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Caracas & Cohen 2005
Caracas, R. and Cohen, R.E. (2005). Effect of chemistry on the stability and elasticity of the perovskite and post-perovskite phases in the MgSiO3-FeSiO3-Al2O3 system and implications for the lowermost mantle. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL023164. issn: 0094-8276.

Using first-principles calculations we predict the effects of composition on the perovskite to post-perovskite phase transition. The transition is predicted at 107 GPa for pure MgSiO3. The addition of Al2O3 slightly increases this transition pressure, and the addition of Fe2+ considerably reduces it; the FeSiO3 end-member term is stable in the post-perovskite modification with respect to perovskite at all pressures. We also determine the static equations of state, densities, elasticity and seismic wave velocities. At the transition Vp increases slightly, and Vs increases significantly, consistent with the seismic observations for D″. The addition of both Fe2+ and Al2O3 decrease the seismic wave velocities.

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Geochemistry, Composition of the mantle, Mineral Physics, Elasticity and anelasticity, Mineral Physics, Equations of state, Seismology, Mantle (1212, 1213, 8124)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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