T13A:
How Earth Works 100 Years after Wegener's Continental Drift Theory: Supercontinent Cycles, Plate Tectonics, and Global Geodynamics I Posters


Session ID#: 8091

Session Description:
It is becoming increasingly accepted that Earth's history has been dominated by cycles of supercontinent assembly and breakup. However, the precise configuration and evolution history of even the youngest and best known supercontinent, Pangea, are still lacking, and the picture becomes much less clear for the Precambrian time. Even less known is the physical process that is responsible for such cyclic supercontinent events. An UNESCO-IUGS IGCP project (No. 648) was recently established to investigate both the supercontinent cycles and the geodynamic process behind it. In this session we invite researchers from the geological, paleomagnetic and geodynamic communities to present their latest research on any aspect of supercontinent evolution, plate tectonics, geodynamics, or new tools for such research, with the ultimate aim of understanding how Earth works.
Primary Convener:  Zheng-xiang Li, Curtin University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Chairs:  Zheng-xiang Li, Curtin University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia and Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands

Cross-Listed:
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • GP - Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
Index Terms:

1525 Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics: regional, global [GEOMAGNETISM AND PALEOMAGNETISM]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8158 Plate motions: present and recent [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology of Khibina Massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia): Implications for post-Devonian Tectonics of the NE Fennoscandia (59119)
Roman V Veselovskiy, Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia, Stuart N Thomson, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Andrey Arzamastsev, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Moscow, Russia
NEW PALEOMAGNETIC JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PLATE TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCTIC (62476)
Dmitry V. Metelkin1,2, Valery Vernikovsky1,2, Nikolay Yu Matushkin1,2, Anna Zhdanova1,2, Nikolay E Mikhaltsov1,2, Viktor V Abashev1,2 and Evgeniy Kulakov1,2, (1)Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, (2)Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
On the importance of continental lithospheric roots in plume-continent interaction: implication for India motions over the last 130 Ma (63187)
Aurore Sibrant, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Anne Davaille, CNRS / University Paris-Sud, Laboratoire FAST, Orsay, France
Iron-rich condition maintained throughout the mid-Proterozoic ocean: new evidence from the North China Craton (64361)
Hanqing Zhao1, Shihong Zhang1, Xiaoying Shi2, Chuanheng Zhang2, Yongjian Huang3 and Haiyan Li1, (1)China University of Geosciences (Beijing), State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (3)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
Measuring Similarity between Calculated Paleomagnetic APWPs and the Fixed Hotspot Model Predicted APWP (65770)
Chenjian Fu, Christopher J. Rowan and Xinyue Ye, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States
Constraining Rates of Neoarchean Plate Motion through Magnetostratigraphy and Integrated High-Precision Geochronology of the Fortescue Group, Pilbara, Western Australia (67299)
Jennifer Kasbohm1, Adam C Maloof1, Blair Schoene1 and Benjamin P Weiss2, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Visualizing the sedimentary response through the orogenic cycle using multi-dimensional scaling (67874)
Christopher J Spencer and Christopher Kirkland, Curtin University, Dept of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia
Plate Tectonics 2.0: Using GPS to Refine Global Crustal Kinematics and Rewrite Textbooks (68324)
Corne Kreemer, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, Geoffrey Blewitt, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States, Dr. D. Sarah Stamps, PhD and Elifuraha Saria, Ardhi University, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
New Siberian Paleomagnetic Poles for 1050-1100 Ma: Further Testing of the Siberia-Laurentia Mesoproterozoic Connection. (68488)
Vladimir Pavlov, Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia
South China connected to north India in Gondwana: sedimentary basin and detrital provenance analyses (68801)
Weihua Yao1, Zheng-xiang Li2, Wu-Xian Li3, Xian-hua Li4 and Jin-Hui Yang4, (1)Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia, (2)Curtin University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia, (3)Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
The Application of Optimisation Methods to Constrain Absolute Plate Motions (71538)
Michael G Tetley1, Simon Williams2, Stephen Hardy3 and Dietmar Müller1, (1)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia, (3)NICTA, Machine Learning Research Group, Sydney, Australia
