V42B:
The Making of a Continent II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Oliver E Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Stephen Wayne Parman, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Conveners:  Richard W Carlson, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Grant Michael Bybee, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Oliver E Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Stephen Wayne Parman, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Blair Schoene, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
V42B-01
 
The temporality of anorthosites and insights into Earth evolution
Lewis D Ashwal, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannsburg, South Africa
10:35 AM
V42B-02
 
Sink or Swim? the Role of Intracrustal Differentiation in the Generation of Compositional Diversity and Crustal Delamination in the Archean
Jill A VanTongeren1, Claude T Herzberg1, Boris Kaus2, Tim E Johnson3 and Michael Brown4, (1)Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (3)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia, (4)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
10:50 AM
V42B-03
 
Proterozoic Stability of the Kaapvaal Craton from Titanite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology and Strong Influence of Radiation Damage on this Underutilized Thermochronometer
Jaclyn S Baughman1, Rebecca Marie Flowers1 and Taufeeq Dhansay2, (1)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, South Africa
11:05 AM
V42B-04
 
On the Viability of Slab Melting
Jeroen Van Hunen, Pierre Bouilhol, Valentina Magni and Benjamin Louis Maunder, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
11:20 AM
V42B-05
 
Relamination and the Differentiation of Continental Crust
Bradley R Hacker, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Mark D Behn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
11:35 AM
V42B-06
 
Eu Anomalies Constrain Recycling of Lower Continental Crust
Ming Tang1, Roberta L Rudnick1, William F McDonough1, Richard M Gaschnig2 and Yu Huang2, (1)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
11:50 AM
V42B-07
 
The State of Subduction in Southern Peru
Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
12:05 PM
V42B-08
 
Mantle Discontinuities and the Origins of the U.S. Cratonic Lithosphere
Karen M. Fischer and Emily Hopper, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
 
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