T54B:
Toward Constraining Subduction Zone Dynamics III

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Fabio a Capitanio, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and John Huw Davies, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom
Primary Conveners:  John Huw Davies, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Fabio a Capitanio, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
T54B-01
 
"Dynamic Kinematics": Towards Linking Earth's Plate Motions to the Evolution of Global Mantle Flow
Tobias Rolf, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway and Paul J Tackley, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4:15 PM
T54B-02
 
Flexural Mechanics of Subduction
Neil M Ribe, University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France and Zhong-Hai Li, Chinese Academy Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
4:30 PM
T54B-03
 
The effect of metastable pyroxene on the slab dynamics
Roberto Agrusta1, Jeroen Van Hunen1 and Saskia D B Goes2, (1)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
4:45 PM
T54B-04
 
Along-Arc Variation in Slab Surface Temperature Caused By 3D Material Circulation at the Plate Interface
Manabu Morishige, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Peter E Van Keken, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
5:00 PM
T54B-05
 
Evolution of the long-wavelength, subduction-driven topography of South America since 150 Ma
Nicolas E Flament1, Michael Gurnis2, Simon Williams1, Daniel J Bower2, Maria Seton3 and Dietmar Müller1, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
5:15 PM
T54B-06
 
Continental Subduction and Subduction Initiation Leading to Extensional Exhumation of Ultra-High Pressure Rocks During Ongoing Plate Convergence in Papua New Guinea
W Roger Buck, Columbia University of New York, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory - LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States and Kenni Dinesen Petersen, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
5:30 PM
T54B-07
 
Dynamics and Significance of Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation: Numerical Modeling
Taras Gerya, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Robert J Stern, Univ Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, Marzieh Baes, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geodynamic Modelling, Potsdam, Germany, Stephan V. Sobolev, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Scott Andrew Whattam, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
5:45 PM
T54B-08
 
Overriding Plate Controls on Subduction Zone Evolution
Wendy Katherine Sharples, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Margarete Ann Jadamec, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia and Fabio a Capitanio, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 
See more of: Tectonophysics
<< Previous Session | Next Session >>