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Articles | Volume 16, issue 4/5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4/5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-297-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-297-2025
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4/5
Research article
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14 May 2025
Research article |  | 14 May 2025

On the global geodynamic consequences of different phase boundary morphologies

Gwynfor T. Morgan, J. Huw Davies, Robert Myhill, and James Panton

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Phase transitions can influence mantle convection, inhibiting or promoting vertical flow. We are motivated by two examples: the post-spinel reaction proceeding via akimotoite at cool temperatures and a curving post-garnet boundary. Some have suggested these could change mantle dynamics. We find this is unlikely for both reactions: the first due to the uniqueness of thermodynamic state and the second due to the low magnitude of the boundary’s  slope in pressure–temperature space and density change.
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