T33B:
Linking Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection to Wilson Cycles: Constraints from the Geological Record and Surface Processes I Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Thorsten W Becker, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-conveners:  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, Thorsten W Becker, USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Rebecca Marie Flowers, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4654
 
Effect of lithospheric structure and rheology on flow patterns beneath the European Alps
Boris Kaus1,2, Emmanuelle Boutonnet1, Tobias Baumann1, Thorsten W Becker2 and Anton Popov1, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
4655
 
Supercontinent break-up: Causes and consequences
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
4656
 
The Break-up and Drifting of the Continental Plates in 2D Models of Convecting Mantle
Luca Dal Zilio1, Manuele Faccenda1 and Fabio a Capitanio2, (1)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (2)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4657
 
Corona Formation on Venus Via Extension and Lithospheric Instability
Danielle Piskorz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Linda T Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Suzanne E Smrekar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4658
 
What created the Proterozoic Ladoga rift (SE Baltic shield): Testing rifting versus supercontinent reconfiguration origin by geophysical data
Irina M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and Alexey Shulgin, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
4659
 
The Role of Rift Obliquity During Pangea Fragmentation
Nathaniel P Butterworth1, Sascha Brune2,3, Simon Williams2 and Dietmar Müller2, (1)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, Australia, (2)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geodynamic Modelling Section, Potsdam, Germany
4660
 
Dextral Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Early Permian Margin of Pangaea (Eastern Australia) and Implications for Oroclinal Bending
Gideon Rosenbaum, I Tonguç Uysal and Abbas Babaahmadi, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
4661
 
Reconstructing the Thermo-tectonic history of the Rwenzori Mountains, D. R. Congo
Sherif Mansour1, Friederike Bauer2, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Anton A Glasmacher1, René W Grobe3 and Matthias Starz1, (1)University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)GeoThermal Engineering GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany
4662
 
The Davie Ridge: a Marginal Transform Ridge not Formed During Continental Breakup
Jordan Jerad John Phethean1, Jeroen Van Hunen2, Ken J W McCaffrey2 and Richard J Davies2, (1)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
4663
 
Electrical conductivity images across the Namibian passive margin: Tectonic implications for the evolution of the Kaoko Belt, the western Kongo Craton and the Walvis Ridge
Naser M Meqbel1, Gerhard Kapinos1, Ute Weckmann1, Oliver Ritter1 and Marion D Jegen2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
4664
 
The Role of Plumes in Breakup Processes – Traces Found in the Deep Crustal Structure at the Intersection of Walvis Ridge with the African Continental Margin
Tanja Fromm1, Wilfried Jokat1, Jan H Behrmann2, Trond Ryberg3 and Michael H Weber3, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)IFM Geomar, Kiel, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
4665
 
3D Numerical Model of Continental Breakup via Plume Lithosphere Interaction Near Cratonic Blocks: Implications for the Tanzanian Craton
Alexander Koptev1, Eric Calais2, E B Burov1, Sylvie D Leroy1 and Taras Gerya3, (1)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4666
 
Numerical Modeling of Transient Thermal Perturbations within the Icelandic Plume
Matthew Commin, John Frederick Rudge and Nicholas J White, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4667
 
A magmatic probe of dynamic topography beneath western North America
Marthe Klöcking, Nicholas J White and John Maclennan, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4668
 
The Feedback Between Continents and Compositional Anomalies in the Deep Mantle
Julian Philip Lowman and Sean James Trim, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
4669
 
Delineating the Exmouth Mantle Plume (NW Australia) : Implications for the Origin of Volcanic Margins
Maxim Hendrik Rohrman, Self Employed, Houston, TX, United States
4670
 
Syn-Rift Subsidence Deficit of the Qiongdongnan Basin and the Synchronous Rapid Uplift of South Hainan Island: Some Clues on Surface Response to the Hainan Plume, NW South China Sea
Xiaobin Shi, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
4671
 
Small-Scale Convection Raising East Anatolia and Northern Iran
Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, Russell N Pysklywec, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Ebru Sengul Uluocak, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Geophysics, Canakkale, Turkey
4672
 
Modeling study of the small-scale mantle convection in the subduction zone mantle wedge including the melting mechanism of mantle rocks
Miki Yamamoto and Yoshihiko Tamura, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
4673
 
