T21G
How Earth Works 100 Years after Wegener's Continental Drift Theory: Supercontinent Cycles, Plate Tectonics, and Global Geodynamics II

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
306 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  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, Boulder, CO, United States and Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, 3584, 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, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel Pastor-Galán, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
08:00
Origin of Plumes in Paleogeographically Constrained Global Convection Models (Invited) (64001)
Rakib Hassan, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
08:15
Global tectonics from mantle convection models (Invited) (77675)
Nicolas Coltice, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France; University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
08:30
How Earth works 100 years after Wegener's continental drift theory and IGCP 648 (79472)
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 AD Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Bruce M Eglington, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
08:45
Amasia and Supercontinent Formation by Orthoversion (Invited) (79474)
Ross Nelson Mitchell, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:00
Supercontinent Cyclicity: Relevant Data, Constraints, Limitations and Aspects Requiring Particular Attention (Invited) (74745)
Bruce M Eglington, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
09:15
How Did the North China Craton Move from Nuna to Rodinia (76193)
Shihong Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
09:30
Supercontinent Breakup and Reassembly in the Appalachian-Caledonide System: Implications for the Wilson Cycle (68465)
John W.F. Waldron, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and David I Schofield, British Geological Survey, Cardiff, United Kingdom
09:45
New Views of East Antarctica- from Columbia to Gondwana (73484)
Fausto Ferraccioli1, Rene Forsberg2, Alan Aitken3, Duncan A Young4, Donald D Blankenship5, Robin E Bell6, Carol Finn7, Yasmina M. Martos1, Egidio Armadillo8, Joachim Jacobs9, Joerg Ebbing10, Graeme Eagles11, Wilfried Jokat11, Tom A Jordan12, Antonia Ruppel13, Andreas Läufer13 and Ian W D Dalziel14, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (3)University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Crawley, WA, Australia, (4)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (5)Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)USGS, Denver, CO, United States, (8)University of Genoa, 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)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (13)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, (14)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
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