Nature, volume 430, issue 6998, pages 445-448

Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 in Earth's D″ layer

Ono Shigeaki 2
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Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2004-07-21
Journal: Nature
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Quartile WOS
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Impact factor64.8
ISSN00280836, 14764687
Multidisciplinary
Abstract
The Earth's lower mantle is believed to be composed mainly of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite, with lesser amounts of (Mg,Fe)O and CaSiO3 (ref. 1). But it has not been possible to explain many unusual properties of the lowermost ∼150 km of the mantle (the D″ layer) with this mineralogy. Here, using ab initio simulations and high-pressure experiments, we show that at pressures and temperatures of the D″ layer, MgSiO3 transforms from perovskite into a layered CaIrO3-type post-perovskite phase. The elastic properties of the post-perovskite phase and its stability field explain several observed puzzling properties of the D″ layer: its seismic anisotropy2, the strongly undulating shear-wave discontinuity at its top3,4,5,6 and possibly the anticorrelation between shear and bulk sound velocities7,8.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/nature02701
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature02701
TI - Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 in Earth's D″ layer
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AU - Oganov, Artem R.
AU - Ono, Shigeaki
PY - 2004
DA - 2004/07/21 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
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@article{2004_Oganov,
author = {Artem R. Oganov and Shigeaki Ono},
title = {Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 in Earth's D″ layer},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2004},
volume = {430},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jul},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature02701},
number = {6998},
pages = {445--448},
doi = {10.1038/nature02701}
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Oganov, Artem R., and Shigeaki Ono. “Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 in Earth's D″ layer.” Nature, vol. 430, no. 6998, Jul. 2004, pp. 445-448. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature02701.
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