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Katsura et al. 2004
Katsura, T., Yokoshi, S., Song, M., Kawabe, K., Tsujimura, T., Kubo, A., Ito, E., Tange, Y., Tomioka, N., Saito, K., Nozawa, A. and Funakoshi, K. (2004). Thermal expansion of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite at high pressures. Journal of Geophysical Research 109. doi: 10.1029/2004JB003094. issn: 0148-0227.

Unit cell volumes of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite were measured at temperatures from 300 to 2000 K and pressure from 15 to 24 GPa and at a temperature of 300 K and pressure from 0 to 21 GPa. The measurements were conducted using a Kawai-type multianvil apparatus that is equipped with an oscillation system to obtain high-quality diffraction pattern against grain growth. We obtained the following relations and parameters describing the pressure-volume-temperature relations of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite. The unit cell volume of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite at 0 GPa and 300 K is 524.8(1) ¿3 (values in parentheses are errors). Fixing the isothermal bulk modulus to 182 GPa, its pressure derivative is 4.6(2). The thermal expansion coefficient at 0 GPa is α0 = 2.57(9) ¿ 10-5 + 1.42(8) ¿ 10-8 (T - 300) K-1, where T is absolute temperature in K, and its logarithmic volume dependence, Anderson-Gr¿neisen parameter, is 6.9(4). The temperature derivative of the isothermal bulk modulus is (∂KT/∂T) = -0.029(1) GPa K-1. The Debye temperature, Θ, is 846(26) K. The Gr¿neisen parameter and its logarithmic volume dependence are 1.93(3) and 3.5(3), respectively. The adiabatic temperature gradient in the mantle largely depends on temperature. That in the model Mg2SiO4 mantle increases from 0.29 to 0.40 K km-1 when temperature increases from 1600 to 2000 K.

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Keywords
Mineral Physics, Thermal expansivity, Mineral Physics, High-pressure behavior, Mineral Physics, Equations of state, Tectonophysics, Earth's interior—composition and state, Tectonophysics, Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle—general, thermal expansion, ringwoodite, high pressure
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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