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Badro J, Fiquet G, Guyot F, et al. Iron partitioning in Earth's mantle: toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity. Science. 2003;300(5620):789-91doi: 10.1126/science.1081311.
Badro, J., Fiquet, G., Guyot, F., Rueff, J. P., Struzhkin, V. V., Vankó, G., & Monaco, G. (2003). Iron partitioning in Earth's mantle: toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5620), 789-91. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1081311
Badro, James, et al. "Iron partitioning in Earth's mantle: toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 300,5620 (2003): 789-91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1081311
Badro J, Fiquet G, Guyot F, Rueff JP, Struzhkin VV, Vankó G, Monaco G. Iron partitioning in Earth's mantle: toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity. Science. 2003 May 02;300(5620):789-91. doi: 10.1126/science.1081311. Epub 2003 Apr 03. PMID: 12677070.
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Science. 2003 May 02;300(5620):789-91. doi: 10.1126/science.1081311. Epub 2003 Apr 03.

Iron partitioning in Earth's mantle: toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

James Badro, Guillaume Fiquet, François Guyot, Jean-Pascal Rueff, Viktor V Struzhkin, György Vankó, Giulio Monaco

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  1. Laboratoire de Mine Université ralogie-Cristallographie de Paris, Université Paris VI, Université Paris 7, CNRS, IPGP, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.

PMID: 12677070 DOI: 10.1126/science.1081311

Abstract

We measured the spin state of iron in ferropericlase (Mg0.83Fe0.17)O at high pressure and found a high-spin to low-spin transition occurring in the 60- to 70-gigapascal pressure range, corresponding to depths of 2000 kilometers in Earth's lower mantle. This transition implies that the partition coefficient of iron between ferropericlase and magnesium silicate perovskite, the two main constituents of the lower mantle, may increase by several orders of magnitude, depleting the perovskite phase of its iron. The lower mantle may then be composed of two different layers. The upper layer would consist of a phase mixture with about equal partitioning of iron between magnesium silicate perovskite and ferropericlase, whereas the lower layer would consist of almost iron-free perovskite and iron-rich ferropericlase. This stratification is likely to have profound implications for the transport properties of Earth's lowermost mantle.

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