Melt-Enabled Lithospheric Delamination in the Western US
Jonathan Perry-Houts, University of Oregon - 1299, Eugene, OR, United States and Eugene Humphreys, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
4674
 
Was the Lithospheric Mantle of the Eastern North China Craton Removed or Just Stirred during the Mesozoic Reactivation?
Jinshui Huang1, Yongming Wang1 and Shijie Zhong2, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
4675
 
Tomography, Dynamical Modeling and the Geologic History of the Subduction Zone Around the Japanese Islands
Satoru Honda, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
4676
 
Geodynamics of Sundaland since the Eocene
Ting Yang, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Gurnis, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
4677
 
The Driving Forces of the Large-Scale Deformation in the India-Eurasia Collision Region: Joint Modeling of Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics
Xinguo Wang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, William E Holt, Stony Brook University, Stonybrook, NY, United States and Attreyee Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India
4678
 
The geodynamics of the Gulf of Mexico and its topographic evolution
Daniel J Bower, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Gurnis, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
4679
 
The Mexican Ridges Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico: Deformation, Dynamics of Deposition of Growth Strata, and the Delay of Sedimentary Response to Tectonic Forcing
Usama Ismael Yarbuh Lugo and Juan Contreras, CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Ensenada, Mexico
4680
 
A History of Global Mantle Potential Temperatures from Oceanic Crustal Thicknesses
Mark Hoggard, Nicholas J White and Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4681
 
Global Model of the Integrated Strength of Oceanic Lithosphere and Ridge-push Transmission
Rezene Mahatsente, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
4682
 
Seafloor Subsidence, Effective Thermal Conductivity, and Mantle Dynamics
Claudia Maria Adam1, Scott D King1, Michel Rabinowicz2, Valerie Vidal3, Andre Jalobeanu4 and Masaki Yoshida5, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)University of Toulouse III, Gesocience Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (3)Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, (4)ARL, Austin, TX, United States, (5)IFREE, Yokosuka, Japan
4683
 
Linking Tectonics and Surface Processes through SNAC-CHILD Coupling: Preliminary Results Towards Interoperable Modeling Frameworks
Eunseo Choi, University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, Anna Kelbert, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
4684
 
Investigating the Uplift of Southern Africa Using Coupled Thermo-mechanical and Surface Processes Models
Romain Beucher1, Ritske S Huismans1, Roderick W Brown2 and Cecile Robin3, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (3)University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
4685
 
Coupling and feedback between tectonics and surface processes during rifted margin formation
Thomas Theunissen and Ritske S Huismans, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
4686
 
Stratigraphic Signatures of Forearc Basin Formation Mechanisms
Utsav Mannu1, Kosuke Ueda2, Taras Gerya1, Sean Willett1 and Michael Strasser1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
4687
 
New Apatite and Zircon (U-Th)/He Constraints on the Timing of Thrust-Related Exhumation in the Southern Bolivian (21˚S) Andes
Ryan Bruce Anderson1, Sean P Long2, Brian K Horton3, Amanda Calle3 and Daniel F Stockli4, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States
4688
 
Modeling Structural and Mechanical Responses to Localized Erosional Processes on a Bivergent Orogenic Wedge
Rachel Marzen and Julia K Morgan, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
4689
 
Modes of Extensional Faulting Controlled By Surface Processes
Jean-Arthur L Olive, MIT / WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Mark D Behn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Luca C Malatesta, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
4690
 
Determining rates of Quaternary uplift across the Santa Rosa Island Fault, Channel Islands National Park, Southern California
Andrew Cyr1, Kevin M Schmidt1, Scott Alan Minor2 and David Bedford3, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Denver, CO, United States, (3)U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA, United States
4691
 
Crustal Stress and Strain Distribution in Sicily (Southern Italy) from Joint Analysis of Seismicity and Geodetic Data
Giancarlo Neri1, Marco Aloisi2, Flavio Cannavo2, Barbara Orecchio1, Mimmo Palano2, Debora Presti1, Giuseppe Siligato3 and Cristina Totaro1, (1)University of Messina, Messina, Italy, (2)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Catania, Italy, (3)GNSS.it, Taormina, Italy
 
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