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サカイ タケシ
境 毅
Sakai Takeshi
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先端研究院 地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター 准教授
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学位

  • 博士(理学) ( 東北大学 )

研究キーワード

  • ダイヤモンドアンビルセル

  • マルチメガバール

  • 2段式ダイヤモンドアンビルセル

  • 超高圧地球科学

  • 状態方程式

研究分野

  • 自然科学一般 / 固体地球科学

学歴

  • 東北大学   理学研究科   地学専攻(博士課程)

    2004年4月 - 2007年3月

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  • 東北大学   理学研究科   地学専攻(修士課程)

    2002年4月 - 2004年3月

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  • 東北大学   理学部   地球惑星物質科学科

    1998年4月 - 2002年3月

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経歴

  • 愛媛大学   地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター   准教授

    2020年4月 - 現在

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  • 愛媛大学   地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター   講師

    2014年4月 - 2019年3月

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  • 愛媛大学   地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター   助教

    2012年8月 - 2014年3月

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  • 東北大学   大学院理学研究科地学専攻   助教

    2011年5月 - 2012年7月

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  • 東北大学   国際高等研究教育機構国際高等融合領域研究所   助教

    2007年4月 - 2011年4月

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論文

  • Sound velocity of hexagonal close-packed iron to the Earth’s inner core pressure

    Daijo Ikuta, Eiji Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Takeshi Sakai, Daisuke Ishikawa, Alfred Q. R. Baron

    Nature Communications   13 ( 1 )   2022年11月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    Abstract

    Here we determine the compressional and shear wave velocities (v<sub>p</sub> and v<sub>s</sub>) of hexagonal close-packed iron, a candidate for the main constituent of the Earth’s inner core, to pressures above 300 gigapascals using a newly designed diamond anvil cell and inelastic X-ray scattering combined with X-ray diffraction. The present results reveal that the v<sub>p</sub> and v<sub>s</sub> of the Preliminary reference Earth model (PREM) inner core are 4(±2)% and 36(±17)% slower than those of the pure iron, respectively at the centre of the core. The density and sound velocity of the PREM inner core can be explained by addition of 3(±1) wt% silicon and 3(±2) wt% sulphur to iron‒5 wt% nickel alloy. Our suggested inner core composition is consistent with the existing outer core model with oxygen, as the growth of the inner core may have created a secular enrichment of the element in the outer core.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34789-2

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  • In situ X-ray and acoustic observations of deep seismic faulting upon phase transitions in olivine

    Tomohiro Ohuchi, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kohei Matsuda, Tetsuo Irifune

    Nature Communications   13 ( 1 )   2022年9月

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    The activity of deep-focus earthquakes, which increases with depth from ~400 km to a peak at ~600 km, is enigmatic, because conventional brittle failure is unlikely to occur at elevated pressures. It becomes increasingly clear that pressure-induced phase transitions of olivine are responsible for the occurrence of the earthquakes, based on deformation experiments under pressure. However, many such experiments were made using analogue materials and those on mantle olivine are required to verify the hypotheses developed by these studies. Here we report the results of deformation experiments on (Mg,Fe)<sub>2</sub>SiO<sub>4</sub> olivine at 11−17 GPa and 860−1350 K, equivalent to the conditions of the slabs subducted into the mantle transition zone. We find that throughgoing faulting occurs only at very limited temperatures of 1100−1160 K, accompanied by intense acoustic emissions at the onset of rupture. Fault sliding aided by shear heating occurs along a weak layer, which is formed via linking-up of lenticular packets filled with nanocrystalline olivine and wadsleyite. Our study suggests that transformational faulting occurs on the isothermal surface of the metastable olivine wedge in slabs, leading to deep-focus earthquakes in limited regions and depth range.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32923-8

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  • Elucidation of impact event recorded in the lherzolitic shergottite NWA 7397

    Masashi Yoshida, Masaaki Miyahara, Hiroki Suga, Akira Yamaguchi, Naotaka Tomioka, Takeshi Sakai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Fumiya Maeda, Itaru Ohira, Eiji Ohtani, Seiji Kamada, Takuji Ohigashi, Yuichi Inagaki, Yu Kodama, Naohisa Hirao

    Meteoritics & Planetary Science   2021年8月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Wiley  

    DOI: 10.1111/maps.13735

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  • Systematic investigations of high-pressure polymorphs in shocked ordinary chondrites

