MR12A:
"Iron Workers" United: Integrating the Elastic, Thermal, and Transport Properties of Earth's Core I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Caitlin A Murphy, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States and Daniele Antonangeli, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Primary Conveners:  Caitlin A Murphy, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Eiji Ohtani, Tohoku Univ, Sendai, Japan, Daniele Antonangeli, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France and Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Eiji Ohtani, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Multiple Experimental Efforts to Understand the Structure and Dynamics of Earth’s Core
Yingwei Fei1, Lei Han1,2, Neil Bennett1, Mingqiamg Hou1, Yasuhiro Kuwayama3 and Haijun Huang4, (1)Carnegie Inst of Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Ehime University, Ehime, Japan, (4)Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
10:35 AM
 
Intrinsic Aniostropic Anelasticity of Hcp Iron Due to Light Element Solute Atoms
Simon A T Redfern, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
 
Sound Velocity and Density of Hcp-Fe Under Earth’s Core Conditions
Tatsuya Sakamaki1, Eiji Ohtani1, Hiroshi Fukui2, Seiji Kamada1, Suguru Takahashi1, Takanori Sakairi1, Akihiro Takahata1, Takeshi Sakai3, Satoshi Tsutsui4 and Alfred Q.R. Baron5, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan, (3)Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, (4)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan, (5)RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
11:05 AM
 
Sound velocities and melting of Fe-Ni-Si system at high pressures under shock loading
Youjun Zhang1, Toshimori Sekine1, Hongliang He2, Yin Yu2, Fusheng Liu3 and Mingjian Zhang3, (1)Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, (2)China Academy of Engineering Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, Miangyang, China, (3)Southwest Jiaotong University, College of Physical Science and Technology, Chengdu, China
11:20 AM
 
Sound velocity measurements of liquid Fe–light-element alloys under high pressure based on inelastic X-ray scattering measurements
Yoichi Nakajima1, Saori Imada2, Tetsuya Komabayashi3, Haruka Ozawa4, Shigehiko Tateno5, Yasuhiro Kuwayama6, Satoshi Tsutsui7, Hiroshi Uchiyama7, Daisuke Ishikawa7, Alfred Q.R. Baron1,7 and Kei Hirose5, (1)RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (4)Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Ehime University, Ehime, Japan, (7)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan
11:35 AM
 
Sound velocity and density of liquid Fe-Ni-Si under pressure: Application to the composition of planetary molten core
Hidenori G Terasaki1, Soma Kuwabara2, Yuta Shimoyama1, Yusaka Takubo1, Satoru Urakawa3, Keisuke Nishida4, Akihisa Takeuchi5, Yoshio Suzuki5, Kentaro Uesugi5, Tetsu Watanuki6, Yoshinori Katayama6, Tadashi Kondo1 and Yuji Higo7, (1)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (2)Osaka University, toyonaka, Japan, (3)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (4)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan, (6)JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Toki, Japan, (7)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Institute, Hyogo, Japan
11:50 AM
 
Liquid iron alloys at outer core conditions by first-principles calculation
Koichiro Umemoto and Kei Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan
12:05 PM
 
Thermal evolution of the core with a high thermal conductivity
Stephane Labrosse, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France