V23E
Heterogeneity in the Earth's Interior: The Ongoing Processes of Differentiation I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
307 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Fred A Davis, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Sujoy K Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India and Ananya Mallik, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Chairs:  Ananya Mallik, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitaet Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany and Sujoy K Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
OSPA Liaisons:  Sujoy K Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
13:40
Origins of Majoritic Inclusions in Diamond (Invited) (48376)
Kate Kiseeva1, Bernard J Wood1, Sujoy K Ghosh2 and Thomas Stachel3, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
13:55
Experimental constraints on the fate of subducted upper continental crust beyond the “depth of no return” (68672)
Yanfei Zhang1, Yao Wu1, Chao WANG1 and Zhenmin Jin2, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)China Univ Geosciences, Wuhan, China
14:10
The Oxidation State of Fe in Glasses from the Galapagos Archipelago: Variable Oxygen Fugacity as a Function of Mantle Source (81259)
Mary E Peterson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Katherine A Kelley, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, Elizabeth Cottrell, Smithsonian, NMNH, Washington, DC, United States, Alberto E Saal, Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Mark D Kurz, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
14:25
On hydrous reservoirs in the deep mantle in global-scale mantle convection simulations with water migration (70708)
Takashi Nakagawa, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan and Marc W Spiegelman, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
14:40
Early and long-term mantle processing rates derived from xenon isotopes (Invited) (77265)
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
14:55
Long Mantle Mixing Times for the early Earth Inferred from Convection Models with Grain-Damage (74930)
Bradford J Foley, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Hanika Rizo, GEOTOPE, Université de Quebec a Montreal, Sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphere, Montreal, QC, Canada
15:10
Evolving morphology of thermochemical piles caused by accumulation of subducted oceanic crust (Invited) (60383)
Mingming Li1,2 and Allen K McNamara2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
15:25
Alternative hypothese for the origin of the ultra-low velocity zones (Invited) (60402)
Jie Li1, Jiachao Liu1, Rostislav Hrubiak2 and Jesse Smith3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)CeSMEC-Mechanical & Materials, Miami, FL, United States, (3)HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Argonne, IL, United States