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ESS Building SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794. Constraints on Mantle Composition from 1D Earth Models. Baosheng Li. 2007 Vlab/EGC Workshop. Supported by National Science Foundation. Mantle. OC. IC. PREM. Dziewonski and Anderson (1981). Structure of the Earth.
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ESS Building SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794 Constraints on Mantle Composition from 1D Earth Models Baosheng Li • 2007 Vlab/EGC Workshop Supported by National Science Foundation
Mantle OC IC PREM Dziewonski and Anderson (1981) Structure of the Earth Upper mantle and Transition Zone: Low velocity zone, discontinuities; Lower Mantle: Phase transition at D”
Mineralogy and Chemical Composition Models of the Mantle (Ringwood, 1975)
Constraints on the Earth’s Interior: Forward Modelling Thermoelasticity for mantle minerals/phases Mineral Assemblage in the mantle Adiabatically or isothermally raise pressure to deeper depths Mixing of all phases (VRH, HS, etc)
Composition: Pyrolite and Piclogite Bass and Anderson (1984)
Blue: Piclogite ; Red: Pyrolite Bass and Anderson (1984)
Comparison of the P and S wave velocities for olivine and wadsleyite at 410 km depth Duffy and Anderson (JGR, 1989) W. Liu, J. Kung and B. Li (GRL,2005)
Thermoelasticity of Mantle Minerals Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005)
Velocity of Mantle Minerals at Mantle Depths B. Li and R. C. Liebermann (PNAS, 2007)
Phase Fraction of Pyrolite in the Mantle Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005)
Phase Assemblage of Piclogite in the Mantle Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni (G J I, 2005)
PREM Pyrolite Piclogite Blue: 1500K Red: 1600K Ita and Stixrude (1992) Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005)
Comparison of Pyrolite with 1-D • PREM/AK135 • Simultaneous Vp, Vs, r comparison • for tight constraints B. Li and J. Zhang (PEPI, 2005) See also Zhao&Anderson (1994), Jackson (1998) Hamma and Anderson (2002); Stacey(1996); Murakami et al(2007)