DI53A:
Driving the Interior: The Role of Boundary Layers in the Dynamic Evolution of the Earth's Mantle II Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom and Tobias Rolf, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway
Primary Conveners:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Tobias Rolf, ETH Zurich, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway
OSPA Liaisons:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Resurfacing of Uranus' Moon Miranda by Convection: Understanding the Influence of Core Size on Convection Geometry
Noah P Hammond and Amy C Barr, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Subduction Initiation in a Stagnant Lid and Episodic Overturn on Venus
Fabio Crameri1,2 and Paul J Tackley2, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Scaling and Thermal Evolution of Internally Heated Planets: Yield Stress and Thermal History.
Matt B Weller, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Adrian Lenardic, Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States and William B Moore, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States; National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Ultra Low Velocity Zone existence in the high shear velocity region beneath Cocos Plate, Central America, and the Caribbean
Shule Yu, Edward Garnero, Sang-Heon Dan Shim and Chunpeng Zhao, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Slab Stagnation in the Lower Mantle: A Multidisciplinary Investigation
Lauren Waszek, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Katrina Arredondo, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Gregory J Finkelstein, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Louise H Kellogg, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Washington, DC, United States, Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Maxwell L Rudolph, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Joshua P Townsend, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, Zheng Xing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Fan Yang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
The Selfconsistent Evolution of Thermochemical Boundary Layers in the Earth's Mantle
Ulrich Hansen, University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany and Claudia Stein, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 
The Feedback Between Surface Mobility and Mantle Compositional Heterogeneity: Implications for the Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets
Sean James Trim1, Philip J Heron2, Claudia Stein3 and Julian Philip Lowman1, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 
Dynamic Constraints on the Thermal Structure of Subducted Slabs
Wei Mao, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Wei Leng, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Mantle Plumes in the Vicinity of a Subducting Plate: The Ordinary Interaction
Joao Casal Duarte1, Catherine Anne Marie Dominique Meriaux2 and Wouter Pieter Schellart1, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (2)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Shear Wave Velocity Structure and Evolution of Old Oceanic Lithosphere: Constraints from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Across a Local Array of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers
Lexine Black1, Teodor A Sotirov1, Dayanthie S Weeraratne1 and Donald W Forsyth2, (1)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (2)Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States
 
Morphology and Dynamics of Lithospheric Body Force Instabilities: Sheets, Drips and In-Between
Adam Beall, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
 
The Continental Drift Convection Cell
John A Whitehead and Mark D Behn, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Continents and Earth's rotational stability
Ian Rose and Bruce A Buffett, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States