Chairs: James M Wookey, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States and Abigail Louise Bull, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
Primary Convener: Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Co-conveners: James M Wookey, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and Abigail Louise Bull, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
OSPA Liaison: Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States
LLSVP (30597)
Edward Garnero1, Allen K McNamara2 and Sang-Heon Dan Shim1, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Normal Mode Insights into the Long Wavelength Velocity and Density Structure of the Lowermost Mantle (Invited) (4084)
Paula Koelemeijer1,2, Arwen Fedora Deuss2, Jeroen Ritsema3 and Hendrik-Jan van Heijst4, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Large- and Meso-scale Structure of Low Shear Velocity Provinces (Invited) (6319)
Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Jan Matas, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France; LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
A Comparative Study of Two Large Low Velocity Structures at the Base of the Earth's Mantle (18024)
Barbara A Romanowicz1,2, Kaiqing Yuan3, Laura Salmi3 and Sanne Cottaar4, (1)Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France, (3)Berkeley Seismological Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Interaction Between LLSVPs and ULVZs and Its Implication for the Origin of ULVZs (Invited) (2568)
Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Allen K McNamara, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Edward Garnero, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Correlating Large Igneous Provinces with Lower Mantle Seismic Structure – Where Is the Plume Generation Zone? (Invited) (4148)
Jacqueline Austermann1, Bryan T. Kaye1, Jerry X Mitrovica2 and Peter J Huybers3, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Simultaneous generation of Superpiles and Superplumes in the lower mantle (28325)
Maxim Ballmer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, ELSI, Tokyo, Japan, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States and Garrett Ito, University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States
Seismic and Geodynamic Constraints on Compositional Heterogeneity in the Lower Mantle: Implications for Deeply-Rooted Hot Upwellings Under the African and Pacific Plates (20484)
Alessandro M Forte, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, Petar Glisovic, Queen's University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada, David B Rowley, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Nathan A Simmons, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, Stephen P Grand, University of Texas, Austin, United States and Chang Lu, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
