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Mantle fabric unravelled?

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Mantle flow patterns may be reconstructed from mineral orientations. Experiments show that the high-pressure mineral post-perovskite can inherit texture from its lower-pressure counterpart, suggesting new ways of interpreting flow in the deepest mantle.

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Figure 1: Transformation from perovskite to post-perovskite in the deep mantle.

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  1. John Hernlund is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA,

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