[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
daisymae at math.mit.edu
Tue Mar 1 16:34:15 EST 2016
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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