Elasticity of Silica across the Post-stishovite Transition: Implications for Seismic Heterogeneities of Subducted Slabs in the Earth’s Lower Mantle


Yanyao Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Suyu Fu, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Takashi Yoshino, Okayama University, Institute for Planetary Materials, Tottori, Japan and Jung-Fu Lin, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States