Publication Date:
2011-01-08
Description:
Seismic discontinuities in Earth typically arise from structural, chemical, or temperature variations with increasing depth. The pressure-induced iron spin state transition in the lower mantle may influence seismic wave velocities by changing the elasticity of iron-bearing minerals, but no seismological evidence of an anomaly exists. Inelastic x-ray scattering measurements on (Mg(0.83)Fe(0.17))O-ferropericlase at pressures across the spin transition show effects limited to the only shear moduli of the elastic tensor. This explains the absence of deviation in the aggregate seismic velocities and, thus, the lack of a one-dimensional seismic signature of the spin crossover. The spin state transition does, however, influence shear anisotropy of ferropericlase and should contribute to the seismic shear wave anisotropy of the lower mantle.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Antonangeli, Daniele -- Siebert, Julien -- Aracne, Chantel M -- Farber, Daniel L -- Bosak, A -- Hoesch, M -- Krisch, M -- Ryerson, Frederick J -- Fiquet, Guillaume -- Badro, James -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jan 7;331(6013):64-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1198429.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut de Mineralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condenses, UMR CNRS 7590, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Universite Paris Diderot, 75005 Paris, France. daniele.antonangeli@impmc.upmc.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21212352" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
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Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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