T14B:
Geodynamics of the Pacific Margin of the Americas II

Session ID#: 4931

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Salon 9 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Rafael Bartolome, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona-CSI, Geosciences, Barcelona, Spain and Prof. Juanjo Danobeitia, EMSO ERIC, CMO, Rome, Italy
Primary Convener:  William Lee Bandy, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Mexico City, Mexico
Co-conveners:  Prof. Juanjo Danobeitia, EMSO ERIC, CMO, Rome, Italy and Carlos A Mortera-Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Mexico City, Mexico
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Juanjo Danobeitia, EMSO ERIC, CMO, Rome, Italy
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GP - Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8123 Dynamics: seismotectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8150 Plate boundary: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Welcoming Remarks
T14B-01
Tectonic Fabric of the Cocos Plate and Conjugate Pacific Plate Crust Near Mexico (Invited) (17997)
Joann M Stock, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
T14B-02
Crustal Structure at the North Eastern Tip of Rivera Plate, Nayarit- Marias Islands Region: Scenarios and Tectonic Implications. Tsujal Project (15668)
Prof. Juanjo Danobeitia1, Rafael Bartolome2, Diego Córdoba Barba Sr3, Francisco J Nuñez-Cornu4, William Lee Bandy5, Manel Prada6, Alejandra L. Cameselle7, Diana Núñez8, Juan-Manuel Espindola9, Ferran Estrada1, Azucena Zamora4, Adan Gomez4, Modesto Ortiz10 and Scientific Team of TSUJAL, (1)ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)ICM-CSIC, Barcelona-CSI, Geosciences, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Madrid, Spain, (4)Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro de Sismología y Volcanología de Occidente, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, (5)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Mexico City, Mexico, (6)Institute of Marine Science - CSIC, Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, (7)CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (8)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Madrid, Spain, (9)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (10)Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada - CICESE, Oceanografía Física, Ensenada, Mexico
T14B-03
A Thick, Deformed Sedimentary Wedge in an Erosional Subduction Zone, Southern Costa Rica (16953)
Eli A Silver1, Jared W. Kluesner1, Joel H Edwards1 and Paola Vannucchi2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Florence, Earth Sciences, Florence, Italy
T14B-04
Dynamic Passage of Topography Beneath the Southern Costa Rica Forearc seen with Seismic Stratigraphy (29948)
Joel H Edwards, Jared W. Kluesner and Eli A Silver, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
T14B-05
Thermal Models of the Costa Rica – Nicaragua Subduction Zone: the Effect of a Three-Dimensional Oceanic Plate Structure and Hydrothermal Circulation in the Temperature Distribution and Mantle Wedge Dynamics  (21158)
Juan Carlos Rosas, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Jiangheng He, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
T14B-06
Dynamics and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northwestern Andes: Subduction Segments, Moho Depth, and Possible Relationships to Mantle Flow (20160)
Gaspar Monsalve1, Jefferson Yarce1, Thorsten W Becker2, Dr. Robert W Porritt, PhD3, Agustin Cardona1, Esteban Poveda4 and Gustavo Posada1, (1)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Minas, Medellín, Colombia, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil
T14B-07
New views on the structure and evolution of the Andes-Altiplano orogenic system: Are collision- and subduction-type mountain belts mechanically different? (15721)
Magali Riesner1, Rolando Armijo1, Robin Lacassin1, Martine Simoes1, Daniel Carrizo2 and Guillermo Fuentes2, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)University of Chile, AMTC, Santiago, Chile
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