Tectonophysics



Records of continental rifting and their fidelity
Primary Convener:  Tyson Michael Smith, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Anne Glerum, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geodynamic Modeling, Potsdam, Germany and Sean Gaynor, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Tyson Michael Smith, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States


Advances in our understanding of magma-poor and magma-rich rifting processes
Primary Convener:  D. Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
Conveners:  Emmanuel Atem Atem Njinju, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Andrew B Katumwehe, Midwestern State University, Kimbell School of Geosciences, Wichita Falls, TX, United States and John B Naliboff, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew B Katumwehe, Midwestern State University, Kimbell School of Geosciences, Wichita Falls, TX, United States


Alaska and Northern Canadian Cordillera Geochemistry, Geophysics, Petrology, Seismology, and Tectonics.
Primary Convener:  Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Julie Elliott, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Connecting the Ins and Outs of Subduction Zones: Experiments, Models, and Observations as Constraints for Inputs, Processes, and Outputs
Primary Convener:  Justin David David Estep, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Brandon Shuck, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics & Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Maryjo N Brounce, University of California Riverside, Earth Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States and Shi Joyce Sim, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Justin David David Estep, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States


Continental Collisions – Structure and Evolution
Primary Convener:  Huaiyu Yuan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia
Conveners:  Liang Zhao, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Klaus Gessner, Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, East Perth, WA, Australia and Vadim L Levin, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia


Earth System: mantle to biosphere across the Himalaya
Primary Convener:  A Alexander G Webb, University of Hong Kong, Division of Earth and Space Science and Laboratory for Space Research, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Convener:  Peter Dominic Clift, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  A Alexander G Webb, University of Hong Kong, Division of Earth and Space Science and Laboratory for Space Research, Hong Kong, Hong Kong


East Asia Lithosphere Structure and Evolution
Primary Convener:  Shuwen Dong, SinoProbe Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China; Nanjing University, School of Geoscience and Engineering, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Oleg V Petrov, VSEGEI, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Maximiliano Bezada, University of Minnesota, Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shuwen Dong, SinoProbe Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China; Nanjing University, School of Geoscience and Engineering, Nanjing, China


Effects of heterogeneities on strain localization in the crust and mantle
Primary Convener:  Caleb W Holyoke III, University of Akron, Department of Geosciences, Akron, OH, United States
Conveners:  Hiroko Kitajima, Texas A&M University, Center for Tectonophysics and the Department of Geology & Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States and Matej Pec, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caleb W Holyoke III, University of Akron, Department of Geosciences, Akron, OH, United States


Fluids in subduction zones: transport, behavior and consequences
Primary Convener:  Kayleigh Harvey, Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States
Conveners:  William Floyd Hoover1,2, Besim Dragovic3 and Sarah Penniston-Dorland1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States(2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States(3)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kayleigh Harvey, Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States


Fold-and-Thrust Belts and Associated Basins: Evolution and Dynamics at All Spatiotemporal Scales
Primary Convener:  Feng Cheng, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Susana Henriquez1, Yiduo Liu2, Mark Benedict Allen3 and Yu-Huan Hsieh2, (1)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States(2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States(3)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Feng Cheng, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States


Geophysical constraints on crustal stress and structure in the age of machine learning
Primary Convener:  Rick Bennett, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Convener:  Amanda N Hughes, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rick Bennett, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States


Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: Volume 1
Primary Convener:  Chris Rollins, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Conveners:  Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, United States, Heather R Shaddox, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris Rollins, University of Leeds, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom


Growth and Modification of Continental Crust in Extensional and Compressional Regions
Primary Convener:  Min Chen, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Tandis S. Bidgoli, University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States and Jonathan R Delph, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Min Chen, Rice Univ-Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States


ILP: 40 years of international lithosphere research
Primary Convener:  Mian Liu, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
Conveners:  Hans Thybo, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey; University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway and Qin Wang, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Primary Liaison:  Hans Thybo, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, Turkey; University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway


Induced seismicity mechanisms and mitigation: Understanding the role of pore pressure diffusion to elastic stress transfer and aseismic slip in multi-physics and multi-scale system
Primary Convener:  Kyung Won Chang, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States and Thomas Goebel, The University of Memphis, CERI, Memphis, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kyung Won Chang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


Initiation, Evolution, Structure, and Dynamics of Transform Fault Zones and their Complex Tectonics
Primary Convener:  Sarah Jaye C Oliva, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conveners:  Sarah Jaye C Oliva, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Yajing Liu, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Phaedra Upton, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Carolina Pagli, Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Pisa, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Sarah Jaye C Oliva, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada


Lithospheric Foundering: Detection and Effects on Deformation, Topography, and Thermal/Compositional Structure
Primary Convener:  Alexander Tye, Dixie State University, Physical Sciences, St George, UT, United States
Conveners:  Mitchell McMillan, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Oguz Gogus, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey and Kevin Michael Ward, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander Tye, Dixie State University, Physical Sciences, St George, UT, United States


Localization preceding catastrophic failure
Primary Convener:  Jessica McBeck, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Conveners:  Kristel Chanard, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), UMR 7154, Paris, France; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Yehuda Ben-Zion, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences and Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jessica McBeck, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway


Machine learning algorithms for lithospheric modelling
Primary Convener:  Nils Holzrichter, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Convener:  Nils Holzrichter, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Nils Holzrichter, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany


Outstanding problems in Caribbean and Central American Tectonics
Primary Convener:  Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
Convener:  Jonathan Obrist-Farner, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States


Recent Advances and Future Directions in Studying the Geology and Tectonics of Africa
Primary Convener:  Islam Fadel, University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
Conveners:  Folarin Kolawole, Upstream Structural Geologist, BP America, Houston, TX, United States and Mohamed Sobh, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics, Freiberg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Islam Fadel, University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands


Subduction Top to Bottom: Focus on the Forearc
Primary Convener:  Gray E Bebout, Lehigh University, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Conveners:  David William Scholl, U S Geological Survey, Emeritus, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Robert J Stern, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States and Ikuko Wada, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gray E Bebout, Lehigh University, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States


SZ4D: Interdisciplinary Studies of Subduction Zone Hazards
Primary Convener:  Melodie E French, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Peter H Barry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, Sean F Gallen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Alison R Duvall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Donna J Shillington, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melodie E French, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States


Tectonic, Topographic, and Exhumation History of the Himalaya-Tibetan Orogen
Primary Convener:  Rasoul B Sorkhabi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Convener:  Elizabeth J Catlos, Univeristy of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rasoul B Sorkhabi, Energy Geoscience Inst, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


Tectonophysics General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Marianne S. Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States
Conveners:  Patrick M Fulton, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Jing Liu-Zeng, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Sciences, Tianjin, China
Primary Liaison:  Marianne S. Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States


The Cascadia margin: Linking geophysical characteristics with subduction zone structure and evolution
Primary Convener:  Jonathan R Delph, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Helen A Janiszewski, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, Miles Bodmer, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Hannah I Shamloo, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan R Delph, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States


Unravelling the complex interplay between short-term and long-term deformation to understand crustal dynamics
Primary Convener:  Sharadha Sathiakumar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Ylona van Dinther, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and James Biemiller, University of Texas, Austin, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sharadha Sathiakumar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Zooming in to see the big picture: Using nano- to micro-scale observations to better understand tectonic processes
Primary Convener:  Noah Phillips, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
Conveners:  Rellie Goddard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Alexander Dmitri Lusk, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, CA, United States and Amy Catherine Moser, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Noah Phillips, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States