GP42A:
Paleogeography of Supercontinents, Terrane Tectonics, and Geodynamo History I

Session ID#: 4778

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
300 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  John W Geissman, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States and Randolph J Enkin, Geological Survey of Canada Pacific, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Convener:  David A Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Co-conveners:  Randolph J Enkin, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada and John W Geissman, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David A Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1520 Magnetostratigraphy [GEOMAGNETISM AND PALEOMAGNETISM]
1525 Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics: regional, global [GEOMAGNETISM AND PALEOMAGNETISM]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8157 Plate motions: past [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Importance of Age Control in Defining Apparent Polar Wander Paths of Fast Moving Plates: The Jurassic Case Study (Invited) (3048)
Giovanni Muttoni, University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences 'Ardito Desio', Milan, Italy
The Kiaman its Beginning and End. (Invited) (17257)
Neil D Opdyke, Univesity of Florida, Dept. of Geology,, Gainesville, FL, United States
Ted Irving and the Precambrian continental drift of (within?) the Canadian Shield (Invited) (5029)
Paul F Hoffman, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Ted Irving and the Arc of APW Paths (28025)
Dennis V Kent, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
Ted Irving's early contributions to paleomagnetism (16352)
Henry R Frankel, Univ Missouri Kansas City, Prairie Village, KS, United States
Origin of Siletzia, an Accreted Large Igneous Province in the Cascadia Forearc, and the Early History of the Yellowstone Hotspot (3901)
Ray E Wells, U.S. Geological Survey, Portland, OR, United States, David Bukry, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Richard M Friedman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Douglas G Pyle, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Robert A Duncan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Peter J Haeussler, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States and Joseph Wooden, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
Reversal Asymmetry after the end of the Cretaceous Superchron (31895)
Joseph L Kirschvink, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Ross Nelson Mitchell, Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Perth, Australia, Christopher Thissen, Yale Univ-Geology & Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States, Valerie B Pietrasz, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Matthew E Rioux, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Alessandro Montanari, Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco, Apiro, Italy, Rodolfo Coccioni, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, Urbino, Italy, Peter D Ward, University of Adelaide, Sprigg Institute of Geobiology, Adelaide, Australia, Timothy D Raub, University of St Andrews, Balmullo, United Kingdom, David A Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Samuel A Bowring, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States