S41D:
Imaging the Earth VII from Data to Processes When Imaging Anisotropy and Attenuation

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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:

8:00 AM
 
Lg Attenuation of the Western United States
Andrea C Gallegos1, Nishath R Ranasinghe1, James Ni2 and Eric A Sandvol3, (1)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (3)Univ Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
8:15 AM
 
Attenuation and Velocity Structure in Spain and Morocco: Distinguishing Between Water, Temperature, and Partial Melt
Maximiliano J Bezada, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Eugene Humphreys, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
8:30 AM
 
Imaging Rayleigh Wave Attenuation and Phase Velocity beneath North America with USArray
Xueyang Bao1, Colleen A Dalton1, Ge Jin2 and James B Gaherty3, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)LDEO, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
8:45 AM
 
Why Ignoring Anisotropy When Imaging Subduction Zones Could be a Bad Idea
Manuele Faccenda1, Maximiliano J Bezada2, Douglas R Toomey2 and Eugene Humphreys3, (1)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (2)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (3)Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
9:00 AM
 
Constraints on the Thermal and Compositional Nature of the Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary from Seismic Anisotropy
Caroline Beghein, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kaiqing Yuan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Zheng Xing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Global Radially Anisotropic Whole-Mantle Structure from Multiple Datasets
Ana MG Ferreira, University College London, Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Sung-Joon Chang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Hendrik Jan van Heijst, Shell International, Rijswijk, Netherlands and John H Woodhouse, University of Oxford, Oxford, 0X1, United Kingdom
9:30 AM
 
Full Waveform Inverted Models Are Homogenized Models.
Yann Capdeville1, Eleonore Stutzmann2 and Jean-Paul Montagner2, (1)CNRS, LPGNantes, Nantes, France, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
9:45 AM
 
Interpreting Radial Anisotropy in Global and Regional Tomographic Models
Thomas Bodin1, Yann Capdeville2, Barbara A Romanowicz1 and Jean-Paul Montagner3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
 
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