09:15 to 10:00
Symposium

Afterthoughts of a Witness: Comparing the Plate Tectonic Revolution to the Sudden Freezing of Supercooled Lake Ladoga in "Kaputt" of Curzio Malaparte

Xavier Le Pichon
50 Years of Plate Tectonics: Then, Now, and Beyond
09:15 to 10:00
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Xavier Le Pichon

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:05
    Barbara Romanowicz

    Welcome
    Symposium
    09:05 to 09:15
    Claude Jaupart

    The Emergence of Plate Tectonics (From a Back Seat)
    Symposium
    09:15 to 10:00
    Xavier Le Pichon

    Afterthoughts of a Witness: Comparing the Plate Tectonic Revolution to…
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Jason Morgan

    My Perspective on the Origin of Plate Tectonics, and how Space Geodesy…
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00
    Dan McKenzie

    The Thermal Structure of the Oceanic Lithosphere
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Walter Roest

    CNEXO and Ifremer: Over Fifty Years of Worldwide Marine Scientific Res…
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30
    Francis Albarede

    Where Did Geochemists Hide during the Plate Tectonics Revolution?…
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Laurent Jolivet

    From Mantle Flow to Crustal Deformation, a Geological Perspective…
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Richard Gordon

    The Plate Tectonic Approximation, Space Geodesy, Cenozoic True Polar W…
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    Roland Bürgmann

    Probing the Rheology of the Asthenosphere
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Peter Molnar

    Mantle Earthquakes: Keys to Mantle Dynamics and the Strength of the Li…
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    Éric Calais

    Large Earthquakes in Stable Plate Interiors: A Challenge to Plate Tect…
    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30
    Luce Fleitout

    Intraplate Deformation: Short versus Long Time-Scales
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Cesar Ranero

    Imaging the Subduction
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Jean-Philippe Avouac

    Megathrust Earthquakes: How Large? How Destructive?…
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Mathilde Cannat

    Current Understanding of Plate Divergence Processes at Mid-Oceanic Rid…
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Roger Buck

    The Role of Magma in Continental Breakup and Seafloor Spreading…
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30
    Dietmar Müller

    How Plate Tectonics Drives the Geological Carbon Cycle
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Gilles Ramstein

    Plate Tectonics and Climate: What's New since Wegener and Koppen?…
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Barbara Romanowicz

    Mantle Plumes as Presently Imaged by Global Seismic Tomography…
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    Anne Davaille

    Structure of Mantle Convection: Plumes and Plates
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    David Bercovici

    Generation of Plate Tectonics from Grain to Global Scale
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    Nicolas Coltice

    Will Plate Tectonics still Be our Paradigm in 50 Years?

    See also

    Barbara Romanowicz, chair Physics of the Earth's interior
    50 Years of Plate Tectonics: Then, Now, and Beyond