    Masaaki Miyahara, Akira Yamaguchi, Masato Saitoh, Kanta Fukimoto, Takeshi Sakai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Naotaka Tomioka, Yu Kodama, Eiji Ohtani

    Meteoritics and Planetary Science   55 ( 12 )   2619 - 2651   2020年12月

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    © 2021 The Meteoritical Society (MET) Shock-induced melting textures and high-pressure polymorphs in 178 ordinary chondrites of all chemical groups and petrologic types were investigated. The shock-induced melting modes were classified into three types, namely pocket, line, and network. The type of shock-induced melting depends on the petrologic type. The width of the shock-induced melt increased with increasing the petrologic type number. The approximate estimated shock-pressure ranges recorded in and around the shock-induced melts of the H-group ordinary chondrites based on the identified high-pressure polymorphs were as follows: H3, less than 2 GPa; H4–H6, 2–6 GPa. For ordinary chondrites of the L/LL group, the values were as follows: L/LL3, 2–6 GPa; L/LL4, 2–14 GPa; L5: 14–20 GPa; LL5, 2–14 GPa; L6, 17–23 GPa; and LL6, 14–18 GPa. After adopting the estimated shock pressures into the onion shell-structured parent body model, the shock pressure on the surface was much lower than in the interior. One possibility is that the apparent lower shock pressure on the surface is due to spallation during the impact. Considering the features of the high-pressure polymorphs, the major disruption history of the parent bodies is different in each chemical group, although the L/LL chondrite parent bodies may have a similar major disruption history.

    DOI: 10.1111/maps.13608

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  • Switching from seismic faulting to silent slips in harzburgite induced by H2O fluid at upper mantle pressures

    T. Ohuchi, X. Lei, Y. Higo, Y. Tange, T. Sakai

    Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology   175 ( 8 )   2020年8月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    DOI: 10.1007/s00410-020-01716-x

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  • Review: high pressure generation techniques beyond the limit of conventional diamond anvils 査読

    Takehiko Yagi, Takeshi Sakai, Hirokazu Kadobayashi, Tetsuo Irifune

    HIGH PRESSURE RESEARCH   40 ( 1 )   148 - 161   2020年1月

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    記述言語:英語   出版者・発行元:TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD  

    Current anvil designs and problems associated with various efforts to generate static high pressures beyond the limit of conventional diamond anvil cells (DACs) (similar to 400 GPa) are reviewed. Pressures of up to 1 TPa have been reported by one research group using the double-stage DAC (ds-DAC) technique, but no other research group has successfully reproduced this high pressure result. Some research groups have used toroidal anvils, achieving pressures of >400 GPa. We have conducted numerous ds-DAC experiments and investigated the problems associated with such experiments. They include problems associated with various pressure scales in the multi-megabar region, difficulties in obtaining reliable X-ray diffraction patterns from micron-sized samples, and physical property measurements of tiny materials that may be harder than diamond. Each of these problems is discussed, following the summary of various experiments.

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  • Back-transformation mechanisms of ringwoodite and majorite in an ordinary chondrite 査読

    Kanta Fukimoto, Masaaki Miyahara, Takeshi Sakai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Naotaka Tomioka, Yu Kodama, Eiji Ohtani, Akira Yamaguchi

    Meteoritics and Planetary Science   2020年

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    © The Meteoritical Society, 2020. We investigated the back-transformation mechanisms of ringwoodite and majorite occurring in a shock-melt vein (SMV) of the Yamato 75267 H6 ordinary chondrite during atmospheric entry heating. Ringwoodite and majorite in the shock melt near the fusion crust have back-transformed into olivine and enstatite, respectively. Ringwoodite (Fa~18) occurs in the SMV as a fine-grained polycrystalline assemblage. Approaching the fusion crust, fine-grained polycrystalline olivine becomes dominant instead of ringwoodite. The back-transformation from ringwoodite to olivine proceeds by incoherent nucleation and by an interface-controlled growth mechanism: nucleation occurs on the grain boundaries of ringwoodite, and subsequently olivine grains grow. Majorite (Fs16–17En82–83Wo1) occurs in the SMV as a fine-grained polycrystalline assemblage. Approaching the fusion crust, the majorite grains become vitrified. Approaching the fusion crust even more, clino/orthoenstatite grains occur in the vitrified majorite. The back-transformation from majorite to enstatite is initiated by the vitrification, and growth continues by the subsequent nucleation in the vitrified majorite.

