[Geodynamics] AGU Session MR012 - The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation

[Elvira Mulyukova]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit an abstract to the session on The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1qwFCWLVXkUjpZlJEu602nQ?domain=agu.confex.com) 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.

We look forward to seeing you (in-person and online) in Chicago!

Best regards,
The session conveners,
Elvira Mulyukova (Northwestern University)
Chhavi Jain (University of Missouri St Louis)
Jennifer Girard (Yale University)

MR012 - The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1qwFCWLVXkUjpZlJEu602nQ?domain=agu.confex.com>
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.

Invited speakers:
Dr. Harriet Lau, (UC Berkeley, USA)
Dr. Hiroki Sone (UW Madison, USA)




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Dr. Elvira Mulyukova<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WvFHCXLW2mUn6jpwQcVdJ0M?domain=sites.northwestern.edu>
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/47ozCYW8Noc30mGr7c9O0sS?domain=earth.northwestern.edu>
Northwestern University<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HbdlCZY1NqiMmAOJ6IyasKg?domain=northwestern.edu>
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