Thread: JpGU-AGU meeting 2017 International Session S-IT30: Characterizing/contrasting seismic discontinuities in the oceanic and continental lithosphere

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Dear Colleagues,

The JpGU-AGU joint meeting will take place on 20-25 May 2017 in Chiba, Japan (http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/). We would like to invite you to contribute to the international session S-IT30: Characterizing/contrasting seismic discontinuities in the oceanic and continental lithosphere.

Invited speakers:
Brian Kennett (ANU)
Emily Chin (Scripps, UCSD)

The abstract submission deadline is on February 16th, 2017 and please see the submission details below.

1. Go to the URL below, log in with your JpGU ID and password.
URL: https://www.member-jpgu.org/jpgu/en/

2. Click "Abstract Submission" button shown on the menu bar on the left side, then open the "Submit/ View Submission Info" page and you will see a "Submit your Abstract" button there.

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★ Abstract Submission Deadline
Early Submission: Feb 3rd, 2017 at 11:59am JST
Final Submission:Feb 16th, 2017 at 5:00pm JST
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Hope to see many of you here in the first JpGU-AGU joint meeting!

Xuzhang Shen, YoungHee Kim, Teh-Ru Alex Song, Rainer Kind,

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S-IT30 Characterizing/contrasting seismic discontinuities in the oceanic and continental lithosphere

The lithospheric seismic structure is crucial to understandings of the creation, modification and destruction of the plates. Oceanic lithosphere is typically thought to be the outcome of melting of undepleted mantle and subsequent cooling, whereas continental lithosphere, especially beneath the cratons, is often considered as the result of plume melting, stacking oceanic lithospheres or/and arc collision. However, later episodes of hydration, small-scale convective instability or/and and metasomatism, among other possibilities, potentially facilitate the modification and disruption of oceanic and continental lithosphere.

Seismic discontinuities of variable sharpness, strength and polarity of their amplitudes are now frequently observed at many regions and defy predictions from a simple thermal boundary. More sophisticated modeling efforts suggest that some of these seismic discontinuities may be consequences of fine anisotropic layerings.

The session focuses on characterizing seismic structures of lithosphere and their implications on the formation and evolution of the oceanic and cratonic lithosphere. We welcome abstracts that focus on new seismic observations with diverse dataset, improvement of the robustness of seismic processing/modeling, and welcome cross-disciplinary efforts that link seismic observations, deformation experiments, geodynamic modeling and geological/petrofabric data.
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