DI31A:
Chemistry of the Earth's Mantle: Implications for the Structure and Evolution of the Earth I


Session ID#: 10233

Session Description:
Placing constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Earth’s mantle, from terrestrial accretion to the present day, is critically important to a wide range of disciplines examining the deep Earth.  Long-standing models for the bulk composition of the Earth have been called into question. The discovery of small isotopic difference between the Earth and the chondritic reservoir has had enormous impact in Earth Science, from introducing new ideas like collisional erosion to suggesting hidden reservoirs in the deep mantle, and has forced the community to re-evaluate Earth’s chemical composition and structure.  In this session we invite contributions that further our understanding of the formation and structure of the Earth, its bulk composition, and the evolution of the crust-mantle system over 4.5 Ga. We welcome a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to the above problems and encourage contributions from the related fields of geochemistry, geodynamics, seismology and mineral physics.
Primary Convener:  Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Conveners:  Christy B. Till, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Rita Parai, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States and Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Chairs:  Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Rita Parai, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1020 Composition of the continental crust [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1025 Composition of the mantle [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3621 Mantle processes [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Keith Daniel Putirka, California State University Fresno, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Fresno, CA, United States
Kristoffer Szilas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Stefan Bernstein, Avannaa Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chelsea Claire Rebelo1, John J Gurney2, Stephen H Richardson3 and Beth Shaw-Kahle3, (1)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (2)Mineral Services, Cape Town, South Africa, (3)University of Cape Town, Geological Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
Elizabeth Anthony, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States and Keith P Cardon, American Energy Partners LP, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Maxwell Marzban Thiemens, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and Peter Sprung, University of Cologne, Institute of Geological Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Chris J Grose and Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Jun-Ichi Kimura, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics (IMG), Kanagawa, Japan, Susanne E Skora, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, James Gill, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Peter E van Keken, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Irene S Leung and Constance Tsao, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States
John Huw Davies1, Henrikus van Heck1,2, Andy Nowacki3, James M Wookey4, Tim Elliott5 and Don Porcelli6, (1)Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Marek Locmelis1, Ricardo Arevalo Jr1, Igor S Puchtel2, Steve John Barnes3 and Marco L Fiorentini4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, (3)CSIRO, Perth, Australia, (4)The University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting and ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, School of Earth Sciences, Crawley, Australia
Curtis D Williams1, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay1 and Barbara A Romanowicz2, (1)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Andrew Reinhard, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Jason Harvey, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
Yogaraj Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Bangalore, India, Prosenjit Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences; Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Bangalore, India, Amit Tiwari, Banaras Hindu University, Centre of advanced study in Geology, Varanasi, India and Rajesh K. Srivastava, Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geology, Varanasi, India
Sung-Hyun Park, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), Charles H Langmuir, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Sean R Scott, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Kenneth W W Sims, University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, United States, Jian Lin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Seung-Sep Kim, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), Peter J Michael, University of Tulsa, Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States and Doshik Hahm, KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Dayanthie S Weeraratne1, Jenna Fleck2, Christine Rains3, Jonathan McGeehee2, Sean michael Klein1, JOHN MICHA Rincon1 and Peter Olson4, (1)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (2)California State University Northridge, Geological Sciences, Northridge, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth Planetary & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Kevin W Burton, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
J ZhangZhou, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Marc M Hirschmann, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States
James Wosley Dottin III1, Jabrane Labidi2, Matthew G Jackson3 and James Farquhar1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Hong Yang1, Jung-Fu Lin1,2 and Nicolas Dauphas3, (1)Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research(HPSTAR), Shanghai, China, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Chicago, Origins Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States
Nicole McGowan1, William L Griffin2, Norman Pearson2, Suzanne Yvette O'Reilly3, Simon Martin Clark3, Josep Roque-Rosell4, Matthew Marcus5 and Catherine A McCammon6, (1)Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, Australia, (3)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Hongli Zhu1, Zhaofeng Zhang2, Weidong Sun1 and Guiqin Wang3, (1)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China
Fang Liu1, Zhaofeng Zhang1, Yufei Liu1, Hongli Zhu2, Jinting Kang3, Chenlei Zhang1, Weidong Sun2 and Guiqin Wang4, (1)State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (4)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China
Fang Huang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Jinting Kang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China and Zhaofeng Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Sandrine Peron1, Manuel A Moreira1, Aurelia Paula Colin1, Laurent Arbaret2 and Benita Putlitz3, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université d'Orléans, OSUC / ISTO, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (3)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sha Chen, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Fang Huang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Emily A Pringle1, Frederic Moynier2, Paul S Savage3,4, Matthew G Jackson5, Manuel A Moreira1 and James M Day6, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université de Paris & Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)University of California, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Ilya Bindeman, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Jacqueline Eaby Dixon, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, Charles H Langmuir, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and James Palandri, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Gen Shimoda, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan and Tetsu Kogiso, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Jude Ann Coggon1, Ambre Luguet1, Jean-Pierre Lorand2, Raúl Fonseca3, Peter Appel4, Sisir Kanti Mondal5, Stefan Peters6, Geoffrey M Nowell7 and J Elis Hoffmann8, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (3)Univeristy of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Petrology and Economic Geology, Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, (6)University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, (7)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (8)Freie Universität Berlin, Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany