MR23D:
Physics and Chemistry of the Deep Earth III

Session ID#: 4495

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Salons 4-6 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Shun-ichiro Karato, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Carole Nisr, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Convener:  Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Zhicheng Jing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States, Razvan Caracas, CNRS Lyon, Laboratory of Geology of Lyon, Lyon, France and Carole Nisr, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1015 Composition of the core [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1025 Composition of the mantle [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3621 Mantle processes [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3924 High-pressure behavior [MINERAL PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

MR23D-01
The Post-Perovskite Transition and Mineralogical Changes in the Chemically Heterogeneous Lower Mantle (Invited) (5928)
Sang-Heon Dan Shim1, Yu Ye2, Brent Grocholski3, Shenzhen Xu4, Dane Morgan4, Jiyong Zhao5 and Esen Ercan Alp6, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)American Association for the Advancement of Science Arlington, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)Univ of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source, Lemont, United States, (6)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
MR23D-02
Post-Perovskite: Ten Years After - Theoretical Insights into its Physical Properties (Invited) (12619)
Stephen Stackhouse, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
MR23D-03
Can We Explain the D" Reflector with the Post-Perovskite Phase Transition? (Invited) (5841)
Christine Thomas, University of Münster, Institut of Geophysics, Münster, Germany and Laura J Cobden, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
MR23D-04
The limited depth range of a metallic-Fe-bearing layer in the lower mantle and its implications for partial melting (Invited) (5777)
Jennifer Girard, Yale University, Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States and Shun-ichiro Karato, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States
MR23D-05
Seismic constraints on the hydration of subducting oceanic crust and mantle (Invited) (4564)
Thomas Garth, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Andreas Rietbrock, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
MR23D-06
Effect of Hydrous Mantle on a Coupled Core-Mantle Evolution (8329)
Takashi Nakagawa, JAMSTEC, Department of Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Hikaru Iwamori, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
MR23D-07
First principles investigations of hydrous phases at the bottom of the lower mantle (Invited) (5821)
Jun Tsuchiya1, Joshua P Townsend2, Taku Tsuchiya1, Steven D Jacobsen3 and Craig R. Bina4, (1)Ehime University, Geodynamics Research Center, Matsuyama, Japan, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Earth Science, Boulder, United States, (4)Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States
MR23D-08
Stability of Hydrous Phase H MgSiO2(OH)2 Under the Lower Mantle Conditions (Invited) (4377)
Eiji Ohtani1, Yohei Amaike1, Seiji Kamada1, Tatsuya Sakamaki2 and Naohisa Hirao3, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, Department of Earth Science, Sendai, Japan, (3)JASRI, Hyogo, Japan
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