T54A:
Making the Mediterranean: From Mantle to Surface Processes III

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Session ID#: 16621

Session Description:
The Mediterranean area, from Gibraltar to the Caucasus offers an outstanding opportunity to investigate the long-lasting geological record of complex intraplate deformation and plate boundary re-configuration. 

Interactions among major and smaller plates and the presence of subduction zones at different evolutionary stages provide opportunity for multi-disciplinary studies of the past and modern Mediterranean system, addressing the connection between deep and surface processes.

Topical questions include long-term evolution of a convergent plate boundary, and the relations between slab and mantle dynamics, magmatic and metamorphic processes, strain partitioning in the lithosphere and surface evolution. 

We invite contributions from different and multi-disciplinary perspectives ranging from the surface to the mantle and based on geology (tectonics, petrology, geochronology, geochemistry, paleomagnetism and geomorphology), geophysics (seismicity, seismic imaging and anisotropy), geodesy and modelling (numerical and analogue).

Primary Convener:  Alexis Plunder, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Derya Gürer, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Claudia Piromallo, (INGV) National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Roma, Italy
Chairs:  Alexis Plunder, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and Donna L Whitney, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexis Plunder, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Index Terms:

8104 Continental margins: convergent [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8150 Plate boundary: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Wide-angle seismic data from the East Sicily margin: Imaging the deep structure of a Tethyan transform margin and the modern Calabria subduction lateral slab tear. (125850)
David Dellong, SHOM, Brest, France, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6538, Plouzané, France, Heidrun Kopp, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Marc-Andre Gutscher, CNRS & University of Brest, Lab Geosciences Ocean, Brest, France
Subduction zone interaction: dynamic link between the Alps and the Appenines (120448)
Agnes Kiraly1, Fabio A Capitanio2, Francesca Funiciello3 and Claudio Faccenna3, (1)Third University of Rome, Rome, Italy, (2)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)University Roma Tre, Science, Rome, Italy
The Opening of the Tyrrhenian Back-arc Basin and the Formation of New Oceanic Crust (Invited) (118150)
Valentina Magni, University of Oslo, CEED, Oslo, Norway
­­New Finite-Frequency Teleseismic P-wave Tomography of the Anatolian Sub-continent and the Fate of the Subducted Cyprean Slab (132481)
Daniel Evan Portner, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, C. Berk Biryol, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Jonathan R Delph, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Susan L Beck, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, George Zandt, Retired, Washington, DC, United States, Arda Özacar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, Eric A Sandvol, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States and Niyazi Turkelli, Kandilli Observatory, Istanbul, Turkey
Slab Segmentation in the South-Eastern Aegean: Evidence from Seismicity. (146310)
Gian Maria Bocchini1, Andrea Brüstle2, Dirk Becker3, Marija Ruscic4, Martina Rische5, Gerassimos A Papadopoulos1 and Thomas Meier6, (1)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Geodynamics, Athens, Greece, (2)Landesamt für Geologie und Bergbau Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany, (3)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (4)University of Kiel, Department of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany, (5)Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (6)Kiel University, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
Mantle Anisotropy Beneath Central Anatolia from Shear Wave splitting Analysis (171197)
Ugur Teoman1, Gulten Polat2, Eric A Sandvol3, Metin Kahraman PhD1 and Niyazi Turkelli4, (1)Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)Dublin Institute for Advanced, Dublin, Ireland, (3)University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States, (4)Kandilli Observatory, Istanbul, Turkey
Numerical simulation of 3D mantle flow in subduction systems in relation to seismic anisotropy beneath eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia (150033)
Judith Maria Confal1, Manuele Faccenda2, Tuna Eken3 and Tuncay Taymaz1, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geophysical Engineering, The Faculty of Mines, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geophysical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Drip Tectonics and The Uplift of Central Anatolia (155835)
Oguz Gogus1, Russell Pysklywec2, A M Celal Sengor3,4 and Dr. Erkan Gün, PhD3, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey, (2)University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geology, Istanbul, Turkey

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