MR41B:
The Role of Transition Elements in the Geophysical and Geochemical Processes in the Deep Earth II Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Catherine A McCammon, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Jahn-Teller-Effect of Cu2+ on the Spinel Structure at High Pressure
Atsushi Kyono1, Yuki Nakamoto2, Masafumi Sakata2 and Masato Kato1, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
 
The Local Structural State of Aluminosilicate Garnet Solid Solutions: An Investigation of Grospydite Garnet from the Roberts Victor Kimberlite Using Paramagnetically Shifted 27Al and 29Si MAS NMR Resonances
Aaron C Palke1, Charles A Geiger2 and Jonathan F Stebbins1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
 
Application of multigrain crystallography to mineralogy of the deep Earth
Li Zhang1,2, Yue Meng3, Dimitry Popov3, Junyue Wang1,2 and Ho-kwang Mao1, (1)Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China, (2)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution of Washington, HPCAT, Argonne, IL, United States
 
Elasticity of Single-Crystal Phase D across the Spin Transitions of Ferrous and Ferric Iron in the Lower Mantle
Xiang Wu1, Jung-Fu Lin2, Jin Liu2, Zhu Mao3, Xinzhuan Guo4, Takashi Yoshino5, Catherine A McCammon6, Yuming Xiao7 and Vitali Prakapenka8, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, (4)ISEI, Misasa, Tottori, Japan, (5)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (6)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (7)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States, (8)University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States
 
Spin and Structural Transitions of Ferromagnesite in the Earth’s Lower Mantle
Jung-Fu Lin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Jin Liu, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Vitali Prakapenka, University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States
 
The High Pressure Behavior of the FeOOH Polymorphs
Mary M Reagan, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Arianna E Gleason, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States and Wendy L Mao, Stanford-Geological & Env Sci, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Elasticity of ferropericlase at lower mantle conditions
Zhongqing Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, João F Justo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Thermoelastic properties of rock-salt NaCl at high pressures and temperatures
Michel Lacerda Marcondes Santos1, Gaurav Shukla2 and Renata M Wentzcovitch2, (1)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Thermoelasticity of Al3+- and Fe3+-bearing bridgemanite
Gaurav Shukla and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Electronic Spin and Valence States of Iron in the Lower-Mantle Silicate Perovskite
Yun-Yuan Chang1,2, Ye Wu2,3, Jung-Fu Lin2, Catherine A McCammon4, Takuo Okuchi5 and Naotaka Tomioka5, (1)Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (5)Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University, Tottori, Japan
 
Thermoelasticity of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite
Han Hsu1, Gaurav Shukla2, Zhongqing Wu3, Matteo Cococcioni4 and Renata M Wentzcovitch2, (1)National Central University, Department of Physics, Jhongli City, Taiwan, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (4)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Single Crystal Elasticity of Iron Bearing Perovskite and Post Perovskite Analog
Akira Yoneda, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Hiroshi Fukui, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan and Alfred Q.R. Baron, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
 
Post-Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase Transition? an Ab Initio Study on Fe-Bearing MgSiO3
Shuai Zhang and Burkhard Militzer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
(Fe, Al)-bearing post-perovskite in the Earth’s lower mantle
Hui Bian1, Zhu Mao2, Jung-Fu Lin3, Jing Yang4, Jin Liu5, Heather C Watson6, Jiuhua Chen7, Vitali Prakapenka8, Yuming Xiao9 and Paul Chow9, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)UT-Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, (7)Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, United States, (8)University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States, (9)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States
 
Pressure Induced Iron Spin Crossover in MgGeO3 Perovskite and Post-perovskite
Renata M Wentzcovitch, Gaurav Shukla and Mehmet Topsakal, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
First-principles study of rare-earth (RE) cobaltites (RE=Nd,Sm,Gd,Dy,Er,Lu)
Mehmet Topsakal and Renata M Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Searching for high magnetization density in bulk Fe: a new metastable Fe6 phase
Matteo Cococcioni, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Properties of Silicate Melts at High Pressure and Temperature from Ab Initio Calculations
Alexandra Catalina Seclaman, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France and Razvan Caracas, CNRS, Laboratory of Geology of Lyon, Paris Cedex 16, France