Were Amazonia and Baltica Connected in Nuna and Rodinia? (72374)
Svetlana V. Bogdanova, Department of Geology, Lund University, Sweden, Lund, Sweden; Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia and Sergei A Pisarevsky, School of Earth and Environment, UWA, Crawley, WA, Australia; Earth Dynamics Research Group, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Re-using terrane boundaries in supercontinent cycles –evaluating an Indo-Antarctica contact in Rodinia and Gondwanaland (74518)
Amol Dayanand Sawant1, Saibal Gupta2 and William Kumar Mohanty2, (1)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
Origin of oroclines in Paleozoic Australia: the role of inherited plate boundary irregularities and trench retreat (75931)
Gideon Rosenbaum1, Uri Shaanan1, Derek Hoy2 and Rashed Abdullah2, (1)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Tasmania in Nuna: Witness to a ~1.4 Ga East Antarctica–Laurentia Connection (76012)
Jacqueline Ann Halpin, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Jacob A Mulder, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and Nathan R Daczko, Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
MESOPROTEROZOIC – TONIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY: NEW INSIGHTS (76491)
Sergei A Pisarevsky, Earth Dynamics Research Group, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia; School of Earth and Environment, UWA, Crawley, WA, Australia
886-857 Ma granites from Yenisey Ridge formed long before their collision with the western margin of the Siberian Craton  (76496)
Valery Vernikovsky1, Antonina E. Vernikovskaya1,2, Dmitry V. Metelkin1,3, Aleksey Y. Kazansky4, Nikolay Yu Matushkin3, Pavel I. Kadilnikov1,3, Irina Romanova3, Alexandr N. Larionov5 and Michael T D Wingate6, (1)Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, (2)Novosibirsk State University, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia, (3)Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, (4)Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (5)A.P.Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute, S.Petersburg, Russia, (6)Geological Servey of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Interpretation of subduction initiation in terms of Rayleigh-Taylor instability: implications for the timing of onset of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets (77288)
Teresa Wong, University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany and Viatcheslav S Solomatov, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, United States
Revised Macquarie-Antarctic plate motion during the last 6 Ma using magnetic anomalies of Australian-Antarctic Ridge near 156°-161°E (77399)
Hakkyum Choi1, Seung-Sep Kim2 and Sung-Hyun Park1, (1)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
A Pangea's simple twist of fate (77544)
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rift strength controls rapid plate accelerations: A global analysis of Pangea fragmentation (78253)
Dr. Sascha Brune, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia, Simon Williams, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Nathaniel P Butterworth, EarthByte, Sydney, Australia and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The New Data on Dynamics of Permian - Triassic Magmatic Activity on Siberian Platform: Paleomagnetic Results from Tunguska Syncline and Angara – Taseeva Depression (78342)
Anton Latyshev, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia and Roman V Veselovskiy, Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia
Origin of Small Tectonic Plates (78412)
Claire Mallard1,2, Nicolas Coltice2, Maria Seton3, Dietmar Müller4 and Paul Tackley5, (1)University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (2)LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (3)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Rifting, drifting, convergence and orogenesis: The sedimentary record of the Wernecke Supergroup on the Paleoproterozoic margin of northwestern Columbia (81925)
Francesca Furlanetto1, Derek J Thorkelson1, Robert Rainbird2, Bill Davis2, Dan Gibson3 and Daniel D Marshall1, (1)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Simon Fraser University, Earth Sciences, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Geological Evidence That Resolves the Baja-BC Controversy: Detrital Zircons Indicate That Vancouver Island Was Adjacent to Southern California in the Late Cretaceous (82641)
Bernard Guest1, William Matthews2, Daniel Stephen Coutts1, Heather Bain1 and Stephen Michial Hubbard1, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada
The Lithospheric Geoid as a Constraint on Plate Dynamics (84389)
Randall M Richardson, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and David D Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Nuclear Planetology: Constraining the Driving Force in Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory (48113)
Goetz Roller, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States

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