T41F
Rifts and Passive Margins: Tectonics, Dynamics, Processes I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
304 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Sascha Brune, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia
Conveners:  Peter Dominic Clift, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway and Giacomo Corti, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy
Chairs:  Sascha Brune, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia and Ian D Bastow, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Peter Dominic Clift, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
08:00
T41F-01
Along-rift Variations in Deformation and Magmatism in the Ethiopian and Afar Rift Systems (Invited) (58790)
Derek Keir, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Ian D Bastow, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Giacomo Corti, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy, Francesco Mazzarini, INGV, Pisa Pi, Italy and Tyrone O Rooney, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
08:15
T41F-02
Early-stage rifting in the southwest East African Rift: Insights from new reflection seismic data from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi (Nyasa) (74629)
Christopher A Scholz, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
08:30
T41F-03
A Numerical and Analogue Study of Dike Ascent in Asymmetric Continental Rift Zones (77717)
Jana Schierjott1,2, Francesco Maccaferri1, Valerio Acocella3 and Eleonora Rivalta1, (1)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
08:45
T41F-04
Transition from a localized to wide deformation along Eastern branch of Central East African Rift: Insights from 3D numerical models (77896)
Alexander Koptev1, E B Burov1, Eric Calais2, Sylvie D Leroy3 and Taras Gerya4, (1)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, (3)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, istep, Paris, France, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
09:00
T41F-05
Magma Emplacement and the 3D Geometry of Igneous Bodies in Rift Basins: Insights from the Bornu Basin, Onshore NE Nigeria (59492)
Adamu Abdullahi Suleiman1, Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson2, Craig Magee2, Alastair Fraser2 and Basins Research Group (BRG), (1)Basin Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
09:15
T41F-06
The effects of thick sediment upon continental breakup: seismic imaging and thermal modeling of the Salton Trough, southern California (81712)
Liang Han1, John A Hole1, Robert P Lowell2, Joann M Stock3, Gary S Fuis4, Neal W Driscoll5, Annie M Kell6, Graham M Kent7, Alistair J Harding8, Antonio Gonzalez-Fernandez9 and Octavio Lázaro-Mancilla10, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanog, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)University of Nevada Reno, Incline Village, NV, United States, (7)University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV, United States, (8)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Geology, Ensenada, Mexico, (10)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
09:30
T41F-07
Oceanization starts from below during continental rupturing in the northern Red Sea (82794)
Marco Ligi1, Enrico Bonatti2, William Bosworth3, Yue Cai4, Anna Cipriani5, Camilla Palmiotto1, Najeeb MA Rasul6, Sara Ronca7, Alessio Sanfilippo8, Monique Seyler9, Salem Nomani6 and Abdulnasser S AlQutub6, (1)CNR Institute for Marine Science, Venice, Italy, (2)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Apache Corporation, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, (6)Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (7)Universita' La Sapienza, Scienze della Terra, Roma, Italy, (8)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, (9)University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
09:45
T41F-08
The Thinning of the lithosphere before Magmatic Spreading is Established at the Western End of the Cocos-Nazca Rift (67709)
Deborah K Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Hans Schouten, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
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