S51B:
Theory of Earth I Posters

Session ID#: 3924

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
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
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

8125 Evolution of the Earth [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8147 Planetary interiors [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8149 Planetary tectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8180 Tomography [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Constraining Initiation and Onset Time of Plate Tectonics on Earth (5392)
Goetz Roller, Kompassbau Dr. Goetz Roller, Munich, Germany
 
Early Earth tectonics: A high-resolution 3D numerical modelling approach (17922)
Ria Fischer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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
 
True Polar Wander and the Cooling of Earth (15549)
Jun Korenaga, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Ross Nelson Mitchell, Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Perth, Australia
 
The Excitation of True Polar Wandering by Extreme Earthquakes over Time (21415)
Gabriele Cambiotti, University of Milan - Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Xiujiao Wang, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development - Langfang, Langfang, China, Roberto Sabadini, Univ Milano, Milano, Italy and David A Yuen, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
 
Earth evolution as a thermal system (2686)
Chunan Tang, DUT Dalian University of Technology, Civil Engineering, Dalian, China
 
Global Importance of Mafic Magma with Low TiO2 (11152)
James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
 
Do plumes exist beneath Northwest Kyushu southwest Japan? (30005)
Hidehisa Mashima, Meiji University, Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Kawasaki, Japan
 
Thinning of Refertilized Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle (SLCM) beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift During Tertiary Rifting: Petrologic and Thermal Constraints from (Garnet)-Spinel Peridotite Xenoliths (Mega, Ethiopia). (21112)
Alessio Casagli, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Maria-Luce Frezzotti, University Milan Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy, Angelo Peccerillo, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, Massimo Tiepolo, CNR - IGG - Pavia, Pavia, Italy and Gianfilippo De Astis, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
Subduction-zone crust-mantle interaction is a common mechanism for the origin of oceanic arc and island basalts (20047)
Yong-Fei Zheng and Zi-Fu Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
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
 
Seismic Velocity Assessment In The Kachchh Region, India, From Multiple Waveform Functionals (28669)
Ranjana Ghosh1, Mrinal K Sen2, Prantik Mandal1, Jay Pulliam3 and Mohit Agrawal4, (1)National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, (4)Baylor University, Waco, TX, 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
 
Teleseismic receiver functions imaging of Siberia (28959)
Mohammad Youssof1, Hans Thybo2 and Irina M M Artemieva2, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Computational Earthquake Seismology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark
 
Theory of Earth (32102)
Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Is a Cretaceous Superplume in Pacific Ocean Necessary? (17022)
Jing Xue, ITAG Institute of Theoretical and Applied Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Scott D King, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Where has the Flat-Fattened-Farallon Slab gone? (30267)
Donald V Helmberger1, Daoyuan Sun2, Kangchen Bai1 and Michael Gurnis3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (3)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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
 
Insights Into the Dynamics of Planetary Interiors Obtained Through the Study of Global Distribution of Volcanoes: Lessons From Earth and Venus. (14279)
Edgardo Canon-Tapia, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
 
The Yellowstone ‘hot spot’ track results from migrating Basin Range extension (13884)
Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, Robert L Christiansen, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Plate Tectonics and Taiwan Orogeny based on TAIGER Experiments (30885)
Francis T Wu, SUNY at Binghamton, Department of Geology, Binghamton, United States, Hao Kuo-Chen, National Central University, Department of Earth Sciences, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Kirk D McIntosh, Univ of Tx-Austin-Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and U.S. and Taiwan TAIGER Teams
 
Material and Stress Rotations: Anticipating the 1992 Landers, CA  Earthquake (27747)
Amos M Nur, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
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