COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF THE CORE AND MANTLE

"Alabastro" Hall

Chair: D. Rubie
 
10.30 - 10.45 David Dobson, Lidunka Vocadlo, John Brodholt, Wilson Crichton
Viscosity and Diffusion in Liquid Fe and FeS Mixtures at high Pressures and Temperatures: Towards Outer Core Properties.
10.45 - 11.00 C.K. Gessmann, M.R. Kilburn, B.J. Wood, D.C. Rubie
Si - a major constituent in the Earth's core?
11.00 - 11.15 Andrew P. Jephcoat
Some Constraints on Material Properties Relevant to the Earth's Inner Core
11.15 - 11.30 Stephen Mackwell
Fe-Mg interdiffusion in magnesiowustite
11.30 - 11.45 Catherine McCammon, Yousheng Xu
Mechanism of electrical conductivity in lower mantle perovskite
11.45 - 12.00 Patrick Cordier
Plastic Deformation Experiments Under Mantle Conditions of MgSiO3 High-Pressure Polymorphs: Akimotoite and Perovskite
12.00 - 12.15 Ana Isabel Becerro, Stefan Lauterbach, Ross J. Angel, Falko Langenhorst, Stefan Marion, Catherine McCammon, Nancy Ross, Friedrich Seifert
Oxygen-Deficient Silicate and Ferrite Perovskites: Structure and Physical Properties
12.15 - 12.30 Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Rajeev Ahuja, Surendra Saxena
Experimental and Theoretical Study of High-Pressure Transformations in Silica

12.30 - 14.00   Lunch
 

Chair: B. Mysen, P. Ulmer
 
14.00 - 14.15 Ross J. Angel, Jed L. Mosenfelder, Cliff S.J. Shaw, Nancy L. Ross
Anomalous Compression of Coesite
14.15 - 14.30 Elina Thurel, Patrick Cordier
T.E.M. Characterisation of Dislocation Burgers Vectors and Slip Systems in Mg2SiO4 Wadsleyite
14.30 - 14.45 Harry W. Green, II, Junfeng Zhang, Zhenmin Jin, Shuyan Jin
Experimental Measurement of the Rheology of Eclogite and its Constituent Minerals
14.45 - 15.00 Roland Stalder, Peter Ulmer
Stability of Clinohumite in Mantle Compositions and its Importance for Subduction of Water into the Transition zone 
15.00 - 15.15 Patrizia Fumagalli, Stefano Poli
The Pressure Stability of Chlorite in Synthetic Peridotites and Consequences on the Subduction of Water
15.15 - 15.30 Jürgen Konzett, Hexiong Yang, Stephanie L. Japel
Stability and crystal structure of a high pressure mixed-chain biopyribole
15.30 - 15.45 Werner Ertel, Michael J. Drake, Paul. J. Sylvester
High Pressure Partitioning of Pt in An-Di Eutectic Melt: Implications for the Accretion History of the Earth
15.45 - 16.00 Joerg Fechner, Herbert Palme, Sumit Chakraborty
The Experimental Determination of the Chemical Activities of MgO and SiO2 in Primary Mantle Melts.
16.00 - 16.15 Tahar Hammouda, Didier Laporte, Stephen Foley
Chemical Exchange Between Carbonatite Melts and Mantle Lithologies Associated with Infiltration.
16.15 - 16.30 Peter Ulmer, Roland Stalder
New Aspects for the Interpretation of High-pressure Experiments Containing Hydrous Fluid