Journal article
The Effect of H2O on the 410-Kilometer Seismic Discontinuity.
- Abstract:
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The 410-kilometer seismic discontinuity is generally considered to be caused by a phase transformation of the main constituent of the upper mantle, olivine, alpha-(Mg,Fe)(2)SiO(4), to beta-(Mg,Fe)(2)SiO(4). Recent data show that H(2)O dissolves in olivine and other nominally anhydrous mantle minerals and that the partitioning of H(2)O between olivine and beta-(Mg,Fe)(2)SiO(4) is about 1:10. Such behavior strongly affects the region over which the alpha to beta phase transformation occurs and ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Science (New York, N.Y.)
- Volume:
- 268
- Issue:
- 5207
- Pages:
- 74-76
- Publication date:
- 1995-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-9203
- ISSN:
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0036-8075
- Source identifiers:
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163808
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:163808
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- pubs:163808
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- 1995
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