GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019

Session No. 59
Sunday, 22 September 2019: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 127ABC, North Building (Phoenix Convention Center)

T48. Unconventional Ideas and Outrageous Hypotheses II: In Honor of Warren B. Hamilton

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division

 

Gillian Foulger, K. Howard and Donna M. Jurdy, Advocates
Paper #
Start Time
1:30 PM
CENOZOIC MAGMATISM AND PLATE TECTONICS IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA: HAVE WE GOT IT WRONG? (Invited Presentation)
GLAZNER, Allen F., Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315
1:50 PM
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL EXPRESSION OF TECTONOMAGMATIC PROCESSES RELATED TO EXTENSION AND CONTRACTION IN RESPONSE TO PLATE CAPTURE AND CONSEQUENT MANTLE MOVEMENT
ANDERSON, Thomas H., Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
2:05 PM
DO THE BRITISH ISLES DYKE SWARMS REFLECT THE PALEOGENE LOCATION OF THE ICELAND HOT SPOT?
DALZIEL, Ian W.D., Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, TX 78758-4445 and LAWVER, Lawrence A., Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78758
2:20 PM
PALEOGENE TRUE POLAR WANDER, ORIGIN OF THE HAWAIIAN-EMPEROR BEND, PALEOLATITUDE OF ELLESMERE ISLAND, AND CENOZOIC CLIMATE CHANGE
GORDON, Richard G.1, WOODWORTH, Daniel T.1, GAASTRA, Kevin1 and SEIDMAN, Lily E.2, (1)Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, MS 126 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005, (2)Earth Science--MS 126, Rice Univ, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892
2:35 PM
A PERFECT MANTLE STORM AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HAWAIIAN RIDGE
NATLAND, James H., RSMAS/MGS, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149
2:50 PM
DO ALL OCEANIC PLATEAUS ERUPT AT SPREADING RIDGES?
SAGER, William W., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 3507 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77204
 
3:05 PM
Discussion
 
3:40 PM
Break
3:55 PM
NEW MECHANISMS FOR PLATE TECTONICS, LUNAR DRIFT, AND DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION OF THE LITHOSPHERE (Invited Presentation)
HOFMEISTER, Anne, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Campus Box 1169, St. Louis, MO 63130, CRISS, Robert E., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 and CRISS, Everett M., Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forest, CA 92630
4:15 PM
EVOLUTION AND TECTONICS OF THE ROCKY PLANETS ARE DRIVEN BY THEIR MASS, MOONS AND ORBITAL RADII
CRISS, Robert E., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 and HOFMEISTER, Anne, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Campus Box 1169, St. Louis, MO 63130
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4:30 PM
Withdrawn
4:45 PM
ROLE OF EARTH-MOON ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS IN THE SHAPING OF THE SURFACE OF OUR PLANET
BOROM, Marcus P., Materials Science, University of California - Berkeley, 7087 W Brightwater Way, Tucson, AZ 85757
Handouts
  • 01_GSA_Annual_Mtng_16x9_PostToGSA.pptx (11.4 MB)
  • AutomaticBalancingOfContinents.docx (4.7 MB)
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    5:00 PM
    Discussion
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