Includes index.

Front Matter -- Thermal Structure of Deep Earth. Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core / Rebecca A Fischer -- Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral Physics Data / Taku Tsuchiya, Kenji Kawai, Xianlong Wang, Hiroki Ichikawa, Haruhiko Dekura -- Heat Transfer in the Core and Mantle / Abby Kavner, Emma S G Rainey -- Thermal State and Evolution of the Earth Core and Deep Mantle / Labrosse Stéphane -- Structures, Anisotropy, and Plasticity of Deep Earth Materials. Crystal Structures of Core Materials / Razvan Caracas -- Crystal Structures of Minerals in the Lower Mantle / June K Wicks, Thomas S Duffy -- Deformation of Core and Lower Mantle Materials / Sébastien Merkel, Patrick Cordier -- Using Mineral Analogs to Understand the Deep Earth / Simon A T Redfern -- Physical Properties of Deep Interior. Ground Truth / George Helffrich -- Physical Properties of the Inner Core / Daniele Antonangeli -- Physical Properties of the Outer Core / Hidenori Terasaki -- Chemistry and Phase Relations of Deep Interior. The Composition of the Lower Mantle and Core / William F McDonough -- Metal-Silicate Partitioning of Siderophile Elements and Core-Mantle Segregation / Kevin Righter -- Mechanisms and Geochemical Models of Core Formation / David C Rubie, Seth A Jacobson -- Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamics of Core Materials / Andrew J Campbell -- Chemistry of Core-Mantle Boundary / John W Hernlund -- Phase Transition and Melting in the Deep Lower Mantle / Kei Hirose -- Chemistry of the Lower Mantle / Daniel J Frost, Robert Myhill -- Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamics of Lower Mantle Materials / Susannah M Dorfman -- Volatiles in Deep Interior. Hydrogen in the Earth's Core / Caitlin A Murphy -- Stability of Hydrous Minerals and Water Reservoirs in the Deep Earth Interior / Eiji Ohtani, Yohei Amaike, Seiji Kamada, Itaru Ohira, Izumi Mashino -- Carbon in the Core / Bin Chen, Jie Li.

Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, experimental, and observational approaches and offers insight into future research directions on the deep Earth. In recent years, we have just reached a stage where we can perform measurements at the conditions of the center part of the Earth using stateoftheart techniques, and many reports on the physical and chemical properties of the deep Earth have come out very recently. Novel theoretical models have been complementary to this breakthrough. These new inputs enable us to compare directly with results of precise geophysical and geochemical observations. This volume highlights the recent significant advancements in our understanding of the deep Earth that have occurred as a result, including contributions from mineral/rock physics, geophysics, and geochemistry that relate to the topics of: I. Thermal structure of the lower mantle and core II. Structure, anisotropy, and plasticity of deep Earth materials III. Physical properties of the deep interior IV. Chemistry and phase relations in the lower mantle and core V. Volatiles in the deep Earth The volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students who study the Earths interior. The topics of this volume are multidisciplinary, and therefore will be useful to students from a wide variety of fields in the Earth Sciences.

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