DI34A:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Mantle Plumes: Predictions and Observations from Source to Surface I

Session ID#: 4316

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
301 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Anna M. Bishop Courtier, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, United States and Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
Primary Convener:  Anna M. Bishop Courtier, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States
Co-conveners:  Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Garrett Ito, University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8124 Earth's interior: composition and state [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8415 Intra-plate processes [VOLCANOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

DI34A-01
Deep Mantle Structure As a Reference Frame for Absolute Plate Motions (Invited) (5775)
Trond Helge Torsvik1, Rob Van Der Voo2, Pavel V Doubrovine3, Kevin C Burke4, Bernhard M Steinberger5 and Mat Domeier3, (1)University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway, (2)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (4)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
DI34A-02
Hotspot Motion, Before and After the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend (Invited) (5988)
John Anthony Tarduno, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, NY, United States; University of Rochester, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States and Richard K. Bono, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
DI34A-03
High Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Tuvalu Seamount Chain: Implications for Hotspot Longevity and Pacific Plate Motion. (8860)
Kevin Konrad, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Val Finlayson, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jasper Konter, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States and Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
DI34A-04
Geographic Patterns of Volcanism at Intraplate Hotspots (25680)
Rohan Kundargi and Paul S Hall, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
DI34A-05
Dynamics and geometry of thermal plumes in the laboratory and the mantle (12791)
Neil Cagney, University College London, London, United Kingdom, William H. Newsome, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Geological Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
DI34A-06
RHUM-RUM, a Large-Scale Effort to Seismologically Image a Mantle Plume Under the Reunion Hotspot: Experiment Presentation and Initial Results (Invited) (4820)
Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Guilhem Barruol, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS (UMR 7154), 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris Cedex 05, France, Paris, France and The RHUM-RUM Working Group
DI34A-07
Seismic Imaging of Thickened Lithosphere Caused by Plume Pulsing beneath Iceland (13502)
Catherine Rychert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean and Earth Science, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Nicholas Harmon, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom
DI34A-08
Contrasting Mantle Plume Structure: Imaging Hawaii, Iceland and Yellowstone (Invited) (8687)
Richard M Allen, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Cheng Cheng, UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and William Bythewood Hawley, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
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