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EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 559, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116808
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spin transition; Earth models; bulk modulus; shear modulus; deep Earth
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For regular materials, increasing pressure leads to a linear relationship between shear modulus (G), bulk modulus (K) and pressure (p), but with deviations in iron bearing minerals due to a spin crossover effect. As temperature increases, the spin transition is expected to smooth out along a mantle geotherm. The slight change in modulus ratio and scaled pressure around 1550 km depth suggests a residual effect of a 3-D averaged spin transition in the ferropericlase component of the lower mantle.
For a regular material, in a single state, the effect of increasing pressure is to produce a linear relation between shear modulus (G), bulk modulus (K) and pressure (p). Such a dependence on pressure fits the behaviour of individual mineral and mineral composites well. For the iron bearing minerals in the lower mantle, the transition from the high-spin state to the low-spin state with increasing pressure produces deviations from this simple behaviour, due to a much larger reduction of the bulk modulus than the shear modulus in the spin crossover. There are linear zones in the dependence of the modulus ratio G/K on pressure scaled by bulk modulus (p/K) above and below the transition, with a complex excursion to high ratios in between. With increasing temperature the spin transition is smoothed out in depth, and is expected to be smooth along a mantle geotherm. For the ak135 body-wave model of radial Earth structure there is a slight, but distinct, change of slope in the relation between the modulus ratio and scaled pressure corresponding to a depth range around 1550 km. This feature is strongly suggestive of a residual effect of a 3-D averaged spin transition in the ferropericlase component of the lower mantle. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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