Deep Earth

Contributors vii Preface ix Part I: Thermal Strucure of Deep Earth 1 1 Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core Rebecca A. Fischer 3 2 Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral Physics Data Taku Tsuchiya, Kenji Kawai, Xianlong Wang, Hiroki Ichikawa, and Haruhiko Dekura 13 3 Heat Transfer in the Core and Mantle Abby Kavner and Emma S. G. Rainey 31 4 Thermal State and Evolution of the Earth Core and Deep Mantle Stéphane Labrosse 43 Part II: Structures, Anisotropy, and Plasticity of Deep Earth Materials 55 5 Crystal Structures of Core Materials Razvan Caracas 57 6 Crystal Structures of Minerals in the Lower Mantle June K. Wicks and Thomas S. Duffy 69 7 Deformation of Core and Lower Mantle Materials Sébastien Merkel and Patrick Cordier 89 8 Using Mineral Analogs to Understand the Deep Earth Simon A. T. Redfern 101 Part III: Physical Properties of Deep Interior 111 9 Ground Truth: Seismological Properties of the Core George Helffrich 113 10 Physical Properties of the Inner Core Daniele Antonangeli 121 11 Physical Properties of the Outer Core Hidenori Terasaki 129 Part IV: Chemistry and Phase Relations of Deep Interior 143 12 The Composition of the Lower Mantle and Core William F. McDonough 145 13 Metal?-Silicate Partitioning of Siderophile Elements and Core-Mantle Segregation Kevin Righter 161 14 Mechanisms and Geochemical Models of Core Formation David C. Rubie and Seth A. Jacobson 181 15 Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamics of Core Materials Andrew J. Campbell 191 16 Chemistry of Core?-Mantle Boundary John W. Hernlund 201 17 Phase Transition and Melting in the Deep Lower Mantle Kei Hirose 209 18 Chemistry of the Lower Mantle Daniel J. Frost and Robert Myhill 225 19 Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamics of Lower Mantle Materials Susannah M. Dorfman 241 Part V: Volatiles in Deep Interior 253 20 Hydrogen in the Earth's Core: Review of the Structural, Elastic, and Thermodynamic Properties of Iron-Hydrogen Alloys Caitlin A. Murphy 255 21 Stability of Hydrous Minerals and Water Reservoirs in the Deep Earth Interior Eiji Ohtani, Yohei Amaike, Seiji Kamada, Itaru Ohira, and Izumi Mashino 265 22 Carbon in the Core Bin Chen and Jie Li 277 Index 289