High pressure mineral physics provide important constraints on the origin of planetary volatiles, mantle degassing and subduction recycling processes. We welcome submissions from the High Pressure Mineral Physics community to session DI015 of the AGU Fall meeting. Please note the abstract deadline is 8 August.

AGU Fall Meeting, 3-7 December, 2012, in San Francisco

Session DI015: Volatiles in the Earth’s Interior and their Effect on Physical Properties

The exchange of volatiles, including CO2, H2O, halogens, S, N and noble gases between different reservoirs is a fundamental Earth system process. The capacity of minerals at high temperature and pressure to incorporate water, carbon, halogens and trace volatiles influences mantle solidus temperature, rheology and deep-recycling of surface volatiles into the mantle. We invite novel contributions from petrology, mineral physics (including measurements of elasticity, density, viscosity and electrical conductivity), seismology, trace element/isotope geochemistry and modelling that expand our understanding of volatiles in the mantle and core.

Invited Speakers:

Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University)
Marc Hirschmann (University of Minnesota)
Jie Li (University of Michigan)
Eiji Ohtani (Tohoku University)

The deadline for all submissions is 8 August 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.

Session conveners:

Mark Kendrick (The University of Melbourne)
Simon Turner (Macquarie University)
Arianna Gleason (Stanford University)
Toru Inoue (Ehime University) inoue@sci.ehime-u.ac.jp