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    Wadsleyite is an orthorhombic mineral with the formula β-(Mg,Fe)2SiO4. It was first found in nature in the Peace River meteorite from Alberta, Canada....
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    inferred to be present in large quantities in the Earth's mantle. Olivine, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite are polymorphs found in the upper mantle of the earth...
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    exothermic phase transition to the sorosilicate, wadsleyite and, at about 520 km (320 mi) depth, wadsleyite transforms exothermically into ringwoodite, which...
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    of gas around a forming star. Two polymorphs of forsterite are known: wadsleyite (also orthorhombic) and ringwoodite (isometric, cubic crystal system)...
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    e., contrary to forsterite there is no intermediate form analogous to wadsleyite; under the conditions prevailing in the upper mantle of the Earth, the...
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  • Mantle Transition Zone is mainly composed of 60 vol% olivine-polymorphs (wadsleyite, ringwoodite) and ~40 vol% majoritic garnet. The top and bottom boundary...
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    the transition zone (approximately 410–660 km [250–410 mi]), in which wadsleyite (≈ 410–520 km [250–320 mi]) and ringwoodite (≈ 525–660 km [326–410 mi])...
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  • predicted by the single transition from α- to β- Mg2SiO4 (olivine to wadsleyite). From the Clapeyron slope this discontinuity is expected to be shallower...
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  • Vishnevite Vivianite Vladimirite Vlasovite Volborthite Vuagnatite Vulcanite Wadsleyite Wagnerite Wairakite Wakabayashilite Wakefieldite Walfordite Wardite Warikahnite...
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    phases at the transition zone between Earth's upper and lower mantle, wadsleyite and ringwoodite, could potentially incorporate up to a few weight percent...
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    shallow-focus earthquake. Metastable olivine subducted past the olivine-wadsleyite transition at 320–410 km depth (depending on temperature) is a potential...
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  • phases (e.g. coesite, akimotoite, majorite, ringwoodite, stishovite, wadsleyite). Water bearing minerals, and samples of liquid water (e.g., Zag, Monahans)...
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    below that depth, olivine is converted to the higher-pressure mineral wadsleyite. Oceanic plates consist of up to about 100 km of peridotite covered by...
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  • (250 mi) as is predicted by the transition from α- to β-Mg2SiO4 (olivine to wadsleyite). From the Clapeyron slope, this change is predicted to occur at shallower...
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  • meteorite) Mg2SiO4 Roaldite (Fe,Ni)4N Schreibersite (Fe,Ni)3P Sinoite Si2N2O Taenite γ-(Ni,Fe) Tetrataenite Troilite FeS Wadsleyite Mg2SiO4 Xifengite Fe5Si3...
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    Orthopyroxene, Clinopyroxene, Garnet Transition Zone 410–660 km 13-23 GPa Wadsleyite, Ringwoodite, Majoritic Garnet Lower Mantle 660–2891 km 23-129 GPa Ferropericlase...
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  • Warikahnite War Welinite Wln Whiterockite Wrc Winchite Wnc Wülfingite Wfg Wadsleyite Wds Warkite Wki Weloganite Wlg Whitlockite Wht Windhoekite Whk Wumuite...
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    transition zone, it undergoes a phase transition to wadsleyite, and at about 520 km depth, wadsleyite transforms into ringwoodite, which has the spinel...
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    crystal is formed by repeating 'Z' times the chemical formula). Examples: wadsleyite (Mg2SiO4) a sorosilicate and high pressure polymorph of forsterite and...
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  • IMA1986-008) 4.FA.10 [741] [742] [743] (IUPAC: zinc dihydroxide) Asimowite (wadsleyite: IMA2018-102) 9.B?. [744] [no] [no] (IUPAC: diiron tetraoxysilicate) Asisite...
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    acceleration. For example, olivine transforms into its denser polymorphs, wadsleyite and ringwoodite, at depths of approximately 410 km and 660 km respectively...
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  • The uppermost mantle of Kepler-277b is thought to consist of olivine, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite while the lower part of Kepler-277b's upper mantle consists...
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  • (2013). "Water in the Earth's mantle: a solid-state NMR study of hydrous wadsleyite". Chemical Science. 4 (4): 1523. doi:10.1039/c3sc21892a. hdl:1885/77486...
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    anisotropic material at depth beneath a station. In the transition zone, wadsleyite and/or ringwoodite could be aligned in LPO. Below the transition zone...
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    (clinopyroxenes, garnets, akimotoite, bridgmanite, hiroseite, ahrensite, wadsleyite, post-spinel phases, dense hydrous magnesium silicates); b) aperiodic...
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  • CA.10 [3] [4] [5] (IUPAC: dipotassium zirconium (nonaoxotrisilicate)) Wadsleyite (IMA1982-012) 9.BE.02 [6] [7] [8] (IUPAC: dimagnesium tetraoxosilicate)...
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  • Thumbnail for David Price (mineral physicist)
    variety of academic and management positions. He discovered the mineral Wadsleyite, which is believed to make up part of the transition zone of the Earth’s...
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