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 |