2012 Summer Program Posters

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• Convection models for Ice-Water System: Application to Europa

D. Allupeddinti

• Double layering of a thermochemical plume in the upper mantle beneath Hawaii

Maxim D. Ballmer1*, Garrett Ito1, Cecily J. Wolfe2, Cecilia Cadio3, and Sean C. Solomon4

(1) School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (2) Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (3) Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA (4) Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA (*) ballmer@hawaii.edu

• Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by low-viscosity horizontal plumes

Maxim D. Ballmer1*, Clinton P. Conrad1, Eugene I. Smith2, and Nicholas Harmon3

(1) Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, Univ. Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (2) Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA (3) National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SH14 3ZH, UK (*) ballmer@hawaii.edu

• Towards a global 3D upper mantle attenuation model using SEM

Jamie Barron1, Vedran Leki´c2, Scott French3 and Barbara Romanowicz1,3

1Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris 2Department of Geology, University of Maryland 3Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley

• TRACE ELEMENTS REVEAL A POSSIBLE LINK BETWEEN JACK HILLS DETRITAL ZIRCONS AND THE LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT.

E.A. Bell and T.M. Harrison,

Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (contact E.A. Bell: ebell21@ucla.edu; 595 Charles E.Young Dr. East, 3806 Geology Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095)

• Modeling the thermal evolution of subcontinental mantle since Pangea dispersal

LEA BELLO1, TOBIAS ROLF2, NICOLAS COLTICE 1;3 & PAUL TACKLEY2

1 Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon Terre Planètes Environnement, Université de Lyon - Ecole Normale Supérieure - CNRS, Lyon, France (lea.bello@ens-lyon.fr) 2 Institut fur Geophysik, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (tobias.rolf@erdw.ethz.ch) (ptackley@ethz.ch) 3 Institut Universitaire de France, France (nicolas.coltice@univ-lyon1.fr)

• TERRESTRIAL XENON IN NOBLE GAS RESERVOIRS.

P. Boehnke1 and M. W. Caffee2,

1Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. 2Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396, USA (pboehnke@ucla.edu).

• Nature and composition of the early continental crust: Modelling petrological scenarios for its formation

Bouilhol P.1; Magni V. 1; van Hunen J. 1; Macpherson C.G. 1; Davidson J.P. 1; Moyen J-F. 2; and Parman S.W. 3

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK; 2 Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université de St-Etienne, France; 3 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, USA

• The Influence of Plate Motion History on Thermochemical Structures in Earth's Lower Mantle

ABIGAIL L. BULL 1 & TROND H. TORSVIK2

1 Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway (a.l.bull@fys.uio.no) 2 Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway (t.h.torsvik@geo.uio.no)

• High-pressure behavior of coesite

Ana Cernok1, Elena Bykova1, Leonid Dubrovinsky1, Nobuyoshi Miyajima1 and Hanns-Peter Liermann2

1) Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitätsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany 2) Hasylab at DESY, P02 Beamline at PETRA III, Notkestrasse 85 D-22607 HAMBURG, Germany

• An exceptionally large ULVZ at the base of the mantle near Hawaii

Sanne Cottaar and Barbara Romanowicz

Berkeley Seismological Laboraroty

• Probing the inner core with P'P'

Elizabeth Day (MIT) & Jessica Irving

(University of Cambridge)

• Constraints on the dynamic response of subcontinental lithospheric mantle to rifting from Re-Os model ages – a case study from the Western Ross Sea Area, Antarctica

C. Doherty1, C. Class2, S. B. Shirey3, S. L. Goldstein1,2, A. F. Cooper4, A. P. Martin4, J. H. Berg5, J. A. Gamble6

• Overview of the geological history of the Middle America subduction zone

Luis Dominguez

• Characteristics of plate interface coupling at the Mariana Subduction Zone

Erica Emry

• Phase relations and equation of state of FeSi to 45 GPa

Z. Geballe

• Geochemical and isotopic study of bimodal volcanism in Gona, Ethiopia and its geodynamic implications for the East African Rift System

Nilotpal Ghosh1*, Asish R Basu1, Jay Quade2 and Cynthia J. Ebinger1

1. Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Presenting author: nghosh@z.rochester.edu

• Aspect: Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth's ConvecTion

Wolfgang Bangerth, Thomas Geenen, Timo Heister (*), Martin Kronbichler

* Texas A&M University, heister@math.tamu.edu

• Modeling seismic waves in the lower mantle beneath the Southern Atlantic

Stefanie Hempel (1), Christine Thomas (1), Tarje Nissen-Meyer (2)

(1) Institute of Geophysics, University of Muenster, Germany (2) Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Regional crustal study at SNO+: Predicting the geoneutrino flux

Yu Huang1, WF McDonough1, RL Rudnick1, F Mantovani2, S Shirey3, S Dye4

1Univ Maryland 2Univ Ferrara 3Carnegie Inst Washington 4Hawaii Pacific Univ

• Noble gas solubilty in hydrous minerals and implications for secular volatile element cycling

• Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Han Yue

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2011JB008545.shtml

• Melting and dehydration within mantle plumes and the formation of subparallel volcanic trends at intra-plate hotspots

Rohan Kundargi

• Can the F-layer be explained by a slurry model?

