U22A:
The Giants of Tectonophysics


Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.


Session ID#: 45158

Session Description:
In honor of AGU's centennial, this session profiles breakthrough discoveries by leading contributors to the study of plate tectonics, geodynamics, earthquakes and faulting, and rock mechanics over the past century. Biographers and colleagues of these leading lights are encouraged to submit abstracts to present their story and give us an understanding about how they worked, how they acquired their unique insight, what conflicts they faced in presenting their ideas, and what it was like to collaborate with or debate them.
OSPA Liaison:  Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Primary Convener:  Ross S Stein, Temblor, Inc., Tiburon, CA, United States
Conveners:  Julia Morgan, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States and Margarete Ann Jadamec, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Chairs:  Ross S Stein, Temblor, Inc., Tiburon, United States and Margarete Ann Jadamec, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1709 Geodesy [HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICS]
1724 Ocean sciences [HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICS]
1734 Seismology [HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICS]
1744 Tectonophysics [HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Science on a Mission: How Military Secrecy Impeded the Development of Plate Tectonics (Invited) (347301)
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, History of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Marie Tharp: Discoverer of the Rift Valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Inventor of Marine Cartography (Invited) (366409)
Dawn J Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, United States and Hali Felt, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Harry Hammond Hess: All-Round Scientist who Spread the Sea Floor (Invited) (350216)
Claude P Jaupart, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), UMR 7154, Paris, France
John Tuzo Wilson: Transform Faults; Key to Understanding the Kinematics of Ocean Floors (Invited) (360471)
Gordon Fox West, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lynn R. Sykes: Earthquakes at the Boundaries and Beyond (Invited) (407021)
Goran Ekstrom, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Meredith Nettles, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Jason Morgan's 1967 Discovery of Plate Tectonics (Invited) (465485)
Henry R Frankel, Univ Missouri Kansas City, Prairie Village, KS, United States
Donald L. Turcotte: Geodynamics and the drivers of plate tectonics (Invited) (347983)
Louise H Kellogg, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Dan McKenzie: What Happened after Plate Tectonics? (Invited) (435953)
Barry Parsons, University of Oxford, COMET, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom

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