Wang, W;
Xu, Y;
Sun, D;
Ni, S;
Wentzcovitch, R;
Wu, Z;
(2020)
Velocity and density characteristics of subducted oceanic crust and the origin of lower-mantle heterogeneities.
Nature Communications
, 11
, Article 64. 10.1038/s41467-019-13720-2.
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Abstract
Seismic heterogeneities detected in the lower mantle were proposed to be related to subducted oceanic crust. However, the velocity and density of subducted oceanic crust at lower-mantle conditions remain unknown. Here, we report ab initio results for the elastic properties of calcium ferrite‐type phases and determine the velocities and density of oceanic crust along different mantle geotherms. We find that the subducted oceanic crust shows a large negative shear velocity anomaly at the phase boundary between stishovite and CaCl2-type silica, which is highly consistent with the feature of mid-mantle scatterers. After this phase transition in silica, subducted oceanic crust will be visible as high-velocity heterogeneities as imaged by seismic tomography. This study suggests that the presence of subducted oceanic crust could provide good explanations for some lower-mantle seismic heterogeneities with different length scales except large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Velocity and density characteristics of subducted oceanic crust and the origin of lower-mantle heterogeneities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-019-13720-2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13720-2 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091468 |
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