T52C:
Continental Volcanic Rifted Margins I

Session ID#: 4885

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
304 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom and Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Houston, TX, United States and Kenneth J W McCaffrey, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

8105 Continental margins: divergent [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8137 Hotspots, large igneous provinces, and flood basalt volcanism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T52C-01
Volcanic Versus Non-Volcanic Passive Margins: Two Different Ways to Break-up Continents (Invited) (5249)
Laurent Geoffroy1, E B Burov2, Philippe Werner3 and Patrick Unternehr3, (1)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France, (2)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (3)Total SA, Courbevoie, France
T52C-02
The role of small-scale convection on the formation of volcanic passive margins (15402)
Jeroen Van Hunen, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom; Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and Jordan Jerad John Phethean, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom; Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
T52C-03
New Constraints on the Age of the Opening of the South Atlantic Basin As Revealed By Recently Acquired Magnetic, Gravity and Seismic Reflection Data (9451)
Stuart A Hall1, Dale E Bird2, Hunter A Danque3, James V Grant3, David J McLean3 and Philip J Towle3, (1)Univ Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Bird Geophysical, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, TX, United States
T52C-04
Evolution of Northeast Atlantic Magmatic Continental Margins from an Ethiopian-Afar Perspective (21860)
Richard W England, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, David G Cornwell, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Alice Ramsden, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
T52C-05
Magma-Assisted Continental Break-up Encroached on Previously Stretched Continental Lithosphere – the NE Greenland Composite Passive Margin (Invited) (5756)
Stanislaw Mazur, GETECH, Leeds, United Kingdom, Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Houston, TX, United States and Phill Houghton, ION Geophysical Corporation, Houston, TX, United States
T52C-06
Constraining the role of magma before, during and after the break-up of continents using seismic reflection data (Invited) (5086)
Craig Magee, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Nick Schofield, University of Aberdeen, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Simon P Holford, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
T52C-07
Post-rift Magmatism at Passive Margins: An Integrated Study of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin (29218)
Yiduo Liu, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Michael Andrew Murphy, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States and John M Cannon, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
T52C-08
The Potential Role of Igneous Intrusions on Hydrocarbon Migration, West of Shetlands, UK (15627)
Remi Rateau1, Nick Schofield2 and Michael Smith1, (1)DONG Energy, Hoersholm, Denmark, (2)University of Aberdeen, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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