DAC measurement of perovskite conductivity and implications for the distribution of mineral phases in the lower mantle

Details DAC measurement of perovskite conductivity and implications for the distribution of mineral phases in the lower mantle DAC measurement of perovskite conductivity and implications for the distribution of mineral phases in the lower mantle

Jul 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.1643d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 15, p. 1643-1646

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Earth Mantle, Electrical Resistivity, Geoelectricity, Mineral Deposits, Perovskites, Structural Properties (Geology), Electrical Measurement, Geomagnetism, Olivine, Petrology

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Measurements of the electrical conductivity of olivine buffered by magnesiowuestite can increase by more than two orders of magnitude if as little as 2 x 10(exp -3) percent of the magnesiowuestite is allowed to form a parallel conduction path between the electrodes. There results are used, in concert with recent petrologic studies of the distribution of iron between perovskite and magnesiowuestite that have been synthesized from iron-bearing olivine, to show how most of the inconsistencies in diamond-anvil-cell electrical conductivity measurements of perovskite may be explained by the presence of highly conductive, through-going magnesiowuestite layers in laser-heated samples, including those synthesized from pyroxene. Without electrical conductivity measurements on perovskite uncontaminated with secondary phases, current laboratory data can be interpreted - within constraints provided by the electrical conductivity of the mantle from geomagnetic studies - as requiring that either the conductivity of perovskite is not much different from magnesiowuestite or that magnesiowuestite in the lower mantle is distributed heterogeneously as an interconnected through-going phase.

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