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Informationen zum Autor Shun-ichiro Karato is an Earth scientist who conducts interdisciplinary studies encompassing mineral physics and geodynamics. He received his degrees from the University of Tokyo, and held faculty positions at the Universities of Tokyo and Minnesota, before moving to Yale University in 2001. He has received several awards, including the Japan Academy Award, the Vening Meinesz Medal and Birch Lectureship, and has authored some 200 publications, including 7 books. Klappentext Though the deep interior of the Earth (and other terrestrial planets) is inaccessible to humans, we are able to combine observational, experimental and computational (theoretical) studies to begin to understand the role of the deep Earth in the dynamics and evolution of the planet. This book brings together a series of reviews of key areas in this important and vibrant field of studies.A range of material properties, including phase transformations and rheological properties, influences the way in which material is circulated within the planet. This circulation re-distributes key materials such as volatiles that affect the pattern of materials circulation. The understanding of deep Earth structure and dynamics is a key to the understanding of evolution and dynamics of terrestrial planets, including planets orbiting other stars.This book contains chapters on deep Earth materials, compositional models, and geophysical studies of material circulation which together provide an invaluable synthesis of deep Earth research.Readership: advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers in geophysics, mineral physics and geochemistry. Zusammenfassung Though the deep interior of the Earth (and other terrestrial planets) is inaccessible to humans, we are able to combine observational, experimental and computational (theoretical) studies to begin to understand the role of the deep Earth in the dynamics and evolution of the planet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors vii Preface ix Part 1 Materials' Properties 1 1 Volatiles under High Pressure 3 Hans Keppler 2 Earth's Mantle Melting in the Presence of C-O-H-Bearing Fluid 38 Konstantin D. Litasov, Anton Shatskiy, and Eiji Ohtani 3 Elasticity, Anelasticity, and Viscosity of a Partially Molten Rock 66 Yasuko Takei 4 Rheological Properties of Minerals and Rocks 94 Shun-ichiro Karato 5 Electrical Conductivity of Minerals and Rocks 145 Shun-ichiro Karato and Duojun Wang Part 2 Compositional Models 183 6 Chemical Composition of the Earth's Lower Mantle: Constraints from Elasticity 185 Motohiko Murakami 7 Ab Initio Mineralogical Model of the Earth's Lower Mantle 213 Taku Tsuchiya and Kenji Kawai 8 Chemical and Physical Properties and Thermal State of the Core 244 Eiji Ohtani 9 Composition and Internal Dynamics of Super-Earths 271 Diana Valencia Part 3 Geophysical Observations and Models of Material Circulation 295 10 Seismic Observations of Mantle Discontinuities and Their Mineralogical and Dynamical Interpretation 297 Arwen Deuss, Jennifer Andrews, and Elizabeth Day 11 Global Imaging of the Earth's Deep Interior: Seismic Constraints on (An)isotropy, Density and Attenuation 324 Jeannot Trampert and Andreas Fichtner 12 Mantle Mixing: Processes and Modeling 351 Peter E. van Keken 13 Fluid Processes in Subduction Zones and Water Transport to the Deep Mantle 372 Hikaru Iwamori and Tomoeki Nakakuki Index 393 Colour plate section can be found between pages 214-215 ...
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"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." ( Choice , 1 January 2014)
