S53F:
Theory of Earth II

Session ID#: 4278

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
305 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, James H Natland, Organization Not Listed, RSMAS/MGS University of Miami, Miami FL USA, Washington, DC, United States and Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Convener:  Don L Anderson, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Gillian R Foulger, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

8125 Evolution of the Earth [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8147 Planetary interiors [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8149 Planetary tectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8180 Tomography [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S53F-01
Partial Melting, The Low Velocity Zone, and the LAB (Invited) (4659)
Donald J Weidner, Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Li Li, Stony Brook University, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook, NY, United States
S53F-02
Deformation-Driven Melt Segregation: Theoretical Predictions and Laboratory Observations (Invited) (2615)
David L Kohlstedt1, Chao Qi1, Yasuko Takei2 and Richard F Katz3, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)The University of Tokyo, Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
S53F-03
Top Driven Asymmetric Mantle Convection (2636)
Carlo Doglioni, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
S53F-04
Unloading-Driven Off-Rift Distribution of Volcanism in Rift Zones (4655)
Francesco Maccaferri, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Eleonora Rivalta, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Derek Keir, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton, United Kingdom and Valerio Acocella, University of Roma Tre, Department of Science, Rome, Italy
S53F-05
Weak Elastic Anisotropy in Global Seismology (2440)
Leon Thomsen, Delta Geophysics Inc., Houston, United States and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
S53F-06
An alternative view of Earth’s beginnings (32129)
Anne M Hofmeister and Robert E Criss, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
S53F-07
Plate tectonics initiation as a random outcome of time-dependent convection (30428)
Teresa Wong, University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany and Slava Solomatov, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, United States
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