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.

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