The mechanism of the akimotoite-bridgmanite phase transition and implications for the dynamics of subducted slabs
Susannah Dorfman1, Jiachao Liu2, Shengcai Zhu3, Yi Hu4, Mingda Lv5, Feng Zhu6, Xiaojing Lai7, Jie Li8, Dongzhou Zhang4 and Przemyslaw Dera4, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (3)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Las Vegas, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, United States