GP004
Frontiers in Paleogeography

Session ID#: 160953

Session Description:
The time-dependent position of continents and oceans is central to understanding the evolution of Earth's surface and interior. This session seeks contributions that take varied approaches to reconstruct and analyze paleogeography on the regional to global scale across timescales and throughout Earth history. These approaches include those using paleomagnetism, marine geophysical data, geology, seismic tomography, and more. In addition to highlighting research that is furthering the community's ability to reconstruct paleogeography, we welcome contributions that analyze the paleoclimatic and geodynamic implications of paleogeographic models.
Co-Organized:
  • T - Tectonophysics
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EGU: European Geosciences Union -
  • GAC: Geological Association of Canada -
  • GSA: Geological Society of America -
Index Terms:

1525 Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics: regional, global [GEOMAGNETISM AND PALEOMAGNETISM]
4999 General or miscellaneous [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8157 Plate motions: past [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Richard G Gordon, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
A new paleogeographic model for the Neoproterozoic Adamastor and Khomas oceans and the tectonic context for Snowball Earth (1054677)
Francis A Macdonald, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States, Judy Pin Pu, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Adrian Tasistro-Hart, University of California, Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States and Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
A New Paleomagnetic Pole from Skewness of Pacific Plate Magnetic Anomalies 30n-31n and Implications for Maastrichtian Paleogeography (1186149)
Evan Ritchey1, Kevin Gaastra2 and Richard G Gordon2, (1)University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, United States, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Adria in Mediterranean Paleogeography, the Origin of the Ionian Sea, and Permo-Triassic Configurations of Pangea (1083150)
James E T Channell, Univ. Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, Giovanni Muttoni, University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences 'Ardito Desio', Milan, Italy and Dennis V Kent, Rutgers University New Brunswick, EPS, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
 
Computational Approaches to Phanerozoic Palaeotopography (1146065)
Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Benjamin J W Mills, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
 
Continuous Quantitative Model of Global Paleogeography Through 2.0 Billion Years (1175968)
David A Evans, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Bruce M Eglington, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Did the Iapetus Ocean Open in the Ediacaran? (1112889)
Evgeniy Kulakov, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Trond Slagstad, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
 
Enigmatic CO2 Weathering Consumption and Climatic Response of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) Straddling the Tropics of Pangea (1153899)
Dennis V Kent, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Morgan F Schaller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, United States
 
Extending Earth’s paleogeographic and geodynamic records into the Archean (Invited) (1099577)
Alec R Brenner, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Roger R Fu, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Andrew R Kylander-Clark, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, United States, George J Hudak, NRRI - UMD, Duluth, MN, United States and Bradford J Foley, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
Indian Plate stratigraphic units: On-line open-access database (Lexicon), including options to display sediment and volcanic facies onto plate reconstructions (1046480)
O'Neil Mamallapalli1, Raju (Deceased) Dsn2, Nallapa Reddy Addula3, Nusrat Kamal Siddiqui4, James G Ogg5, Om N Bhargava6, Birendra P Singh7, Gabriele Ogg8, Sabrina Chang9, Wen Du10, Suyash Mishra11 and Aaron Ault11, (1)IUGS Deep-Time Digital Earth, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, (2)ONGC, Dehradun, India, Rajahmundry, India, (3)ONGC, Chennai, India, Chennai, India, (4)University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Institute of Geology, Lahore, Pakistan, (5)International Union of Geological Sciences, Deep-time Digital Earth Research Center of Excellence (Suzhou), Suzhou, China, (6)Indian National Science Academy, Panchkula, India, (7)Panjab University, Center of Advanced Study in Geology, Chandigarh, India, (8)Geologic TimeScale Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, (9)Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (10)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Camperdown NSW, Australia, (11)Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
 
