T22A
Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins III

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
304 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Vadim L Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Klaus Gessner, Geological Survey of Western Australia, East Perth, WA, Australia and Christopher Kirkland, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Chairs:  Klaus Gessner, Geological Survey of Western Australia, East Perth, WA, Australia and Vadim L Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Vadim L Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
10:20
Plume tectonics and cratons formation in the early Earth (Invited) (59106)
Taras Gerya1, Robert J Stern2, Marzieh Baes3, Ria Fischer1, Elena Sizova4, Stephan V. Sobolev3 and Scott Andrew Whattam5, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Univ Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (4)University of Graz, Department of Earth Science, Graz, Austria, (5)Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
10:40
The Thermal Structure and Strength of Cratons and their Margins (63239)
Claude P Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Jean-Claude Mareschal, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
11:15
Crust and upper mantle anisotropy and deformation characteristics in North China craton (69775)
Huajian Yao, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior, Hefei, China, Jikun Feng, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Lihua Fang, Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing, China and Jianping Wu, Institute of Geophysics, China Eathquake Administration, Beijing, China
11:30
Betwixt and Between: Structure and Evolution of Central Mongolia (76382)
Anne Meltzer1, Leonard D Ancuta2, Richard W Carlson3, Jeremy K Caves4, C Page Chamberlain5, John C Gosse6, Bruce D Idleman2, Dmitri A Ionov7, Kalin T McDannell2, Mendelson Tamra8, Hari Mix9, Ulziibat Munkhuu10, Ray Russo11, Mark Sabaj-Perez12, Dork L Sahagian2, Derek J Sjostrom13, Stephen G Smith14, Josh C Stachnik1, Baasanbat Tsagaan10, Karl W Wegmann15, Matthew J Winnick4, Peter K Zeitler2 and Alexander A Proussevitch16, (1)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (2)Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (7)University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (8)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States, (10)Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, (11)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (12)Academy of Natural Sciences Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (13)Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, United States, (14)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, (15)North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, United States, (16)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
11:45
Thermotectonic Evolution of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Insights into Gondwana Amalgmation and Breakup (71766)
Song Lu1, David Phillips2, Barry Paul Kohn3, Andrew J W Gleadow3, Erin Matchan2 and Guangwei Li1, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Parkville, Australia, (3)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
12:00
Thermal and Temporal Constraints on the Development of Dome and Keel Structures in the Eastern Pilbara Craton Using U-Pb Thermochronology (76729)
Scott Angus MacLennan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Blair Schoene, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
12:15
Discussion
 
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