Physics and Chemistry of the Deep Earth

Shun-ichiro Karato is an Earth scientist who conducts interdisciplinary studies encompassing mineral physics and geodynamics. He received his degrees from the University of Tokyo, and held faculty positions at the Universities of Tokyo and Minnesota, before moving to Yale University in 2001. He has received several awards, including the Japan Academy Award, the Vening Meinesz Medal and Birch Lectureship, and has authored some 200 publications, including 7 books.

Contributors, vii Preface, ix PART 1 MATERIALS PROPERTIES, 1 1 Volatiles under High Pressure, 3 Hans Keppler 2 Earth s Mantle Melting in the Presence of C O H Bearing Fluid, 38 Konstantin D. Litasov, Anton Shatskiy, and Eiji Ohtani 3 Elasticity, Anelasticity, and Viscosity of a Partially Molten Rock, 66 Yasuko Takei 4 Rheological Properties of Minerals and Rocks, 94 Shun-ichiro Karato 5 Electrical Conductivity of Minerals and Rocks, 145 Shun-ichiro Karato and Duojun Wang PART 2 COMPOSITIONAL MODELS, 183 6 Chemical Composition of the Earth s Lower Mantle: Constraints from Elasticity, 185 Motohiko Murakami 7 Ab Initio Mineralogical Model of the Earth s Lower Mantle, 213 Taku Tsuchiya and Kenji Kawai 8 Chemical and Physical Properties and Thermal State of the Core, 244 Eiji Ohtani 9 Composition and Internal Dynamics of Super-Earths, 271 Diana Valencia PART 3 GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS OF MATERIAL CIRCULATION, 295 10 Seismic Observations of Mantle Discontinuities and Their Mineralogical and Dynamical Interpretation, 297 Arwen Deuss, Jennifer Andrews, and Elizabeth Day 11 Global Imaging of the Earth s Deep Interior: Seismic Constraints on (An)isotropy, Density and Attenuation, 324 Jeannot Trampert and Andreas Fichtner 12 Mantle Mixing: Processes and Modeling, 351 Peter E. van Keken 13 Fluid Processes in Subduction Zones and Water Transport to the Deep Mantle, 372 Hikaru Iwamori and Tomoeki Nakakuki Index, 393 Colour plate section can be found between pages 214 215