | 1141 | 1985 | Michael P. Ryan | USGS | The mechanics and three-dimensional internal structure of Kilauea Volcano |
| 29 | 1141 | 1985 | Stephen F. Obermeier | USGS | Holocene earthquakes in the Charleston area, South Carolina |
| 30 | 1141 | 1985 | Harry Y. McSween Jr. | University of Tennessee | Basaltic meteorites and their parent planets (Best Paper 1985) |
| 31 | 1142 | 1985 | Allan J. R. White | La Trobe University | Two-mica granites of southwestern North America are not S-types |
| 32 | 1142 | 1985 | J. William Schopf | University of California, Los Angeles | Recent studies in Proterozoic and Archeozoic paleobiology |
| 33 | 1142 | 1985 | Tom Simkin | National Museum of Natural History | Morphogenetic comparison of Galapagos volcanoes with young EPR seamounts |
| 34 | 1143 | 1985 | Joseph P. Smoot | USGS | Fluvial styles in the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup and their paleoclimatic implications |
| 35 | 1143 | 1985 | A. K. Sinha | Virginia Polytechnic Institute/Stanford University | Thermal and tectonic evolution of the Central and Southern Appalachians: Evidence from age, origin and distribution of igneous rocks |
| 36 | 1143 | 1985 | Grant Garven | Johns Hopkins University | The hydrogeology of stratabound ore genesis in sedimentary basins |
| 37 | 1144 | 1985 | Charles Officer | Dartmouth College | Volcanism and Cretaceous/Tertiary Extinction |
| 38 | 1144 | 1985 | Lucy A. McFadden | University of Maryland | Mineralogy and Petrology of Near-Earth Asteroids |
| 39 | 1144 | 1985 | Allan B. Tanner; Joseph S. Duval |
USGS | Hope for estimation of indoor radon hazard potential from aeroradiometric and geologic data |
| 40 | 1145 | 1985 | Norman L. Hatch | USGS | Some speculations about a deformed Lower Devonian(?) sedimentary trough in western New England. (Presidential Address) |