Intra-oceanic subduction in North Pacific and its implication to the sudden change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 Ma (1142372)
Jiashun Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Johann Rudi, ICES, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Georg Stadler, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Long-term Phanerozoic sea level change from solid Earth processes (1100766)
Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Alexander Young, University of Wollongong, School of Earth, Life and Atmospheric Sciences, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Simon Williams, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Xianzhi Cao, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
New Contributions to the Lhasa-Qiangtang Collision and Inclination Discrepancy from Early Cretaceous Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Results in the Western Lhasa Terrane (1085344)
Suo Wang, Tianshui Yang, Feng Gao, Weiwei Bian, Jingjie Jin, Wenxiao Peng, Xianwei Jiao, Jiahui Ma, Shihong Zhang, Huaichun Wu, Haiyan Li and Liwan Cao, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Beijing, China
 
New Proterozoic paleomagnetic data from the Rehoboth Basement Inlier, Namibia, indicating 30-degree clockwise local rotation during Damaran orogenesis. (1097028)
Chiara Chung-Halpern1,2, Vuong V Mai2, David A Evans3, Jikai Ding3, Zheng Gong3 and Johanna Salminen4, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (2)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, (3)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (4)Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland
 
Online Databases of Geologic Formations of China, Indian Plate and Indochina, With Display onto Plate Reconstructions of the Asian Region for Any Phanerozoic Time Horizon (1057641)
Sabrina Chang1, James G Ogg2,3, Wen Du4, Suyash Mishra5, Sabin Zahirovic6, Aaron Ault5, Hongfei Hou7, O'Neil Mamallapalli8, Dong Bui9, Gabriele Ogg10, Haipeng Li11 and Mingcai Hou3, (1)Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)International Union of Geological Sciences, Deep-time Digital Earth Research Center of Excellence (Suzhou), Suzhou, China, (3)Chengdu University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Deep-time Geography and Environment Reconstruction and Applications, MNR & Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, (4)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Camperdown NSW, Australia, (5)Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (6)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (7)Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China, (8)IUGS Deep-Time Digital Earth, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, (9)Vietnam National University of Science, Faculty of Geology, Hanoi, Vietnam, (10)Geologic TimeScale Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, (11)International Union of Geological Sciences, Deep-time Digital Earth Research Center of Excellence (Suzhou), Kunshan, Jiangsu, China
 
Paleobathymetry reconstructions during the Mesozoic and uncertainties in oceanic gateway evolution (1082646)
Nicky Wright1, Maria Seton1, Aleece Nanfito2, Nick Atwood3 and Dietmar Müller1, (1)University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Woodside Energy, Houston, United States, (3)BHP Mineral Services Company, Tucson, United States
 
PaleoDigital Elevation Models for the Phanerozoic and Neoproterozoic (0-750 Ma) (1088530)
Christopher Scotese, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
 
Paleogene Ridge Subduction along the Northwest Pacific Margin suggested by U-Pb Zircon Age Distribution of the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene Sandstones of the Paleo-Kuril Arc, Northeast Japan (1145798)
Harisma Harisma1, Hajime Naruse2, Takafumi Hirata3 and Sota Niki3, (1)Kyoto University, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto, Japan, (3)Geochemical Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
Paleogeography of the northwestern China blocks on the periphery of Rodinia in the early Neoproterozoic: New ∼895 Ma paleomagnetic insights (1085895)
Yan Xu1, Shihong Zhang2, Chuan-Lin Zhang3, Xian-Tao Ye3, Qiang Ren2 and Yangjun Gao2, (1)China university of Geosciences Beijing, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Beijing, China, (2)China University of Geosciences (Beijing), State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Beijing, China, (3)Hohai University, Nanjing, China
 
Paleomagnetism of the Proterozoic Mafic Intrusions in Morocco: Progress and Complexity (1095094)
Zheng Gong1, David A Evans2, Nasrrddine Youbi3, Kevin Chamberlain4, Bin Wen2, Xianqing Jing5, Jikai Ding1, Abdelhak Ait lahna3, Malika Ait Malek3, Rachid Oukhro3, Achraf Mohamed Mediany3 and Jihane Ounar3, (1)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, (3)Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences-Semlalia, Department of Geology, Marrakech, Morocco, (4)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
 
