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SCIENCE
Volume 343, Issue 6170, Pages 522-525Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1248186
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25108003, 24654175, 12J09469] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The melting temperature of Earth's mantle provides key constraints on the thermal structures of both the mantle and the core. Through high-pressure experiments and three-dimensional x-ray microtomographic imaging, we showed that the solidus temperature of a primitive (pyrolitic) mantle is as low as 3570 +/- 200 kelvin at pressures expected near the boundary between the mantle and the outer core. Because the lowermost mantle is not globally molten, this provides an upper bound of the temperature at the core-mantle boundary (T-CMB). Such remarkably low T-CMB implies that the post-perovskite phase is present in wide areas of the lowermost mantle. The low T-CMB also requires that the melting temperature of the outer core is depressed largely by impurities such as hydrogen.
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