First Principles Quasiharmonic Thermoelasticity of Mantle Minerals
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Thermodynamic (Anderson 2005) and elastic properties (Musgrave 1970) of minerals provide the fundamental information needed to analyze seismic observations and to model Earth’s dynamic state. The connection between pressure, temperature, chemical composition, and mineralogy that produce seismic velocity gradients, heterogeneities, and discontinuities, can be established with knowledge of thermoelastic and thermodynamic equilibrium properties of single phases and their aggregates.
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