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  • Phase and melting relations of Fe3C to 300 GPa and carbon in the core. 招待 査読

    Suguru Takahashi, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Seiji Kamada, Shin Ozawa, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Masaaki Miyahara, Yoshinori Ito, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    Carbon in Earth’s interior, AGU Monograph volume   25 - 36   2019年11月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)  

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  • Phase relations in silicon and germanium nitrides up to 98 GPa and 2400°C

    Norimasa Nishiyama, Julia Langer, Takeshi Sakai, Yohei Kojima, Astrid Holzheid, Nico A. Gaida, Eleonora Kulik, Naohisa Hirao, Saori I. Kawaguchi, Tetsuo Irifune, Yasuo Ohishi

    Journal of the American Ceramic Society   102 ( 4 )   2195 - 2202   2019年4月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)  

    © 2018 The American Ceramic Society Phase relations in silicon and germanium nitrides (Si3N4 and Ge3N4) were investigated using a Kawai-type multianvil apparatus and a laser-heated diamond anvil cell combined with a synchrotron radiation. The pressure-induced phase transition from the β to γ (cubic spinel-type structure) phase was observed in both compositions. We observed the coexistence of the β and γ phases in Si3N4 at 12.4 GPa and 1800°C, while the appearance of single phase γ-Ge3N4 was observed at pressures above 10 GPa. Our observations under higher pressures revealed that γ-Si3N4 and γ-Ge3N4 have wide stability fields and no postspinel transition was observed up to 98 GPa and 2400°C in both compositions. Using the room-temperature compression curves of these materials, the bulk moduli (K0) and their pressure derivatives (K′0) were determined: K0 = 317 (16) GPa and K′0 = 6.0 (8) for γ-Si3N4; K0 = 254 (13) GPa and K′0 = 6.0 (7) for γ-Ge3N4.

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  • Conical support for double-stage diamond anvil apparatus

    Takeshi Sakai, Takehiko Yagi, Ryosuke Takeda, Toshiki Hamatani, Yuki Nakamoto, Hirokazu Kadobayashi, Hideto Mimori, Saori I. Kawaguchi, Naohisa Hirao, Keitaro Kuramochi, Naoki Ishimatsu, Takehiro Kunimoto, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Yasuo Ohishi, Tetsuo Irifune, Katsuya Shimizu

    High Pressure Research   40 ( 1 )   12 - 21   2019年1月

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    © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor &amp; Francis Group. Both micro-paired and conical support type double-stage diamond anvil cells (ds-DAC) were tested using a newly synthesized ultra-fine nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD). Well-focused X-ray sub-micron beam and the conically supported 2nd stage anvils (micro-anvils) with 10 μm culet enable us to obtain good quality X-ray diffraction peaks from the sample at around 400 GPa. The relationship between confining pressure and sample pressure depends heavily on the initial height (thickness) of micro-anvils, the difference of a few micrometers leads to a quite different compression path. The conical support type is a solution to retain both enough thickness and strength of micro-anvils at higher confining pressure conditions. All conical support ds-DAC experiments terminated by the failure of the 1st stage anvil instead of 2nd one. The combination of ultra-fine NPD 2nd stage anvil and NPD 1st stage anvil opens a new frontier for measurement of the X-ray absorption spectrum above 300 GPa.

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  • An application of NPD to double-stage diamond anvil cells: XAS spectra of rhenium metal under high pressures above 300 GPa 査読

    K. Kuramochi, N. Ishimatsu, T. Sakai, N. Kawamura, T. Irifune

    High Pressure Research   2019年

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    © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. We present the first application of double-stage diamond anvil cells (ds-DACs) to X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) of Rhenium (Re) metal. By using highly stable and sub-micron sized X-ray beam, XAS spectra were successfully observed at the (Formula presented.) -edges from the sample encapsulated in the small space between the second-stage anvils. The pressure generation exceeding 300 GPa was evaluated by the pressure-induced shift of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) oscillation at the (Formula presented.) -edge. The profile of white-line at the (Formula presented.) -edges broadened with increasing pressure, which indicates the modification of the Re (Formula presented.) band structure. The present results demonstrate the high ability of XAS technique combined with ds-DACs as a probe for crystal structure and electronic structure under ultrahigh pressure.

