DI008
Deciphering the Structure, Mineralogy, and Composition of the Lower Mantle I

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Terry-Ann Suer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Denis Andrault, University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Jennifer Jenkins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Maxim Ballmer, University College London, Dept. Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Terry-Ann Suer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs:  Jennifer Jenkins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Dongyang Huang, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Denis Andrault, University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Maxim Ballmer, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Maxim Ballmer, University College London, Dept. Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom
05:30
Deflating the LLSVPs: bundles of mantle thermochemical hot instabilities rather than thick stagnant "piles" (703098)
Anne Davaille, CNRS / University Paris-Saclay, FAST, Orsay, France, Barbara A Romanowicz, Collège de France, Paris, France; Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Ichiro Kumagai, Meisei University, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan and Kei Kurita, Univ of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
05:34
What causes seismic heterogeneities outside the LLSVPs in the lowermost mantle? (683373)
Mingming Li, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
05:38
Mantle Shear Wave Splitting based on 3D Seismic Wave Simulations (Invited) (684677)
Neala Creasy and Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
05:42
Kilometer-scale imaging on the core-mantle boundary at the source of the Hawaiian mantle plume (692703)
Zhi Li1, Kuangdai Leng2 and Sanne Cottaar1, (1)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
05:46
ULTRA HIGH VELOCITY ZONES AT THE CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY (678769)
Edward Garnero1, Shule Yu2, Sang-Heon Shim1, Mingming Li1, Byeongkwan Ko3, Michael Scott Thorne4 and Chunpeng Zhao2, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
05:50
Constraining large-scale lower mantle attenuation and anisotropy structure using novel observations of whole Earth oscillations (752167)
Arwen Fedora Deuss, Sujania Talavera-Soza and Simon Schneider, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
05:54
What Ice Age Data Can – and Cannot – Tell Us About the Deep Mantle (700372)
Alison Kim1, David Al-Attar2, Ophelia Crawford3, Harriet C. P. Lau4 and Jerry X Mitrovica4, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Cambridge, Bullard Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
05:58
The Origins of Seismic Heterogeneities in the Lower Mantle: Insights from Mineral Physics (Invited) (727452)
Wenzhong Wang1,2, Jiachao Liu3, Feng Zhu4, Mingming Li5, Zhongqing Wu1, Susannah Dorfman6 and Jie Li4, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (2)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Univ of Mich-Geological Dept, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
06:02
THE ROLE OF WATER IN THE MELTING OF BRIDGMANITE UNDER SHALLOW LOWER MANTLE CONDITIONS (676407)
George Amulele, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Shun-ichiro Karato, Yale University, Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States and Jennifer Girard, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
06:06
A non-linear Clapeyron slope of the post-garnet transition determined by advanced multi-anvil and in-situ X-ray observation technologies, and its multiple effects on mantle dynamics in various tectonic settings (679838)
Tomoo Katsura1, Takayuki Ishii1, Daniel J Frost1, Artem Chanyshev1, Keisuke Nishida2, Eun Jeong Kim3, Biao Wang1, Rintaro Ban4, Jianing Xu5, Jin Liu6, Xiaowan Su5, Yuji Higo7 and Yoshinori Tange8, (1)University of Bayreuth, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany, (2)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (5)Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (7)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan, (8)Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
06:10
Discussion