The electrical conductivity and thermal profile of the Earth's mid-mantle

Details The electrical conductivity and thermal profile of the Earth's mid-mantle The electrical conductivity and thermal profile of the Earth's mid-mantle

Aug 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.2325d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 15, p. 2325-2328

Physics

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Geochemistry: Composition Of The Mantle, Geomagnetism And Paleomagnetism: Geomagnetic Induction, Mineral Physics: Electrical Properties, Tectonophysics: Heat Generation And Transport

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Electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle is sensitive to temperature and chemical environment. Recent laboratory measurements of electrical conductivity are combined with candidate mantle geotherms to produce synthetic electrical conductivity profiles. These profiles are used to forward model the Earth's geomagnetic response function C, results of which are compared with the observed globally averaged response function at periods of 3.5 days to 4 months. Candidate lower mantle geotherms, representing whole-mantle and layered convection end-members, are compared using published electrical conductivity measurements on alumina-bearing and alumina-free perovskite in the conductivity models. Comparison of the predicted response functions with the observed geomagnetic response of the Earth shows that a) if lower mantle alumina is incorporated into perovskite, then the lower mantle must be cool, and b) if the alumina is not incorporated in perovskite then the results are only consistent with a hot lower mantle. In addition, the maximum alumina content of lower mantle MgSiO3 perovskite is constrained at 4%.

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