T23F:
Mantle, Crust, and Surface Dynamics in the Mediterranean System III


Session ID#: 10798

Session Description:
In the Mediterranean region, processes as diverse as volcanism, landscape evolution, lithospheric deformation, mantle dynamics, and the long-term carbon cycle are linked in a complex system. Topical questions include how slab dynamics relates to landscape evolution and drainage reorganization, how strain is partitioned in deforming continental lithosphere through time, and how volcanism influences and informs these processes.  Studies of the past and modern Mediterranean system help to identify primary controls on these processes at plate margins, and contribute to unraveling potential feedback mechanisms. Contributions to this session may include field, analytical, geophysical and modeling approaches to understand the driving forces, coupling, and/or rates of Earth processes from the surface to the mantle in tectonic systems.
Primary Convener:  Jane K. Willenbring, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Conveners:  Susan L Beck, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Mary R Reid, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Mary R Reid, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Susan L Beck, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, United States and Jane K. Willenbring, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Linking Slab Break-Off, Hellenic Trench Retreat, and Uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian Plateaus (Invited) (60008)
Taylor F Schildgen1,2, Cengiz Yildirim3, Domenico Cosentino4 and Manfred R Strecker2, (1)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Third University of Rome, Rome, Italy
DRAINAGE EVOLUTION DURING THE UPLIFT OF THE CENTRAL ANATOLIA PLATEAU (Invited) (60930)
Gilles Y Brocard1, Maud JM Meijers2, Jane K. Willenbring1, Nuretdin Kaymakci3 and Donna L Whitney4, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Messinian Onset of Central Anatolian Plateau and Tauride Mountain Uplift as Evidenced by the Formation of an Orographic Barrier (65273)
Maud JM Meijers, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Andreas Mulch, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, United States, Gilles Y Brocard, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Michael A Cosca, USGS, Denver, CO, United States and Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
The interaction between Aegean back-arc extension and Anatolia escape since Late Miocene (69318)
Mélody Maéva Philippon, UMR 5243 Geosciences Montpellier, Antilles University, Pointe à Pitre, France, Jean-Pierre Brun, Géosciences Rennes, L, Rennes Cedex, France, Frédéric Gueydan, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France and Dimitrios Sokoutis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Why lithospheric extension separated the Aegean from Turkey (59769)
Uwe Ring, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Klaus Gessner, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, Stuart N Thomson, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Vanessa Markwitz, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Orogen-Parallel and -Normal Extension at the Dinarides-Hellenides Junction during Clockwise Rotation and Radial Expansion of the Retreating Hellenic Arc-Trench System (83192)
Mark Handy1, Bernhard Fügenschuh2, Jörg Giese3, Eline Le Breton3, Bardhyl Muceku4, Kutjim Onuzi5, Jan Pleuger3, Stefan M. Schmid6 and Kamil M Ustaszewski7, (1)Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)Univ. Innsbruck, Inst. Geol., Innsbruck, Austria, (3)FU-Berlin, Earth Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (4)Technical Univ. Tirana, Geology, Tirana, Albania, (5)Techn. Univ. Tirana, Geology, Tirana, Albania, (6)ETH-Zürich, Erdwissenschaften, Zürich, Switzerland, (7)FSU-Jena, Jena, Germany
Miocene tectonics of the Western Alboran domain: from mantle extensional exhumation to westward thrusting (79746)
Frédéric Gueydan, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France; University of Montpellier II, Montpellier cedex 5, France, Gianluca Frasca, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France and Jean-Pierre Brun, Géosciences Rennes, L, Rennes Cedex, France
New Evidences for Preserved Segmentation of the Alpine-Tethyan Domain in the Iberia-Africa Plate Boundary Region (61749)
Manuel Fernandez1, Montserrat Torne2, Jaume Verges3 and Grant George Buffett2, (1)Geosciences Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere, Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn-CSIC), Barcelona (Spain), Barcelona, Spain, (3)Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Barcelona, Spain

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