T42B:
Linking Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection to Wilson Cycles: Constraints from the Geological Record and Surface Processes II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  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 and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Conveners:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-conveners:  Thorsten W Becker, USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Rebecca Marie Flowers, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and 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
OSPA Liaisons:  Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
T42B-01
 
Supercontinent Reconstructions as of 2014: Advances and Challenges
David AD Evans, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT, United States
10:35 AM
T42B-02
 
Supercontinent Breakup and the Deep Earth
Trond Helge Torsvik, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
10:50 AM
T42B-03
 
Supercontinent Pangea, Mantle Dynamics, and Reference Frame of Global Plate Motions
Shijie Zhong1, Maxwell L Rudolph2 and Xi Liu1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States
11:05 AM
T42B-04
 
The Dispersal of East Gondwana from Continental Breakup to the Start of the Cretaceous Quiet Zone
Joshua Kane Davis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Lawrence A Lawver, UT Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Ian O Norton, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and Lisa Gahagan, Univ Texas - Inst Geophys, Austin, TX, United States
11:20 AM
T42B-05
 
Mid-Continent Rift: Rift, LIP, or Both?
Carol A Stein1, Seth A Stein2, Jonas Kley3, David Hindle3 and G Randy Keller Jr4, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (3)Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, (4)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
11:35 AM
T42B-06
 
Global Age Distribution of Detrital Zircons, the Supercontinent Cycle, and Subduction Flux Through Time
Dwight C Bradley, USGS, Anchorage, AK, United States
11:50 AM
T42B-07
 
The Role of Subduction and Mantle Plumes in the Supercontinent Cycle
Philip J Heron, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Julian Philip Lowman, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Claudia Stein, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
12:05 PM
T42B-08
 
Slab Rollback Instability and Super-Continent Dispersal
David Bercovici and Maureen D Long, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
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