DI23A:
Mantle Flow: Constraints from Mineral Physics, Seismology, and Modeling Posters

Session ID#: 2868

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Hauke Marquardt, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany and Lowell M Miyagi, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Convener:  Hauke Marquardt, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Co-conveners:  Lowell M Miyagi, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Andy Nowacki, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Hauke Marquardt, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Index Terms:

0545 Modeling [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
3902 Creep and deformation [MINERAL PHYSICS]
3909 Elasticity and anelasticity [MINERAL PHYSICS]
7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
In Situ Monitoring of Microstructures during Subsequent Phase Transitions in the Olivine System up to 30 GPa and 1100 K Using 3D-XRD Single-Grain Analysis. Effects of Grain Size Evolution on the Stagnation of Slab. (5721)
Angelika Rosa1, Nadege Hilairet1, Dr. Sujoy Ghosh, PhD2, Jeroen Jacobs3, Jean-Philippe Perrillat4, Gavin B.M, Vaughan3, Gaston Garbarino3, Nohamed Mezouar3 and Sebastien Merkel5, (1)University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, (4)Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Villeurbanne, France, (5)UMET, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
 
Melt Connectivity and Its Effect on Grain Growth in Natural Olivine Aggregates: An Experimental Study (10181)
Leila Hashim1, David Sifre1, Jacques Precigout1, Emmanuel Gardés2, Emmanuel Le Trong1 and Fabrice Gaillard1, (1)ISTO Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (2)CIMAP Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les Matériaux et la Photonique, Caen, France
 
Viscoplastic Modeling of MgSiO3 Perovskite and Periclase Aggregates (28615)
Eloisa Zepeda-Alarcon1, Ricardo Lebensohn2, Pamela M Kaercher1 and Hans-Rudolf Wenk3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Modeling Creep in the Lower Mantle: Insights from the Atomic Scale (7835)
Pierre Hirel, University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Philippe Carrez, University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and Patrick Cordier, University of Lille 1 & CNRS, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
 
Sound Velocities and Equations of State for Lower Mantle Phases: Implications for Deep Mantle Structures (Invited) (4571)
Jennifer M Jackson1, Aaron S S Wolf2,3, June K Wicks4,5, Natalia V Solomatova5, Dan J Bower5, Daoyuan Sun6, Wolfgang Sturhahn7, Przemyslaw Dera8,9 and Vitali B Prakapenka10, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (7)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of Chicago, GeoSoilEnviroCARS, Chicago, United States, (9)University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (10)The University of Chicago, GeoSoilEnviroCARS, Chicago, United States
 
Grain size evolution in the mantle and its effect on geodynamics and seismic observables (16941)
Robert Myhill1, Juliane Dannberg2, Zachary Eilon3, Rene Gassmoeller2, Pritwiraj Moulik4, Ulrich Faul5 and Paul D Asimow6, (1)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Constraining Mantle Heterogeneities with Joint Inversions of Seismic, Geodynamic, and Mineral Physics Data (13765)
Chang Lu1, Stephen P Grand1, Alessandro M Forte2 and Nathan A Simmons3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Université du Québec à Montréal, Sciences de la Terrre et de l'Atmosphère, Montreal, Canada, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Modeling Mantle Heterogeneity Development in Earth’s Mantle Using Multidisciplinary Approaches (20028)
Susini de Silva, Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States, Val Finlayson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States, Tingting Gu, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Vernon F Cormier, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
 
Strong Seismic Scatterers Near the Core-Mantle Boundary North of Pacific Anomaly From PKP Precursors Recorded by Antarctica Arrays (20920)
Xinlei Sun1, Xiaolong Ma1, Douglas Wiens2, Lianxing Wen3, Andrew Nyblade4, Sridhar Anandakrishnan5, Richard C Aster6, Audrey D Huerta7 and Terry J Wilson8, (1)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China, (2)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, St. Louis, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Central Washington University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, United States, (8)Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
 
The Role of Post-Perovskite in Explaining Observations of Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (3486)
Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Allen K McNamara, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States and Hans-Rudolf Wenk, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
Anisotropy in the lowermost mantle beneath the circum-Pacific: observations and modelling (21887)
Jack Walpole, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, James M Wookey, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Andy Nowacki, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Andrew Walker, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, J Michael Kendall, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Guy Masters, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Alessandro M Forte, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
A Uniform Shear-Wave Splitting Database for Africa and Arabia (14669)
Ahmed A Elsheikh1, Stephen S Gao2 and Kelly Hong Liu2, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States
 
What Does the Mantle Remember of Its Convection History? (7346)
Suzanne Atkins1, Paul Tackley2, Andrew P Valentine3 and Jeannot Trampert1, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
 
Joint Analysis of GOCE Gravity Gradients Data with Seismological and Geodynamic Observations to Infer Mantle Properties (6856)
Marianne Greff-Lefftz1, Laurent Metivier2, Isabelle Panet2, Gwendoline Pajot-Métivier2 and Lambert Caron3, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, Paris Cedex 13, France, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sea Level and Ice Group, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Directional Mantle Flows Under the Oceans: A Joint Analysis of Seismic, Gravity and Bathymetry Data (7738)
Isabelle Panet, IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, LAREG, Univ Paris Diderot, Paris Cedex 13, France, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Marianne Greff-Lefftz, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Scott W French, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Using seismic tomography models to constrain the viscosity structure of the Earth's mantle (22939)
Keely Anne O'Farrell1, Joanna Reynolds1, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni2 and Paul Tackley3, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Finite Frequency P-Wave Tomography for French Polynesian Region (10967)
Masayuki Obayashi1, Junko Yoshimitsu2, Hiroko Sugioka3, Aki Ito2, Takehi Isse4, Hajime Shiobara5 and Daisuke Suetsugu2, (1)JAMSTEC, D-EARTH, Yokosuka, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (3)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (4)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan