DI51A
Constraints on Heterogeneities in Earth's Mantle I Posters

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Christopher Harig, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Lowell M Miyagi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chairs:  Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom and Christopher Harig, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lowell M Miyagi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Low Velocity Zones Near the Core Mantle Boundary From PKIKP Precursors (63328)
Xiaolong Ma1, Xinlei Sun1 and Daoyuan Sun2, (1)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Imaging Mantle Discontinuities Beneath North America Using ScS Reverberations (63691)
Kyle Alexander Griebel, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, United States
 
Roughness of the Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Revealed by High Resolution Wavefield Imaging with the Earthscope Transportable Array (74155)
Yinzhi Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States and Gary L Pavlis, Indiana University Bloomington, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
 
Elastic and anelastic structure of the lowermost mantle beneath the Western Pacific using waveform inversion (76613)
Kensuke Konishi, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Frederic Deschamps, Institute of Earth Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Nobuaki Fuji, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
 
Images of small-scale mantle heterogeneity obtained from coherence functions of phase and log amplitude fluctuations (64666)
Yiteng Tian, University of Connecticut, Physics, Storrs, CT, United States and Vernon F Cormier, Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
 
Constraining lowermost mantle structure with PcP/P amplitude ratios from large aperture arrays (77836)
Sergi Ventosa1 and Barbara A Romanowicz1,2, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity in the Indian Ocean Upper Mantle (81782)
Karen E Godfrey and Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
 
Amplitude Anomalies of S Waves Caused by Low Shear Velocity Structures at the Base of the Mantle (71609)
Akiko To, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Yann Capdeville, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France and Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
The Mantle Seismic Heterogeneities Inferred by USArray Data (83637)
Justin Yen-Ting Ko1, Shu-Huei Hung2, Dunzhu Li1 and Donald V Helmberger1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Understanding slow velocities in the European upper mantle – evidence for melting? (75726)
Laura J Cobden, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
The Interaction Between Supercontinent Cycles and Compositional Variations in the Deep Mantle (84186)
Julian Philip Lowman and Sean James Trim, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Investigating the effect of lateral viscosity variations in the Earth's mantle (79230)
Keely Anne O'Farrell and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Bathymetric Constraints on Dynamic Topography and Mantle Flow from Asymmetric Subsidence Across the Mid-Ocean Ridges (70689)
Clifford Evan Watkins, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States and Clinton P Conrad, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
The Layered Nature of Planetary Mantle (63806)
Sabine Dude and Ulrich Hansen, University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany
 
Estimating the Buoyancy Field for Earth's Mantle Using Seismic and Mineralogical Models (77356)
Siavash Ghelichkhan1, Lorenzo Colli1, Thomas Chust2, Bernhard S. A. Schuberth3 and Nathan A Simmons4, (1)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (2)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (3)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Single-Crystal Equations of State and Hyperfine Fields of Magnesiowüstite at High Pressures (64495)
Gregory J Finkelstein, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States