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Solid Earth Sciences(S) / Science of the Earth's Interior & Techtonophysics(IT) /  **International Session
S-IT05 Cause and evolution of plate tectonics: Advances in understanding oceanic plate-continental systems


Short title Cause and evolution of plate tectonics
Oral presentation
Date/Room/Chair
April 28 AM1 (09:00 - 10:45) 315 Takashi Nakagawa  / John Hernlund 
April 28 AM2 (11:00 - 11:45) 315 Thorsten Becker 
Poster presentation
Date/Room
April 28 (Core Time 18:15 - 19:30) Poster
Contact Thorsten Becker
Email twb@usc.edu
Convener Thorsten Becker  / John Hernlund  / Takashi Nakagawa 
Scope Plate tectonics is moderately well described by the behavior of a cold thermal boundary layer in thermal convection. However, Earth's thermal evolution is co-determined by fractionation and the resulting complexities of a thermo-chemical system. The recent years have seen dramatic advances in our ability to quantitatively model the behavior of such a system, and there has also been a resurgence in the analysis of geological, geophysical, and geochemical constraints on plate tectonics over time. We invite contributions from across the disciplines that speak to the question on how and why plate tectonics operates on terrestrial planets, including but not limited to: modeling studies of plate generation; convection studies including continental cycles; plate tectonic reconstruction analysis; geochemical reservoir evolution; stochastic and deterministic models of mantle structure; deep mantle phase transition dynamics;basal magma ocean dynamics; thermo-chemical pile dynamics; links between solid Earth and exosphere;continent formation and destruction; and long term volatile cycles.
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Time Presentation No Title Author Presenter Abstract
Oral Presentation   April 28 AM1 (09:00-10:45) 315                              to the top
09:00 - 09:15 Invited
SIT05-01
Lithospheric Rheology and Stress and the Dynamics of Plate Tectonics ZHONG, Shijie ZHONG, Shijie English
09:15 - 09:30 SIT05-02 3D numerical modeling of thermal regime and mantle flow associated with subduction of the two oceanic plates JI, Yingfeng
YOSHIOKA, Shoichi
JI, Yingfeng English
09:30 - 09:45 SIT05-03 Mantle flow and overriding plate stress state in 3-D models of thermo-mechanical subduction HOLT, Adam
BECKER, Thorsten
BECKER, Thorsten English
09:45 - 10:00 SIT05-04 Magnetic spectral analysis over the Atlantic Ocean off Portugal MATSUSHIMA, Jun
OKUBO, Yasukuni
ANTONIO, Correia
other
UCHIDA, Youhei English
10:00 - 10:15 Invited
SIT05-05
Subduction Processes and a New Hypothesis for ``Top-down Hemispherical Dynamics" of the Earth IWAMORI, Hikaru
NAKAMURA, Hitomi
HANYU, Takeshi
other
IWAMORI, Hikaru English
10:15 - 10:30 SIT05-06 Effects of plate-like behavior and material recycling on lateral variation of CMB heat flux NAKAGAWA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Takashi English
10:30 - 10:45 SIT05-07 Petrology and Geochemical Evolution of Lavas from the Ongoing and Voluminous Puu Oo Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii GARCIA, Michael
PIETRUSZKA, Aaron
GREENE, Andrew
other
GARCIA, Michael English
Oral Presentation   April 28 AM2 (11:00-11:45) 315                              to the top
11:00 - 11:15 SIT05-08 When did the plate tectonics start on the Earth? MARUYAMA, Shigenori MARUYAMA, Shigenori English
11:15 - 11:30 SIT05-09 Difference of tectonics and rheological structure between Earth and Venus AZUMA, Shintaro
KATAYAMA, Ikuo
NAKAKUKI, Tomoeki
AZUMA, Shintaro English
11:30 - 11:45 Invited
SIT05-10
On the origin of plate tectonics: Thinking outside of the convective box SOLOMATOV, Viatcheslav SOLOMATOV, Viatcheslav English


Presentation No Title Author Presenter Abstract
Poster Presentation   April 28  Core Time (18:15-19:30) Poster                    to the top
SIT05-P01 Estimation of the lithosphere-asthenosphere transition from multi-mode surface waves YOSHIZAWA, Kazunori YOSHIZAWA, Kazunori English