T42B:
Linking Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection to Wilson Cycles: Constraints from the Geological Record and Surface Processes II

Session ID#: 4960

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
306 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Zheng-xiang Li, Curtin University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Convener:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Co-conveners:  Thorsten W Becker, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Rebecca Marie Flowers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States and Zheng-xiang Li, Curtin University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Perth, WA, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8125 Evolution of the Earth [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8157 Plate motions: past [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8169 Sedimentary basin processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T42B-01
Supercontinent Reconstructions as of 2014: Advances and Challenges (Invited) (2330)
David A Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
T42B-02
Supercontinent Breakup and the Deep Earth (Invited) (4507)
Trond Helge Torsvik, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
T42B-03
Supercontinent Pangea, Mantle Dynamics, and Reference Frame of Global Plate Motions (Invited) (4517)
Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States, Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States and Xi Liu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
T42B-04
The Dispersal of East Gondwana from Continental Breakup to the Start of the Cretaceous Quiet Zone (13259)
Joshua Kane Davis, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Lawrence A Lawver, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Ian O Norton, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and Lisa Gahagan, Univ Texas - Inst Geophys, Austin, TX, United States
T42B-05
Mid-Continent Rift: Rift, LIP, or Both? (12888)
Carol A Stein, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, Jonas Kley, University of Göttingen, Department of Structural Geology and Geothermics, Göttingen, Germany, David Hindle, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany and G Randy Keller, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
T42B-06
Global Age Distribution of Detrital Zircons, the Supercontinent Cycle, and Subduction Flux Through Time (16945)
Dwight C Bradley, USGS, Anchorage, AK, United States
T42B-07
The Role of Subduction and Mantle Plumes in the Supercontinent Cycle (7748)
Philip Heron1, Julian Philip Lowman1 and Claudia Stein2, (1)University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Münster, Münster, Germany
T42B-08
Slab Rollback Instability and Super-Continent Dispersal (10860)
David Bercovici, Yale University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Maureen D Long, Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States
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