| Modelling the rheology of MgO under Earth's mantle pressure, temperature and strain rates. | |
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PMID: 22237109 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Plate tectonics, which shapes the surface of Earth, is the result of solid-state convection in Earth's mantle over billions of years. Simply driven by buoyancy forces, mantle convection is complicated by the nature of the convecting materials, which are not fluids but polycrystalline rocks. Crystalline materials can flow as the result of the motion of defects--point defects, dislocations, grain boundaries and so on. Reproducing in the laboratory the extreme deformation conditions of the mantle is extremely challenging. In particular, experimental strain rates are at least six orders of magnitude larger than in nature. Here we show that the rheology of MgO at the pressure, temperature and strain rates of the mantle is accessible by multiscale numerical modelling starting from first principles and with no adjustable parameters. Our results demonstrate that extremely low strain rates counteract the influence of pressure. In the mantle, MgO deforms in the athermal regime and this leads to a very weak phase. It is only in the lowermost lower mantle that the pressure effect could dominate and that, under the influence of lattice friction, a viscosity of the order of 10(21)-10(22) pascal seconds can be defined for MgO. |
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Patrick Cordier; Jonathan Amodeo; Philippe Carrez |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2012-01-11 |
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Title: Nature Volume: 481 ISSN: 1476-4687 ISO Abbreviation: Nature Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-01-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0410462 Medline TA: Nature Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 177-80 Citation Subset: IM |
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Université Lille 1, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, UMR CNRS 8207, F-59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Patrick.Cordier@univ-lille1.fr |
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Nature. 2012 Jan 12;481(7380):153-4
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