DI43A:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Mantle Plumes: Predictions and Observations from Source to Surface II Posters

Session ID#: 2121

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Garrett Ito, University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Anna M. Bishop Courtier, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States
Co-conveners:  Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Garrett Ito, University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8124 Earth's interior: composition and state [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8415 Intra-plate processes [VOLCANOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
DI43A-4346
Of Mantle Plumes, Their Existence, and Their Nature: Insights from Whole Mantle SEM-Based Seismic Waveform Tomography (9478)
Scott W French, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Barbara A Romanowicz, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France
 
DI43A-4347
The Residual of the Oki-Daito Plume in the Lower Mantle with the P wave Arrival-time Delays (2730)
Qinghui Cui1, Yuanze Zhou1, Guohui Li2 and Xiaoran Wang3, (1)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)UCAS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
 
DI43A-4348
Topography of Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities Beneath the North Atlantic: The Azores, Canary and Cape Verde Plumes (10452)
Morvarid Saki1, Christine Thomas2, Stuart E.J. Nippress3 and Stephan Lessing1, (1)University of Münster, Münster, Germany, (2)University of Münster, Institut of Geophysics, Münster, Germany, (3)AWE Blacknest, Reading, United Kingdom
 
DI43A-4349
P-wave travel-time tomography reveals multiple mantle upwellings beneath the northern East-Africa Rift (12578)
James O S Hammond1, Chiara Civiero2, Saskia D B Goes3, Abdulhakim Ahmed4, Atalay Ayele Wondem5, Cecile Doubre6, Berhe Goitom7, Derek Keir8, J Michael Kendall9, Sylvie D Leroy4, Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi10, Georg Rumpker11 and Graham William Stuart12, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (5)Addis Ababa University, Institute of Geophysics, Space Science, and Astronomy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (6)Université de Strasbourg, IPGS, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg, France, (7)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (8)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton, United Kingdom, (9)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (10)Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea, (11)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (12)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
 
DI43A-4350
Determining resolvability of mantle plumes with synthetic seismic modeling (12583)
Ross Maguire, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States, Peter E van Keken, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jeroen Ritsema, University of Michigan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
DI43A-4351
The Role of Geometrically Restricted Large Low Shear Velocity Province Source Material on Hotspot Volcanism (6637)
Emma Baker and Eric L Mittelstaedt, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
 
DI43A-4352
The Effect of Plumes on the Dynamics of Supercontinents in a Self-Consistent Plate Tectonics Setting (12906)
Charitra Jain1, Antoine Rozel2 and Paul Tackley2, (1)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
DI43A-4353
Evolution of the central Atlantic hot spots cluster in the last 100 Myr: interaction between plate tectonics, a lower mantle thermochemical instability and upper mantle secondary plumes (17217)
Aurore Sibrant1,2, Anne Davaille2, Fernando Ornelas Marques3 and Anthony Hildenbrand1, (1)Lab. GEOPS / University Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France, (2)CNRS / University Paris-Sud, Laboratoire FAST, Orsay, France, (3)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
 
DI43A-4354
Preserving Deep Mantle Structure in Hotspot Lavas (19209)
Timothy D Jones1, Rhodri Davies2, Ian H Campbell2, Cian R Wilson3 and Stephan C Kramer4, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, (3)Carnegie Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (4)Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
 
DI43A-4355
New Insights into the Morphology of the Galapagos Platform from Lower Crustal Flow Models (18162)
Felipe Orellana Rovirosa, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Mark A Richards, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
DI43A-4356
The role of heat source for spatio-temporal variations of mantle plumes (22120)
Ichiro Kumagai, Meisei University, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, Yasuko Yamagishi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan and Anne Davaille, CNRS / University Paris-Sud, Laboratoire FAST, Orsay, France
 
DI43A-4357
Effect of partial melting on small scale convection atop a mantle plume (28893)
Diane Arcay, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Roberto Agrusta, University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, Andrea Tommasi, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France and Alicia Gonzalez, Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion, Université de La Réunion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR CNRS 7154, Université Paris Diderot, F-97744 Saint Denis, France., Saint-Denis, France
 
DI43A-4358
Testing links between mantle plumes and true polar wander (26022)
Athena Eyster1, Richard J O'Connell1 and Francis A Macdonald2, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States
 
DI43A-4359
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, DENSITY STRUCTURE, AND RELATIONSHIP OF INTRUSIVE AND EXTRUSIVE VOLCANICS OF SEAMOUNTS ALONG THE NORTHWEST HAWAIIAN RIDGE (24039)
Jonathan Patrick Tree1, Garrett Ito2, Michael O Garcia3, Christopher Kelley4, Paul Wessel1, Brian Shiro4, Brian Boston5, Harrison Togia1 and John R Smith Jr4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, AL, United States
 
DI43A-4360
An Evaluation of the Complex Age Progression along the Cook-Austral Islands Using High-resolution 40Ar/39Ar Incremental Heating Ages (12971)
Joanna Rose, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
 
DI43A-4361
Explaining Tristan-Gough Plume Dynamics with New Age Data from Multiple Age-Progressive Seamount Sub-Tracks in the Young Walvis Ridge Guyot Province (13033)
Susan Schnur, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Cornelia Class, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and William W Sager, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
 
DI43A-4362
A top to bottom stratigraphic investigation of two transects through the Ethiopian flood basalt province (22760)
Susan R Krans1, Tyrone O Rooney2, John W Kappelman3, Dereje Ayalew4 and Gezahegn Yirgu4, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 
DI43A-4363
Age constraints on basalt samples from a transect across the Lau Basin: supporting evidence for modification by multiple mantle sources. (28350)
Christopher Scott Conatser, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Jasper G Konter, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Allison A Price, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Kevin Konrad, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
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