V14A
Generation and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere III

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
306 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Claudio Marchesi, University of Granada, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Granada, Spain
Conveners:  V. Dorsey Wanless, Boise State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Eric L Mittelstaedt, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, ID, United States and Daniele Brunelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Chairs:  Claudio Marchesi, University of Granada, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Granada, Spain, V. Dorsey Wanless, Boise State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Eric L Mittelstaedt, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, ID, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Claudio Marchesi, University of Granada, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Granada, Spain
16:00
Exploring for Volcanic and Hydrothermal Activity Above Off-axis Melt Lenses near the East Pacific Rise (78551)
Scott M White1, Avery Jonathan Lee1 and Kenneth Howard Rubin2, (1)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
16:15
Structure and Dynamics of the Southeast Indian Ridge and Off-axis Volcanism, 129°E to 140°E: Preliminary Results of the STORM Cruise (77959)
Anne Briais, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France and STORM cruise scientific party
16:30
Hydroacoustic seismicity along oceanic transform faults: Contrasts between the East Pacific Rise and Mid-Atlantic Ridge (72483)
Tingting Zheng, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Qiu Zhong, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
16:45
Mantle uplift and exhumation caused by long-lived transpression at a major transform fault (70785)
Marcia Maia, Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques, CNRS-UBO, Plouzané, France
17:00
Systematic variations in morphological characteristics of global transform faults (72999)
Fan Zhang1,2 and Jian Lin1,2, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
17:15
How Plates Pull Transforms Apart: 3-D Numerical Models of Oceanic Transform Fault Response to Changes in Plate Motion Direction (81273)
Thomas A Morrow1, Eric L Mittelstaedt1 and Jean-Arthur L Olive2, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
17:30
Global variations in gravity-derived oceanic crustal thickness and implications on oceanic crustal accretion processes (81576)
Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
17:45
A Global Comparison of Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes from Seismic Anisotropy (78177)
Caroline M Eakin, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Catherine Rychert, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Nicholas Harmon, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom