T11D:
Applications of Thermochronology to Understand Crustal Systems

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Session ID#: 31265

Session Description:
Understanding the timing and/or rates of geologic events is often necessary to link them to mantle, lithospheric, and surface processes and assess the role of tectonics, erosion, and climate. Thermochronology is a powerful and increasingly used tool for deciphering crustal thermal histories that bear on a range of geologic questions. Such questions include, but are not limited to, cratonic stability, orogenic exhumation rates, timing of faulting, basin evolution, and magmatic events. Current research is pushing the limits of these dating techniques to assess deep-time thermal histories and decipher long-term thermal evolution. While substantial methodological advances have been made to improve our understanding of these complicated dating tools, interpreting complex datasets poses a significant challenge. We invite contributions that utilize thermochronometric dating techniques to better understand complex crustal systems. Contributions that relate to advances and innovative applications of thermochronometry are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Jaclyn S Baughman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  William Guenthner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, Urbana, United States, Jessica R Stanley, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany and Graham Harper Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jaclyn S Baughman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica R Stanley, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Graham Harper Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and William Guenthner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, Urbana, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William Guenthner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, Urbana, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1140 Thermochronology [GEOCHRONOLOGY]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8177 Tectonics and climatic interactions [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Helium Diffusion in Natural Xenotime (265364)
Alyssa Jordan Anderson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Kip V Hodges, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Matthijs C Van Soest, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and John M. Hanchar, Memorial Univ Newfoundland, St John''S, Canada
Intra-grain Common Pb Correction and Detrital Apatite U-Pb Dating via LA-ICPMS Depth Profiling (293651)
Patrick Driscoll Boyd1, Federico Galster2 and Daniel F Stockli1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Using U-Pb apatite thermochronology to track the structural evolution of granitoid-orthogneiss domes from the Archean Pilbara craton (282628)
Scott Angus MacLennan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Blair Schoene, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Beating the Heat: Magmatism in the Low-Temperature Thermochronologic Record (Invited) (258788)
Kendra E Murray, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Peter W Reiners, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jean Braun, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Matthew Connor Morriss, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
­­­Experimental Quantifications of Radiation Damage Annealing and Helium Diffusion Kinetics in Apatite (256013)
Chelsea D Willett, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and David L Shuster, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States
Obtaining thermal history information from old geological settings: how useful are radiation damaged apatites? (271030)
Mark Wildman, University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, Kerry Gallagher, Universite de Rennes, Rennes, France and Cécile Gautheron, University Paris Sud, GEOPS, Orsay, France
Linking craton stability and deep earth processes using thermochronology; a case study in the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. (254187)
Colin Piwonka Sturrock, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Rebecca Marie Flowers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States, James R Metcalf, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Barry Paul Kohn, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
The Thermal Evolution of the Southeast Baffin Island Continental Margin: An Integrated Apatite Fission Track and Apatite (U-Th)/He Study (278543)
Scott Jess1, Randell Stephenson1 and Roderick W Brown2, (1)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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