U53A:
Upstairs Downstairs: Consequences of Internal Evolution for the Habitability of Planetary Surfaces

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, Department of Chemistry, Tempe, AZ, United States and Christy B. Till, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Co-conveners:  Christopher J Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Christy B. Till, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and David C Catling, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, Department of Chemistry, Tempe, AZ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Rocky super-Earths: variety in composition and energy budget
Diana C Valencia, University of Toronto, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
1:55 PM
 
Life with and Life without Plate Tectonics
Adrian Lenardic1, Tobias Hoeink1, Mark Jellinek2, Catherine L Johnson2,3, Nicolas B Cowan4, Raymond Pierrehumbert5, Vlada Stamenkovic6, Craig O'Neill7 and Rajdeep Dasgupta8, (1)Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (5)Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (8)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
2:10 PM
 
Drip Magmatism: Intra-Plate Volcanism and Its Importance to the Early Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets
Linda T Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
2:25 PM
 
The Implications of the Moon-Forming Impact for Terrestrial Oxidation State and Surface Water Stability
Jon Wade, University of Oxford, Oxford, 0X1, United Kingdom, Bernard J Wood, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Vincent van Hinsberg, McGill University, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
2:55 PM
 
Ocean Ridges and Oxygen
Charles H Langmuir, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Precambrian Secular Evolution of Oceanic Nickel Concentrations: An Update
Kurt Konhauser1, Ernesto Pecoits1, Caroline Peacock2, Jamie Robbins1, Andreas Kappler3 and Stefan Lalonde4, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (4)European Institute for Marine Studies, Plouzane, France
3:25 PM
 
Trouble Upstairs: Reconstructing Permian-Triassic Climate during Siberian Traps Magmatism
Benjamin A Black1, Ryan Reynolds Neely III2, J F Lamarque3, Linda T Elkins-Tanton4 and Michael J Mills3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Studies Program, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
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