DI21B:
Seismic Anisotropy: Predictions, Observations, and Interpretations I

Session ID#: 4313

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Golden Gate C1-C2 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Carlos Garrido, IACT, Granada, Spain and Andrea Tommasi, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Primary Convener:  Thomas Bodin, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Co-conveners:  Carlos J Garrido, CSIC, IACT, Granada, Spain, Andrea Tommasi, Univ Montpellier & CNRS, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France and J Michael Kendall, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciencess, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Thomas Bodin, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

3625 Petrography, microstructures, and textures [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3653 Fluid flow [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
5102 Acoustic properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How Modelling of Crystal Defects at the Atomic Scale can Provide Information on Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (2685)
Patrick Cordier1, Philippe Carrez2, Alexandra Goryaeva3, Karine Gouriet3, Pierre Hirel3, Antoine Kraych3 and Sebastian Ritterbex3, (1)University of Lille 1 & CNRS, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (2)University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (3)University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Deformation of Lawsonite at High Pressure and High Temperature – Implications for Low Velocity Layers in Subduction Zones (16899)
Elodie Amiguet1, Nadege Hilairet2, Yanbin Wang3 and Philippe Gillet1, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (3)The University of Chicago, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Chicago, United States
Patterns of Seismic Anisotropy Around Subduction Zones: Model Predictions and Implications for Subduction-Induced Mantle Flow  (9959)
Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Manuele Faccenda, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy
Analytical parameterization of self-consistent polycrystal mechanics (27487)
Neil M Ribe, University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France, Neil Goulding, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Olivier Castelnau, PIMM Laboratoire Procédés et Ingénierie en Mécanique et Matériaux, Paris, France, Andrew Walker, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom and James M Wookey, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Absolute Plate Velocities from Seismic Anisotropy: Importance of Correlated Errors (22787)
Richard G Gordon1, Lin Zheng1 and Corne Kreemer2, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States
Defining a Proxy for the Interpretation of Seismic Anisotropy in Non-Newtonian Mantle Flows (6788)
Navid Hedjazian and Edouard Kaminski, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Constraints on Melt Geometry and Distribution from Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (7742)
James O S Hammond, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Seismic Anisotropy Along the Eurasian-Arabian Plate Boundary (11198)
Eric A Sandvol1, Gleb Skobeltsyn2, Niyazi Turkelli3, Gulten Polat3, Gurban Yetirmishli4, Tea Godoladze5, Robert J Mellors6 and Rengin Gok7, (1)University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States, (2)Univ Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)Kandilli Observatory, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan, (5)Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, (6)LLNL L-046, Livermore, United States, (7)LLNL, Livermore, United States