V42B:
The Making of a Continent II

Session ID#: 4675

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
310 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  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
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:  Blair Schoene, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
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:

V42B-01
The temporality of anorthosites and insights into Earth evolution (Invited) (3600)
Lewis D Ashwal, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa
V42B-02
Sink or Swim? the Role of Intracrustal Differentiation in the Generation of Compositional Diversity and Crustal Delamination in the Archean (Invited) (3627)
Claude T Herzberg, Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Boris J P Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Geosciences, Mainz, Germany, Tim E Johnson, Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Perth, Australia and Michael Brown, University of Maryland, College Park, Laboratory for Crustal Petrology, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
V42B-03
Proterozoic Stability of the Kaapvaal Craton from Titanite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology and Strong Influence of Radiation Damage on this Underutilized Thermochronometer (16702)
Jaclyn S Baughman, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Rebecca Marie Flowers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States and Taufeeq Dhansay, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, South Africa
V42B-04
On the Viability of Slab Melting (Invited) (4603)
Jeroen Van Hunen1, Pierre Bouilhol2, Valentina Magni2 and Benjamin Louis Maunder2, (1)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
V42B-05
Relamination and the Differentiation of Continental Crust (11133)
Bradley R Hacker, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Mark D Behn, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
V42B-06
Eu Anomalies Constrain Recycling of Lower Continental Crust (8873)
Ming Tang1, Roberta L Rudnick2, William F McDonough3, Richard M Gaschnig4 and Yu Huang4, (1)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of California, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
V42B-07
The State of Subduction in Southern Peru (Invited) (6587)
Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
V42B-08
Mantle Discontinuities and the Origins of the U.S. Cratonic Lithosphere (18464)
Karen M Fischer, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Emily Hopper, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
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