The Anderson-Gruneisen parameter and high P/T crystal structure of post-perovskite CaPtO3

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Recently, our view of the Earth¿s lower mantle changed dramatically. It had been thought that two major phases were present in all the lower mantle: MgSiO3-perovskite (PV) and (Mg,Fe)O. In 2004, it was found that the pressure and temperature just above the core-mantle boundary (CMB) will induce a transition in MgSiO3 to a ¿post-perovskite¿ (PPV) phase, now thought to be the origin of the thin D'' seismic zone extending into the mantle to ~200 km from the CMB. Understanding D'' is vital as core-mantle interactions, e.g. heat flow, pass through it. As PPV-MgSiO3 is stable only at megabar pressures, its properties are very difficult to measure; instead we must use computer simulation and experiments on analogues. CaPtO3 is the best low-P analogue available; we wish to measure the temperature dependence of its bulk modulus, no such measurements having been made for any PPV analogue phase.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079374
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079374
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Creator Dr Matthew Tucker; Professor Ian Wood
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-06-24T08:50:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-06-27T19:23:34Z