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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We invite you to submit an abstract to the session on The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1qwFCWLVXkUjpZlJEu602nQ?domain=agu.confex.com">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/prelim.cgi/Session/161709</a>)
at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL and Online "Everywhere", 12-16 December 2022. Please see below for a detailed description of the session. Please note that the abstracts are due by August 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We look forward to seeing you (in-person and online) in Chicago!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The session conveners,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elvira Mulyukova (Northwestern University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chhavi Jain (University of Missouri St Louis)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jennifer Girard (Yale University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1qwFCWLVXkUjpZlJEu602nQ?domain=agu.confex.com">MR012 - The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Knowing how and why plate tectonics began is critical for understanding Earth’s surface and interior evolution, as well as that of other planets. However, it remains a mystery
how forces from the convecting mantle overcome the apparent rheological strength of the lithosphere, and thereby initiate different types of tectonic plate boundaries: rifts, transform faults, and subduction zones. Experimental, theoretical, and modeling studies,
as well as observational field data, have generated various hypotheses regarding mechanisms for lithospheric weakening, shear localization, and rheological evolution of plate boundaries both over short (human) and long (planetary) time scales. Microphysical
rock deformation processes - including mobility and recovery of crystalline defects, mechanics of faults and fractures, evolution of grain size and the presence of multiple phases or fluids - are of fundamental importance in advancing and testing these hypotheses.
This session invites presentations about the development and application of rock mechanics models emerging from theoretical, experimental, numerical and observational field studies, which further our understanding of formation and evolution of plate tectonics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Invited speakers:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Harriet Lau, (UC Berkeley, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Hiroki Sone (UW Madison, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WvFHCXLW2mUn6jpwQcVdJ0M?domain=sites.northwestern.edu/" title="https://sites.northwestern.edu/elviramulyukova/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Dr.
Elvira Mulyukova</span></a><br>
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/47ozCYW8Noc30mGr7c9O0sS?domain=earth.northwestern.edu/" title="https://www.earth.northwestern.edu/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences</span></a><br>
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HbdlCZY1NqiMmAOJ6IyasKg?domain=northwestern.edu/" title="https://www.northwestern.edu/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Northwestern University</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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