S53F:
Theory of Earth II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, James H Natland, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Conveners:  Don L Anderson, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom and James H Natland, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gillian R Foulger, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
S53F-01
 
Partial Melting, The Low Velocity Zone, and the LAB
Donald J Weidner, Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Li Li, Stony Brook University, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook, NY, United States
1:55 PM
S53F-02
 
Deformation-Driven Melt Segregation: Theoretical Predictions and Laboratory Observations
David L Kohlstedt1, Chao Qi1, Yasuko Takei2 and Richard F Katz3, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2:10 PM
S53F-03
 
Top Driven Asymmetric Mantle Convection
Carlo Doglioni, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
2:25 PM
S53F-04
 
Unloading-Driven Off-Rift Distribution of Volcanism in Rift Zones
Francesco Maccaferri1, Eleonora Rivalta1, Derek Keir2 and Valerio Acocella3, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
2:40 PM
S53F-05
 
Weak Elastic Anisotropy in Global Seismology
Leon Thomsen, Delta Geophysics Inc., Houston, TX, United States and Don L Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
2:55 PM
S53F-06
 
An alternative view of Earth’s beginnings
Anne M Hofmeister and Robert E Criss, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
3:10 PM
S53F-07
 
Plate tectonics initiation as a random outcome of time-dependent convection
Teresa Wong, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States and Viatcheslav S Solomatov, Washington Univ, St Louis, MO, United States
3:25 PM
S53F-08
 
Is Plate Tectonics Speeding up with Time?
Kent C Condie, New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, Jun Korenaga, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Sergei A Pisarevsky, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
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