Lower mantle composition and temperature from mineral physics and thermodynamic modelling
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E. Mattern,1 J. Matas,1 Y. Ricard2 and J. Bass3 1Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, CNRS UMR 5570, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France. E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected] 2Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, CNRS UMR 5570, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, 43Bd du 11novembre, Bat. Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France. E-mail: [email protected] 3Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801,USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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