Mantle Imaging

Objective: High quality images of the mantle structure beneath spreading centers can only be achieved through international collaboration, because large-scale seismic and electromagnetic experiments in the same area are required. The proposed Working Group has two main roles, 1) promoting experiments to image the mantle structure at one or two ridge systems, and 2) encouraging scientists to link effectively for interpreting and using the high quality images. The key scientific questions to be addressed by imaging the mantle beneath spreading centers are 1) clarifying mantle dynamics associated with different ridge systems, and 2) identifying the parameters controlling various lithospheric features at different types of ridge systems.

Chair - Nobukazu Seama (Japan)
Working Group Members - Douglas A. Wiens (Washington University, St. Louis, USA), Alan D. Chave (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA), Douglas R. Toomey (University of Oregon, USA), Pascal Tarits (UBO – IUEM, France), Wayne C. Crawford (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France), John Chen (China)
Please note: Membership in this new WG may be adjusted.

(Working Group formed in 2008)