Marine Lasbleis1, Stephane Labrosse 2, John Hernlund 3

1 Laboratoire de g´eologie de Lyon, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure de Lyon, CNRS, France (marine.lasbleis@ens-lyon.fr) 2 Laboratoire de g´eologie de Lyon, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure de Lyon, CNRS, France 3 UC Berkeley, California, USA

• High--‐resolution investigation of shear wave anisotropy in D’’ beneath the Central Pacific,

Lingling Ye and Thorne Lay,

UC Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

• Iron in lower mantle perovskite

J. Liu1 (jiacliu@umich.edu) and J. Li1

1.Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

• Archean geodynamics: Insights from numerical models

Magni V. 1; Bouilhol P.1; van Hunen J. 1; Macpherson C.G. 1; Davidson J.P. 1; Moyen J-F. 2; Parman S.W. 3

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK; 2 Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université de St-Etienne, France; 3 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, USA

• The difficulty for Subducted Oceanic Crust to

• Accumulate at the Core-Mantle Boundary

Mingming Li

• Measured and predicted effects of large terrestrial impacts.

Peter Olds

UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Science

• Global Correlations of Tomographic Mantle Models with Tectonic Regions

Elizabeth M. Paulson and Thomas H. Jordan

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California

• Partitioning and oxidation state of Fe in the Earth’s lower mantle

C. Prescher1, F. Langenhorst2, L. Dubrovinsky1, V. Prakapenka3

1Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany 2Institute for Geosciences, Mineralogy Dept., University of Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany 3Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• Measuring thermal conductivity at high pressure and temperature in the laserheated diamond anvil cell

Emma S. G. Rainey1, Abby Kavner1, John Hernlund2, Laurent Pilon3, and Meg Veitch1

1Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Berkeley 3Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles

• Linking mantle dynamics to rotational dynamics

Ian Rose and Bruce Buffett

University of California, Berkeley

• Formation of iron melt channels in silicate perovskite at Earth’s lower mantle conditions

Crystal Y. Shi1, Junyue Wang2,3, Yijin Liu4, Wenge. Yang2, Li Zhang5 and Wendy L. Mao1,6.7

• Geoneutrino fluxes from Earth's mantle: geophysical and geochemical constraints

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, E. Kite, V. Lekić, S. T. Dye, S. Zhong

• Xenon isotopes in MORB preserve accretional heterogeneity

Jonathan M. Tucker and Sujoy Mukhopadhyay

Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• A whiff of plume in depleted MORB?

Jonathan M. Tucker and Sujoy Mukhopadhyay

Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Marina Ulvrova

• Diamond Planets

Cayman T. Unterborn, Jason E. Kabbes, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Daniel M. Reaman and Wendy R. Panero

• Transition Zone S Velocity Structure beneath the East Pacific Rise

Wang Wang

• Modeling Zircon Saturation within Simulated Impact Events: Implications on Impact Histories of Planetary Bodies.

M. M. Wielicki, T. M. Harrison, P. Boehnke and A. K. Schmitt

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA (595 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567)

• Episodic Entrainment of ‘Primordial’ Material in Mantle Plumes from the Lower Mantle

Williams C. D., McNamara A. K., Garnero E. J.., van Soest M. C.

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

• Analysis of Marginal Stability, Heat Transfer, and Boundary Layer Properties for Thermal Convection in a Compressible Convection

Xi Liu & Shijie Zhong

• Why is the Kaapvaal different from other cratons?

M. Youssof (1,2), H. Thybo (1), A. Levander (2), and I. Artemieva (1)

(1) University of Copenhagen, Geological, Geography and Geology, Copenhagen, Denmark (ms@geo.ku.dk), (2) Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

• Experimental investigation of the role of oxygen fugacity on degassing of planetary magma oceans

Hongluo Zhang (zhan1442@umn.edu), Marc Hirschmann

• Maximum likelihood modeling of paleomagnetic axial dipole moment: insights and applications

LEAH B. ZIEGLER1, CATHERINE G. CONSTABLE 2

1 College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (lziegler@coas.oregonstate.edu) 2 Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Instit. of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA