V41E:
The Making of a Continent I

Session ID#: 1620

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
310 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Richard W Carlson, Carnegie Institution for Science, DTM, Washington, DC, United States and Grant Michael Bybee, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa
Primary Convener:  Richard W Carlson, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Grant Michael Bybee, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa, Oliver E Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Stephen Wayne Parman, Brown University, DEEPS - Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Francis Albarede, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Lyon, France
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1020 Composition of the continental crust [GEOCHEMISTRY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8125 Evolution of the Earth [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

V41E-01
On craton thinning/destruction: Insight from 2D thermal-mechanical numerical modeling (18872)
Jie Liao, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
V41E-02
The Making of Early Continents and the Initiation of Plate Tectonics on Earth (9871)
Patrice F Rey, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Earthbyte Research Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Nicolas Coltice, University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France and Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
V41E-03
Convergent Plate Boundary Processes in the Archean: Evidence from Greenland (23011)
Ali Polat, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
V41E-04
Geologically Controlled Isotope-Time Patterns Reveal Early Differentiation and Crust Formation Processes (31691)
Vickie C Bennett, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Allen P. Nutman, University of Wollongong, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wollongong, Australia
V41E-05
The petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks in the >3.7 Ga Isua supracrustal belt, SW Greenland (3027)
Kristoffer Szilas, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Minik Thorleif Rosing, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
V41E-06
Support for a Uniformitarian Model of Continental Mantle Lithosphere Formation from the “Near-Cratonic” Composition of Proterozoic Southern African Mantle Lithosphere (22280)
Philip Edwin Janney, University of Cape Town, Department of Geological Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
V41E-07
The Building of the Archean Superior Craton: Thermal Perspective (Invited) (5057)
Claude P Jaupart, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), UMR 7154, Paris, France and Jean-Claude Mareschal, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
V41E-08
Temporal Evolution of the Upper Continental Crust: Implications for the Mode of Crustal Growth and the Evolution of the Hydrosphere (Invited) (4759)
Roberta L Rudnick1, Richard M Gaschnig1, Su Li1, Ming Tang1, Lin Qiu2, John W Valley3, Claire Christine Zurkowski4 and William F McDonough5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (5)Tohoku University, Advance Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change, Sendai, Japan
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