MIT OpenCourseWare
Phase Transitions in the Earth's Interior
Art: US Army, US Weather map from 1872, 1872 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 18 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.581 Phase Transitions in the Earth's Interior, Spring 2005, Prof. Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Assignments
18 files
- Phase Transitions in the Earth’s Mantle and Mantle Mineralogy (Courtesy of Sandeep Rekhi. Used with permission.) Download
- Iron Partitioning in a Pyrolite Mantle and the Nature of the 410-km Seismic Discontinuity (Courtesy of Javier Santillan. Used with permission.) Download
- The Effect of H₂O on the 410-kilometer Seismic Discontinuity (Courtesy of Huajian Yao. Used with permission.) Download
- Testing Plausible Upper-mantle Compositions using Fine-scale Models of the 410-km Discontinuity Elasticity of… (Courtesy of Sandeep Rekhi. Used with permission.) Download
- Seismic Evidence for Olivine Phase Changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer Discontinuities (Courtesy of Rosalee Lamm. Used with permission.) Download
- The Post-spinel Transformation in Mg₂SiO₄ and its Relation to the 660-km Seismic Discontinuity (Courtesy of Scott Lundin. Used with permission.) Download
- Post-spinel Transition in Mg₂SiO₄ determined by High P-T in Situ X-ray Diffractometry (Courtesy of Javier Santillan. Used with permission.) Download
- Effect of Water on the Spinel-postspinel Transformation in Mg₂SiO₄ (Courtesy of Sandeep Rekhi. Used with permission.) Download
- The Effect of Alumina on Phase Transformations at the 660-kilometer Discontinuity from Fe-Mg Partitioning Experiments… (Courtesy of Javier Santillan. Used with permission.) Download
- Effects of an Endothermic Phase Transition at 670 km Depth in a Spherical Model of Convection in the Earth’s Mantle The… (Courtesy of Huajian Yao. Used with permission.) Download
- Seismic Observations of Splitting of the Mid-transition Zone Discontinuity in Earth’s Mantle (Courtesy of Rosalee Lamm. Used with permission.) Download
- Tetragonal Structure of CaSiO₃ Perovskite above 20 GPa (Courtesy of Scott Lundin. Used with permission.) Download
- This resource provides information about phase transformations: implications for mantle structure… (weidner.pdf) Download
- Strength and Elasticity of SiO₂ across the Stishovite-CaCl₂-type Structural Phase Boundary (Courtesy of Huajian Yao. Used with permission.) Download
- Post-perovskite Phase Transition and Mineral Chemistry in the Pyrolitic Lowermost Mantle (Courtesy of Rosalee Lamm. Used with permission.) Download
- Evidence for a Ubiquitous Seismic Discontinuity at the Base of the Mantle (Courtesy of Scott Lundin. Used with permission.) Download
- The Effect of Temperature on the Seismic Anisotropy of the Perovskite and Post-perovskite Polymorphs of MgSiO₃ (Courtesy of Scott Lundin. Used with permission.) Download
- Electronic Transitions in Perovskite: Possible Nonconvecting Layers in the Lower Mantle (Courtesy of Javier Santillan. Used with permission.) Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim, 12.581 Phase Transitions in the Earth's Interior, Spring 2005.
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