Physics and Chemistry of the Deep Earth

Editor: Karato, Shun-ichiro
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $149.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $224.92
ISBN: 978-0-47-065914-4
Category: Science - Chemistry
Image Count: 188
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This book contains chapters on deep Earth materials, compositional models, and geophysical studies of material circulation which together provide an invaluable synthesis of deep Earth research.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • PART 1 MATERIALS' PROPERTIES
  • 1 Volatiles under High Pressure, Hans Keppler
  • 2 Earth's Mantle Melting in the Presence of C–O–H–Bearing Fluid, Konstantin D. Litasov; Anton Shatskiy; Eiji OJhtani
  • 3 Elasticity, Anelasticity, and Viscosity of a Partially Molten Rock, Yasuko Takei
  • 4 Rheological Properties of Minerals and Rocks, Shun-ichiro Karato
  • 5 Electrical Conductivity of Minerals and Rocks, Shun-ichiro Karato; Duojun Wang
  • PART 2 COMPOSITIONAL MODELS
  • 6 Chemical Composition of the Earth's Lower Mantle: Constraints from Elasticity, Motohiko Murakami
  • 7 Ab Initio Mineralogical Model of the Earth's Lower Mantle, Taku Tsuchiya; Kenji Kawai
  • 8 Chemical and Physical Properties and Thermal State of the Core, Eiji OJhtani
  • 9 Composition and Internal Dynamics of Super-Earths, Diana Valencia
  • PART 3 GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS OF MATERIAL CIRCULATION
  • 10 Seismic Observations of Mantle Discontinuities and Their Mineralogical and Dynamical Interpretation, Arwen Deuss; Jennifer Andrews; Elizabeth Day
  • 11 Global Imaging of the Earth's Deep Interior: Seismic Constraints on (An)isotropy, Density and Attenuation, Jeannot Trampert; Andreas Fichtner
  • 12 Mantle Mixing: Processes and Modeling, Peter E. van Keken
  • 13 Fluid Processes in Subduction Zones and Water Transport to the Deep Mantle, Hikaru Iwamori; Tomoeki Nakakuki
  • Colour plate section