T23E:
An Appraisal of Global Continental Crust: Structure and Evolution II


Session ID#: 10731

Session Description:
The availability of broadband geophysical arrays, such as recent deployments of dense networks across North America and Asia, has substantially increased our ability to characterize crustal properties beneath major continents.  The improved data constraints, coupled with numerical simulations, enable an in-depth analysis of the structure, composition, spatial variability and evolution of the continental crust. This session invites contributions that enhance the current understanding of continental crust from disciplines that include, but are not limited to, seismology, geodynamics, gravity, magnetics and geochemistry.
Primary Convener:  Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Conveners:  Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States and Gabi Laske, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Chairs:  Yu Jeffrey Gu1, Claire A Currie1, Vedran Lekic2 and Gabi Laske3, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada(2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States(3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

7205 Continental crust [SEISMOLOGY]
8103 Continental cratons [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8169 Sedimentary basin processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Resolving High-Resolution Continental Scale 3D Crustal Structure Using Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity and Ellipticity (Invited) (63005)
Fan-Chi Lin, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Brandon Schmandt, University of New Mexico, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
Crustal structure in Eurasia: An overview (Invited) (68244)
Hans Thybo and Irina M M Artemieva, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark
A Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Model for the Conterminous United States (Invited) (81058)
Weisen Shen, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States, Michael H Ritzwoller, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States and Lili Feng, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Lower Crustal Detachment in the Cordillera and Other Hot Backarcs (67297)
Roy D Hyndman, Geological Survey of Canada Sidney, Sidney, BC, Canada
The structure of continental crust during and after formation (Invited) (66708)
Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States
Reflection Character of the Continental Lithosphere and Crustal Evolution (69240)
Larry D Brown, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
Magnitude and symmetry of seismic anisotropy as a constraint on crustal composition and structure (85054)
Sarah J Brownlee, Alexia Sarnowsky and Laura Robles, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
The Glacial BuzzSaw, Isostasy, and Global Crustal Models (75607)
Alan Levander, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Onno Oncken, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States

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