S33A:
Imaging the Earth VI Global and Regional Tomography of the Mantle Posters

Session ID#: 4257

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Laura Ermert, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Convener:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
An Analysis of Fundamental Mode Surface Wave Amplitude Measurements (8402)
Lewis Schardong, University College London, Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Ana MG Ferreira, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Hendrik-Jan van Heijst, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Full-Waveform Validation of a 3D Seismic Model for Western US (9895)
Monica Maceira1, Carene S Larmat2, Prof. Charles J Ammon, PhD3, Chengping Chai1 and Robert B Herrmann4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Saint Louis University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis, MO, United States
 
Wave Propagation in Non-Stationary Statistical Mantle Models at the Global Scale (12225)
Matthias Meschede, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
The IRIS DMC’s Earth Model Collaboration (EMC) (12935)
Manochehr Bahavar, IRIS Data Management System, Seattle, WA, United States, Chad Trabant, EarthScope Consortium, Data Services, Remote, United States and Alexander Hutko, IRIS Data Management System, Seattle, United States
 
Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for the Japanese Islands (15629)
Saulė Simutė, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Hamish Steptoe, University of Reading, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Reading, United Kingdom and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Preliminary results on crust and upper mantle structure in the Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania from the SEGMeNT project (29249)
Marsella Kachingwe1, Andrew Nyblade2, Cynthia J Ebinger3, Donna J Shillington4, James B Gaherty5, Gabriel John Mbogoni6, Gabriel Daudi Mulibo7, Richard Ferdinand-Wambura7 and Godson Kamihanda6, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Tulane University, School of Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Geological Survey of Tanzania, Dodoma, Tanzania, (7)University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
 
Simultaneous Inversion of Receiver Functions, Surface-wave Dispersion, and Gravity Observations for Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Central and Eastern United States (17294)
Chengping Chai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Prof. Charles J Ammon, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Robert B Herrmann, Saint Louis University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis, MO, United States
 
Slab and Plume Morphology in the Transition Zone and Below: a Comparison of Images From Recent P and S Velocity Models (18567)
Laura S MacLean1, Scott W French1 and Barbara A Romanowicz2,3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France
 
Towards a Uniform 3-D Model of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle beneath Eastern China (18706)
Weisen Shen1, Michael H Ritzwoller2, Weitao Wang3, Dou Kang4, Jieyuan Ning4 and Yong Zheng5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (4)Peking University, Beijing, China, (5)State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China
 
Very long-period GPS waveforms. What can GPS bring to Earth seismic velocity models? (18854)
Krisztina Kelevitz1, Nicolas Houlie1, Tarje Nissen-Meyer2, Lapo Boschi3, Domenico Giardini4 and Markus Rothacher1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Sorbonne Université, ISTeP Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity Measurements for Imaging the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Portugal (18921)
Januka Attanayake1,2 and Ana MG Ferreira1,3, (1)University College of London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (2)Instituto Superior Tecnico, Laboratorio Sismologia, Lisboa, Portugal, (3)Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Using aftershocks to Image the Subducting Pacific Plate in a Region of Deep Slow Slip, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (19377)
Katrina M Jacobs, Victoria University of Wellington, Institue of Geophysics, Wellington, New Zealand, Hamish Hirschberg, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, John N Louie, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV, United States, Martha K Savage, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand and Stephen C Bannister, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
 
Crustal and uppermantle velocity structure of the northern Korean Peninsula constrained by ambient noise cross-correlations (20384)
Sang-Jun Lee, Korea University, The Institute of Basic Science, Seoul, South Korea, Junkee Rhie, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea and Seongryong Kim, Chungnam National University, Department of Geological Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Imaging the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Using Iterative Method of Receiver Function Analysis: A Synthetic Seismogram Approach (21114)
Tannistha Maiti1, David W S Eaton2, Qinya Liu3 and Elliott Sales de Andrade3, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Tomography of the East African Rift System in Mozambique  (9201)
Ana Domingues1,2, Graça M Silveira3, Susana Custodio4, Jose Chamussa5, Sergei Lebedev6, Sung-Joon Chang7, Ana MG Ferreira8 and Joao F B D Fonseca1, (1)Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, (2)Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Instituto Dom Luiz (FCUL)/Inst. Sup. Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (4)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (5)Direcçao Nacional de Geologia, Maputo, Mozambique, (6)Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, (7)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, (8)University College of London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom
 
