[Crib-list] SPEAKER: C. Brenhin Keller (Princeton) - "Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar" -- TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM -- Building 32, Room 124 (Stata) -- Friday, March 4, 2016

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		     COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:  		Friday, March 4, 2016
TIME:		12:00 PM  1:00 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (STATA)
 			     [32 Vassar Street, Cambridge]

           Pizza will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124


TITLE:		Geochemistry in the Era of Open Data:
 		New insights into the formation and evolution of Earth's
 		continental crust


SPEAKER:	C. BRENHIN KELLER  (Princeton University)


ABSTRACT:

Earth's unique continental crust is crucial to life on our planet as we 
know it, in turn as a source for raw materials, a substrate for growth, 
and as a component in the silicate weathering feedback that stabilizes 
Earth's equable climate on billion-year timescales. However, much is not 
yet known about the processes by which the continental crust forms and 
evolves over time, in part due to the fact that compositional 
heterogeneity at any one point in geologic time typically dwarfs any 
systematic temporal trends. New computational approaches made possible by 
the emergence of large, freely - accessible geochemical datasets - provide 
a way to see through this heterogeneity and extract quantitative 
information about underlying processes and variables that drive the 
evolution of Earth's crust over geologic time.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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