Thread: AGU Abstract Deadline Reminder

Dear Colleagues,

Please note the upcoming deadline for Abstract Submissions to the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting (12-16 December), on Wednesday August 3rd (23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC).

To submit an abstract, navigate to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html [https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html] and search for a session.


We would like to bring to your attention the Tectonophysics Session T005, "Characterizing the evolution of craton margins". We encourage submissions from all domains of the geosciences.
The session description follows.

Best Regards,
Andrew Schaeffer, Claire Currie, Jeffrey Gu and Catherine Cooper.

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Session Title:
  Characterizing the evolution of craton margins

Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13908 [https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13908]
Session Description:
  Cratonic lithosphere underlies the stable, largely un-deformed cores of most continents globally. Archean cratons are often assumed to have a relatively simple internal architecture, with more complex structure (Moho topography and deep crust) in slightly younger Proterozoic blocks. In a number of locations around the globe, these thick, rheologically strong lithospheric blocks are juxtaposed immediately adjacent to regions of ongoing or geologically recent upper mantle deformation, such as the Cordilleras of North and South America. This sharp contrast in physical properties (e.g., temperature, viscosity, composition) leads to relatively unique dynamic conditions which have significant impact on the evolution of both the stable cratonic lithosphere and deformation within the tectonically active margin.
We invite contributions from different domains (seismology, geodynamics, geodesy, petrology, geochemistry, etc) to share their results which examine the crustal and lithospheric evolution of craton margins, including both the craton itself and the neighbouring tectonically active region.