Plate Tectonics Was in Operation in the Neoarchean (1177520)
Jikai Ding1, David A Evans1, Zheng Gong1 and Chris Rogers2, (1)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Quantitative Reconstruction of Paleogeography using Apparent Polar Wander Paths Calculated from Site-level Paleomagnetic Data (1071086)
Bram Vaes and Douwe J J Van Hinsbergen, Utrecht University, Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand (Invited) (1051469)
Suzanna Henderijne Aleide van de Lagemaat1, Peter J J Kamp2, Lydian Boschman3 and Douwe J J Van Hinsbergen3, (1)Utrecht University, Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Univ Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, (3)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Reconstructing the position of the supercontinent Rodinia in the early Neoproterozoic: new constraints from Laurentia's interior and the Grenville margin (1136976)
Yiming Zhang1, Eben Blake Hodgin2, Anthony Fuentes1, James S Pierce1 and Nicholas Swanson-Hysell3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Reconstructing the Subduction History of the Cretaceous Northeastern Pacific based on Full Waveform Tomography (1170038)
Wenjie Lei, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mark T Brandon, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geology, Urbana, United States, Adam C Maloof, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
 
Secular Cooling of the Earth Inferred from Hemispheric Mantle Dichotomy (1151165)
Ross N. Mitchell, New Fairfield, Connecticut, UNITED STATES and Luc S Doucet, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
 
Sensitive Dependence of Global Climate to Continental Geometry (1164122)
Minmin Jason Fu, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Stephen Bourguet, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Mark Baum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Significant Ediacaran Paleolatitude Changes of West African Craton Revealed by Magnetostratigraphy of the Ouarzazate Group, Bou Azzer Inlier, Morocco (1159326)
James S Pierce1, David A Evans2, Nasrrddine Youbi3, Justin Vincent Strauss4 and C. Brenhin Keller4, (1)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, (3)Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences-Semlalia, Department of Geology, Marrakech, Morocco, (4)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States
 
Siletzia's Contribution to the Mendocino Orocline and Columbia Embayment, Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. (1060648)
Ray E Wells, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Portland, OR, United States
 
The Magnitude of Neotectonic Hotspot Motion: Towards Better Absolute Reference Frames (1186085)
Kevin Gaastra and Richard G Gordon, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
The Origin and Paleogeography of the Lhasa Terrane, South Tibet: Constraints from the Bomi Gneiss Complex and Its overlying Paleozoic Metasedimentary Rocks (1047727)
Liran Chen, Xu Wangchun, Hong-Fei Zhang, Jing-Liang Guo and Bi-Ji Luo, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, School of Earth Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Wuhan, China
 
The Plate Motion Circuit Relating the Motion of the Pacific Plate to the Continental Plates (1183546)
Richard G Gordon, Kevin Gaastra and Daniel Woodworth, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Timing the break-up of the Baltica and Laurentia connection in the Nuna supercontinent indications for rapid plate motion oscillation and tectonic regime (1137498)
Johanna Salminen, University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, Finland; Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland and Sten-Ake Elming, Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå, Sweden
 
TOMOPAC-22, a new circum-Pacific plate reconstruction using structurally-restored slabs from tomography (1092924)
Jonny Wu1, Yi-An Lin2, Lorenzo Colli3, Yi-Wei Chen3, Spencer Fuston3, Tsung-Jui Wu3, Sabin Zahirovic4 and Moloud Rahimzadeh Bajgiran3, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (2)Texas Water Development Board, Austin, United States, (3)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (4)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Tonga-Kermadec subduction initiation timing from seismic tomographic slab reconstructions (1076589)
Sui JIA, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Jonny Wu, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
 
Towards new criteria of fit in deformable plate tectonic reconstructions (1134585)
Daniel A Minguez, Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Elizabeth A E Johnson, Chevron Corporation San Ramon, San Ramon, CA, United States
 
True Polar Wander Alignment During the 5.5 Ma Zanclean Mediterranean Flood? (1148756)
Hank D. Voss, Near Space Launch (NSL), Chief Scientist and Emeritus Professor, Upland, IN, United States
 
Volcanic Margins in the Gulf of Mexico (1198344)
Ian O Norton, UTIG, Jackson School of Geosciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and John Snedden, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks of South China: Their Separate Positions in Gondwana and Late Early Paleozoic Juxtaposition (1139264)
Lijun Wang1,2, Shoufa Lin1 and Wenjiao Xiao2,3, (1)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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