Formation of metallic Fe in the lower mantle

Noriyoshi Tsujino1, Jennifer Girard2, Ercan E. Alp3 and Shun-ichiro Karato1, (1)Yale University, Geology & Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)University of Chicago, Argonne, IL, United States