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Phase Transitions in the Earth's Interior

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States12.581
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2005English
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This course discusses phase transitions in Earth’s interior. Phase transitions in Earth materials at high pressures and temperatures cause the seismic discontinuities and affect the convections in the Earth’s interior. On the other hand, they enable us to constrain temperature and chemical compositions in the Earth’s interior. However, among many known phase transitions in mineral physics, only a few have been investigated in seismology and geodynamics.

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