Pritwiraj Moulik, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Ross Maguire, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MI, United States, Christopher Havlin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Chao Gao, University of Maryland College Park, Dept. of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States