T33B:
Linking Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection to Wilson Cycles: Constraints from the Geological Record and Surface Processes I Posters

Session ID#: 1749

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia and Thorsten W Becker, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Co-conveners:  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, Thorsten W Becker, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Rebecca Marie Flowers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8125 Evolution of the Earth [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8157 Plate motions: past [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8169 Sedimentary basin processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
T33B-4654
Effect of lithospheric structure and rheology on flow patterns beneath the European Alps (22277)
Boris J P Kaus1,2, Emmanuelle Boutonnet3, Tobias Baumann1, Thorsten W Becker4 and Anton Popov1, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Geosciences, Mainz, Germany, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
T33B-4655
Supercontinent break-up: Causes and consequences (20425)
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
 
T33B-4656
The Break-up and Drifting of the Continental Plates in 2D Models of Convecting Mantle (8462)
Luca Dal Zilio, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Manuele Faccenda, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy and Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 
T33B-4657
Corona Formation on Venus Via Extension and Lithospheric Instability (4878)
Danielle Piskorz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Linda T Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Dr. Suzanne E Smrekar, PhD, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States
 
T33B-4658
What created the Proterozoic Ladoga rift (SE Baltic shield): Testing rifting versus supercontinent reconfiguration origin by geophysical data (16722)
Irina M M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark and Alexey Shulgin, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
 
T33B-4659
The Role of Rift Obliquity During Pangea Fragmentation (20151)
Nathaniel P Butterworth1, Carolina Pagli1,2, Simon Williams1 and Dietmar Müller3, (1)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
T33B-4660
Dextral Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Early Permian Margin of Pangaea (Eastern Australia) and Implications for Oroclinal Bending (9095)
Gideon Rosenbaum1, I Tonguç Uysal2 and Abbas Babaahmadi1, (1)The University of Queensland, School of the Environment, Brisbane, Australia, (2)The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
 
T33B-4661
Reconstructing the Thermo-tectonic history of the Rwenzori Mountains, D. R. Congo (2286)
Sherif Mansour1, Friederike Bauer2, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Anton A Glasmacher1, René W Grobe3 and Matthias Starz1, (1)University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)GeoThermal Engineering GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
T33B-4662
The Davie Ridge: a Marginal Transform Ridge not Formed During Continental Breakup (21632)
Jordan Jerad John Phethean1, Jeroen Van Hunen2, Kenneth J W McCaffrey2 and Richard J Davies3, (1)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
 
T33B-4663
Electrical conductivity images across the Namibian passive margin: Tectonic implications for the evolution of the Kaoko Belt, the western Kongo Craton and the Walvis Ridge (21747)
Naser M Meqbel1, Gerhard Kapinos1, Ute Weckmann1, Oliver Ritter1 and Marion D Jegen2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
 
T33B-4664
The Role of Plumes in Breakup Processes – Traces Found in the Deep Crustal Structure at the Intersection of Walvis Ridge with the African Continental Margin (9233)
Tanja Fromm1, Wilfried Jokat2, Jan H Behrmann3, Trond Ryberg4 and Michael H Weber4, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Geophysics, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)IFM Geomar, Kiel, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
T33B-4665
3D Numerical Model of Continental Breakup via Plume Lithosphere Interaction Near Cratonic Blocks: Implications for the Tanzanian Craton (15757)
Alexander Koptev1, Eric Calais2, E B Burov1, Sylvie D Leroy1 and Taras Gerya3, (1)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, Paris, France, (3)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
 
T33B-4666
Numerical Modeling of Transient Thermal Perturbations within the Icelandic Plume (12493)
Matthew Commin1, John Frederick Rudge2 and Nicholas J White1, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
T33B-4667
A magmatic probe of dynamic topography beneath western North America (13080)
Marthe Klöcking1, Nicholas J White2 and John Maclennan2, (1)University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
T33B-4668
The Feedback Between Continents and Compositional Anomalies in the Deep Mantle (16752)
Julian Philip Lowman and Sean James Trim, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
T33B-4670
Syn-Rift Subsidence Deficit of the Qiongdongnan Basin and the Synchronous Rapid Uplift of South Hainan Island: Some Clues on Surface Response to the Hainan Plume, NW South China Sea (9827)
Xiaobin Shi, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
T33B-4671
Small-Scale Convection Raising East Anatolia and Northern Iran (16389)
Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey, Russell Pysklywec, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Ebru Sengul Uluocak, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Geophysical Engineering, Canakkale, Turkey
 
