Session Proposal: Theory of Earth III (2014 AGU Fall Meeting)

S54B:
Theory of Earth III

Session ID#: 4279

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

305 (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:

S54B-01

The Imprint of Plumes on Waveforms Using Spectral-Element Method Synthetics (Invited) (4978)

Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland

S54B-02

Evolving Views on the Scale and Nature of Mantle Convection (24243)

Robert D van der Hilst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

S54B-03

Seismological Constraints on Lower-Mantle Convection (18475)

Raymond Jeanloz, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States

S54B-04

Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Contiguous United States (13927)

Stephen S Gao and Kelly Hong Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States

S54B-05

Geology is the Key to Explain Igneous Activity in the Mediterranean Area (17182)

Michele Lustrino, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

S54B-06

The deep water cycle and origin of cratonic flood basalts: two examples from the Siberian craton (15460)

Alexei V. Ivanov, Institute of the Earth Crust SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

S54B-07

Composition, Temperature, and Focused Melting Beneath Ocean Ridges (16150)

Henry J Dick, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Huaiyang Zhou, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China