Chairs: Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, James H Natland, Organization Not Listed, RSMAS/MGS University of Miami, Miami FL USA, Washington, DC, United States and Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Convener: Don L Anderson, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
OSPA Liaison: Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Possible Triggering of the Largest Deccan Traps Eruptions By the Chicxulub Impact (7217)
Mark A Richards1, Walter Alvarez2, Stephen Self2, Leif Karlstrom3, Paul R Renne4, Michael Manga5, Courtney Jean Sprain6, Jan Smit7, Loÿc Vanderkluysen8 and Sally A Gibson9, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (4)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (7)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (8)Drexel University, Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (9)University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Transition Zone Seismic Discontinuities: Part II. Inferences on the State of the Transition Zone with a Stagnant Slab (18730)
Teh-Ru Alex Song, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Xuzhang Shen, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Geodynamics and Geohazards, Zhuhai, China, Lars P Stixrude, University College London, Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Shear velocity model for the westernmost Mediterranean from ambient noise and ballistic finite-frequency Rayleigh wave tomography (22812)
Imma Palomeras, Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, United States, Antonio Villasenor, CSIC, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, Sally Thurner, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Alan Levander, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Josep Gallart, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Mimoun Harnafi, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Multi-Observable Probabilistic Tomography Reveals the Thermochemical Structure of Central-Western US (28798)
Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, Australia, Yingjie Yang, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Nicholas Rawlinson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, Alan G Jones, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland and Javier Fullea, Institute of Geosciences (IGEO) CSIC-UCM, Madrid, Spain
Hotspots in Hindsight (20489)
Bruce R Julian1, Gillian R Foulger2, Oliver Hatfield3, Samuel James Jackson3, Emma Simpson3, Jochen Einbeck3 and Andrew Moore4, (1)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)Rhodes University, Department of Geology, Grahamstown, South Africa