DI13C:
The Structure, Dynamics, and Evolution of Earth's Core: Observations, Models, and Experiments I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 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:

1:40 PM
DI13C-01
 
Pre-Melting in Iron and Iron Alloys at Earth’s Core Conditions: Results from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Calculations
Lidunka Vocadlo1, Benjami Martorell1, John Peter Brodholt2 and Ian G Wood1, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Univ College London, London, United Kingdom
1:55 PM
DI13C-02
 
Attenuation Tomography of the Inner Core
Tanja Pejic and Hrvoje Tkalcic, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2:10 PM
DI13C-03
 
Metal-silicate Partitioning of Uranium and Thorium up to 138 GPa and 5500 K and Implications for Stratified Layer at the Top of the Outer Core
Ryuichi Nomura1, Kei Hirose2, Jun-Ichi Kimura3 and Qing Chang3, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
2:25 PM
DI13C-04
 
Near-Melting Condition of the Inner Core Boundary Revealed from Antipodal Seismic Waves
Vernon F Cormier1, Januka Attanayake2, Susini M S de Silva1, Meghan Samantha Miller3 and Christine Thomas4, (1)Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)Instituto Superior Tecnico, Laboratorio Sismologia, Lisboa, Portugal, (3)Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Münster, Münster, Germany
2:40 PM
DI13C-05
 
Partial Melting in the Inner Core
John W Hernlund, Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Japan
2:55 PM
DI13C-06
 
Constraining the Velocity Structure at the Top of the Earth's Outer Core by SKKS and S3KS Differential Traveltimes
Li Zhao, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Vivian Chu-Hsin Tang, NTU National Taiwan University, Taichung, Taiwan and Shu-Huei Hung, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
3:10 PM
DI13C-07
 
The Composition of Low-Velocity Layers at the Top and Bottom of the Earth's Core
John Peter Brodholt, University College London, London, United Kingdom and James Badro, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
3:25 PM
DI13C-08
 
Evidence for Stable Stratification at the Top of the Core from Core Surface Flows
Richard T Holme, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Bruce A Buffett, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
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