Understanding the Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary: Crystal and Magnetic Structures and Thermal Expansion of Fluoride Post-Perovskite Analogues

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The physical properties of the post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 control the dynamics of the lower thermal boundary layer of the Earth¿s mantle, but many of these properties cannot be measured at the extreme pressures (120 GPa) of stabilisation of post-perovskite MgSiO3. The best chance of constraining them is to combine measurements on low-pressure isostructural analogues of different chemical composition with ab initio simulations of both the analogue and natural systems. We have recently developed a set of ABF3 analogues with properties much more similar to MgSiO3 than those of the oxides that are currently used and have just been awarded a NERC grant to investigate them. The NaCoF3 analogue magnetically orders at low-T. We propose to determine the magnetic structure of NaCoF3 and the thermal evolution (4 < T < 300 K) of its crystal structure to ground-truth our ab initio simulations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091163
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091163
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Creator Professor Ian Wood; Professor Lidunka Vocadlo; Professor David Dobson; Dr Alex Lindsay-Scott; Dr Edward Bailey; Professor John Brodholt; Professor Andrew Wills; Mr David Boldrin; Dr Kevin Knight
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-08-03T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-08-06T08:29:31Z