T53E:
Toward Constraining Subduction Zone Dynamics II

Session ID#: 4972

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
306 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  John Huw Davies, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Fabio A Capitanio, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Rhodri Davies, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8150 Plate boundary: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8160 Rheology: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8170 Subduction zone processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T53E-01
Constraining Slab Sinking on a Whole-Mantle Scale: Quantitative Integration of Surface and Sub-Surface Observations from Geophysics and Geology (Invited) (2516)
Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom and Mitchell G Mihalynuk, Geological Survey and Resource Development Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, Victoria, BC, Canada
T53E-02
Circum-Slab Mantle Deformation: Insights from Finite Strain and Seismic Anisotropy (Invited) (4592)
Jeanette F Di Leo1, Zhong-Hai Li2, Neil M Ribe3, Andrew Walker1,4, James M Wookey5 and J Michael Kendall5, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)Chinese Academy Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
T53E-03
Architecture and Kinematics of the Taiwan Arc-Continent Collision (4605)
Sara Carena1, John Suppe2, Yih-Min Wu3 and Ravi V S Kanda2,4, (1)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (2)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)Utah State University, Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States
T53E-04
Subduction Initiation in Eastern Indonesia (16603)
Robert Hall, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
T53E-05
Mechanism for Normal Faulting in the Subducting Plate at the Mariana Trench (9463)
Zhiyuan Zhou, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States, Mark D Behn, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States and Jean-Arthur L Olive, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
T53E-06
Seismic Structure in Southern Peru: Evidence for a Smooth Contortion Between Flat and Normal Subduction of the Nazca Plate (19117)
Sara L Dougherty and Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
T53E-07
Observations and modeling of the crustal structure and Moho strength variation along the Lesser Antilles Arc (21804)
David Schlaphorst1, J Michael Kendall2, Jon D Blundy3, Elena Melekhova3, Brian Baptie4, Joan L Latchman5, Marie-paule Bouin6 and Stephen Tait6, (1)Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal, (2)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)The UWI Seismic Research Centre, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, (6)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
T53E-08
Lattice-preferred Orientation and Volatile Content of Olivine in Arc Mantle Lithosphere, Based on Xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California (24684)
Emily J Chin, Brown University, Providence, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geoscience Research Division, La Jolla, United States, Greg Hirth, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Alberto E Saal, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and John M Eiler, Caltech, Pasadena, United States
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