T33B-4672
Modeling study of the small-scale mantle convection in the subduction zone mantle wedge including the melting mechanism of mantle rocks (27943)
Miki Yamamoto and Yoshihiko Tamura, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
T33B-4673
Melt-Enabled Lithospheric Delamination in the Western US (18649)
Jonathan Perry-Houts, University of Oregon - 1299, Eugene, OR, United States and Eugene Humphreys, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
T33B-4674
Was the Lithospheric Mantle of the Eastern North China Craton Removed or Just Stirred during the Mesozoic Reactivation? (10942)
Jinshui Huang1, Yongming Wang1 and Shijie Zhong2, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States
 
T33B-4675
Tomography, Dynamical Modeling and the Geologic History of the Subduction Zone Around the Japanese Islands (11304)
Satoru Honda, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
T33B-4676
Geodynamics of Sundaland since the Eocene (17017)
Ting Yang1, Michael Gurnis1 and Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
T33B-4677
The Driving Forces of the Large-Scale Deformation in the India-Eurasia Collision Region: Joint Modeling of Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics (10115)
Xinguo Wang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, William E Holt, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States and Attreyee Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India
 
T33B-4678
The geodynamics of the Gulf of Mexico and its topographic evolution (28984)
Dan J Bower, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
T33B-4679
The Mexican Ridges Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico: Deformation, Dynamics of Deposition of Growth Strata, and the Delay of Sedimentary Response to Tectonic Forcing (14339)
Usama Ismael Yarbuh Lugo, CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Ensenada, Mexico and Juan Contreras, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
 
T33B-4680
A History of Global Mantle Potential Temperatures from Oceanic Crustal Thicknesses (16056)
Mark Hoggard1, Nicholas J White1 and Oliver Shorttle2, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
T33B-4681
Global Model of the Integrated Strength of Oceanic Lithosphere and Ridge-push Transmission (29901)
Rezene Mahatsente, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
 
T33B-4682
Seafloor Subsidence, Effective Thermal Conductivity, and Mantle Dynamics (16464)
Claudia Maria Adam, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Scott D King, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Michel Rabinowicz, University of Toulouse III, Gesocience Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Valerie Vidal, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, Andre Jalobeanu, ARL, Austin, TX, United States and Masaki Yoshida, IFREE, Yokosuka, Japan
 
T33B-4683
Linking Tectonics and Surface Processes through SNAC-CHILD Coupling: Preliminary Results Towards Interoperable Modeling Frameworks (31138)
Eunseo Choi, PhD, University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, Anna Kelbert, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Science Explorer (SciX), Cambridge, United States and Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
 
T33B-4684
Investigating the Uplift of Southern Africa Using Coupled Thermo-mechanical and Surface Processes Models (18430)
Romain Beucher, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Ritske S Huismans, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, Norway, Roderick W Brown, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom and Cecile Robin, Université de Rennes, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France
 
T33B-4685
Coupling and feedback between tectonics and surface processes during rifted margin formation (30790)
Thomas Theunissen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Ritske S Huismans, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, Norway
 
T33B-4686
Stratigraphic Signatures of Forearc Basin Formation Mechanisms (11880)
Utsav Mannu, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Kosuke Ueda, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Zili Yuan, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland and Michael Strasser, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geology, Innsbruck, Austria
 
T33B-4687
New Apatite and Zircon (U-Th)/He Constraints on the Timing of Thrust-Related Exhumation in the Southern Bolivian (21˚S) Andes (6994)
Ryan Bruce Anderson, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Sean P Long, Washington State University, School of the Environment, Pullman, WA, United States, Brian K Horton, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Amanda Calle, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Daniel F Stockli, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
 
T33B-4688
Modeling Structural and Mechanical Responses to Localized Erosional Processes on a Bivergent Orogenic Wedge (18606)
Rachel E E Marzen, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Julia Morgan, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
 
T33B-4689
Modes of Extensional Faulting Controlled By Surface Processes (8708)
Jean-Arthur L Olive, MIT / WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Mark D Behn, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States and Luca Claude Malatesta, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
T33B-4690
Determining rates of Quaternary uplift across the Santa Rosa Island Fault, Channel Islands National Park, Southern California (18781)
Andrew Cyr, USGS, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Kevin M Schmidt, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Scott Alan Minor, USGS, Denver, CO, United States and David Bedford, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
T33B-4691
Crustal Stress and Strain Distribution in Sicily (Southern Italy) from Joint Analysis of Seismicity and Geodetic Data (9456)
Giancarlo Neri1, Marco Aloisi2, Flavio Cannavo3, Barbara Orecchio1, Mimmo Palano2, Debora Presti1, Giuseppe Siligato4 and Cristina Totaro1, (1)University of Messina, Messina, Italy, (2)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Catania, Italy, (3)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (4)GNSS.it, Taormina, Italy
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