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Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in plate tectonics (2019)

Wilson, Robert, W. [HerausgeberIn] ; Houseman, G. A. [HerausgeberIn] ; McCaffrey, Kenneth J. W. [HerausgeberIn] ; [et al.]

London : The Geological Society

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Call number: 9/M 07.0421(470)

In: Geological Society Special Publication

Description / Table of Contents: Fifty years ago, Tuzo Wilson published his paper asking ‘Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?’. This led to the ‘Wilson Cycle’ concept in which the repeated opening and closing of ocean basins along old orogenic belts is a key process in the assembly and breakup of supercontinents. The Wilson Cycle underlies much of what we know about the geological evolution of the Earth and its lithosphere, and will no doubt continue to be developed as we gain more understanding of the physical processes that control mantle convection, plate tectonics, and as more data become available from currently less accessible regions. This volume includes both thematic and review papers covering various aspects of the Wilson Cycle concept. Thematic sections include: (1) the Classic Wilson v. Supercontinent Cycles, (2) Mantle Dynamics in the Wilson Cycle, (3) Tectonic Inheritance in the Lithosphere, (4) Revisiting Tuzo's question on the Atlantic, (5) Opening and Closing of Oceans, and (6) Cratonic Basins and their place in the Wilson Cycle.

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Pages: vi, 490 Seiten , Illustrationen, 1 Karte

ISBN: 978-1-78620-383-0

Series Statement: Geological Society Special Publication 470

URL: https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/470/1

Language: English

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Fifty Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics (2019)

Geological Society (London, U.K.) ; Wilson, R. W. ; Houseman, G. A. ; [et al.]

London : The Geological Society

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Keywords: Wilson Cycle ; plate tectonics

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle concept in plate tectonics: an overview / R. W. Wilson, G. A. Houseman, S. J. H. Buiter, K. J. W. McCaffrey and A. G. Doré / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 1-17, 25 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470-2019-58 --- The Classic Wilson v. Supercontinent Cycles --- The classic Wilson cycle revisited / Ian W. D. Dalziel and John F. Dewey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 19-38, 9 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.1 --- Supercontinents: myths, mysteries, and milestones / Daniel Pastor-Galán, R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy and Christopher J. Spencer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 39-64, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.16 --- Supercontinents and the case for Pannotia / R. Damian Nance and J. Brendan Murphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 65-86, 1 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.5 --- Mantle Dynamics in the Wilson Cycle --- Mantle plumes and mantle dynamics in the Wilson cycle / Philip J. Heron / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 87-103, 19 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470-2018-97 --- Tectonic Inheritance in the Lithosphere --- Tectonic inheritance, structure reactivation and lithospheric strength: the relevance of geological history / A. M. C. Şengör, Nalan Lom and Nurbike G. Sağdıç / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 105-136, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.8 --- Exploring the theory of plate tectonics: the role of mantle lithosphere structure / Philip J. Heron, Russell N. Pysklywec and Randell Stephenson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 137-155, 1 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.7 --- Potential role of lithospheric mantle composition in the Wilson cycle: a North Atlantic perspective / Pauline Chenin, Suzanne Picazo, Suzon Jammes, Gianreto Manatschal, Othmar Müntener and Garry Karner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 157-172, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.10 --- Rheological inheritance: lessons from the Death Valley region, US Basin and Range Province / Rodrigo D. Lima, Nicholas W. Hayman and Elena Miranda / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 173-204, 21 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.14 --- Multi-phase reactivations and inversions of Paleozoic–Mesozoic extensional basins during the Wilson cycle: case studies from the North Sea (UK) and the Northern Apennines (Italy) / Vittorio Scisciani, Stefano Patruno, Enrico Tavarnelli, Fernando Calamita, Paolo Pace and David Iacopini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 205-243, 3 May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470-2017-232 --- Revisiting Tuzo's question on the Atlantic --- Examining the influence of tectonic inheritance on the evolution of the North Atlantic using a palinspastic deformable plate reconstruction / Bridget E. Ady and Richard C. Whittaker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 245-264, 19 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.9 --- Role of Avalonia in the development of tectonic paradigms / J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance, J. Duncan Keppie and Jaroslav Dostal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 265-287, 23 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.12 --- Diachronous Paleozoic accretion of peri-Gondwanan terranes at the Laurentian margin / John W. F. Waldron, David I. Schofield and J. Brendan Murphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 289-310, 29 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.11 --- Inversion of Taconian extensional structures during Paleozoic orogenesis in western Newfoundland / Shawna E. White and John W. F. Waldron / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 311-336, 6 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.17 --- Tectonic inheritance at multiple scales during more than two complete Wilson cycles recorded in eastern North America / William A. Thomas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 337-352, 9 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.4 --- Late Paleozoic extensional reactivation of the Rheic–Rhenohercynian suture zone in SW England, the English Channel and Western Approaches / Andrew C. Alexander, Robin K. Shail and Brian E. Leveridge / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 353-373, 4 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.19 --- Opening and Closing of Oceans --- Non-Wilsonian break-up predisposed by transforms: examples from the North Atlantic and Arctic / E. R. Lundin and A. G. Doré / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 375-392, 21 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.6 --- The Jan Mayen microplate complex and the Wilson cycle / Christian Schiffer, Alexander Peace, Jordan Phethean, Laurent Gernigon, Ken McCaffrey, Kenni D. Petersen and Gillian Foulger / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 393-414, 1 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.2 --- The subduction initiation stage of the Wilson cycle / Robert Hall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 415-437, 19 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.3 --- 3D numerical modelling of the Wilson cycle: structural inheritance of alternating subduction polarity / Stéphane J. Beaussier, Taras V. Gerya and Jean-Pierre Burg / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 439-461, 2 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.15 --- Cratonic Basins and their place in the Wilson Cycle --- Cratonic basins and the Wilson cycle: a perspective from the Parnaíba Basin, Brazil / M. C. Daly, B. Tozer and A. B. Watts / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 470, 463-477, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP470.13

Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 490 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme

ISBN: 9781786203830

URL: https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/470/1

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Boundary Conditions and Efficient Solution Algorithms For the Potential Function Formulation of the 3-D Viscous Flow Equations (1990)

Houseman, G. A.

