T21F
Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins II

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
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:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Klaus Gessner, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
08:00
T21F-01
Deformation of the Continental Lithosphere at the Margins of the North American Craton: Constraints from Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (68549)
Maureen D Long1, Margaret H Benoit2, Heather A Ford1, Erin A Wirth1, John C. Aragon1, Lauren Abrahams3, John McNamara1 and Kenneth Jackson1, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
08:20
T21F-02
Construction and destruction of some North American cratons (63773)
David B Snyder and Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
08:35
T21F-03
The stability of lithospheric steps: The Cordillera-craton transition in western North America (73571)
Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
08:50
T21F-04
Crustal structure in Central-Eastern Greenland: Implications for topography (68284)
Hans Thybo1, Helene Anja Kraft1 and Alexey Shulgin2,3, (1)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)University of Oslo, CEED, Oslo, Norway
09:05
T21F-05
Linking petrology and seismology of the southwest Greenland lithosphere (84800)
Charles E Lesher1,2, Charlotte Vestergaard2, Eric Brown2 and Derek Schutt3, (1)University of California Davis, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
09:20
T21F-06
Lithosphere Structure in Southern Africa: Mantle Density, Dynamic Topography, Moho Sharpness, and Kimberlite Magmatism (Invited) (63952)
Irina M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
09:40
T21F-07
Distinct Thermal and Metasomatic Characteristics of Mantle Lithosphere Beneath Two Proterozoic Terranes Bordering the Kaapvaal Craton of Southern Africa (78199)
Philip E Janney, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
09:55
Discussion
 
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