Elasticity of MgO to 130 GPa: Implications for lower mantle mineralogy |
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| Authors: | Motohiko Murakami Yasuo Ohishi Naohisa Hirao Kei Hirose |
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| Institution: | 1. Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan;2. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;3. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan;4. Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan;5. Research and Utilization Division, SPring-8, JASRI, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan;6. Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The aggregate shear wave velocities of MgO (periclase) have been determined throughout Earth's lower mantle pressure regime approaching 130 GPa using Brillouin spectroscopy in conjunction with synchrotron X-ray diffraction technique in a diamond anvil cell apparatus. We found that the extrapolations of the high-pressure shear wave velocities and shear moduli to ambient pressure are highly consistent with earlier studies. However, the measurements over a wide pressure range revealed that the pressure derivative of the shear modulus (dG/dP = G0′) of MgO is 1.92(2), which is distinctly lower than that of previous lower-pressure experiments. Compared with the previous results on (Mg,Fe)O ferropericlase, there is no clear correlation between iron content and G0′. We calculate that the shear wave velocity profile of lower mantle along the adiabatic geotherm applied by the lower G0′ value of periclase can remarkably well reproduce the global seismological 1-D velocity profile model with uniform composition model. The best-fitting result indicates the possibility of a lower mantle mineralogy with ~ 92 vol.% silicate perovskite phase, implying that the bulk composition of lower mantle is likely not to be pyrolitic but more chondritic. The present acoustic measurements performed over the large pressure range have thus led us to a better understanding of compositional model of the Earth's lower mantle. |
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