T43E:
Linking Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection to Wilson Cycles: Constraints from the Geological Record and Surface Processes III

Session ID#: 4961

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
306 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, Environmental Futures, School of Science, Wollongong, NSW, Australia and Thorsten W Becker, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
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:  Rebecca Marie Flowers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States
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:

T43E-01
Recognising the Different Roles and Expressions of Dynamic Mantle Flow and Plate Kinematics in the Evolution of Africa's Topography (Invited) (2480)
Roderick W Brown1, Mark Wildman2, Romain Beucher3, Dominique Chardon4, Delphine Rouby5, Finlay M Stuart6 and Cristina Persano2, (1)University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (4)Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Lima, Géosciences Environment Toulouse, Lima, Peru, (5)Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Géosciences Environment Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (6)Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, United Kingdom
T43E-02
The Columbia Plateau Revealed; Low Temperature Thermochronology Across the Canadian Cordillera and Links to Lithospheric Delamination. (31710)
Bernard Guest1, David Bacque1, Naomi Miles2 and Daniel F Stockli3, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
T43E-03
Spatial Patterns of Channel Steepness in the Central Rockies: Do River Profiles Record Landscape Evolution Forcing By Yellowstone Dynamic Topography? (9919)
Eduardo Guerrero, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Andrew J. Meigs, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Eric Kirby, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States and Patricia M Gregg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
T43E-04
Localisation of Mantle Upwelling Beneath Recent Intra-Plate Volcanism in Australia (6366)
Nicholas Rawlinson, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
T43E-05
Rejuvenation of Appalachian topography due to subsidence induced differential erosion (12870)
Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Urbana, United States
T43E-06
The Amazon River reversal explained by tectonic and surface processes (16213)
Victor Sacek, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
T43E-07
Constraining the upper plate surface deformation across coupled subduction-collision systems (15135)
Pietro Sternai, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Laurent Jolivet, University of Orleans, Orleans, France, Armel Menant, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France, Paris, France, Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Mortaza Pirouz, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kosuke Ueda, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
T43E-08
Geodynamic inversion to quantify the rheological parameters of the lithosphere (22603)
Tobias Baumann and Boris J P Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Geosciences, Mainz, Germany
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