Spin transition zone in Earth's lower mantle

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1740-1743

  Lin, Jung Fu ^a   Vankó, György ^b,c   Jacobsen, Steven D ^d   Iota, Valentin ^a   Struzhkin, Viktor V ^e   Prakapenka, Vitali B ^f   Kuznetsov, Alexei ^f   Yoo, Choong Shik ^a,g  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; IRON; IRON OXIDE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MINERAL;

EARTH; LOWER MANTLE; TRANSITION ZONE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIELD EMISSION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; VELOCITY; X RAY;

EID: 34648819079     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144997     Document Type: Article

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33. We acknowledge GSECARS, APS, and ANL for the use of the synchrotron and laser facilities and the High Pressure Collaborative Access Team for the use of the ruby system. We thank F. de Groot, J.-P. Rueff, W. Sturhahn, T. Tsuchiya, and W. J. Evans for helpful discussions and G. Shen, M. Hu, and K. Visbeck for their assistance in the experiments. Use of the APS was supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. GSECARS is supported by NSF Earth Sciences (EAR-0622171) and DOE Geosciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466). This work at LLNL was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DOE by University of California and LLNL under contract W-7405-Eng-48. J.-F.L. is also supported by the Lawrence Livermore Fellowship. S.D.J. acknowledges financial support from NSF/EAR 0721449, and V.V.S. acknowledges financial support from DOE. Science 317, 1743-1745 (2007)