MR24A:
The Role of Transition Elements in the Geophysical and Geochemical Processes in the Deep Earth I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Catherine A McCammon, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Primary Conveners:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Catherine A McCammon, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Complex Effects of Alumina/Silica on Ferric/Ferrous Iron in Earth's Lower Mantle
Susannah M Dorfman1, Vasily Potapkin2, Ilya Kupenko3, Alexander I Chumakov3, Farhang Nabiei1, Arnaud Magrez1, Leonid S Dubrovinsky4, Catherine A McCammon4 and Philippe Gillet1, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Julich Center for Neutron Science, Jülich, Germany, (3)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, (4)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
4:15 PM
 
Cation Ordering in Fe-bearing Silicate Perovskite (Bridgmanite) and its Role in Disproportionation
Aaron S Wolf1, Razvan Caracas2, Paul D Asimow3 and Jean-Philippe Harvey3, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
A Pyrolitic Lower Mantle with (Mg,Fe3+)(Si,Al3+)O3 Bridgmanite
Xianlong Wang1,2 and Taku Tsuchiya1,2, (1)Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, (2)Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
4:45 PM
 
Electronic Spin and Valence States of Iron in the Al-rich NAL and CF Phases in the Subducted Slabs
Ye Wu1, Xiang Wu1, Jung-Fu Lin2, Takashi Yoshino3, Catherine A McCammon4, Yuming Xiao5 and Vitali Prakapenka6, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (4)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (5)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States, (6)University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States
5:15 PM
 
Elasticity of Single-Crystal Ferropericlase across the Spin Transition in the Lower Mantle
Jing Yang1, Xinyue (dennis) Tong1, Jung-Fu Lin2, Takuo Okuchi3 and Naotaka Tomioka4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
5:30 PM
 
Spin crossover in ferropericlase and velocity heterogeneities in the lower mantle
Zhongqing Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
5:45 PM
 
Deformation of (Mg,Fe)O Ferropericlase to Temperatures of 1150 K and Pressures of 96 GPa: Implications for Mantle Flow and Seismic Anisotropy
Hauke Marquardt, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Lowell M Miyagi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Sergio Speziale, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Hanns-Peter Liermann, DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany, Sebastien Merkel, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and Carlos Tomé, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mat Sci & Technol Div, Los Alamos, NM, United States