S23E:
Seismic Anisotropy in the Continental Crust: Combining Perspectives of Seismology, Petrology, and Mineral Physics II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States and Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State Univ-Geology, Detroit, MI, United States
Co-conveners:  David A Okaya, Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Bill Fry, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
OSPA Liaisons:  Sarah J Brownlee, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Inferring the oriented elasticity tensor in the crust across the Western US using surface wave data
Jiayi Xie1, Michael H Ritzwoller1, Sarah J Brownlee2 and Bradley R Hacker3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
1:55 PM
 
Stress, Anisotropy and Strain Rate in Kyushu, Japan, from Earthquakes and GPS: Tectonic implications
Martha K Savage, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Yosuke Aoki, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
2:10 PM
 
Crustal Anisotropy in a Subduction Zone Forearc: Northern Cascadia
Michael G Bostock1, Gian Matharu2, Nikolas I Christensen1 and Jeroen Tromp3, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
2:25 PM
 
Strong seismic anisotropy in the crust of southern African catons
Hans Thybo, Mohammad Youssof and Irina M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2:40 PM
 
Homogenization of Heterogeneous Elastic Materials with Applications to Seismic Anisotropy
Senthil S Vel1, Scott E Johnson1, David A Okaya2 and Alden C Cook1, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2:55 PM
 
ESP Toolbox: A Computational Framework for Precise, Scale-Independent Analysis of Bulk Elastic and Seismic Properties
Scott E Johnson1, Senthil S Vel1, Alden C Cook1, Won Joon Song1, Christopher C Gerbi1 and David A Okaya2, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
3:10 PM
 
The Ground Truth of Crustal Anisotropy from Receiver Functions
Irene Bianchi, Maria-Theresia Apoloner, Ehsan Qorbani, Simon Morgan Lloyd, Katalin Gribovski, Andreas Gerner, Patrick Arneitz, Peter Jordakiev and Götz Bokelmann, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
3:25 PM
 
Understanding Seismic Anisotropy in Hunt Well of Fort McMurray, Canada
Reza Malehmir1, Douglas R Schmitt1 and Judith Chan2, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
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