DI23C:
Collaborative Studies on Mantle Melting II

Session ID#: 4305

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Golden Gate C1-C2 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Maxim Ballmer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, ELSI, Tokyo, Japan, Esteban Gazel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Catherine Rychert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean and Earth Science, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Maxim Ballmer, UCL, Dept. of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Esteban Gazel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Catherine Rychert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean and Earth Science, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Maxim Ballmer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, ELSI, Tokyo, Japan
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5480 Volcanism [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
8145 Physics of magma and magma bodies [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8148 Planetary volcanism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8434 Magma migration and fragmentation [VOLCANOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Seismic Properties of Partially Molten Rocks: Constraints from Experiments and Observations on Natural Rocks (Invited) (27990)
Ulrich Faul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ian Jackson, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia and Gordana Garapic, SUNY College at New Paltz, Department of Geology, New Paltz, NY, United States
Geophysical Assessment of Migration and Storage Conditions of Fluids in the Earth’s Upper Mantle (19152)
Anne Pommier, Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States
The Implications of Petit-Spot Volcanism for the Origin of Alkaline Intraplate Magmas (Invited) (3211)
Sebastien Pilet, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland, Laetitia Rochat, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Natsue Abe, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
Simultaneous Quantification of Temperature, Pyroxenite Abundance, and Upwelling Rates in the Iceland Mantle Source (24828)
Eric Brown, Aarhus University, Centre of Earth System Petrology, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus C, Denmark and Charles E Lesher, University of California, Davis, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States; Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
The youngest magmatic event in Eastern North America: A window in the post rift evolution of continents (12614)
Sarah E Mazza, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Esteban Gazel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Elizabeth A Johnson, James Madison University, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Harrisonburg, United States and Brandon Schmandt, University of New Mexico, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
Sp receiver functions generated at melting onset: insight from geodynamic models and synthetic receiver functions (Invited) (3709)
Christopher Havlin, Brown University, Providence, United States, E Marc Parmentier, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Benjamin K Holtzman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Asymmetric Mid-Ocean ridges: Interplay Between Plate and Mantle Processes and Consequences for Melting (2192)
Laurent Montesi, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Hailong Bai, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges (Invited) (24976)
Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Allison Gale, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States and Charles H Langmuir, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States