DI53A:
Driving the Interior: The Role of Boundary Layers in the Dynamic Evolution of the Earth's Mantle II Posters

Session ID#: 2865

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom and Tobias Rolf, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
Primary Convener:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States and Tobias Rolf, ETH Zurich, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway
OSPA Liaison:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GP - Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8124 Earth's interior: composition and state [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8147 Planetary interiors [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Resurfacing of Uranus' Moon Miranda by Convection: Understanding the Influence of Core Size on Convection Geometry (13944)
Noah P Hammond and Amy C Barr, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Subduction Initiation in a Stagnant Lid and Episodic Overturn on Venus (16865)
Fabio Crameri, University College London, London, United Kingdom; University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway and Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Scaling and Thermal Evolution of Internally Heated Planets: Yield Stress and Thermal History. (8305)
Matt B Weller, Rice University, Houston, United States, Adrian Lenardic, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States and William B Moore, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States; National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Ultra Low Velocity Zone existence in the high shear velocity region beneath Cocos Plate, Central America, and the Caribbean (11254)
Shule Yu1, Edward Garnero2, Sang-Heon Dan Shim2 and Chunpeng Zhao1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Slab Stagnation in the Lower Mantle: A Multidisciplinary Investigation (9796)
Lauren Waszek, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Katrina Arredondo, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Gregory J Finkelstein, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Louise H Kellogg, University of California - Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Joshua P Townsend, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, Zheng Xing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Fan Yang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
The Selfconsistent Evolution of Thermochemical Boundary Layers in the Earth's Mantle (19986)
Ulrich Hansen, University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany and Claudia Stein, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 
The Feedback Between Surface Mobility and Mantle Compositional Heterogeneity: Implications for the Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets (11796)
Sean James Trim1, Philip Heron2, Claudia Stein3 and Julian Philip Lowman2, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 
Dynamic Constraints on the Thermal Structure of Subducted Slabs (11988)
Wei Mao, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Wei Leng, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Mantle Plumes in the Vicinity of a Subducting Plate: The Ordinary Interaction (9008)
Joao Casal Duarte, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, Australia, Catherine Anne Marie Dominique Meriaux, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal and Wouter Pieter Schellart, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
Shear Wave Velocity Structure and Evolution of Old Oceanic Lithosphere: Constraints from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Across a Local Array of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers (26637)
Lexine Black1, Teodor A Sotirov1, Dayanthie S Weeraratne1 and Donald W Forsyth2, (1)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (2)Brown Univ, Providence, United States
 
Morphology and Dynamics of Lithospheric Body Force Instabilities: Sheets, Drips and In-Between (22394)
Adam Beall and Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
 
The Continental Drift Convection Cell (9374)
John A Whitehead and Mark D Behn, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Continents and Earth's rotational stability (19309)
Ian Rose, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Bruce A Buffett, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States