Plate Tectonics at 50 (William Smith Meeting, October 2017) Session 2

Chaired by Jim Briden (University of Oxford), this session looks at palaeogeography and plate reconstructions, kicking off with Chris Scotese (Northwestern University). He reviews the history of global reconstructions and shows a movie for the past 1.5 billion years of Earth history. Richard Gordon (Rice University) examines the evidence for true polar wander before John Watson (CGG Robertson) demonstrates reconstructions with deformable plates. Jim Pindell (Ion Geophysical and Rice University) looks at reconstructing the Caribbean and central Atlantic with rifting models before the session concludes with Bruce Eglington (University of Saskatchawen) pushing reconstructions back into the Proterozoic. Discussions touch on the different data going into reconstructions, the mechanisms behind different rates and complexity of relative plate motion and conclude with (a rather quiet) discussion of continental rifting mechanisms. This set of presentations comes from a three-day meeting (3-5 October 2017) celebrating the 50th anniversary of the advent of the paradigm of plate tectonics. The meeting was convened to examine the state of the art and scope out new directions. There are 9 other sessions available to view together with the William Smith lecture by Dan McKenzie that concludes the meeting.

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