S22B:
Imaging the Earth II Passive and Active Source Studies of the Crust

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Estimating Moho depth utilizing S-wave receiver functions
Savas Ceylan1, Catherine Rychert1 and Nicholas Harmon2, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
10:35 AM
 
Crustal and Basin Thickness Via P-Coda Transfer Functions: Examples from the Southwestern Superior Province, USA and the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey
Andrew W Frederiksen1, David A Thompson2 and Sebastian Rost2, (1)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
 
Crustal Structure across the Appalachian Orogen in Pennsylvania from P-wave receiver functions
Gabriella Arroyo1, Andrew Nyblade2 and Kyle Homman1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn St Univ, University Park, PA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Constructing 3D isotropic and azimuthally anisotropic crustal models across USArray using Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity: inferring continental stress field
Fan-Chi Lin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Brandon Schmandt, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Victor C Tsai, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Italian and Alpine crustal structure imaged by ambient-noise surface-wave dispersion
Lapo Boschi1, Irene Molinari2, Julie Verbeke3, Andrea Morelli2 and Eduard H Kissling4, (1)ISTeP Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
11:35 AM
 
High-resolution Adjoint Tomography of the Eastern Venezuelan Crust using Empirical Green’s Function Waveforms from Ambient Noise Interferometry
Jeniffer Masy1, Min Chen2, Fenglin Niu1 and Alan Levander3, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice Univ-Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States
11:50 AM
 
High resolution maping of the crustal architecture by ambient noise tomography in the North Western Himalaya
Naresh Kumar1,2, Abdelkrim Aoudia1, Devajit Hazarika2 and Dilip K Yadav2, (1)Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, (2)Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Geophysics Group, Dehradun, India
12:05 PM
 
Crustal and Uppermantle Structure of Northeast China from Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Earthquake Rayleigh Wave Tomography
Zhen Guo, ITAG Institute of Theoretical and Applied Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China, Yongshun John Chen, Peking University, Beijing, China, Yingjie Yang, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
 
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