Meeting Presentations

• AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December, San Francisco
  • Susanne Buiter, Bernhard Steinberger, Sergei Medvedev, and Joya Tetreault, A Mantle Cause for Congo Basin Subsidence?
  • Joya L. Tetreault, Susanne Buiter, Numerical modeling of subduction, accretion, and collision of island arc crust onto continental crust
  • Susan M. Ellis, Tim Little, Laura M. Wallace, Bradley R. Hacker, Susanne Buiter, Feedback Between Rifting and Diapirism can Exhume Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks
  • Fabio Crameri, Harro Schmeling, Gregor J. Golabek, Thibault Duretz, Robert Orendt, Susanne Buiter, Dave May, Boris J. Kaus, Taras Gerya, Paul J. Tackley, A benchmark comparison of numerical surface topography calculations in geodynamic modelling
• EGU General Assembly, 3-8 May, Vienna, Austria
  • Susanne Buiter, Bernhard Steinberger, Sergei Medvedev, and Joya Tetreault, Could the mantle cause subsidence of the Congo Basin? (Invited)
  • Susanne Buiter and Susan Ellis, The role of the initiation phase in numerical subduction models
  • Joya Tetreault and Susanne Buiter, Sinkers and floaters: Modern analogues of allochthonous accreted terranes
  • Fabio Crameri, Susanne Buiter, Thibault Duretz, Taras Gerya, Gregor Golabek, Boris Kaus, Robert Orendt, Harro Schmeling, and Paul Tackley, A benchmark comparison of numerical topography: what are suitable sticky-air parameters?

• AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December, San Francisco
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs and the GeoMod2008 Team, Benchmarking the Sandbox: Quantitative Comparisons of Numerical and Analogue Models of Brittle Wedge Dynamics (Invited)
  • Susanne Buiter and Susan Ellis: The Initiation of Subduction Models
• crust-to-core meeting, 15-17 November, Marianska Lazne, Czech Republic
  • Susanne Buiter: The ingredients of numerical models of subduction (invited)
• 2010 CAS kickoff meeting: VooDoo Tectonics, August, Oslo
  • Susanne Buiter: Dynamic subduction models: How initial choices affect the outcomes
• GeoMod2010, 27 - 29 September, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs and the GeoMod2008 Team, When are models equal? Comparing numerical and analogue models of brittle thrust wedges (invited)
  • Guido Schreurs, Susanne Buiter and the GeoMod2008 Analogue Team, Quantitative comparisons of analogue models of brittle thrusting
  • Joya Tetreault and Susanne Buiter, To accrete or not to accrete? Bridging the gap between thermal-mechanical models of accretionary wedges and subduction dynamics
  • Zurab Chemia and Susanne Buiter, The fate of subducted sediments at convergent plate boundaries
  • Reza Khabbaz Ghazian and Susanne Buiter, Styles of deformation in continent-continent collision
• EGU General Assembly, 2-7 May, Vienna, Austria
  • Susanne Buiter,Markus Albertz, Michelle Cooke, Tony Crook, David Egholm, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Luke Hodkinson, Boris Kaus, Walter Landry, Bertrand Maillot, Yury Mishin, Christophe Pascal, Guido Schreurs, Pauline Souloumiac, Christopher Beaumont, Quantitative comparisons of numerical models of brittle wedge dynamics
  • Guido Schreurs, Susanne Buiter, Caroline Burberry, Jean-Paul Callot, Cristian Cavozzi, Mariano Cerca, Ernesto Cristallini, Alexander Cruden, Jian-Hong Chen, Leonardo Cruz, Jean-Marc Daniel, Victor Garcia, Caroline Gomes, Celine Grall, Cecilia Guzman, Triyani Nur Hidayah, George Hilley, Chia-Yu Lu, Matthias Klinkmuller, Hemin Koyi, Jenny Macauley, Bertrand Maillot, Catherine Meriaux, Faramarz Nilfouroushan, Chang-Chih Pan, Daniel Pillot, Rodrigo Portillo, Matthias Rosenau, Wouter P. Schellart, Roy Schlische, Andy Take, Bruno Vendeville, Matteo Vettori, M. Vergnaud, Shih-Hsien Wang, Martha Withjack, Daniel Yagupsky, Yasuhiro Yamada, Quantitative comparisons of analogue models of brittle wedge dynamics
  • Matthieu Quinquis, Zurab Chemia, Nicola Tosi, Susanne Buiter, and David Dolejs, A numerical reference model for themomechanical subduction
  • Joya Tetreault and Susanne Buiter, Geodynamic modelling of terrane accretion, subduction, and collision
• 29th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, 11-13 January 2010, Oslo
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs, Markus Albertz, Michelle Cooke, Tony Crook, David Egholm, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Luke Hodkinson, Boris Kaus, Walter Landry, Bertrand Maillot, Yury Mishin, Christophe Pascal, Anton Popov, Christopher Beaumont, Pauline Souloumiac, Quantitative comparisons of numerical models of brittle contractional deformation (keynote)
  • Joya Tetreault and Susanne Buiter, Geodynamic modelling of terrane accretion

