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Poster Programme GD6.2/GMPV50/SM4.3

GD6.2/GMPV50/SM4.3

Whole mantle and transition zone structure, dynamics and evolution: multidisciplinary perspectives (co-organized)
Convener: Paul Tackley  | Co-Conveners: Andreas Stracke , J. Huw Davies , FUMIKO TAJIMA , Heiner Igel , Hitoshi Kawakatsu , Fenglin Niu 
Oral Programme
 / Thu, 07 Apr, 13:30–17:00  / Room 22
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Fri, 08 Apr, 10:30–12:00  / Display Fri, 08 Apr, 08:00–17:00  / Hall A
Poster Summaries & DiscussionsPSD47 

Display time: Friday, 8 April 2011 08:00–17:00
Attendance Time: Friday, 8 April 2011, 10:30–12:00
Chairperson: J. Huw Davies and Hitoshi Kawakatsu
Deep & whole mantle

Hall A
A38
EGU2011-11809
New insights into the D" layer beneath the central Pacific
Jesus Casal Berbel and Christine Thomas

A39
EGU2011-8593
The 3-D dynamics of compositionally-stratified slabs entering a “slab graveyard
Paul Tackley

A40
EGU2011-8635
Effects of low-viscosity post-perovskite on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell
Paul Tackley and Takashi Nakagawa

A41
EGU2011-12434
The nature and dynamics of deep mantle thermo-chemical reservoirs
Frédéric Deschamps, Paul Tackley, Yang Li, and Takashi Nakagawa

A42
EGU2011-10795
The limited effect of toroidal flow on mixing efficiency in 3-D spherical mantle convection.
Hein van Heck and Paul Tackley

A43
EGU2011-3989
Evolution in plate-mode mantle convection: Implications for plumes and thermochemical piles
Claudia Stein and Ulrich Hansen

A44
EGU2011-9941
A look at what happened to Tethyan mantle during closure of Neo-Tethys
Tiffany Barry and J. Huw Davies

Upper mantle, transition zone and slabs: Dynamics and imaging

A45
EGU2011-3012
Modelling the thermal evolution of the mantle post-supercontinent formation: insulation effects and timescales
Philip Heron and Julian Lowman

A46
EGU2011-1643
Numerical simulations on fall of stagnant slabs into the lower mantle
Shoichi Yoshioka and Aya Naganoda

A47
EGU2011-1787
Seismic observation and numerical modeling for the mantle transition zone with stagnant slabs
Fumiko Tajima and Eiji Ohtani

A48 EGU2011-2412
Direct imaging of the metastable olivine wedge for a deep dry cold slab beneath southwest Japan (withdrawn)
Hitoshi Kawakatsu and Shoichi Yoshioka

A49
EGU2011-785
Seismic investigation of upper mantle discontinuities under the Indian-Asian collision zone with PP precursors
Stephan Lessing, Christine Thomas, and Sebastian Rost

A50
EGU2011-411
Bayesian approach to infer temperature and mineralogical composition of the transition zone from seismic waveforms
Mélanie Drilleau, Eric Beucler, Antoine Mocquet, and Olivier Verhoeven

A51
EGU2011-9077
Imaging the mantle transition zone beneath eastern and central China with CEArray receiver func-tions
Fenglin Niu and Xinling Wang

Subcontinental mantle: petrology and geochemistry

A52
EGU2011-8864
Metasomatism and degassing processes in the Hyblean heterogeneous mantle, as inferred from noble gas investigation of ultramafic xenoliths
Alessandra Correale, Mauro Martelli, Antonio Paonita, Andrea Rizzo, Lorenzo Brusca, and Vittorio Scribano

A53
EGU2011-2490
Melt triggered deformation of the upper mantle: examples from xenoliths from Kimberley, South Africa and the Letseng-la-Terae kimberlite, Lesotho (UNESCO IGCP 557)
Christoph Hauzenberger and Juergen Konzett

A54
EGU2011-6747
Mantle structure and composition beneath Udachnaya pipe reconstructed by mantle xenoliths from the brown breccia
Igor Ashchepkov, Theodoros Ntaflos, Dmitri Ionov, Lyudmila Pokhilenko, Nikolai Vladykin, Sergey Kuligin, Sergey Mityukhin, and Stanislav Pфlessky

A55
EGU2011-6595
Nature and evolution of Northern Victoria Land subcontinental lithospheric mantle (Antarctica)
Barbara Faccini, Massimiliano Melchiorre, Massimo Coltorti, and Costanza Bonadiman

A56
EGU2011-10429
Mantle sequences beneath Colorado from xenocrysts from Sloan and Kelsey lake kimberlites.
Igor Ashchepkov, Hilary Downes, Nikolai Vladykin, Roger Mitchell, Stanislav Palessky, and Elena Nigmatulina