DI52A
Melt and Liquids in Earth and Planetary Interiors III

Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
303 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Yoshio Kono, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Kei Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Véronique Le Roux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Linda T Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Kei Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan and Yoshio Kono, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Linda T Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
10:20
Fate of Silicate Melts at Core-Mantle Boundary Conditions (79289)
Sylvain Petitgirard1, Wim Malfait2, Ryosuke Sinmyo3, Ilya Kupenko4 and David C Rubie3, (1)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (2)Empa, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (3)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (4)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
10:35
Crystallization of the magma ocean (Invited) (74762)
Razvan Caracas, CNRS Lyon, Lyon, France; Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France
10:50
MELTING OF BRIDGMANITE TO 135 GPA: TOWARD A COHERENT MODEL FOR THE MELTING BEHAVIOR IN THE LOWER MANTLE (Invited) (61407)
Denis Andrault, University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Giacomo Pesce, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France and Nohamed Mezouar, ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
11:05
Probing Core Processes in the Earth and Small Bodies Using Paleomagnetism (Invited) (80453)
Roger R Fu1, Benjamin P Weiss2, Eduardo A. Lima2, David R. Glenn3, Pauli Kehayias3 and Ronald L Walsworth3, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:20
Equatorial anisotropy of the Earth’s inner-inner core (Invited) (76950)
Xiaodong Song1,2, Tao Wang3 and Han Xia3, (1)University of Illinois, Department of Geology, Champaign, IL, United States, (2)Wuhan University, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan, China, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
11:35
Sound velocity of liquid Fe alloys at high pressure by inelastic X-ray scattering (Invited) (60672)
Yoichi Nakajima1,2, Saori Imada3, Tetsuya Komabayashi4, Kei Hirose5, Haruka Ozawa6, Shigehiko Tateno6, Yasuhiro Kuwayama7, Satoshi Tsutsui3 and Alfred Q. R. Baron2, (1)RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan, (2)RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Material Dynamics Laboratory, Hyogo, Japan, (3)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (5)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University, Tottori, Japan, (7)Ehime University, Geodynamics Research Center, Matsuyama, Japan
11:50
The effects of pressure and alloying Ni and C on sound velocity of liquid Fe-alloys (77983)
Hidenori G Terasaki1, Soma Kuwabara1, Keisuke Nishida2, Yuta Shimoyama1, Yusaka Takubo1, Yuji Higo3, Yuki Shibazaki4, Satoru Urakawa5 and Tadashi Kondo1, (1)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Japan Synchrotron Radiation Institute, Hyogo, Japan, (4)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (5)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
12:05
Physical properties of Fe-Ni-C liquids at high pressures: A combined experimental and theoretical approach (Invited) (58836)
Bin Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States