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Symposium in celebration of the work of Tony Watts
University Museum of Natural History, Oxford. September 19 2016
9:00- 9:15Welcome
Gravity, Seamounts and Plates
9:15-10:45 Marcia McNutt, US National Academy of Sciences
Plate flexure and mantle rheology
Paul Wessel, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Seamounts, plate motion and hotspotting
David Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Marine gravity and plate flexure
10:45-11:15 Break
The Continental Margins
Organizers:
Bernie Coakley
Cath Marr
11:15-12:45 Bill Ryan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Young margins and young seafloor
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Marta Perez-Gussinye, Universitat Bremen
Modes of extension, oceanization and their relationship
to continental strength.
Chairs:
Dan Mckenzie
Jenny Collier
Mike Steckler
Lara Kalnins
Satish Singh, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Seismic imaging of active plate boundaries from top
to bottom: seismic as well as aseismic.
12:45-13:45 Lunch
Reception
& Posters:
Department of
Earth Sciences.
17:30 - 18:30
Basins and Mountains
13:45-15:15 Jim Cochran, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Basin subsidence, finite rifting and the Red Sea
Garry Karner, ExxonMobil URC
Sedimentary basins and hydrocarbons
Dinner:
The Hall,
Worcester College
19:00 for 19:30
John Dewey, University of Oxford
The Wilson cycle, the strength and structure of
the lithosphere, and tectonic style and history
15:15-15:45 Break
Sea-level, Surface processes and
Mantle Convection
15:45-17:15 Bilal Haq, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Long-term sea-level change
Uri ten Brink, USGS-Woods Hole Science Center
Earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides: Statistics
and processes
Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder
Plates, supercontinents and convection