1. The Lithosphere in the Western US from PdS and SdP Receiver Functions
Alan Levander, Rice University
CIDER Lecturer 2006 and 2008
Meghan S. Miller, Rice University (now at University of Southern California)
CIDER 2008 post-doc participant
Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University
CIDER Lecturer 2008
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

2. Yan Xu, St. Louis University Meijuan Jiang, University of Illinois
SdP receiver function study and petrologic interpretation started at CIDER 2008 as part of Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Group:
Yan Xu, St. Louis University
CIDER 2008 student participant
Meijuan Jiang, University of Illinois
Martin Collier, LDEO
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

3. Proposal: Workshop on Cratons and NA Craton
Proposal: CIDER summer workshop on the Lithosphere and the upper mantle under the major orogenic belts, focusing on the western US
Proposal: Workshop on Cratons and NA Craton
Proposal: Workshop on Passive margins and the US passive margins
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

4. 80-40 Ma Flat Slab 80-50 Ma Laramide Uplifts CP Rotation
Ignimbrite flareup
50-20 Ma
~32 Ma
Basin & Range
Rio Grande Rift
25-5 Ma
CP Uplift
40 m/Myr
5-0 Ma
220 m/Myr
from
navdat.org
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CIDER 2009 Workshop

5. PdS Receiver Function Image Volume
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6. Slab gap south of Mendocino Cascadrd backarc Wallowa
PdS Moho Amplitudes
Sites of recent shallow mantle activity and delamination show weak Moho signals:
Southern Sierras
Wallowa Mtns
North Central B&R
Slab gap south of Mendocino
Cascadrd backarc
Wallowa
MTJ
SSN
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

7. CIDER
Project
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

8. Correlation of melting depths calculated from NAVDAT data
with LAB signals: CIDER LAB Project
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

9. CIDER Poster AGU 2008
Miller, M. S., A. Levander, Y. Xu, M. Jiang, M. Collier, C.A. Lee, 2008, SdP receiver function images of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Western U.S using USArray data, EOS, Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U43B-0061.
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

10. Discontinuity structure (LAB, 410, 660) from RF analysis
View from SE:
Discontinuity structure (LAB, 410, 660) from RF analysis SW NE
LAB
410
660
Cao & Levander, JGR, submitted
P-wave Tomography model:
Sigloch et al., 2008, Nature
Geoscience
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

11. Discontinuity structure (LAB, 410, 660) from RF analysis
View from SE:
Discontinuity structure (LAB, 410, 660) from RF analysis
P-wave Tomography model:
Sigloch et al., 2008, Nature
Geoscience
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop

12. Proposed CIDER II Activities
Careful comparison of various seismic models as disciplinary effort
CIG and CIDER can promote seismology workshops
Multi-discplinary approach to understanding the WUS and other orogenic belts as a whole
CIDER summer program on orogenic belts and the WUS
CIDER summer program on cratons and NA Craton
CIDER summer program on passive margins and the US passive margins
12/1/2018
CIDER 2009 Workshop