JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

Presentation information

[EE] Oral

S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-IT Science of the Earth's Interior & Tectonophysics

[S-IT22] [EE] Interaction and Coevolution of the Core and Mantle in the Earth and Planets

Mon. May 22, 2017 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Convention Hall B (International Conference Hall 2F)

convener:Taku Tsuchiya(Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University), Hidenori Terasaki(Graduate School of Science, Osaka University), Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar(Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University), Tetsuo Irifune(Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University), John Hernlund(Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Eiji Ohtani(Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Chairperson:Taku Tsuchiya(Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University)

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

[SIT22-39] High-P,T Elasticity of Iron-Light Element Alloys

*Taku Tsuchiya1, Yasuhiro Kuwayama2, Miaki Ishii3, Kenji Kawai2 (1.Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2.University of Tokyo, 3.Harvard University)

Keywords:Iron-light element alloy, Ab intio computation, Inner core

Earth’s inner core (329~364 GPa and 5000~6000 K) is thought to be composed of solid Fe-Ni alloy with some light elements. Thermoelasticity of iron and iron-light element alloys is therefore a key to interpreting seismological information of the inner core: density, seismic wave velocities, and their anisotropy. However, several studies reported that pure hcp iron has a shear modulus distinctly larger than that of the inner core (e.g., Mao et al., 1998; Vocadlo et al., 2009). This large Poisson ratio of the inner core is one of the remaining inexplicable features of the deep Earth, and some studies recently proposed this be explained by alloyed with light elements such as carbon (e.g., Chen et al., 2014). In this study, we perform ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of iron-light element alloys with potential candidates of Si, C, and H and examine their high-P,T elasticity to identify the viability of iron alloys in the inner core.



Research supported by KAKENHI JP15H05834 and JP26287137.