DI14A
Properties, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth's Deep Mantle: From the Transition Zone to the Base of the Mantle II

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
301 (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, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Petar Glisovic, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
16:00
A New Approach to Study the Upper-Mantle Seismic Discontinuities Based on Triplication Data: Application to the Kuril Subduction Zone Using Hi-net Array (68515)
Sunyoung Park, Ahmet Okeler and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Cambridge, MA, United States
16:15
Seismic Structure of the Mantle Discontinuities beneath Northeast Asia (68998)
Juan Li, Xin WANG and Guangrui Guo, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
16:30
Structural and Chemical Flexibility of Hydrous Phases D and H (78097)
Wendy R Panero1, Razvan Caracas2 and Jeffrey S Pigott1, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)CNRS Lyon, Lyon, France
16:45
Low Fe3+ in Bridgmanite and Possible Existence of an Oxidizing Layer in the Mid Mantle (76594)
Sang-Heon Dan Shim1, Brent Grocholski2, Yu Ye3, Ercan E. Alp4, Shenzhen Xu5, Dane Morgan5, Yue Meng6 and Vitali Prakapenka4, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (3)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (4)University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)Univ of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, HPCAT, Argonne, IL, United States
17:00
On Dislocation Glide in Planetary Interiors (Invited) (59563)
Patrick Cordier, University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
17:15
Compositional layering within the large low shear-wave velocity provinces (LLSVPs) in the lower mantle (Invited) (69398)
Maxim D. Ballmer, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland; Tokyo Institute of Technology, ELSI, Tokyo, Japan, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Christine Thomas, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Lina Schumacher, WWU Münster, Münster, Germany and Garrett Ito, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
17:30
Seismic resolution of lowermost mantle structure (Invited) (72002)
Stefanie Hempel, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, DEOS / SSPA, Toulouse Cedex 04, France, Christine Thomas, University of Münster, Münster, Germany and Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
17:45
Signatures of chemical heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle from full-spectrum seismic tomography (70834)
Pritwiraj Moulik, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States and Goran Ekstrom, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States