DI23A
Across the Scales: Earth's Mantle Dynamics through Space and Time

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
303 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Tobias Rolf, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway, Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Anne Davaille, CNRS / University Paris-Sud, Laboratoire FAST, ORSAY, France
Chairs:  Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Tobias Rolf, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
13:40
DI23A-01
Mantle Convection in a Microwave Oven: New Perspectives for the Internally Heated Convection (Invited) (60497)
Angela Limare1, Loic Fourel1, Emanoil Surducan2, Camelia Neamtu2, Vasile Surducan2, Kenny Vilella1, Cinzia G Farnetani1, Edouard C Kaminski1 and Claude P Jaupart1, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)INCDTIM, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
13:55
DI23A-02
Iron-spin transition controls structure and stability of LLSVPs in the lower mantle (Invited) (60199)
Wei Leng1, Chuan Huang1 and Zhongqing Wu2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
14:10
DI23A-03
Pattern recognition constrains mantle properties, past and present (66088)
Suzanne Atkins1, Antoine Billy Rozel2, Andrew P Valentine1, Paul Tackely2 and Jeannot Trampert1, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
14:25
DI23A-04
Slab Stagnation: How, When, and Where? (Invited) (59140)
Scott D King, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
14:40
DI23A-05
Using “Ridge-Spotting” as a Test for Pacific Absolute Plate Motion Models (77597)
Paul Wessel1, Dietmar Müller2 and Simon Williams2, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
14:55
DI23A-06
Interactions among mid-ocean ridges, plumes and Large Igneous Provinces (Invited) (63018)
Joanne M Whittaker1, Juan Carlos Afonso2, Sheona M Masterton3, Dietmar Müller4, Paul Wessel5, Simon Williams4 and Maria Seton4, (1)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, (2)Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)GETECH, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
15:10
DI23A-07
Testing geodynamic models of lowermost mantle flow with a regional shear wave splitting data set (85220)
Heather A Ford and Maureen D Long, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
15:25
DI23A-08
Tomographic Stratigraphy: a Possible New Framework for Mantle Dynamics (76342)
Adam M Dziewonski, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France
 
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