DI11C
Properties, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth's Deep Mantle: From the Transition Zone to the Base of the Mantle I Posters

Monday, 14 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Robert Myhill, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Conveners:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Petar Glisovic, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Chairs:  Robert Myhill, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Petar Glisovic, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada and Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
 
First-principles study on Jahn-Teller effect in Fe2+-bearing wadsleyite (61274)
Atsushi Kyono, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Electrical conductivity of Al-bearing bridgmanite (63138)
Takashi Yoshino1, Seiji Kamada2, Eiji Ohtani2 and Naohisa Hirao3, (1)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (3)JASRI, Hyogo, Japan
 
Manifestation of compositional heterogeneities and ferropericlase spin crossover on mantle velocities (63329)
Zhongqing Wu, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
A possible new host mineral of large-ion elements in the Earth’s deep interior (63385)
Kenji Kawai, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan; University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan and Taku Tsuchiya, Ehime University, Geodynamics Research Center, Matsuyama, Japan
 
Stability region of the liebermannite-lingunite solid solution (64167)
Youmo Zhou, Tetsuo Irifune, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Toru Shinmei and Wei Du, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
 
Iron Partitioning and Oxidation State in Earth’s Lower Mantle (67113)
Hélène Piet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Iron-titanium oxyhydroxides which transport water into the deep upper mantle and mantle transition zone (68768)
Kyoko N Matsukage, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan and Yu Nishihara, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
 
Transition Metals in the Transition Zone: Crystal Chemistry of Minor Element Substitution in Wadsleyite (70819)
Li Zhang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Iron Partitioning in Ferropericlase (80452)
James William Harold Braithwaite and Lars P Stixrude, University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Precise Comparison of Phase Relations in Pyrolite, MORB and Harzburgite Up To 28 GPa 1600-2200°C Using Multi-sample Cell Technique (86218)
Masaki Akaogi1, Takayuki Ishii2 and Hiroshi Kojitani1, (1)Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
 
New Inferences of Earth’s Mantle Viscosity Structure and Implications for Long-wavelength Structure in the Lower Mantle (80999)
Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
TA sub-array measurements of SmKS ray parameters to determine lower mantle influence (86482)
Daniel Andrew Frost, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
New constraints on the velocity structure at the base of the mantle from the coupling of normal modes (63828)
Stephanie Durand, LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Eric Debayle, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Yanick R Ricard, LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, 15 parvis Descartes, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Sophie Lambotte, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg Cedex, France and Christophe Zaroli, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France
 
Characterization of D” Anisotropy beneath Western Pacific using SKS-SKKS Splitting (68166)
Jiahui Zuo, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China and Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
Effects of Isotropic and Anisotropic Structure in the Lowermost Mantle on High-Frequency Body Waveforms (75327)
Laura Parisi, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom
 
Earth's hot lowermost mantle revealed by Stoneley mode splitting observations (78228)
Arwen Fedora Deuss, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Focussing effects at the edge of the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (78767)
Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
Seismic Observations of the Mid-Pacific Large Low Shear Velocity Province (79860)
Albert Chan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
P- and S-wave boundaries of the north-western African Large Low Shear Velocity Province. (78800)
Rebecca Smith, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
 
Upper Mantle Discontinuity Structure Beneath the Western Atlantic Ocean and Eastern North America from SS Precursors (62059)
Nicholas C Schmerr1, Caroline Beghein2, Dimitrije Kostic1, Alice M Baldridge3, Diana C Roman4, John D West5, Larry R Nittler6, Abigail Louise Bull7, Laurent Montesi1, Paul K Byrne8, Daniel R Hummer9, Jeffrey B Plescia10, Lindy T. Elkins-Tanton11, Vedran Lekic1, Britney E Schmidt12, Lynne J Elkins13, Catherine M Cooper14, Inge Loes ten Kate15, Douwe J J Van Hinsbergen15, Rita Parai9, Jennifer B Glass12, James Ni16, Nobuaki Fuji17, Francis M McCubbin18, Joseph R Michalski19, Chunpeng Zhao5, Ricardo D Arevalo Jr20, Paula Koelemeijer21, Anna M Courtier22, Heather Dalton23, Lauren Waszek24, Joan Bahamonde25, Ben Schmerr26, Nibbler Gilpin27, Ellen Rosenshein28, Kimberly Mach29, Lillian Rose Ostrach20, Razvan Caracas30, Robert Anthony Craddock31 and Melissa M Moore-Driskell32, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)St. Mary's College of California, Environmental and Earth Science, Moraga, CA, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway, (8)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, (9)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (10)Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (12)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (13)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (14)WSU, Pullman, WA, United States, (15)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (16)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (17)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (18)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (19)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (21)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (22)University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, United States, (23)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (24)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (25)Arizona State University, Mars Space Flight Facility, Tempe, AZ, United States, (26)Vandelay Industries, New York, NY, United States, (27)Nammo Talley Inc., Phoenix, AZ, United States, (28)Enlarged City School District of Middletown, Middletown, NY, United States, (29)Boeing Company Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (30)CNRS Lyon, Lyon, France, (31)Smithsonian Institution, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States, (32)University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, United States
 
Preliminary Observations of the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath South America from Non-Plane Wave Stacking of P-to-S Receiver Functions (70548)
Bruno de Almeida Goetze1,2, Youqiang Yu1, Kelly Hong Liu1 and Stephen S Gao1, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)Capes, Brasilia, Brazil
 
Diffractional Imaging of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Using SdS-SS Traveltimes (76132)
Zhen Guo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Ying Zhou, University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Seismological detection of “730-km” discontinuity beneath Japan subduction zone (79723)
Zhen Liu, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
SS-precursors Imaging of the Mantle Transition Zone based on Finite-Frequency Theory (61047)
Carlos Alberto Moreno Chaves1,2 and Jeroen Ritsema1, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
The effect of topography of upper mantle discontinuities on SS precursors (64407)
Maria Koroni and Jeannot Trampert, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
Mantle Zone beneath the North China and Some Implication for the Origin of the Datong Volcano (71850)
Liwei Wang, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Jianping Wu, Institute of Geophysics, China Eathquake Administration, Beijing, China