EPS scientists study composition and temperature variations in the mantle transition zone in search of water
Departmental News
Posted: Mar 28, 2022 - 12:00pm
Scientists at the University of New Mexico are modeling water in deep Earth using the mineral wadsleyite to determine composition and temperature variations to decipher the material exchange processes between the upper and lower mantle.
The research titled, Constraining composition and temperature variations in the mantle transition zone, was conducted by UNM doctoral student Wen-Yi Zhou and Assistant Professor Jin Zhang in the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and UNM’s Institute of Meteoritics. It was published recently in Nature Communications. Additional scientists in the research include UNM's Brandon Schmandt, Ming Hao and Ruijia Wang, and Bin Chen from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
