| Date | 2021-06-22 | | | | |
| Session Title | Lithospheric Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics | | | | |
| Session Number | S4 | | | | |
| Convenors | Russ Pysklywec (University of Toronto) | | | | |
| Claire Currie (University of Alberta) | | | | |
| Erkan Gün (University of Toronto) | | | | |
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| Talk # | Start Time (EST) | Presentation Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Co-Author(s) |
| 13:30:00 | Introduction | | | |
| 1 | 13:35:00 | Did the cessation of convection in Mercury’s mantle allow for a dynamo supporting increase in heat loss from its core? | Joshua M. Guerrero | University of Toronto | Julian P. Lowman & Paul J. Tackley |
| 2 | 13:55:00 | Focused Penetrative Super-Plumes in the mantle of Super-Earths | M. H. Shahnas | University of Toronto | R.N. Pysklywec |
| 3 | 14:15:00 | Correcting Seismic Tomographies with Upper Mantle Anisotropy from Numerical Models and Shear Wave Splitting Measurements: Examples from the Western and Eastern Mediterranean | Judith M. Confal | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia | Siliva Pondrelli, Paola Baccheschi, Manuele Faccenda, Maximiliano J. Bezada, Tune Eken, & Tuncay Taymaz |
| 4 | 14:35:00 | Initiation of the Central Andes: Insights from 2D numerical modelling | Zhihong Pan | University of Alberta | Claire A. Currie |
| 14:55:00 | Break | | | |
| 5 | 15:05:00 | Surface observables of lithosphere removal in northern Colombia | David Quiroga | University of Alberta | Claire Currie & Jillian Pearse |
| 6 | 15:25:00 | 3D crustal analysis of symptomatic vs. asymptomatic lithospheric drip removal with insights from analogue modeling | Julia Andersen | University of Toronto | Tasca Santimano, Oguz Gogus, & Russell Pysklywec |
| 7 | 15:45:00 | Recent lithosphere thinning triggered by delamination in the Northern Canadian Cordillera | Tai-Chieh Yu | University of Alberta | Claire A. Currie, Pascal Audet, Andrew J. Schaeffer, & Zhirui Wang |
| 8 | 16:05:00 | Can mantle dynamics aid supercontinent classification? | Phil J. Heron | University of Toronto | J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance, & R.N. Pysklywec |
| 16:15:00 | Closing remarks | | | |