• Out of Africa, 140 years with Kevin Burke and Lew Ashwal, 15-18 November, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Susanne Buiter, The uplift of the Atlas Mountains
  • Susanne Buiter and Bernhard Steinberger, Could subsidence in the Congo Basin be caused by the interplay of lithosphere deformation and mantle flow?
• 11th International workshop on modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics, 28 June - 3 July, Braunwald, Switzerland
  • Susanne Buiter and Susan Ellis, Simple subduction models with SULEC
  • Matthieu Quinquis and Susanne Buiter, The influence of surface boundary conditions on subduction zone dynamics
  • Joya Tetreault and Susanne Buiter, Geodynamic modelling of terrane accreation
  • Zurab Chemia and Susanne Buiter, Discussion on resolving sediment subduction
• EGU General Assembly, 19-24 April, Vienna, Austria
  • Susanne Buiter, Markus Albertz, Michele Cooke, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Luke Hodkinson, Kristin Hughes, Katrin Huhn, Boris Kaus, Walter Landry, Bertrand Maillot, Christophe Pascal, Anton Popov, Guido Schreurs, Christopher Beaumont, Tony Crook, Mario Del Castello and Yves Leroy, Quantitative comparisons of numerical models of brittle deformation (solicited)
  • Susanne Buiter and Bernhard Steinberger, Surface topography changes in North Africa derived from combined lithosphere and mantle modelling

• Geo2008, 29 September - 2 October, Aachen
  • Susanne Buiter and Adrian Pfiffner, How rifts become mountains (invited)
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs and Susan Ellis, The formation of parallel-dipping faults at passive margins
• GeoMod2008, 21-24 September, Florence
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs and Susan Ellis, Numerical and analogue models of the formation of parallel-dipping normal faults
  • Matthieu Quinquis and Susanne Buiter, Numerical modelling of subduction zones: The effects of boundary conditions and model setups on global dynamics
• 33rd IGC Meeting, 6-14 August, Oslo
  • Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs and Susan Ellis, Numerical and analogue models of the formation of parallel-dipping normal faults
  • Susanne Buiter, Adrian Pfiffner and Christopher Beaumont, A numerical evaluation of the localisation of shortening during basin inversion
  • Matthieu Quinquis and Susanne Buiter, The role of numerical implementations on models of subduction dynamics
  • Trond Torsvik, Robin Cocks and Susanne Buiter, The Variscides, Uralides and Pangea assembly: Insights from plate reconstructions and numerical modelling
• International symposium on the Planet Earth, 7-8 February, Trondheim
  • Susanne Buiter, Basin formation and deformation in the Barents region (invited)

• AGU Fall Meeting, 10-14 December, San Francisco
  • Susanne Buiter and Trond Torsvik, Horizontal Movements in the Eastern Barents Sea Constrained by Numerical Models and Plate Reconstructions
  • Guido Schreurs and Susanne Buiter, The Formation of Parallel-Dipping Normal Faults on Mature Passive Margins: Insights from Numerical and Analogue Models
• 16th Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics conference, 27 September - 2 October, Milano, Italy
  • Susanne Buiter: The role of rheology in numerical models of lithosphere deformation (invited)
  • Susanne Buiter and Guido Schreurs: A new comparison of numerical and analogue model experiments
  • Guido Schreurs and Susanne Buiter: Formation of parallel-dipping normal fault arrays on mature passive margins: insights from numerical and analogue models
• 10th International workshop on modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics, 2-7 September, Carry-le-Rouet, France
  • Susanne Buiter: Numerical and analogue models of lithosphere dynamics (invited) (abstract-pdf)
  • Susanne Buiter and Guido Schreurs: A new comparison of numerical and analogue model experiments of crustal-scale processes (abstract-pdf)
• EGU General Assembly, April, Vienna, Austria
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter and Trond H. Torsvik, Basin inversion constrained by numerical models and plate reconstructions: a Barents Sea example (abstract-pdf)
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter and O. Adrian Pfiffner, Localisation of shortening in numerical models of basin inversion
  • Guido Schreurs, Susanne Buiter, Susan Ellis and Per Terje Osmundsen, Analogue and numerical models investigating the formation of parallel-dipping normal fault arrays
• Geological Society of Norway 2007 Winter Meeting, Stavanger, Norway
  • Buiter, S.J.H. and Torsvik, T.H.: Basin inversion in the eastern Barents Sea constrained by numerical models and plate reconstructions
  • Buiter, S., Schreurs, G., Ellis, S. and Osmundsen, P.T.: Modelling the formation of extensional fault arrays

