T31D:
Crustal and Lithospheric Structure of Cratons Inferred with Geophysical Methods II

Session ID#: 4890

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
304 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Hrvoje Tkalčić, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Christian Sippl, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Convener:  Christian Sippl, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Co-conveners:  Hrvoje Tkalčić, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, David A Thompson, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Sid-Ali Ouadfeul, University of Boumerdes, Geophysics, BOUMERDES, Algeria
OSPA Liaison:  Christian Sippl, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

7205 Continental crust [SEISMOLOGY]
8103 Continental cratons [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T31D-01
How Robust are Our Estimates for Mechanical Anisotropy in the Continental Lithosphere? (12277)
Lara M Kalnins, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Frederik J Simons, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jonathan F Kirby, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia, Dong Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Sofia C Olhede, University College London, London, United Kingdom
T31D-02
Constraints on Shear Velocity in the Cratonic Upper Mantle From Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity (23295)
Aaron C Hirsch, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
T31D-03
Geophysical Signatures of Adjoining Lithospheric Domains (16190)
Sofie Gradmann, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway and Jonas Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
T31D-04
Thermochemical Structure and Stratification of the Hudson Bay Lithosphere, Northern Canada: Evidence from Multi-Observable Probabilistic Inversion (Invited) (5234)
Fiona Ann Darbyshire, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Centre de recherche GEOTOP, Montreal, QC, Canada and Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Sydney, Australia
T31D-05
Lithospheric Shear Velocity and Discontinuity Structure of Hudson Bay from S-to-P Receiver Functions and Jointly Inverted P-to-S Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocities. (13229)
Dr. Robert W Porritt, PhD, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, M Meghan Miller, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Fiona Ann Darbyshire, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Centre de recherche GEOTOP, Montreal, QC, Canada
T31D-06
Lithospheric Structure of the North American Craton Imaged Using Waveform Inversion of Global and Usarray Data (10761)
Andrew J Schaeffer and Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland
T31D-07
Small-scale upper mantle extension beneath a destroyed craton (Invited) (3918)
Liang Zhao1, Tianyu Zheng2, Ling Chen3, Yinshuang Ai2, Yumei He4 and Xiaobing Xu1, (1)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Concluding Remarks
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