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PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS
Volume 173, Issue 1-2, Pages 115-120Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.11.005
Keywords
Akimotoite; Elasticity; First principle; Molecular dynamics; High pressure and high temperature
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Funding
- NERC [NER/T/S/2001100855, NER/O/S/2001/01227]
- NSF [EAR-9909266, EAR0135551, EAR00135550]
- NERC [hpc010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [hpc010001, NER/O/S/2001/01227] Funding Source: researchfish
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [0809397] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The thermo-elastic properties of MgSiO3 akimotoite at mantle pressure and temperature conditions are reported based on ab initio molecular dynamic simulations. A third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation at a reference temperature of 2000 K is defined by K-0 = 158 GPa, K-0'= 3.7, G(0) = 85.7 GPa, G(0)' = 4.5, V-0(2000K)=1100.54 angstrom(3), the Gruneisen parameter is determined to be gamma(V)=gamma(0)(V/V-0(2000K))(q) with gamma(0) = 1.84 and q = 1.84, with V(2000 K) = 1048.22 angstrom(3). An implied pressure correction is -7.6GPa in these parameters due to GGA overestimates the pressure. The thermal expansion is determined to be alpha/alpha(0) = (V/V-0(2000 K))(delta T) in which alpha(0) = 3.21 x 10(-5) K-1 and delta(T) = 4.6. Akimotoite may be stable above the 660 discontinuity in relatively low temperature or low aluminium environments. The high velocity and elastic anisotropy of akimotoite provide diagnostics for its presence above the 660 km discontinuity. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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