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Ultralow Velocities Of Caco3 And The Origin Of Seismic Anomalies In The Earth's Upper Mantle, Mingqiang Hou, Ming Hao, Jin Liu, Xiaowan Su, Wen-Yi Zhou, Rostislav Hrubiak, Jin S. Zhang
Ultralow Velocities Of Caco3 And The Origin Of Seismic Anomalies In The Earth's Upper Mantle, Mingqiang Hou, Ming Hao, Jin Liu, Xiaowan Su, Wen-Yi Zhou, Rostislav Hrubiak, Jin S. Zhang
Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a major host for CO2 in the deep Earth. The physical and chemical properties of CaCO3 at extreme pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions are indispensable to decipher the circulation of carbon between the Earth's interior and surface via volcanism and subduction. Using the pulse-echo-overlap method combined with Paris-Edinburgh press, we measured velocities of CaCO3 and observed an anomalous drop associated with the amorphization of aragonite under upper mantle conditions. The compressional (VP) and shear (VS) wave velocities of the partially amorphized CaCO3 are reduced …
Ultralow Velocities Of Caco3 And The Origin Of Seismic Anomalies In The Earth's Upper Mantle, Mingqiang Hou, Ming Hao, Jin Liu, Xiaowan Su, Wen-Yi Zhou, Jin S. Zhang, Rostislav Hrubiak
Ultralow Velocities Of Caco3 And The Origin Of Seismic Anomalies In The Earth's Upper Mantle, Mingqiang Hou, Ming Hao, Jin Liu, Xiaowan Su, Wen-Yi Zhou, Jin S. Zhang, Rostislav Hrubiak
Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a major mineral host for CO2 in deep Earth. The physical and chemical properties of CaCO3 at extreme pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions are important for understanding the CO2 circulation between the Earth's surface and interior primarily via volcanism and subduction. Using the pulse-echo-overlap method combined with Paris-Edinburgh (PE) press, we measured velocities of CaCO3 under upper mantle conditions and observed an anomalous velocity drop associated with the amorphization of aragonite. The compressional (VP) and shear (VS) wave velocities of the partially amorphized CaCO …
Seismic Visibility Of Eclogite In The Earth’S Upper Mantle – Implications From High Pressure-Temperature Single-Crystal Elastic Properties Of Omphacite, Ming Hao, Jin S. Zhang, Wen-Yi Zhou, Qin Wang
Seismic Visibility Of Eclogite In The Earth’S Upper Mantle – Implications From High Pressure-Temperature Single-Crystal Elastic Properties Of Omphacite, Ming Hao, Jin S. Zhang, Wen-Yi Zhou, Qin Wang
Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Eclogite, constituting the subducted crust, is one of the most important geochemical and geophysical heterogeneities in the Earth’s mantle. As the dominant anisotropic phase in eclogite, precise high pressure-temperature single-crystal elastic properties of omphacite provides the basis for detecting eclogite in the Earth’s upper mantle. In this study, we measured the single-crystal elastic moduli of omphacite up to 18 GPa and 700 K using Brillouin spectroscopy. A least-squares fit to a third-order finite strain equation of state yields KS0’=4.5(1), G0’=1.53(5), ∂KS0/∂T=-0.029(5) GPa/K, ∂G0/∂T=-0.013(5) GPa/K, with ρ0=3.34(1) g/cm3, K …