• 9th International workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithosphere Dynamics, Erice, Italy
  • Susanne Buiter, Andrey Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Boris Kaus, Guido Schreurs: Comparison of sandbox-style numerical extension experiments
  • Susanne Buiter, Boris Kaus, Neil Mancktelow: Discussion on designing a plasticity benchmark experiment
• Workshop on Geodynamic Modeling of Tectonic Processes, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
  • Benchmarks and comparisons - Susanne Buiter, Andrey Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Boris Kaus, Antje Kellner, Guido Schreurs, Yasuhiro Yamada: The Numerical Sandbox: Comparison of Model Results for a Shortening and an Extension Experiment
• EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
  • Susanne Buiter, Andrey Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Antje Kellner, Guido Schreurs, Yasuhiro Yamada: The Numerical Sandbox: Comparison of Numerical with Analogue Model Results for Shortening and Extension Experiments (solicited)
• International Conference on 'Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics', Zurich, Switzerland
  • Susanne Buiter, Andrey Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras Gerya, Antje Kellner, Guido Schreurs, Yasuhiro Yamada: The Numerical Sandbox: Comparison of Model Results for a Shortening and an Extension Experiments
  • Guido Schreurs, Susanne Buiter, David Boutelier, Giacomo Corti, Elisabetta Costa, Alexander Cruden, Jean-Marc Daniel, Hemin Koyi, Jo Lohrmann, Jean-Marie Mengus, Antonio Ravaglia, Martha Withjack, Yasuhiro Yamada: The analogue sandbox: Benchmarking of shortening and extension experiments
  • Marion Panien, Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs, Adrian Pfiffner: Inversion of a symmetric basin: Insights from a comparison between analogue and numerical experiments
  • Cornelia Selzer, Susanne Buiter, Adrian Pfiffner: Influence of strain-softening, surface processes and mechanical heterogeneities on orogenic wedge growth
• Geological Society of Norway 2005 Winter Conference, Roros, Norway
  • Susanne Buiter, Ritske Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Numerical models of the formation of extensional sedimentary basins

• GeoMod2004 'From Mountains to Sedimentary Basins: Modelling and Testing Geological Processes', Emmetten, Switzerland
  • Susanne Buiter, Ritske Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Formation of extensional sedimentary basins: the role of surface processes in mode selection
  • Ritske Huismans, Susanne Buiter and Christopher Beaumont: The effect of plastic-viscous layering and strain softening on mode selection during lithospheric extension
  • Marion Panien, Susanne Buiter, Guido Schreurs, Adrian Pfiffner: Comparison between analogue and numerical models of basin inversion
  • Cornelia Selzer, Susanne Buiter, Andrea Hampel, Adrian Pfiffner: Growth of an orogenic wedge by frontal accretion: first results of a numerical model study
• InterMARGINS Workshop 'Modeling the Extensional Deformation of the Lithosphere', Pontresina, Switzerland
  • Susanne Buiter, Ritske Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Formation of Sedimentary Basins: An Analysis of Modes of Crustal Extension

• Geo2003, A joint meeting of DMG, GV and DGG, Bochum, Germany
  Susanne Buiter, Adrian Pfiffner, Ritske Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Numerical Models of the Formation and Inversion of Extensional Sedimentary Basins: sensitivity to Rheology and Surface Processes (invited)
• 8th European Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Castle of Hruba Skala, Czech Republic
  
