Thread: GSA Session on Rifts, Rifted Margins, Backarcs, and Spreading Ridges - Abstract deadline July 20

Dear Colleagues,

We welcome submissions to the GSA Topical session:
T46. Rifts, Rifted Margins, Backarcs, and Spreading Ridges: Understanding Extensional Processes across Tectonic Settings and Time Scales.

Brief description: This cross-disciplinary session on extensional systems welcomes presentations on structure, geochemistry, geophysics, geomorphology, hazards, and modeling that aim to understand linkages and feedbacks between processes and hazards in the solid Earth, hydrosphere and atmosphere.

Abstract deadline: 20 July 2021, 11:59 PM, Pacific Time
To submit abstracts: https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2021/program/technical
GSA Connects 2021 in Portland will also offer online options. More information is available at: https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2021/information/about

Confirmed Invited Speakers & Topics:
Cynthia Ebinger (Tulane University): Testing rift linkage and plume models with new data from the Turkana Depression
Folarin Kolawole (BP America): How Do Continental Rifts Grow
James Biemiller (University of Texas at Austin): Linking tectonics/geology/geodesy to earthquake cycle models to better understand earthquake hazard potential in active rifts

Conveners:
Patricia Persaud (Louisiana State University)
Jolante van Wijk (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Tech)
Abah Omale (BP)
Jackson Borchardt (Rice University)

Endorsers: GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA Energy Geology Division

Submissions from early-career scientists are strongly encouraged.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting in Portland, Oregon in October!

Patricia, Jolante, Abah and Jackson