MR33D
Physics and Chemistry of Earth's Deep Mantle and Core II

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
301 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Zhicheng Jing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
Conveners:  Bin Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Ryosuke Sinmyo, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Chairs:  Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Ryosuke Sinmyo, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Bin Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States
13:40
Experimental constraints on the sulfur content in the Earth's core (67566)
Yingwei Fei1, Haijun Huang2, Chunwei Leng2, Xiaojun Hu2 and Qingsong Wang3, (1)Carnegie Inst of Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, (3)China Academy of Engineering Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, Mianyang, China
14:10
Temperature of Earth's Deep Interior Constrained from Melting of Fe and Fe0.9Ni0.1 at High Pressures (Invited) (48171)
Dongzhou Zhang1, Jennifer M Jackson2, Jiyong Zhao3, Wolfgang Sturhahn2, Esen Ercan Alp4, Michael Y. Hu5, Thomas Toellner5 and Caitlin A Murphy6, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (6)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States
14:25
High P-T diffusive transport properties of liquid iron alloys and peridotite melt (62398)
Esther S Posner1, David C Rubie1, Daniel J Frost1, Vojtěch Vlček1,2 and Gerd Steinle-Neumann1, (1)Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel
14:40
First-principles calculation of the lattice thermal conductivity of the lower mantle (66866)
Stephen Stackhouse, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Lars P Stixrude, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Bijaya B Karki, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Tao Liu, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
14:55
hydrogen partitioning between postperovskite and bridgmanite (80433)
Joshua P Townsend, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
15:10
Coordinated Hard Sphere Mixture (CHaSM): A fast approximate model for oxide and silicate melts at extreme conditions (Invited) (59523)
Aaron S Wolf, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
15:25
Metal-silicate partitioning during core formation on super-Earths (81640)
Laura K Schaefer1, Stein B Jacobsen2, Michail I Petaev2, Dimitar D. Sasselov3 and John L Remo2, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard University, Astronomy, Cambridge, MA, United States