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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Elvira Mulyukova,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jPAIC71R2NTzo2oK4F8m389?domain=agu.confex.com">MR020. The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation</a></span> at the upcoming AGU Meeting in San Francisco, December 11-15<sup>th</sup>. Please see
below for a detailed description of the session. Abstracts are due by August 2.<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;color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jPAIC71R2NTzo2oK4F8m389?domain=agu.confex.com">MR020. The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“…plate boundaries are never still. They jump and twitch and vibrate against one another in a million infinitesimal ways.” (N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth Trilogy: Book
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Earth’s outermost rocky shell is strong enough to support kilometers-high mountains, preserve billions-year old continents, and hold over a billion cubic kilometers of ocean.
However, rocks can be dramatically weakened, causing lithospheric deformation to localize and form tectonic plate boundaries. Various hypotheses have been proposed regarding lithospheric shear localization, weakening, and its rheological evolution both over
short (human) and long (planetary) time scales. Microphysics of rock deformation - including evolution of crystalline defects, grain size, fractures, mineral and fluid phases - are of fundamental importance in testing these hypotheses. This session invites
presentations about the development and application of rock deformation 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 contributions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Miki Tasaka, (Shizuoka University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Philippe Carrez (Université de Lille, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LmkvC81V0PTXLWL0Du13vKF?domain=sites.northwestern.edu/" title="https://sites.northwestern.edu/elviramulyukova/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">Dr. Elvira Mulyukova</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_jblC91WPRTz9A9XLF3d1c4?domain=earth.northwestern.edu/" title="https://www.earth.northwestern.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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