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Advances in High-Pressure Mineralogy
Author(s)
Eiji Ohtani
Eiji Ohtani
Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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Geological Society of America

Volume
421
Copyright:
Geological Society of America
ISBN print:
9780813724218
Publication date:
January 01, 2007
Book Chapter
Phase transitions of minerals in the transition zone and upper part of the lower mantle
Author(s)
M. Akaogi
Department of Chemistry, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan
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Published:January 01, 2007
High-pressure experiments on phase transitions of mantle-constituent minerals and bulk rocks provide indispensable data that clarify the mineralogical constitution of the deep mantle. This paper reviews the results of high-pressure experimental studies carried out in recent years. Phase relations of olivine-wadsleyite-ringwoodite transitions in pyrolite have been precisely determined to compare with seismological observations of the 410 and 520 km discontinuities. Results on the postspinel transition to perovskite + magnesiowüstite, which corresponds to the 660 km discontinuity, still have some controversies in transition pressure as well as the boundary slope. In pyrolite mantle, Ca-poor and Ca-rich pyroxenes are dissolved into garnet...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- alkaline earth metals
- aluminum
- calcium
- chain silicates
- discontinuities
- experimental studies
- ferropericlase
- framework silicates
- garnet group
- high pressure
- igneous rocks
- iron
- iron oxides
- lower mantle
- magnesiowustite
- magnesium
- majorite
- mantle
- metals
- nesosilicates
- olivine
- olivine group
- orthosilicates
- oxides
- perovskite
- phase equilibria
- phase transitions
- pressure
- pyrolite
- pyroxene group
- ringwoodite
- silica
- silica minerals
- silicates
- stishovite
- subduction
- transformations
- wadsleyite
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