T52C:
Continental Volcanic Rifted Margins I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom and Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Conveners:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Ken J W McCaffrey, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Richard James Walker, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
T52C-01
 
Volcanic Versus Non-Volcanic Passive Margins: Two Different Ways to Break-up Continents
Laurent Geoffroy1, E B Burov2, Philippe Werner3 and Patrick Unternehr3, (1)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France, (2)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (3)Total SA, Courbevoie, France
10:35 AM
T52C-02
 
The role of small-scale convection on the formation of volcanic passive margins
Jeroen Van Hunen1,2 and Jordan Jerad John Phethean2,3, (1)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
T52C-03
 
New Constraints on the Age of the Opening of the South Atlantic Basin As Revealed By Recently Acquired Magnetic, Gravity and Seismic Reflection Data
Stuart A Hall1, Dale E Bird2, Hunter A Danque3, James V Grant3, David J McLean3 and Philip J Towle3, (1)Univ Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Bird Geophysical, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, TX, United States
11:05 AM
T52C-04
 
Evolution of Northeast Atlantic Magmatic Continental Margins from an Ethiopian-Afar Perspective
Richard W England1, David G Cornwell2 and Alice M Ramsden1, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
11:20 AM
T52C-05
 
Magma-Assisted Continental Break-up Encroached on Previously Stretched Continental Lithosphere – the NE Greenland Composite Passive Margin
Stanislaw Mazur, GETECH, Leeds, United Kingdom, Stephen Rippington, ARKeX, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Phill Houghton, ION Geophysical Corporation, Houston, TX, United States
11:35 AM
T52C-06
 
Constraining the role of magma before, during and after the break-up of continents using seismic reflection data
Craig Magee1, Christopher A-L Jackson1, Nick Schofield2 and Simon P Holford3, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
11:50 AM
T52C-07
 
Post-rift Magmatism at Passive Margins: An Integrated Study of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin
Yiduo Liu, Michael Murphy and John M Cannon, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
12:05 PM
T52C-08
 
The Potential Role of Igneous Intrusions on Hydrocarbon Migration, West of Shetlands, UK
Remi Rateau1, Nick Schofield2 and Michael Smith1, (1)DONG Energy, Hoersholm, Denmark, (2)University of Aberdeen, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
 
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