DI31A:
The Structure, Dynamics, and Evolution of Earth's Core: Observations, Models, and Experiments III Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Alexandre Fournier, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Conveners:  Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-conveners:  Alexandre Fournier, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Caitlin A Murphy, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States and Jonathan M Aurnou, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Melting relations in the Fe-S-Si system at high pressure and temperature: Implications for the thermal structure of the planetary cores
Takanori Sakairi1, Eiji Ohtani1, Takeshi Sakai2, Seiji Kamada1, Tatsuya Sakamaki1 and Naohisa Hirao3, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, (3)JASRI, Hyogo, Japan
 
Effect of light elements (S, Si, C, O) on liquid iron alloys structural properties under high pressure studied by XRD, XANES and molecular dynamics
Guillaume Morard1, Denis Andrault2, Daniele Antonangeli1, Julien Siebert3, Francois J Guyot1, Anne-line Auzende1, Oliver T Lord4, Johann Bouchet5, Marion Harmand6, Benjamin Cochain7, Gaston Garbarino8, Innokenty Kantor8, Raffaella Torchio8, Eglantine Boulard8 and Nohamed Mezouar8, (1)IMPMC Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (4)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (5)CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, (6)Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (7)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (8)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
 
Anelasticity of the HCP Metal Zinc: a Key to Understanding the Dynamics of Earth’s Core
Simon A Hunt, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Andrew Walker, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Oliver T Lord, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Stephen Stackhouse, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, Lora S Armstrong, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Andrew J Parsons, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Geoffrey E Lloyd, University of Leeds, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom and Matthew L Whitaker, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Stratification at the Top of the Outer Core: Constraints from Smks and Pmkp Phases
Elizabeth A Day1,2, Connor Tann1, Sanne Cottaar1, Jessica C E Irving3 and Arwen Fedora Deuss1, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Fine Seismic Velocity Structure of the Lowermost Outer Core (F-layer) Beneath the Eastern Pacific
Toshiki Ohtaki, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan and Satoshi Kaneshima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Global Scale Observation of Scattered Energy from the Core: Seismic Constraints on the F-Layer
Joanne Adam, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Barbara A Romanowicz, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Collège de France, Paris, France
 
Conduit entrainment surrounding sinking metal-silicate plumes during core formation
Sean michael Klein1, Danielle Brand2 and Dayanthie S Weeraratne1, (1)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (2)University of Waikato, School Of Science, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
Thermal and Compositional Stratification of the Inner Core
Stephane Labrosse, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France
 
The Feasibility of Thermal and Compositional Convection in Earth's Inner Core
Karen Lythgoe, John Frederick Rudge, Jerome A Neufeld and Arwen Fedora Deuss, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Building a regime diagram for the Earth's inner core
Marine Lasbleis, Stephane Labrosse and Renaud Deguen, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France
 
Time-Dependent Inner Core Structures Examined by Repeating Earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific Subduction Zones
Wen-Che Yu, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
 
New Seismic Evidence for Localized Temporal Change of the Earth’s Inner Core Boundary
Jiayuan Yao1, Li Sun1 and Lianxing Wen2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Equatorial anisotropy of the Earth’s inner inner core from autocorrelations of earthquake coda
Tao Wang1, Xiaodong Song1,2 and Han Xia1, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)Univ Illinois, Champaign, IL, United States
 
Anisotropy of the Earth’s inner inner core from autocorrelations of earthquake coda in China Regional Seismic Networks
Han Xia1, Xiaodong Song1,2 and Tao Wang1, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)Univ Illinois, Champaign, IL, United States
 
Regional Variations in Inner Core Heterogeneity and Anisotropy from Seismic Body Wave and Normal Mode Observations
Arwen Fedora Deuss1, Jessica C E Irving2, Karen Lythgoe1 and Lauren Waszek1, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
The Candy Wrapper Velocity Model for the Earth’s Inner Core
Maurizio Mattesini, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
 
Inner Core Tomography Under Africa
Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Structures of the Earth’s Inner Core Boundary beneath the Northern Pacific from Automatic Waveform Modeling
Jing Jin and Xiaodong Song, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States