V51F:
Recent Advances in Ophiolite Research: New Insights into the Formation, Evolution, and Emplacement of Ophiolites I

Session ID#: 4750

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
310 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Matthew E Rioux, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Julian A Pearce, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  Matthew E Rioux, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Hugh R Rollinson, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom, Julian A Pearce, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Mathieu Benoit, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
OSPA Liaison:  Matthew E Rioux, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

3035 Midocean ridge processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3040 Plate tectonics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3042 Ophiolites [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Ophiolite - Oceanic Fore-Arc Connection (Invited) (4399)
Mark K Reagan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Julian A Pearce, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Robert J Stern, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States, Osamu Ishizuka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Katerina E Petronotis, Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, United States and Scientific Team of IODP Expedition 352
The Relationships of Plate Triple-junction Evolution, Trench-Arc Lengthening, Boninite Generation, and SSZ Spreading Centers to Ophiolite Formation, High-Temperature Soles, and Obduction (30693)
John Casey, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States and John F. Dewey, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States
The Development of Subduction Below the Oman-UAE Ophiolite: Detailed Temporal Constraints from High Precision U-Pb Zircon Geochronology (24193)
Matthew E Rioux1, Samuel A Bowring2, Joshua M Garber3, Peter B Kelemen4, Micheal P Searle5, Sumio Miyashita6 and Yoshiko Adachi6, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Oman Ophiolite Structural Constraints Complement Models of Crustal Accretion at the EAST Pacific RISE (7822)
David Jousselin1, Adolphe A Nicolas2 and Francoise I Boudier2, (1)CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France, (2)University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Paradise Lost: Uncertainties in melting and melt extraction processes beneath oceanic spreading ridges (Invited) (4686)
Peter B Kelemen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Ophiolite Perspectives on Oceanic Mantle Heterogeneity (22167)
Richard J Walker, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Brian O'Driscoll, Keele University, Geology, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, James M Day, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geosciences Research Division, La Jolla, United States, Richard D Ash, University of Maryland, College Park, United States and J Stephen Daly, University College Dublin, School of Earth Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Genesis of Diamond-bearing and Diamond-free Podiform Chromitites in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Tibet (Invited) (13543)
Jingsui Yang1, Fahui Xiong1, Xiangzhen Xu1, Paul T Robinson1, Yildirim Dilek2 and William L Griffin3, (1)CARMA, State Key Laboratory of Continental Tectonics and Dynamics, Institute of Geology of CAGS, Beijing, China, (2)Miami University Oxford, Geology & Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, OH, United States, (3)Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, Australia