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Post-perovskite at ten

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In 2004, a phase transition was discovered in the most abundant lower-mantle mineral. A decade of focused experiments, computations and seismic imaging stimulated by this discovery has revealed previously unknown complexities in Earth's deep mantle.

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Figure 1: Mineralogical and seismic complexity of the lower mantle, as discussed at the ppv@10 meeting2.

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  1. Sang-Heon Shim is in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Arizona 85287, USA,

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Shim, SH., Lay, T. Post-perovskite at ten. Nature Geosci 7, 621–623 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2237

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