T54B:
Toward Constraining Subduction Zone Dynamics III

Session ID#: 4973

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
306 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and John Huw Davies, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  John Huw Davies, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8150 Plate boundary: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8160 Rheology: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8170 Subduction zone processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T54B-01
"Dynamic Kinematics": Towards Linking Earth's Plate Motions to the Evolution of Global Mantle Flow (Invited) (2677)
Tobias Rolf, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway and Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
T54B-02
Flexural Mechanics of Subduction (Invited) (3368)
Neil M Ribe, University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France and Zhong-Hai Li, Chinese Academy Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
T54B-03
The effect of metastable pyroxene on the slab dynamics (15882)
Roberto Agrusta, University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, Jeroen Van Hunen, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
T54B-04
Along-Arc Variation in Slab Surface Temperature Caused By 3D Material Circulation at the Plate Interface (4967)
Manabu Morishige, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Peter E van Keken, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
T54B-05
Evolution of the long-wavelength, subduction-driven topography of South America since 150 Ma (14321)
Nicolas E Flament1, Michael Gurnis2, Simon Williams1, Dan J Bower3, Maria Seton1 and Dietmar Müller1, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
T54B-06
Continental Subduction and Subduction Initiation Leading to Extensional Exhumation of Ultra-High Pressure Rocks During Ongoing Plate Convergence in Papua New Guinea (29296)
W Roger Buck, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Kenni Dinesen Petersen, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
T54B-07
Dynamics and Significance of Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation: Numerical Modeling (23941)
Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Robert J Stern, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States, Marzieh Baes, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geodynamic Modelling, Potsdam, Germany, Stephan V. Sobolev, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany and Scott Andrew Whattam, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
T54B-08
Overriding Plate Controls on Subduction Zone Evolution (27237)
Wendy Katherine Sharples, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, Margarete Ann Jadamec, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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