Invitation


Prof. Kevin Burke
(University of Houston)


will give a talk on:


"Diversity in Plume Plate Interaction on the Earth"


Friday, September 20th, 2013
03.30 p.m.
Lecture Room, Building A19, GFZ

Introduction:

Fifty years ago in 1963, at the age of 54, J. Tuzo Wilson wrote his seminal paper "A possible origin of the Hawaiian Islands", which is widely regarded as the birth of mantle plume theory. In the early 1970s, Kevin Burke worked with Tuzo Wilson at the University of Toronto, where they published several influential papers together, and he coined the term "Wilson Cycle" for the periodic opening and closing of ocean basins. Since then and until now, Kevin's work has been linking deep Earth processes with surface geology, with particular focus on mantle plumes and the African plate.


All people interested are invited!