T010
From Rift to Ridge: The roles of faulting, fluids, surface processes, and tectonic inheritance
From Rift to Ridge: The roles of faulting, fluids, surface processes, and tectonic inheritance
Session ID#: 157254
Session Description:
Crustal extension and plate divergence are fundamental tectonic processes. Active and fossil divergent plate boundaries exhibit multiscale spatiotemporal deformational characteristics that describe a complex spectrum of processes that facilitate the creation of continents and ocean basins. These include processes associated with incipient continental rifting, crustal and lithospheric necking, hyper-extension, continental break-up, incipient oceanic ridges, and advanced oceanic spreading. Specific topics of interest include the roles of faulting, fluids, surface processes, and tectonic inheritance in influencing or recording deformation in extensional systems.
This session welcomes multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary contributions from geological, geophysical, geochemical, and modeling studies addressing fundamental and long-standing questions on the evolution of divergent plate boundaries in continents and oceanic basins.
Index Terms:
3001 Back-arc basin processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3035 Midocean ridge processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
8105 Continental margins: divergent [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8109 Continental tectonics: extensional [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Folarin Kolawole, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States
Conveners: Jolante W Van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, John B Naliboff, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States and Anne Becel, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Liang Xue, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
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