17 T1. Plenary III: The Backbone of the Americas and Other Regions

Friday, 7 April 2006
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Presentations

• 2:00 PM
  TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CARIBBEAN PLATE AS A REFERENCE FRAME SINCE XMA: THE “BACKBONE” EXPLAINED
  John F. Dewey, UC Davis, Davis, CA and James Pindell, Rice University, Houston, TX
  100635 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 2:20 PM
  THE ORIGIN OF GLOBAL MOUNTAIN BELTS: HOT SUBDUCTION ZONE BACKARCS AND HIGH PLATEAUX
  Roy D. Hyndman, Geol Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC and Stephane Mazzotti, Geol Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC and Claire A. Currie, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and Leonard Lucinda, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
  101446 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 2:40 PM
  NORTH AMERICA DYNAMICS AND WESTERN U.S. TECTONICS
  Eugene D. Humphreys, Eugene, OR and David D. Coblentz, Las Alamos, NM
  100915 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 3:00 PM
  PLATE COUPLING MECHANISM AT FLAT SLAB SUBDUCTION IN THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL ANDES (28-33°S): LONG AND SHORT TERM CONSTRAINTS FOR A NUMERICAL MODEL
  Gonzalo Yañez, Codelco Chile, Santiago, N/A and Richard W. Allmendinger, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Jose Cembrano, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, N/A
  102631 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 3:20 PM
  THE PLATE-TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF INVERSION CYCLES DURING OROGENESIS
  Gordon Lister, The Australian National University, Canberra, N/A and Marnie Forster, The Australian National University, Canberra, N/A
  99610 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 3:40 PM
  THE SOUTH PATAGONIAN BATHOLITH: 150 MY OF MAGMATISM AT A PLATE EDGE
  Francisco Hervé, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, N/A and Robert J. Pankhurst, N/A and Cristopher M. Fanning, N/A and Mauricio Calderón, N/A
  101324 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 4:00 PM
  REMOVING THE BACKBONE OF THE AMERICAS
  David W. Scholl, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  100526 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)