Understanding the Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary: The High-Pressure Behaviour of the Perovskite Analogue NaCoF3

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Perovskite-structured MgSiO3 is the dominant mineral in the Earth's lower mantle. The transition between its perovskite (PV) and post-perovskite (PPV) polymorphs controls the structure and dynamics of the thermal boundary layer of the Earth at its core-mantle boundary (CMB). Many properties of MgSiO3 cannot readily be measured at the CMB pressure (~130 GPa) and we have a NERC grant to constrain them by combining measurements on low-P isostructural analogues with ab initio computer simulations of both the analogue and natural systems. We have been awarded time on PEARL to study the crystal structure of PPV-NaCoF3 (one of the best analogues) at high P to ground-truth our simulations. A similar study of PV-NaCoF3 is essential as the contrast in elasticity and deformation mechanisms between the PV- and PPV- phases may define both the structure and seismic properties near to the CMB.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.54809265
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/54809265
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Creator Dr Weiwei Wang; Dr Christopher Howard; Dr Dominic Fortes; Professor John Brodholt; Dr Alex Lindsay-Scott; Professor David Dobson; Professor Ian Wood; Professor Lidunka Vocadlo; Dr Edward Bailey; Dr Craig Bull; Dr Simon Hunt
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-08-03T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-08-06T23:00:00Z