  • Susanne Buiter, Ritske Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Numerical models of the formation of extensional sedimentary basins: sensitivity to rheology and surface processes
  • Ritske Huismans, Susanne Buiter and Christopher Beaumont: Asymmetric lithosphere extension: factors controlling rift mode selection
• Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Short Course 'From Lithosphere to Basin: Numerical and Analogue Modelling of Basin Evolution'
  Susanne Buiter: Numerical models of the formation of extensional sedimentary basins and their contractional inversion.
• European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France
  
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter, O. Adrian Pfiffner and Ritske S. Huismans: Extensional formation and contractional inversion of sedimentary basins
  • Ritske S. Huismans, Susanne J.H. Buiter and Christopher Beaumont: Asymmetric lithosphere extension: factors controlling rift mode selection
• International Conference on 'Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics', St Malo, France
  • Susanne Buiter, Ritske Huismans, Christopher Beaumont and Adrian Pfiffner: The effects of surface processes and frictional weakening on extensional basin geometry
  • Ritske S. Huismans, Susanne Buiter and Christopher Beaumont: Asymmetric lithospheric extension: the control of the 'dominant rheology' on rift mode selection

• Workshop 'Modelling Reality, The Reality of Modelling', San Donato Milanese, Italy.
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter, Ritske S. Huismans, Christopher Beaumont, and O. Adrian Pfiffner: Self-consistent numerical models of extensional basin formation and subsequent contractional inversion. (extended abstract (pdf))
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter and O. Adrian Pfiffner: Numerical experiments of basin inversion (extended abstract (pdf))
• European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France
  
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter, Ritske S. Huismans and Christopher Beaumont: Strain partitioning during continental extension: Role of frictional weakening and surface processes. (abstract-pdf)
  • Susanne J.H. Buiter and O. Adrian Pfiffner: Inversion of extensional sedimentary basins. (abstract-pdf)
  • Pfiffner, O.A., Schlunegger, F., Buiter, S.J.H.: The Swiss Alps and their peripheral foreland basin: stratigraphic response to deep crustal processes.

• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
  Susanne Buiter and Adrian Pfiffner: Numerical models of half-graben inversion.
• 18th Swiss Tectonic Studies Group Meeting, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
  
  • Susanne Buiter and Adrian Pfiffner: Numerical models of half-graben inversion.
  • Pfiffner, O.A., Schlunegger, F., Buiter, S.J.H.: The Swiss Alps and their peripheral foreland basin: stratigraphic response to deep crustal processes.
• European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France
  
  • Susanne Buiter and Adrian Pfiffner: Numerical simulations of fold and thrust structures formed during basin inversion.
  • Susanne Buiter, Rob Govers, Rinus Wortel and Michiel van der Meulen: Could slab detachment explain the Late Miocene uplift of Northern Italy?
• 7th Workshop 'Numerical modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics', Aussois, France.
  
  • Susanne Buiter and Adrian Pfiffner: Numerical simulations of fold and thrust structures formed during basin inversion.
  • Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, M.J.R. Wortel: A modelling study of vertical displacements at convergent plate margins.

• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers M.J.R. Wortel: 2D simulations of the surface effects of slab detachment.
• European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France.
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers and M.J.R. Wortel: Numerical simulations of the surface effects of slab detachment: the Apennines.
• 4e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
  
  • Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel: Numerical simulations of the surface effects of slab detachment.
  • Hafkenscheid, E., S.J.H. Buiter, M.J.R. Wortel, W. Spakman, H. Bijwaard en M.R. de Jonge: A comparison of forward models for the seismic velocity structure of southern Indonesia with tomographic results.

• IASPEI General Assembly, Thessaloniki, Greece
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers and M.J.R. Wortel: Effects of (changes in) the subduction process on the foreland basins of the Apennines (Italy).
• 6th Workshop 'Numerical modeling', Naurod, Germany.
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers and M.J.R. Wortel: The role of subduction in the evolution of the Apennines foreland basin,
• 8th Workshop of the ILP Task Force 'Origin of Sedimentary basins', Palermo, Italy.
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers and M.J.R. Wortel: Subduction driven vertical motions and the evolution of foreland basins along the Apennines,

• European Geophysical Society Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands.
  Buiter, S.J.H., M.J. van der Meulen, R. Govers, M.J.R. Wortel and J.E. Meulenkamp: The role of subduction in foreland basin evolution: the Apennines
• 3e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
  Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers and M.J.R. Wortel: The role of subduction in the evolution of the Apennines foreland basin.