S51B:
Theory of Earth I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, James H Natland, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Conveners:  Don L Anderson, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom and James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Constraining Initiation and Onset Time of Plate Tectonics on Earth
Goetz Roller, Kompassbau Dr. Goetz Roller, Munich, Germany
 
Why Understanding When and How Plate Tectonics Began Is Essential for a Robust Theory of the Earth
Robert J Stern, Univ Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States and Taras Gerya, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Global Geodynamics and Hf isotope arrays: implications for supercontinental cycles and mantle convection patterns
William Joseph Collins, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia and Brendan J Murphy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
 
Early Earth tectonics: A high-resolution 3D numerical modelling approach
Ria Fischer and Taras Gerya, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
A Stochastic Model of the Earth's Interior.
John Reid, Retired, Washington, DC, United States
 
Possible Triggering of the Largest Deccan Traps Eruptions By the Chicxulub Impact
Mark A Richards1, Walter Alvarez1, Stephen Self1, Leif Karlstrom2, Paul Randall Renne3, Michael Manga1, Courtney Jean Sprain3, Jan Smit4, Loÿc Vanderkluysen5 and Sally Anne Gibson6, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, (3)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
True Polar Wander and the Cooling of Earth
Jun Korenaga and Ross Nelson Mitchell, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
The Excitation of True Polar Wandering by Extreme Earthquakes over Time
Gabriele Cambiotti, University of Milan - Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Xiujiao Wang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Roberto Sabadini, Univ Milano, Milano, Italy and David A Yuen, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Earth evolution as a thermal system
Chunan Tang, DUT Dalian University of Technology, Civil Engineering, Dalian, China
 
Global Importance of Mafic Magma with Low TiO2
James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
 
Effects of Fertile Mantle Compositional Variation and Spreading Rate Variation on the Working of Global Ocean Ridges
Yaoling Niu, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom and Michael J O'Hara, Aberystwyth University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
 
Do plumes exist beneath Northwest Kyushu southwest Japan?
Hidehisa Mashima, Meiji University, Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Kawasaki, Japan
 
Thinning of Refertilized Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle (SLCM) beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift During Tertiary Rifting: Petrologic and Thermal Constraints from (Garnet)-Spinel Peridotite Xenoliths (Mega, Ethiopia).
Alessio Casagli, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Maria Luce Frezzotti, University Milan Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy, Angelo Peccerillo, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, Massimo Tiepolo, CNR - IGG - Pavia, Pavia, Italy and Gianfilippo De Astis, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
Subduction-zone crust-mantle interaction is a common mechanism for the origin of oceanic arc and island basalts
Yong-Fei Zheng and Zi-Fu Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Transition Zone Seismic Discontinuities: Part II. Inferences on the State of the Transition Zone with a Stagnant Slab
Teh-Ru Alex Song1, Xuzhang Shen2, Lars Stixrude1 and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni1, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
Seismic Velocity Assessment In The Kachchh Region, India, From Multiple Waveform Functionals
Ranjana Ghosh1, Mrinal K Sen2, Prantik Mandal1, Jay Pulliam3 and Mohit Agrawal3, (1)National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
 
Shear velocity model for the westernmost Mediterranean from ambient noise and ballistic finite-frequency Rayleigh wave tomography
Imma Palomeras1, Antonio Villasenor2, Sally Thurner3, Alan Levander1, Josep Gallart4 and Mimoun Harnafi5, (1)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Institut Scienfique, Université V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
 
Teleseismic receiver functions imaging of Siberia
Mohammad Youssof, Hans Thybo and Irina M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Theory of Earth
Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Is a Cretaceous Superplume in Pacific Ocean Necessary?
Jing Xue, ITAG Institute of Theoretical and Applied Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Scott D King, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Imaging the Great Plains of the Central U.S. using Finite-Frequency Rayleigh Wave Tomography and Implications for Asthenosphere-Driven Uplift
Rachel Ellen Margolis1, Sally Thurner1 and Alan Levander2, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States
 
Where has the Flat-Fattened-Farallon Slab gone?
Donald V Helmberger1, Daoyuan Sun2, Kangchen Bai1 and Michael Gurnis1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Multi-Observable Probabilistic Tomography Reveals the Thermochemical Structure of Central-Western US
Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, Australia, Yingjie Yang, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Nicholas Rawlinson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Alan G Jones, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland and Javier Fullea, Institute of Geosciences (IGEO) CSIC-UCM, Madrid, Spain
 
Hotspots in Hindsight
Bruce R Julian1, Gillian R Foulger2, Oliver Hatfield3, Samuel Jackson3, Emma Simpson3, Jochen Einbeck3 and Andrew Moore4, (1)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)Rhodes University, Department of Geology, Grahamstown, South Africa
 
Insights Into the Dynamics of Planetary Interiors Obtained Through the Study of Global Distribution of Volcanoes: Lessons From Earth and Venus.
Edgardo Canon-Tapia, CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Ensenada, Mexico
 
The Yellowstone ‘hot spot’ track results from migrating Basin Range extension
Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, Robert L Christiansen, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Plate Tectonics and Taiwan Orogeny based on TAIGER Experiments
Francis T Wu, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, United States, Hao Kuochen, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan and Kirk D McIntosh, Univ of Tx-Austin-Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
Material and Stress Rotations: Anticipating the 1992 Landers, CA  Earthquake
Amos M Nur, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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