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Session Proposal: New Horizons in Tectonics (AGU25)

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New Horizons in Tectonics

Session ID#: 251496

Session Description:
In the last decades, the field of tectonics and our understanding of plate processes has advanced due to the advent of new technologies, the use of machine learning and AI to rapidly interrogate large complex datasets, our observations of real-time events, and our increasingly broad approaches to understanding processes across a range of disciplines. Although many of the original questions posed in the 1960's have been solved, many new questions have arisen, and many parts of the Earth system remain poorly resolved and/or understood. This session will be a forum for presenting new advances and horizons in tectonics and discussing new and old issues. Our panel of invited experts will lead with presentations on a range of key topics, followed by an open discussion.  Please join us for an exciting exploration into the frontiers of tectonics and tectonophysics and bring your questions to the table.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • G - Geodesy
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8155 Plate motions: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8168 Stresses: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Lisa Clare McNeill, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Derek J Neuharth, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, United States and Sylvain Barbot, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Meritxell Colet, Columbia University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States
 
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