Surface-wave phase-velocity models of the United States: Expanding with USArray coverage (21277)
Anna E Foster, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Goran Ekstrom, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Meredith Nettles, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
 
Constraining Anisotropic Shear-Wave Velocity and Its Scaling to Compressional Velocity and Density throughout the Mantle Using Wide-Spectrum Seismic Data (9688)
Pritwiraj Moulik, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Goran Ekstrom, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Multi-scale surface wave analysis for the crustal and uppermantle structure beneath the southern Korean Peninsula (21498)
Seongryong Kim, Chungnam National University, Department of Geological Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea, Junkee Rhie, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea and Hrvoje Tkalčić, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
 
Combining Full Waveform Inversion and Traveltime Tomography (21705)
Korbinian Sager, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Michael Afanasiev, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Nicholas Rawlinson, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
3D Lithospheric Imaging by Time-Domain Full-Waveform Inversion of Teleseismic Body-Waves (22344)
Stephen Beller1, Vadim Monteiller2, Stephane Operto3, Guust Nolet2, Laure Combe4, Ludovic Metivier5, Jean Virieux6, Tarje Nissen-Meyer7 and Anne Paul8, (1)Géoazur, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, IRD, OCA, Valbonne, France, (2)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (3)University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, (4)Université Côte d’Azur - CNRS - IRD - Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Valbonne, France, (5)LGCA, Maison Geosciences, Grenoble, France, (6)University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France, (7)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (8)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
 
Crust and Upper Mantle Velocity Structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (25340)
Cecilia Anyango Nyamwandha1, Christine Ann Powell2 and Charles A Langston2, (1)Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, (2)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, United States
 
LLNL-G3D-JPS: Global-scale Joint Tomography of P and S Wave Speeds in the Crust and Mantle (26129)
Nathan A Simmons1, Steve Myers2, Gardar Johannesson3, Eric Matzel3 and Steve Grand4, (1)Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, United States
 
Shear Wave Structure in the Lithosphere of Texas from Ambient Noise Tomography (11159)
Yao Yao, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Aibing Li, University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States
 
An Updated One-Degree Seismic Tomographic Model Based on a Sensitivity Kernel Database (26508)
Elliott Sales de Andrade1, Qinya Liu2, Zhitu Ma3, Urška Manners3, Esther Lee-Varisco3 and Guy Masters3, (1)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of California San Diego, IGPP, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
A global shear velocity model of the mantle from normal modes, surface waves and body waves (12027)
Stephanie Durand, Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Eric Debayle, Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Villeurbanne, France, Yanick R Ricard, Univ Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Lyon, France, Sophie Lambotte, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg Cedex, France and Christophe Zaroli, Université de Strasbourg, EOST/CNRS, Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, UMR 7063, Strasbourg Cedex, France
 
Anisotropic Love and Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps for central to northern Europe (12094)
Riaz Ahmed Soomro1, Christian Weidle2, Sergei Lebedev3, Luigia Cristiano2, Jan Behrmann4 and Thomas Meier5, (1)Institute of Geo Sciences, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Kiel, Institute of Geo Sciences, Kiel, Germany, (3)Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, (4)Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, Kiel, Germany, (5)Kiel University, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
 
Resolution Analysis and Jointly Inverted P- and S-Wave Models of Japan’s Crust and Upper Mantle. (16671)
Petros Bogiatzis, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Adjoint Tomography of the North American Continent (17399)
Hejun Zhu, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Finite-Frequency Tomography of USArray Receiver Functions (18471)
Ying Zhou, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Ductile Gap between the Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquakes Revealed from the Two-dimensional Pg Seismic Tomography (22444)
Shunping Pei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Jinrong Su, Sichuan Seismological Bureau, Chengdu, China and Zhongxiong Cui, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
 
Finite Frequency Traveltime Tomography of Lithospheric and Upper Mantle Structures beneath the Cordillera-Craton Transition in Southwestern Canada (27068)
Yunfeng Chen, Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Shu-Huei Hung, Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Seismic Tomography Beneath the Western United States Using a Joint Body Wave-Surface Wave Inversion Algorithm (29628)
Eva Marie Golos, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geoscience, Madison, United States, Robert D van der Hilst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Huajian Yao, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior, Hefei, China, Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Hongjian Fang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Scott Burdick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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