T21G:
How Earth Works 100 Years after Wegener's Continental Drift Theory: Supercontinent Cycles, Plate Tectonics, and Global Geodynamics II
Session ID#: 10797
Session Description:
It is becoming increasingly accepted that Earth's history has been dominated by cycles of supercontinent assembly and breakup. However, the precise configuration and evolution history of even the youngest and best known supercontinent, Pangea, are still lacking, and the picture becomes much less clear for the Precambrian time. Even less known is the physical process that is responsible for such cyclic supercontinent events. An UNESCO-IUGS IGCP project (No. 648) was recently established to investigate both the supercontinent cycles and the geodynamic process behind it. In this session we invite researchers from the geological, paleomagnetic and geodynamic communities to present their latest research on any aspect of supercontinent evolution, plate tectonics, geodynamics, or new tools for such research, with the ultimate aim of understanding how Earth works.
Primary Convener: 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
Conveners: Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States and Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
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 Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison: Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Rakib Hassan, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, School of Earth, Life and Atmospheric Sciences, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Dan J Bower, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nicolas Coltice, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France; University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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, David A Evans, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States and Bruce M Eglington, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Ross Nelson Mitchell, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, David A Evans, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Taylor M Kilian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Bruce M Eglington, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, David A Evans, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, Sally Jane Pehrsson, Natural Resources of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 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
Shihong Zhang, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Beijing, China
John W.F. Waldron, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, David I Schofield, British Geological Survey, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Doug N Reusch, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME, United States and J Brendan Murphy, Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada, Department of Earth Sciences, Antigonish, Canada
Fausto Ferraccioli1, Rene Forsberg2, Alan Aitken3, Duncan A Young4, Donald D Blankenship5, Robin Elizabeth Bell6, Carol Finn7, Yasmina M. Martos1, Egidio Armadillo8, Joachim Jacobs9, Joerg Ebbing10, Graeme Eagles11, Wilfried Jokat12, Tom A Jordan13, Antonia Stefanie Ruppel14, Andreas Läufer14 and Ian W D Dalziel15, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Technical University of Denmark, Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (3)The University of Western Australia, School of Earth Sciences, Perth, Australia, (4)University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (5)Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (7)USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, (8)University of Genoa, DISTAV, Genoa, Italy, (9)University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, Norway, (10)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (11)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (12)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Geophysics, Bremerhaven, Germany, (13)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (14)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, (15)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
