[S-IT20] Coupling of deep Earth and surface processes

[SIT20-P04] Flash report on MAVERICS expeditions to study the mantle viscosity from geophysical observations and simulation

*Kiyoshi Baba¹, Takehi Isse¹, Max Moorkamp², Marion Jegen³, Antje Schlömer⁴, Bernhard Steinberger⁵, Feng Jiang⁶, Noriko Tada⁷, Tetsuo Matsuno⁸, Hiroko Sugioka⁹, Hiroshi Ichihara¹⁰, Hajime Shiobara¹, Emmy TY Chang¹¹, Konstantin Reeck³, Ding-Jiun Lin¹, Nozomu Takeuchi¹, Akiko Takeo¹, Manabu Morishige¹, Onboard Scientific Party of KH-25-5 & SO319 cruises (1. Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2. Technische Universität Berlin, 3. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, 4. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 5. GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, 6. Southern University of Science and Technology, 7. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 8. Kobe Ocean-Bottom Exploration Center, Kobe University, 9. Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 10. Earthquake and Volcano Research Center, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, 11. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University)

Keywords:Oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere, viscosity, electrical conductivity, seismic velocity, geodynamic simulation, Hawaii-Emperor Bend