T31D:
Crustal and Lithospheric Structure of Cratons Inferred with Geophysical Methods II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Hrvoje Tkalcic, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Christian Sippl, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Primary Conveners:  Christian Sippl, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
Co-conveners:  Hrvoje Tkalcic, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, David A Thompson, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Sid-Ali Ouadfeul, University of Boumerdes, Geophysics, BOUMERDES, Algeria
OSPA Liaisons:  Christian Sippl, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
T31D-01
 
How Robust are Our Estimates for Mechanical Anisotropy in the Continental Lithosphere?
Lara M Kalnins, University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Frederik J Simons, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jonathan F Kirby, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia, Dong V Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Sofia C Olhede, University College London, London, United Kingdom
8:15 AM
T31D-02
 
Constraints on Shear Velocity in the Cratonic Upper Mantle From Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity
Aaron C Hirsch, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
8:30 AM
T31D-03
 
Geophysical Signatures of Adjoining Lithospheric Domains
Sofie Gradmann, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway and Jonas Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
8:45 AM
T31D-04
 
Thermochemical Structure and Stratification of the Hudson Bay Lithosphere, Northern Canada: Evidence from Multi-Observable Probabilistic Inversion
Fiona Ann Darbyshire, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Centre de recherche GEOTOP, Montreal, QC, Canada and Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Sydney, Australia
9:05 AM
T31D-05
 
Lithospheric Shear Velocity and Discontinuity Structure of Hudson Bay from S-to-P Receiver Functions and Jointly Inverted P-to-S Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocities.
Robert W Porritt1, Meghan Samantha Miller1 and Fiona Ann Darbyshire2, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Centre de recherche GEOTOP, Montreal, QC, Canada
9:20 AM
T31D-06
 
Lithospheric Structure of the North American Craton Imaged Using Waveform Inversion of Global and Usarray Data
Andrew J Schaeffer and Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland
9:35 AM
T31D-07
 
Small-scale upper mantle extension beneath a destroyed craton
Liang Zhao1, Tianyu Zheng1, Ling Chen1, Yinshuang Ai2, Yumei He2 and Xiaobing Xu1, (1)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Earth and Planetary Physics, Beijing, China
9:55 AM
 
Concluding Remarks
 
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