MR42A:
Physical Properties of Earth Materials (PPEM): Evolving Rock Structure II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jessica M Warren, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Heather M Savage, Lamont-Doherty, Palisades, NY, United States, Nicholas J Austin, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Margaret S Boettcher, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Conveners:  Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Jessica M Warren, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Heather M Savage, Lamont-Doherty, Palisades, NY, United States and Margaret S Boettcher, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Margaret S Boettcher, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Friction experiments on Alpine Fault DFDP core samples: Implications for slip style on plate boundary faults
Matt Ikari1, Sebastian Trütner1, Virginia G Toy2, Brett M Carpenter3 and Achim Kopf1, (1)MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (3)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
10:35 AM
 
The Frictional Behavior of San Andreas Fault Materials Formed by Carbonation of Serpentinite
Frieder Klein, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, David L Goldsby, University of Pennsylvania, Geology, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Muriel Andreani, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
10:50 AM
 
Can grain size sensitive creep lubricate faults during earthquake propagation?
Nicola De Paola1, Robert Holdsworth2, Cecilia Viti3, Cristiano Collettini4, Rachael J Bullock1 and Igor Faoro2, (1)University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)Universita' di Siena, Siena, Italy, (4)Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
11:05 AM
 
Creep Events and Shear Localization in a Polyphase Material: Insight into the Brittle-Ductile Transition
Jacqueline E Reber, Nicholas W Hayman, Luc L Lavier and Suzon Jammes, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
11:20 AM
 
Evolution of Strain Partitioning during Creep of Carrara Marble
Alejandra Quintanilla Terminel1, J Brian Evans1, David Mainprice2 and Ricardo Lebensohn3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:35 AM
 
Cyclic loading experiments to measure material response over a broad frequency range: from tickling of rocks to squeezing of moons
Christine McCarthy, Columbia University - LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States, Yasuko Takei, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Reid F Cooper, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States and Heather M Savage, Lamont-Doherty, Palisades, NY, United States
11:50 AM
 
Influence of Mineral Fraction on the Rheological Properties of Forsterite + Enstatite during Grain Size Sensitive Creep
Miki Tasaka, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Takehiko Hiraga, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
12:05 PM
 
Reactive Melt Migration and Channelization in Partially Molten Rocks
Matej Pec1, David L Kohlstedt1, Mark E Zimmerman2 and Benjamin K Holtzman3, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States