Phase Change Instability in the Mantle

Details Phase Change Instability in the Mantle Phase Change Instability in the Mantle

Sep 1970

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1970sci...169.1075s&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 169, Issue 3950, pp. 1075-1077

Physics

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In the presence of a temperature gradient, phase changes of the type believed to exist in the upper mantle, in which the less dense phase lies above the dense phase, may be unstable. Approximate calculations show such phase change instabilities are possible for both the 400-kilometer olivine-spinel phase transition and also for partial melting at shallower depths. The resulting flow patterns may provide a driving mechanism for the new global tectonics.

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