Name
S1 Crust to Mantle, Craton to Margin: Imaging and Modeling the Continental Lithosphere
Date & Time
Monday, May 25, 2026, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Andrew Frederiksen
Description

As the transitional boundary between Earth’s surface and the convecting mantle, the continental lithosphere records and governs some of the most dynamic and long-lived tectonic processes on Earth, and understanding its structure and evolution remains a major geoscientific challenge. Recent advances in integrated geophysical imaging, joint inversion, and thermochemical modeling are revealing the complex architecture and history of the lithosphere at increasingly high resolution.
We invite contributions that explore lithosphere structure and dynamics across spatial scales (local to regional) and from the surface into the mantle. Topics may include rifting and breakup, collision and orogenesis, craton stabilization or destruction, and surface–deep interactions such as the origin and temporal evolution of isostatic and dynamic topography and their links to tectonics and mantle flow. We particularly encourage multidisciplinary and multiphysics approaches, case studies from Canada and worldwide, and contributions from Early Career Researchers.

• 10:30 am – 10:45 am | A New 3D Shear Wave Velocity Model of Zealandia's Upper Mantle – Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk
• 10:45 am – 11:00 am | Crust–Mantle Interactions and Isostatic Disequilibrium Along the Congo Craton–Pan-African Belt Transition: Insights from Gravity Inversion and Lithospheric Modeling – Willy Lemotio
• 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Mapping upper-mantle fabric at continental scale: frozen tectonics and active flow patterns in western Canada – Andrew Frederiksen
• 11:15 am – 11:30 am | Lithospheric Modification Beneath the Wyoming Craton Revealed by 3-D Anisotropic Surface Wave Tomography – Riddhi Dave
• 11:30 am – 11:45 am | Geodynamics of the Accretion of the Siletzia Plateau to western North America – Claire Currie
• 11:45 am – 12:00 pm | Inferring asthenospheric flow from past plate-motion changes: Case study on the North Atlantic region – Zhirui Ray Wang

Location Name
Marion McCain Ondaatje Hall
Full Address
Dalhousie University
Halifax NS
Canada
Convenors
Riddhi Dave, Geological Survey of Canada - Pacific Division, Andrew Schaeffer, Claire Currie, Fiona Darbyshire
Session Type
Session