V43C:
The Making of a Continent III Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Grant Michael Bybee, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 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:  Richard W Carlson, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Continental growth on Early Earth: Crustal electrical conductivity models of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
Ute Weckmann1, Sissy Kutter1 and Maarten De Wit2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
 
Helium isotopes of the Siberian sub-continental lithospheric mantle: Insights from eclogite xenoliths
Peter H Barry1, David R Hilton2, James M Day3, John Pernet-Fisher4, Geoffrey Hamilton Howarth4 and Lawrence A Taylor4, (1)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Univ. California, San Diego, GRD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
The Preservation of Meso- Archean Refractory Lithospheric Mantle Underneath the Eastern Margin of the Tanzania Craton
Qiao Shu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Jingao Liu, Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Graham D Pearson, University of Alberta, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Sally Anne Gibson, Univeristy of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Mesozoic-Cenozoic thermal evolution of lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton: evidence from REE-in-two-pyroxene temperatures of mantle xenoliths
Chunguang Wang1,2, Wenliang Xu1 and Yan Liang2, (1)JLU Jilin University, Changchun, China, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Tracing origins of cratonic eclogites by magnesium isotopes
Shuijiong Wang1,2, Fang-zhen Teng3, Roberta L Rudnick4 and Shu-Guang Li2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Beijing, China, (3)University Of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Looking up from the Base of a Thickened Arc — Evaluating Eclogite Fractionation Depths
Timothy Chapman, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Nathan R Daczko, Macquarie University, GEMOC and CCFS, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, Australia
 
Stable isotopic constraints on formation of continental lithospheric mantle: a case study from the Colorado Plateau
Edward Wayne Marshall IV1, Jaime Barnes1 and John C Lassiter2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Time-Lapse Zirconography of Continental Growth
Stephen Wayne Parman, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Uplift of the Colorado Plateau via Lower Crustal Foundering
Monica Erdman, Cin-Ty Lee and Hehe Jiang, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Role of Plumes and Plates in the Construction and Preservation of Hadean-Archean Continental Nuclei
Paul A Mueller, Univ Florida-Geology Dept, Gainesville, FL, United States, David W Mogk, Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT, United States, Darrell Henry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Joseph Wooden, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Crustal composition of the Western Australian craton and implications for craton formation tectonics
Huaiyu Yuan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia
 
The Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) to Calc-alkaline Granodiorite-Granite Transition: Evolution of the Archaean Basement of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero Province (Southeast Brazil)
Federico Farina1, Capucine Albert1, Cristiano Lana1 and Gary Stevens2, (1)UFOP-Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil, (2)Stellenbosch University, Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch, South Africa
 
Multiphase volcanism of the Archean Tipasjärvi greenstone belt (Eastern Finland) revealed by single-grain U-Pb dating of zircons
Elina Lehtonen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and Asko Käpyaho, Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland
 
Lithostratigraphy and structure of the early Archaean Doolena Gap Greenstone Belt, East Pilbara Terrane (EPT), Western Australia
Christoph Eckart Schrank1, Daniel Wiemer1 and David Thomas Murphy2, (1)Queensland University of Technology, School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Brisbane, Australia, (2)Queensland University of Technology, Earth, Environment and Biological Sciences, Brisbane, Australia
 
Geochemistry of Archean Mafic Amphibolites from the Amsaga Area, West African Craton, Mauritania: What Is the Message?
Fatima El Atrassi1, Vinciane Debaille1, Nadine D C Mattielli1 and Julien Berger2, (1)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
 
Isotopic Disequilibrium and High-Crystallinity Magma Ascent: Clues to the Temporal Restriction of Proterozoic Anorthosites
Grant Michael Bybee, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
 
Clues to the chemical evolution of agpaitic magmas from compositional zoning in kakortokite-hosted eudialyte, Ilímaussaq Complex, South Greenland
Anouk Margaretha Borst1,2, Matthijs A Smit3, Tod E Waight2, Troels F D Nielsen1 and Henrik Friis4, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark, (3)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Natural History Museum Oslo, Oslo, Norway
 
P-T evolution of the garnet-amphibolites from the Quanji Massif: Amalgamation of the continental blocks in NW China and Links to assembly of the Columbia supercontinent
Nengsong Chen1, Hassan Abdelsalam Mustafa1,2, Xiaoyan Li1, Bin Xia1, Qinyan Wang1 and Min Sun3, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Kordofan, Faculty of Science, EL Obeid, Sudan, (3)Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
The ~2.4 Ga granitoids in the Quanji Massif,NW China: Petrogenesis and Implication for the early Paleoproterozoic Tectonics
Songlin Gong, Nengsong Chen and Qinyan Wang, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
 
Late Permian Melt Percolation through the Crust of North-Central Africa and Its Possible Relationship to the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province
J Gregory Shellnutt1, Tung-Yi Lee1, Chih-Cheng Yang2, Jong-Chang Wu2, Kuo-Lung Wang3 and Ching-Hua Lo4, (1)NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Chinese Petroleum Corporation-Taiwan, Miaoli, Taiwan, (3)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)Natl Taiwan Univ, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Distinctly different parental magmas for plutons and lavas in the central Aleutian arc
Yue Cai1, Matthew E Rioux2, Peter B Kelemen1, Steven L Goldstein1, Louise Bolge1 and Andrew R Kylander-Clark2, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Petrogenesis and Tectonic Implications for High Ba-Sr Porphyries from South Qinling Oroganic Belt, China
Hong-Fei Zhang, Bi-Ji Luo, Long-Mei Shen and Yan Liu, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China