Chairs: Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Samer Naif, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Anne Pommier, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Edward Garnero, Arizona State University, EarthScope National Office, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Samer Naif, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
OSPA Liaisons: Anne Pommier, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
1:55 PM
Seismic constraints on the evolution of the continental lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary system
Heather A Ford, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Emily Hopper, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Karen M. Fischer, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Washington, DC, United States, Kate Selway, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
2:25 PM
Electrical Conductivity of H2O-CO2 rich-Melt at mantle conditions: interpretation of the LAB using petrology-based 1D conductivity profiles.
David Sifre1,2, Fabrice Gaillard1,2, Leila Hashim1,2, Malcolm Massuyeau1,2, Emmanuel Gardés3 and Saswata Hier-Majumder4, (1)ISTO Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (2)CNRS-Orléans, Orléans, France, (3)Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique-CNRS-Ganil, Caen, France, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
2:40 PM
A high resolution seismic reflection image for the oceanic LAB (Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary), beneath southern North Island, New Zealand
Tim A Stern1, Stuart A Henrys2, David A Okaya3, Martha K Savage1, Hiroshi Sato4, Takaya Iwasaki4, John N Louie5 and Simon Henry Lamb1, (1)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (5)Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
2:55 PM
SUBDUCTION-DRIVEN RECYCLING OF CONTINENTAL MARGIN LITHOSPHERE
Alan Levander1, Maximiliano J Bezada2, Fenglin Niu3, Imma Palomeras1, Sally Thurner3, Eugene Humphreys4, Meghan Samantha Miller5, Ramon Carbonell6, Josep Gallart6 and Michael Schmitz7, (1)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (7)La Fundación Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismológicas, Caracas, Venezuela
3:10 PM
Constraints on the Nature of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary: Comparison of Observed Textural Evolution to Measured Seismic Anisotropy
Lars N Hansen1, Chao Qi2, Kathryn Kumamoto3, Jessica M Warren3, Richard F Katz4 and David L Kohlstedt5, (1)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
3:25 PM
Integrative Analysis of Mantle Lithosphere Rheology
Greg Hirth, Brown Univeristy, Providence, RI, United States, John A Collins, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Peter H Molnar, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
