Slab pileup in the mantle transition zone and the 30 May 2015 Chichi‐jima earthquake
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 The 30 May 2015 Chichi‐jima M8 earthquake is one of the largest deep focus earthquakes ever recorded and its depth of 682 km puts it near the base of the mantle transition zone.
Robert W. Porritt, Shoichi Yoshioka
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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High‐Pressure Transformations and Stability of Ferromagnesite in the Earth's Mantle
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 105-113., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Eglantine Boulard +2 more
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Advances in seismic imaging of mantle transition zone discontinuities
地球与行星物理论评, 2023 Located between the 410-km and 660-km discontinuities, the mantle transition zone is the key region for understanding the thermal and chemical structure and the dynamic evolution of the Earth’s mantle.
Chunquan Yu +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 By combining ambient noise interferometry with mineral physics modeling, this work sheds new light on mantle transition zone physics. Their findings provide new evidence of segregated oceanic crust subducted and trapped within the mantle transition zone,
Jikun Feng +4 more
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Upper mantle melt caused by a subducted slab in the Indian-Eurasian continental subduction zone
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 A low-velocity layer atop the mantle transition zone has been extensively observed worldwide. In subduction zones, this layer is widely explained as partial melting triggered by slab subduction on a regional or global scale. However, direct observational
Guohui Li +4 more
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The Structure and Elasticity of CaO3 Under High Pressure by First-Principles Simulation
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The structure, electrical properties, elasticity, and anisotropy of the newly discovered mantle mineral, CaO3, are obtained under 10–50 GPa by first-principles simulation to understand their relations with the composition and structure of the mantle ...
Hanyu Wang +7 more
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Cold and Wet Mantle Transition Zone Beneath the Mediterranean Sea Revealed by the Electrical Image
Applied Sciences, 2023 A three-dimensional electrical conductivity model of the mantle beneath North Africa and Southern Europe is obtained by geomagnetic depth sounding. C-responses are estimated from geomagnetic data observed at observatories in and around the region and ...
Shiwen Li, Yunhe Liu
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Rare oceanic diamonds are believed to have a mantle transition zone origin like super-deep continental diamonds. However, oceanic diamonds have a homogeneous and organic-like light carbon isotope signature (δ13C − 28 to − 20‰) instead of the extremely ...
Luc S. Doucet +2 more
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Komatiites From Mantle Transition Zone Plumes
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 During the Archean, episodic volcanism commonly included both plume- and arc-type magmatism, raising the issue of a possible link between “bottom up” and “top down” geodynamic processes.
Derek Wyman
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