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AN: S11A-02 INVITED     [PDF]
TI: Mineral Physics and Mantle Evolution
AU: * Liebermann, R C
EM: Robert.Liebermann@stonybrook.edu
AF: COMPRES, ESS Building Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100 United States
AU: Bass, J D
EM: jaybass@uiuc.edu
AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL 61801 United States
AU: Weidner, D J
EM: Donald.Weidner@stonybrook.edu
AF: Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences and Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100 United States
AB: Don Anderson has been a steadfast patron and constructive critic of mineral physics for more than 40 years. Although he has never actually done an experiment himself [except for perhaps some early work on ice when he was working in Greenland], he has nurtured and supported two generations of experimental mineral physicists throughout the U.S. His role and influence have been especially evident in studies of the elasticity and anelasticity of minerals and the use of such data for interpretation of seismic models of the Earth's mantle. In the 1960s, such acoustic experiments required specimens of centimeter dimensions and could achieve elevated conditions of less than 1 Gigapascal in pressure and a few hundred degrees of Celsius temperature. Today, one can perform such experiments on specimens only a fraction of a milimeter in size and reach pressures of tens of GPa and temperatures in excess of two thousand degrees C. In addition, Anderson's contributions to organized scientific endeavors have extended far beyond his founding role in IRIS to include advising on the establishment of the new Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences [COMPRES]. We ilustrate his remarkable contributions to mineral physics with examples of our own research, some of it done in collaboration with Anderson.
DE: 1025 Composition of the mantle
DE: 3909 Elasticity and anelasticity
DE: 3919 Equations of state
DE: 3924 High-pressure behavior
DE: 3954 X ray, neutron, and electron spectroscopy and diffraction
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting