Call for papers for
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SSP Symposium:

"DEEP SLAB and MANTLE DYNAMICS"

Venue: Kyoto Garden Palace, Kyoto, Japan
Time: February 25-27, 2009
Conveners: H. Kawakatsu, H. Utada & D. Suetsugu 
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Seismic tomography has revealed the presence of fast seismic velocity 
anomalies, which are likely to be associated with the subducted oceanic 
lithospheres, in and around the mantle transition zone of the current 
and past subduction zones. 

The 5-year Stagnant Slab Project (SSP) is funded to investigate their 
cause, fate and impact on the tectonics, dynamics and evolution of the 
earth system that are not well understood.

In this final symposium of SSP, key issues that will be discussed by 
the Japanese scientists include:
(1) Transportation of water into the deep mantle and its role in slab-
	related dynamics,
(2) Observational and experimental constraints on deep slab properties 
	and slab environment,
(3) Modeling of slab stagnation to constrain its mechanisms in 
	comparison with observational and experimental data
(4) Observational, experimental and modeling constraints on the fate of 
	the stagnant slab 
(5) Eventual accumulation of stagnant slab on the CMB and its 
	geodynamic implications

We solicit contributions from a wide variety disciplines of earth science 
to discuss these issues, as well as any topics related with "the Deep Slab
and Mantle Dynamics"

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Program Committee:
C. Bina, Y. Fukao, G. Helffrich, S. Honda, T. Irifune, H. Kawakatsu,
K. Kuge, D. Suetsugu, P. Tarits, H. Utada, D. Wiens, S. Yoshioka

updated information may be found at
 http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/people/hitosi/Meetings/SSP2009/
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Registration deadline: Jan. 18, 2009
Abstract     deadline: Feb.  8, 2009