Dear all,
We would like to invite submissions to our session (SEDI)
"Mantle Flow: Constraints from Mineral Physics, Seismology and Modeling" (ID# 2868)
at this year's AGU fall meeting in San Francisco (December, 15.-19.)
Session Description:
Mass flow in Earth’s mantle drives plate tectonics and determines exchange rates of energy and material with Earth’s surface and atmosphere. Geophysical observations provide increasingly detailed constraints on flow patterns in the mantle. For instance, seismic tomography allows for imaging fast and slow regions in the mantle, possible indicative of descending slabs and ascending plumes and seismic anisotropy observations near the boundary regions of Earth’s mantle are most likely related to mass flow induced deformation. However, a detailed interpretation of these large-scale observations in terms of mantle flow patterns requires the synergy of geophysical observables with information from mineral physics and large-scale numerical models. In this interdisciplinary session, we welcome contributions from both computational and experimental mineral physics on the physical and chemical properties of mantle phases. We encourage contributions about large-scale geophysical observations related to Earth’s mantle dynamics as well as numerical models of mantle flow.
Confirmed invited speakers:
- Jennifer Jackson (Caltech)
- Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge)
- Ludwig Auer (ETH Zurich)
Submission is possible until August, 6th at
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session2868.html
Many thanks,
Hauke Marquardt (BGI Bayreuth)
Lowell Miyagi (University of Utah)
Andy Nowacki (University of Bristol)
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