GP22A:
Marine Magnetics, Plate Kinematics, and the Oceanic Crust I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-11:20 AM
Chairs:  Jerome Dyment, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Roi Granot, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Primary Conveners:  Jerome Dyment, IPGP, CNRS UMR 7154, Paris, France
Co-conveners:  Roi Granot, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, Masako Tominaga, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Taichi Sato, AIST, Ibaraki, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Jerome Dyment, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Revisiting Near-Seafloor Magnetics on the TAG Hydrothermal Site (26°N, MAR): Tectonic and Hydrothermal Implications
Florent Szitkar, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Jerome Dyment, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
10:35 AM
 
Reconstructing past plate-motion histories in the presence of finite-rotation noise
Giampiero Iaffaldano1, Rhys Hawkins1, Thomas Bodin2 and Malcolm Sambridge1, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
10:50 AM
 
The Pivoting Motion of Africa in the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic
Steven C Cande, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
High Resolution Quaternary and Neogene Reconstructions of the Southwest Indian Ridge and Rifting in Eastern Africa
Charles DeMets, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Sergey Merkouriev, Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, St. Petersburg, Russia, Eric Calais, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France and Daniel Sauter, EOST École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg Cedex, France