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Geophysical journal international 100 (1990), S. 0

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ISSN: 1365-246X

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Geosciences

Notes: For incompressible viscous creeping flows that occur in a number of geophysical situations, the velocity field may be expressed as the curl of a vector potential function, the use of which allows the momentum equation to be written as a biharmonic equation. the 3-D Cartesian formulation for a constant viscosity fluid is summarized here with special reference to two important types of boundary condition: the stress-free boundary (with zero normal velocity and zero tangential stress) and the rigid boundary (with all components of velocity zero). Fast algorithms for inversion of the biharmonic operator with all boundaries stress-free are well established. There also exists a fast method for the solution of the biharmonic equation with a parallel pair of rigid boundaries with the other boundaries stress-free. This method has not previously been applied, but it is a relatively straightforward extension of the Fourier transform based algorithm for the stress-free problem, using an analytical solution to enforce the required boundary conditions for each horizontal harmonic component. the method is easily vectorized and allows solutions to be obtained that compare very favourably in accuracy and solution time with those for the stress-free problem. the errors are of comparable magnitude given the differing harmonic content required by the boundary conditions, and the solution requires between 20 per cent (for a 3-D problem) and 30 per cent (for a 2-D problem) more processing time than does the solution of a comparable stress-free problem.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb04565.x

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The thermal structure of mantle plumes: axisymmetric or triple-junction? (1990)

Houseman, G. A.

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Geophysical journal international 102 (1990), S. 0

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ISSN: 1365-246X

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Geosciences

Notes: A mantle plume is probably a complex 3-D thermal structure that possesses approximate axisymmetry as it approaches the base of the lithosphere from below, but followed down towards the base of the layer, probably consists of a triple-junction or quadruple-junction of connected hot sheets. A relatively weak hot sheet rising only part way through the layer probably connects two neighbouring mantle plumes. These conclusions are suggested by numerical experiments on a 3-D constant-viscosity, plane layer with stress-free boundaries, which detail the gradational change in the planform of a convecting layer from the top of the layer to its base. the planform of a convecting layer is a map in the horizontal plane of the principal thermal anomalies in the layer. These anomalies are the main sources of positive (for hot fluid) or negative (for cold fluid) buoyancy, and therefore they drive the convective flow. They may appear in cross-section as structures with either axial symmetry (columns), planar symmetry (sheets) or some complex asymmetric form. When convection is driven at least partially by basal heating, the planform near the top of the layer may be described as a network of cold sinking sheets and isolated hot columns, while near the base of the layer it appears as a network of hot rising sheets and isolated cold columns. the hot columns near the upper surface arise from the vertices or nodes of the network of hot sheets on the lower surface, and similarly the cold columns at the base of the layer form below the vertices of the network of cold sheets near the upper surface. Near the upper surface, the apparent planform of this experiment is analogous to that of mantle convection, the cold sheets compared to subduction zones and the hot columns compared to mantle plumes. the hot plumes impinging on the upper surface produce approximately axisymmetric temperature anomalies, surface uplift and extensional stress fields. However, the relatively minor deviations from axisymmetry of surface observables reflect the deep structure of the mantle plume, formed by the junction of three or four hot sheets on the base of the layer. It seems likely that the commonly occurring triple-junction form of continental rifts may reflect an underlying structure that is implicit in the convective circulation of the mantle beneath.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb00527.x

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Mixing properties of three-dimensional (3-D) stationary convection (1995)

Schmalzl, J. ; Houseman, G. A. ; Hansen, U.

[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Physics of Fluids 7 (1995), S. 1027-1033

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ISSN: 1089-7666

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Topics: Physics

Notes: Passive tracers in steady-state three-dimensional (3-D) convective flows with infinite Prandtl number, which is relevant for the Earth's mantle, show a remarkable flow structure. Individual flowlines as shown by Poincare sections of the tracer paths lie on a two-dimensional (2-D) surface with distorted toroidal topology. Furthermore, the space occupied by the convecting fluid is filled by a set of these toroidal surfaces nested one within another. The small radius of the innermost toroidal surface approaches zero, defining a closed streamline whose location we have determined in specific cases using numerical solutions. The outermost of the toroidal surfaces coincides with the upper and lower surfaces of the layer and with vertical symmetry planes which separate the flow between neighboring cells. Both square and hexagonal convection planforms show a triangular cellular structure with triangles defined by (π/2,π/4,π/4) and (π/2,π/6,π/3), respectively. The outer toroidal surface is closed by a horizontal flow line through the middle of the cell. The numerical experiments suggest that streamlines are not generally closed in any small number of orbits. Instead the toroidal surface appears to be progressively filled in by the trace of a single streamline which, in successive orbits, is displaced across the surface without returning to the same path. This flow structure ensures that, while extreme shear strains can occur, particularly in the vicinity of the cell separatrices, mixing of the material only occurs in 2D. Tracers initially on one toroidal surface remain on that surface indefinitely. Like for 2-D convective flow, time dependence of the solution appears to be a necessary prerequisite for thorough spatial mixing to occur. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.868614

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