T44C
Tectonic, Magmatic, and Geodynamic Studies of Extensional Processes: Applications in Iceland and the Nubia-Somalia-Arabia Plate System II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
304 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Cory A Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
Conveners:  D Sarah Stamps, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tyrone O Rooney, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Ian D Bastow, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Cory A Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States and Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
16:00
T44C-01
Why is Extension in the Northern Rift Zone of Iceland Accompanied Predominantly by Strike-slip Seismicity? (73825)
Robert S White1, Jennifer Woods2, Thorbjörg Ágústsdóttir2, Robert George Green3, Tim S Greenfield1, Bryndis Brandsdottir4 and Simon A T Redfern5, (1)Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories - Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, (4)University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, (5)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
16:15
T44C-02
Lithology and temperature: How key mantle variables control rift volcanism (Invited) (59982)
Oliver Shorttle1, Mark Hoggard1, Simon Matthews2 and John Maclennan1, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
16:30
T44C-03
Upper mantle structure of the Congo Craton and the East African Rift from full wave ambient noise tomography (76741)
Erica Emry, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
16:45
T44C-04
Geochemical evidence for pre- and syn-rifting lithospheric foundering in the East African Rift System (Invited) (62161)
Wendy R Nelson, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States, Tanya Furman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Lindy T. Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
17:00
T44C-05
Miocene Onset of Extension in the Turkana Depression, Kenya: Implications for the Geodynamic Evolution of the East African Rift System (68671)
Samuel Boone1, Andrew J W Gleadow2, Barry Paul Kohn2 and Christian Seiler3, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (3)Midland Valley, Glasgow, United Kingdom
17:15
T44C-06
High-resolution estimates of Nubia-Somalia plate motion since 20 Ma from reconstructions of the Southwest Indian Ridge, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden (67034)
Charles DeMets, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Sergey Alexandrovich Merkuryev, Saint Petersburg State University, Insitute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
17:30
T44C-07
Kinematics and Dynamics of the Main Ethiopian Rift (85113)
Cassidy Jay1, Lucy M Flesch1 and Rebecca O Bendick2, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States
17:45
T44C-08
Kinematics and Dynamics of Observed Along-Rift Surface Motions in the East African Rift System (82747)
Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A & M University, Mathematics, College Station, TX, United States, Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Corné Kreemer, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States and Elifuraha Saria, Ardhi University, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
 
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