T51H:
Alpine-Mediterranean Investigations: Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry

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Session ID#: 31276

Session Description:
The Alpine-Mediterranean region represents a unique opportunity to investigate lithosphere deformations, in an intricate interplay of plate subduction, collision, and back-arc extension. Active research for this region ranges from the microscopic scale to the lithosphere and upper mantle, addressing fundamental issues like the vertical and horizontal tectonics including surface uplift/subsidence, controls on seismicity, causes of the rich variety of magmatic and volcanic products, and of metamorphism.

In this session we intend to bring different viewpoints together on the evolution of the west, central, and east Mediterranean, the Alps, Anatolia, and Iranian plateau. We invite contributions from all disciplines and scales in the earth sciences including, but not limited to, field geology, geochemistry, petrology, geophysical methods, seismology, sedimentology, geodynamic modeling, geodesy, and marine geology.
Primary Convener:  Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey
Conveners:  Jonathan R Delph, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Rob Govers, Utrecht University, Dept. Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands and Mary R Reid, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey and Jonathan R Delph, University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey
Index Terms:

8107 Continental neotectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Thin Crust and High Crustal Vp/Vs beneath the Central Armenia Plateau of the Lesser Caucasus (227190)
Tai-Lin Tseng, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Chih-Ming Lin, National Taiwan University, Department of Geoscience, Taipei, Taiwan, Bor-Shouh Huang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan and Arkadi Karakhanyan, National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia, Institute of Geological Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
Active shortening and the geological expression of the transition from subduction to continental collision in the western Greater Caucasus, Republic of Georgia (280455)
Charles Cashman Trexler, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Eric Cowgill, University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Joel Q G Spencer, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States, Tea Godoladze, Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Salome Gogoladze, Institute of Earth Sciences at Ilia State University, 0177 Tbilisi, Georgia
Initial Closure of the Neo-Tethys and Kinematics of the Arabian Crustal Shortening (262813)
Mortaza Pirouz1, Jean-Philippe Avouac2, Jamshid Hassanzadeh3, Joseph L Kirschvink2 and Abbas Bahroudi4, (1)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Tehran, School of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Did the Basement-Involved Main Caucasus Thrust Form during the Cenozoic Arabia-Eurasia Collision? (245991)
Dylan Alexander Vasey1, Eric Cowgill2, Nathan A Niemi3, Tea Godoladze4, Zurab Javakhishvili5, Irakli Skhirtladze5 and Giorgi Boichenko5, (1)University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, (5)Ilia State University, Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Diverse continental subduction scenarios along the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone (254558)
Mikhail K Kaban1, Alexey Petrunin1, Sami El Khrepy2,3 and Nassir Saad Al-Arifi2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (3)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, NRIAG, seismology, Cairo,helwan, Egypt
Multidimensional Mantle Convection Models in Eastern Anatolia, the North Arabian Platform, and Caucasus Region (257366)
Ebru Sengul Uluocak1, Hosein Shahnas1,2, Russell Pysklywec1, Oguz Gogus3 and Tuna Eken4, (1)University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey, (4)Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geophysical Engineering, The Faculty of Mines, Istanbul, Turkey

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