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Science 4 June 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5113, pp. 1487 - 1489
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5113.1487
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Sound Velocities in Olivine at Earth Mantle Pressures

J. M. Zaug 1, E. H. Abramson 1, J. M. Brown 1, and L. J. Slutsky 1

1 Department of Chemistry and the Geophysics Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

The independent elastic constants of an upper mantle mineral, San Carlos olivine [(Mg1.8Fe0.2)SiO4], were measured from 0 to 12.5 gigapascals. Evidence is offered in support of the proposition that the explicit temperature dependence of the bulk modulus is small over the range of temperatures and pressures thought to prevail above the 400-kilometer discontinuity, and thus the data can be extrapolated to estimate the properties of olivine under mantle conditions at a depth of 400 kilometers. In the absence of high-temperature data at high pressures, estimates are made of the properties of olivine under mantle conditions to a depth of 400 kilometers. In contrast with low-pressure laboratory data, the predicted covariance of shear and compressional velocities as a function of temperature nearly matches the seismically estimated value for the lower mantle.

Submitted on November 12, 1992
Accepted on April 19, 1993


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