T53A:
Alpine-Mediterranean Investigations: Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry

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Session ID#: 31288

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:  Mary R Reid, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Rob Govers, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Rob Govers, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lithospheric Structure, Heat Flow, and Attenuation along the Alpine-Mediterranean Belt (222159)
Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Increased Mediterranean Magma Production and Volcanism Triggered by the Messinian Salinity Crisis (250629)
Pietro Sternai1, Luca Caricchi2, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos3, Laurent Jolivet4, Tom Sheldrake5 and Sebastien Castelltort5, (1)University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, (2)University of Geneva, Department of Earth Science, Geneva, Switzerland, (3)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (4)University of Orleans, Orleans, France, (5)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Rates and patterns of Pleistocene rock uplift revealed by dating paleoshorelines on Crete, Greece: Implications for earthquake hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean (269459)
Richard Ott1, Sean F Gallen2 and Sean Willett2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zürich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
The structure of the Calabrian subduction system from the fore-arc to the back-arc: new insights from wide-angle seismic data (262731)
Valenti Sallares, Institute of Marine Sciences-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Manel Prada, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Geosphysics Section, Dublin, Ireland; Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), Dublin, Ireland, Cesar R Ranero, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging, ICREA at CSIC, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, Ingo Grevemeyer, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany and Nevio Zitellini, CNR Institute for Marine Science, Venice, Italy
Crustal structure of the Ionian basin and eastern Sicily margin : results from a wide angle seismic survey and implication for the crustal nature and origin of the basin, and the recent tear fault location (272194)
David Dellong, SHOM, Brest, France, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6538, Plouzané, France, Heidrun Kopp, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, David Graindorge, Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR5638, Plouzané, France, Lucia Margheriti, INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Roma, Italy, Milena Moretti, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy and Marc-Andre Gutscher, CNRS & University of Brest, Lab Geosciences Ocean, Brest, France
Upper-Mantle Deformation Beneath the Pyrenean Domain Inferred from SKS Splitting in Northern Spain and Southern France (215443)
Mickael J. A. Bonnin1, Sebastien Chevrot2, Ianis Gaudot3 and Méric Haugmard3, (1)University of Nantes, Nantes planetology and geodynamics lab, Nantes, France, (2)CNRS, GET, Observatoire Midi Pyrenees, Toulouse, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France
Evolving lithospheric flexure and paleotopography of the Pyrenean Orogen from 3D flexural modeling and basin analysis (243761)
Magdalena Ellis Curry, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, Peter van der Beek, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, ISTerre, CS-40700, Grenoble, France, Ritske S Huismans, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, Norway and Josep Anton Muñoz, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Piston-like emplacement of the Pennine zone and the rise of the Alps as post-convergent processes (215032)
Jason Price, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Brian P Wernicke, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States

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