Post-Perovskite (eBook)

Kei Hirose and John Brodholt are the authors of Post-Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase Transition, published by Wiley.

Preface

Charles T. Prewitt vii

An Introduction to Post-Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase
Transition

Kei Hirose, John Brodholt, Thorne Lay, and David A. Yuen
1

Section I: Mineral Physics (Experimental)

Review of Experimental Studies on Mantle Phase Transitions

Takehiko Yagi 9

Discovery of Post-Perovskite Phase Transition and the Nature of
D" Layer

Kei Hirose 19

Effect of Iron on the Properties of Post-Perovskite
Silicate

Wendy L. Mao, Andrew J. Campbell, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Russell
J. Hemley, and Ho-kwang Mao 37

Electronic Transitions and Spin States in the Lower Mantle

Jie Li 47

Lattice-Preferred Orientation of Lower Mantle Materials and
Seismic Anisotropy in the D" Layer

Daisuke Yamazaki and Shun-ichiro Karato 69

Section II: Mineral Physics (Theoretical)

Thermodynamic Properties and Stability Field of MgSiO3
Post-Perovskite

Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Koichiro Umemoto, Taku Tsuchiya, and Jun
Tsuchiya 79

The High-Temperature Elasticity of MgSiO3 Post-Perovskite

Stephen Stackhouse and John P. Brodholt 99

Effect of Chemistry on the Physical Properties of Perovskite and
Post-Perovskite

Razvan Caracas and Ronald E. Cohen 115

Section III: Seismology

Reconciling the Post-Perovskite Phase With Seismological
Observations of Lowermost Mantle Structure

Thorne Lay and Edward J. Garnero 129

Predicting a Global Perovskite and Post-Perovskite Phase
Boundary

Daoyuan Sun, Don Helmberger, Xiaodong Song, and Stephen P.
Grand 155

Seismic Anisotropy of Post-Perovskite and the Lowermost
Mantle

James Wookey and John-Michael Kendall 171

Constraints on the Presence or Absence of Post-Perovskite in the
Lowermost Mantle From

Long-Period Seismology

Christine Houser 191

Section IV: Dynamics

Mantle Dynamics and the D" Layer: Impacts of the Post
Perovskite Phase

W.R. Peltier 217

Influence of the Post-Perovskite Transition on Thermal and
Thermo-Chemical Mantle Convection

Paul J. Tackley, Takashi Nakagawa, and John W. Hernlund
229

The Dynamical Influences From Physical Properties in the Lower
Mantle and Post-Perovskite

Phase Transition

David A. Yuen, Ctirad Matyska, Ondr¡ej C¡adek, and
Masanori Kameyama 249

Deformation-Induced Mechanical Instabilities at the Core-Mantle
Boundary

Nick Petford, Tracy Rushmer, and David A. Yuen 271