S23E:
Seismic Anisotropy in the Continental Crust: Combining Perspectives of Seismology, Petrology, and Mineral Physics II

Session ID#: 4274

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Golden Gate B1 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, Michigan, United States and Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Co-conveners:  David A Okaya, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Bill Fry, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1020 Composition of the continental crust [GEOCHEMISTRY]
5102 Acoustic properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5112 Microstructure [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
7205 Continental crust [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S23E-01
Inferring the oriented elasticity tensor in the crust across the Western US using surface wave data (Invited) (3041)
Jiayi Xie, University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael H Ritzwoller, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, Michigan, United States and Bradley R Hacker, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
S23E-02
Stress, Anisotropy and Strain Rate in Kyushu, Japan, from Earthquakes and GPS: Tectonic implications (14460)
Martha K Savage, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, Yosuke Aoki, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan and Ruamoko Rumbles Group
S23E-03
Crustal Anisotropy in a Subduction Zone Forearc: Northern Cascadia (Invited) (3502)
Michael G Bostock1, Gian Matharu2, Nikolas I Christensen1 and Jeroen Tromp3, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
S23E-04
Strong seismic anisotropy in the crust of southern African catons (28940)
Hans Thybo1, Mohammad Youssof2 and Irina M M Artemieva1, (1)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, (2)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Computational Earthquake Seismology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
S23E-05
Homogenization of Heterogeneous Elastic Materials with Applications to Seismic Anisotropy (18196)
Senthil S Vel1, Scott E Johnson2, David A Okaya3 and Alden C Cook1, (1)University of Maine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
S23E-06
ESP Toolbox: A Computational Framework for Precise, Scale-Independent Analysis of Bulk Elastic and Seismic Properties (Invited) (3604)
Scott E Johnson1, Senthil S Vel2, Alden C Cook2, Won Joon Song1, Christopher C Gerbi1 and David A Okaya3, (1)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
S23E-07
The Ground Truth of Crustal Anisotropy from Receiver Functions (Invited) (5101)
Irene Bianchi1, Maria-Theresia Apoloner1, Ehsan Qorbani1, Simon Morgan Lloyd2, Katalin Gribovski1, Andreas Gerner1, Patrick Arneitz1, Peter Jordakiev1 and Götz Bokelmann3, (1)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (2)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (3)University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria
S23E-08
Understanding Seismic Anisotropy in Hunt Well of Fort McMurray, Canada (12803)
Reza Malehmir1, Douglas R Schmitt1, Judith Chan2 and The Experimental Geophysics Group, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Calgary, AB, Canada
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