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In-situ study of microstructures induced by the olivine to wadsleyite transformation at conditions of the 410 km depth discontinuity

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Ledoux,  Estelle
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Krug,  Matthias
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Gay,  Jeffrey
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Chantel,  Julien
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Hilairet,  Nadège
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Bykov,  Maxim
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Bykova,  Elena
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Aprilis,  Georgios
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Svitlyk,  Volodymyr
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Garbarino,  Gaston
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Guignot,  Nicolas
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Sanchez-Valle,  Carmen
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Speziale,  S.
3.6 Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, 3.0 Geochemistry, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Merkel,  Sébastien
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Ledoux, E., Krug, M., Gay, J., Chantel, J., Hilairet, N., Bykov, M., Bykova, E., Aprilis, G., Svitlyk, V., Garbarino, G., Guignot, N., Sanchez-Valle, C., Speziale, S., Merkel, S. (2023): In-situ study of microstructures induced by the olivine to wadsleyite transformation at conditions of the 410 km depth discontinuity. - American Mineralogist, 108, 12, 2283-2293.
https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8731


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5017915
Abstract
The olivine-wadsleyite transformation is believed to occur at depths of about 410 km in the Earth, producing a major seismic discontinuity in this region of the Earth’s mantle. The mechanism of this phase transition controls the microstructures of the newly-nucleated wadsleyite, the major phase of the upper part of the mantle transition zone, and thus impacts seismic observations in the region. Here, we study the microstructures produced by the olivine-wadsleyite transformation using in-situ laboratory experiments at pressures and temperatures relevant for the mantle transition zone. We transform pure olivine samples in laser-heated diamond anvil cells at pressures ranging from 12.3 to 20.2 GPa and temperatures of 1400-1730 K. At different steps of the transformation we measure the orientation and size distribution of individual sample grains using multigrain crystallography at synchrotron radiation sources. We find that the olivine to wadsleyite transformation is incoherent at the conditions of the mantle transition zone, and is probably dominated by nucleation of wadsleyite at grain boundaries of the parent olivine. Thus, we expect that seismic anisotropy near 410 km would drop significantly due to the randomized lattice preferred orientation of newly-nucleated wadsleyite induced by the incoherent transformation.