Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core
dc.contributor.author | Steinle-Neumann, Gerd | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Stixrude, Lars | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Cohen, R. E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gulseren, O. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-01T17:46:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-06-01T17:46:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-09-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Steinle-Neumann, G; Stixrude, L; Cohen, RE; Gulseren, O. (2001) "Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core." Nature 413(6851): 57-60. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62959> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62959 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=11544523&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Seismological body-wave(1) and free-oscillation(2) studies of the Earth's solid inner core have revealed that compressional waves traverse the inner core faster along near-polar paths than in the equatorial plane. Studies have also documented local deviations from this first-order pattern of anisotropy on length scales ranging from 1 to 1,000 km (refs 3, 4). These observations, together with reports of the differential rotation(5) of the inner core, have generated considerable interest in the physical state and dynamics of the inner core, and in the structure and elasticity of its main constituent, iron, at appropriate conditions of pressure and temperature. Here we report first-principles calculations of the structure and elasticity of dense hexagonal close-packed (h.c.p.) iron at high temperatures. We find that the axial ratio c/a of h.c.p. iron increases substantially with increasing temperature, reaching a value of nearly 1.7 at a temperature of 5,700 K, where aggregate bulk and shear moduli match those of the inner core. As a consequence of the increasing c/a ratio, we have found that the single-crystal longitudinal anisotropy of h.c.p. iron at high temperature has the opposite sense from that at low temperature(6,7). By combining our results with a simple model of polycrystalline texture in the inner core, in which basal planes are partially aligned with the rotation axis, we can account for seismological observations of inner-core anisotropy. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Macmillan Publishers Ltd. | en_US |
dc.source | Nature | en_US |
dc.title | Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Univ Michigan, Dept Geol Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC 20015 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Ctr High Pressure Res, Washington, DC 20015 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | CALTECH, Seismol Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | NIST, NIST Ctr Neutron Res, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Univ Penn, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 11544523 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62959/1/413057a0.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35092536 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Nature | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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