S54B:
Theory of Earth III

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 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:

4:00 PM
S54B-01
 
The Imprint of Plumes on Waveforms Using Spectral-Element Method Synthetics
Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4:15 PM
S54B-02
 
Evolving Views on the Scale and Nature of Mantle Convection
Robert D van der Hilst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
4:30 PM
S54B-03
 
Seismological Constraints on Lower-Mantle Convection
Raymond Jeanloz, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
4:45 PM
S54B-04
 
Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Contiguous United States
Stephen S Gao and Kelly Hong Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
5:00 PM
S54B-05
 
Geology is the Key to Explain Igneous Activity in the Mediterranean Area
Michele Lustrino, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
5:15 PM
S54B-06
 
The deep water cycle and origin of cratonic flood basalts: two examples from the Siberian craton
Alexei V. Ivanov, Institute of the Earth Crust SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
5:30 PM
S54B-07
 
Composition, Temperature, and Focused Melting Beneath Ocean Ridges
Henry J Dick, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Huaiyang Zhou, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China
5:45 PM
S54B-08
 
The Last Word
Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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