Thermal conductivity near the bottom of the Earth's lower mantle: Measurements of pyrolite up to 120 GPa and 2500 K

Zachary Geballe (1) , Nathan Sime (2) , James Badro (3) , Peter van Keken (2) , Alexander Goncharov (1)

1 Carnegie Inst Sci, Geophys Lab, 5251 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015 USA
2 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism [Carnegie Institution]
3 IPGP (UMR_7154) - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Keywords: Earth's heat loss; diamond anvil cell; finite element methods

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]

Zachary Geballe, Nathan Sime, James Badro, Peter van Keken, Alexander Goncharov. Thermal conductivity near the bottom of the Earth's lower mantle: Measurements of pyrolite up to 120 GPa and 2500 K. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020, 536, pp.116161. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116161⟩. ⟨insu-02913601⟩