[Geodynamics] AGU-session MR020 on Microphysics of Earth's Mantle and Lithosphere

[Elvira Mulyukova]

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Elvira Mulyukova,
On behalf of session conveners

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Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit an abstract to the session MR020. The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jPAIC71R2NTzo2oK4F8m389?domain=agu.confex.com> at the upcoming AGU Meeting in San Francisco, December 11-15th. Please see below for a detailed description of the session. Abstracts are due by August 2.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

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

MR020. The Microphysics Of Mantle Flow and Plate Boundary Formation<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jPAIC71R2NTzo2oK4F8m389?domain=agu.confex.com>
“…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 1).
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.

Invited contributions:
Dr. Miki Tasaka, (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Dr. Philippe Carrez (Université de Lille, France)



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Dr. Elvira Mulyukova<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LmkvC81V0PTXLWL0Du13vKF?domain=sites.northwestern.edu>
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_jblC91WPRTz9A9XLF3d1c4?domain=earth.northwestern.edu>
Northwestern University<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vOzUC0YKPvikZQZ5quWIgG4?domain=northwestern.edu>
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