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  • Semi-brittle behavior of wet olivine aggregates: the role of aqueous fluid in faulting at upper mantle pressures

    Tomohiro Ohuchi, Xinglin Lei, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kiyoshi Fujino

    Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology   173   2018年10月

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    © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. The role of aqueous fluid in fracturing in subducting slabs was investigated through a series of deformation experiments on dunite that was undersaturated (i.e., fluid-free) or saturated with water (i.e., aqueous-fluid bearing) at pressures of 1.0–1.8 GPa and temperatures of 670–1250 K, corresponding to the conditions of the shallower regions of the double seismic zone in slabs. In situ X-ray diffraction, radiography, and acoustic emissions (AEs) monitoring demonstrated that semi-brittle flow associated with AEs was dominant and the creep/failure strength of dunite was insensitive to the dissolved water content in olivine. In contrast, aqueous fluid drastically decreased the creep/failure strength of dunite (up to ~ 1 GPa of weakening) over a wide range of temperatures in the semi-brittle regime. Weakening of the dunite by the aqueous fluid resulted in the reduction of the number of AE events (i.e., suppression of microcracking) and shortening of time to failure. The AE hypocenters were located at the margin of the deforming sample while the interior of the faulted sample was aseismic (i.e., aseismic semi-brittle flow) under water-saturated conditions. A faulting (slip rate of ~ 10−3 to 10−4 s−1) associated with a large drop of stress (Δσ ~ 0.5 to 1 GPa) and/or pressure (ΔP ~ 0.5 GPa) was dominant in fluid-free dunite, while a slow faulting (slip rate &lt; 8 × 10−5 s−1) without any stress/pressure drop was common in water-saturated dunite. Aseismic semi-brittle flow may mimic silent ductile flow under water-saturated conditions in subducting slabs.

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  • High pressure generation using double-stage diamond anvil technique: problems and equations of state of rhenium 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Takehiko Yagi, Tetsuo Irifune, Hirokazu Kadobayashi, Naohisa Hirao, Takehiro Kunimoto, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Saori Kawaguchi-Imada, Yasuo Ohishi, Shigehiko Tateno, Kei Hirose

    High Pressure Research   38 ( 2 )   107 - 119   2018年4月

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    © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. We have developed a double stage diamond anvil cell (ds-DAC) technique for reproducible pressure by precisely fabricating 2nd stage anvils using a focused ion beam system. We used 2nd stage micro-anvils made of ultra-fine (< 10 nm) nano-polycrystalline diamond with various shapes and dimensions synthesized from glassy carbon at high pressure and temperature. The X-ray diffraction patterns from the rhenium sample always showed very broad peaks due to large pressure gradients in the culet of the micro-anvils. Deconvolution of the broad 101 diffraction peak results in compression of rhenium to V/V0= 0.633 for the smallest d-spacing. The calculated pressure for this minimum volume varies from 430 to 630 GPa, depending on the choice of the equation of state of rhenium. We conclude that the most likely pressure achieved for the minimum volume of rhenium is in a range of 430–460 GPa based on a calibration using the platinum pressure scale to 280 GPa and the latter value of 630 GPa is unreasonably high, suggesting that the pressures in an earlier study for the equation of state of rhenium would have been significantly overestimated.

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  • Equations of state of minerals at multi-megabar pressure

    Takeshi Sakai

    Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences   47 ( 1 )   27 - 33   2018年

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    記述言語:日本語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Japanese Association of Mineralogists Petrologists and Economic Geologists  

    The equation of state (EoS) at multi-megabar condition should include a parameter at in- finite pressure such as K'∞ in Keane EoS. The Keane EoS model was adopted for the first time to extract meaningful physical properties for MgSiO3 post-perovskite (PPv) phase. The thermal EoSs of PPv were determined by using both laser-heated diamond anvil cell and density- functional theoretical techniques, within a multi-megabar pressure range, corresponding to the conditions of a super-Earth's mantle. The experimentally determined Gruä neisen parameter, which is one of the thermal EoS parameters, and its volume dependence were consistent with their theoretically obtained values. Both the experimental and theoretical EoS were also found to be in very good agreement for volumes up to 300 GPa and 5000 K, respectively. Our newly developed EoS is applicable to a super-Earth's mantle, as well as the Earth's core-mantle boundary region. On the other hand, the double stage diamond anvil cell (ds-DAC) technique was developed using a focused ion beam (FIB) system in order to generate the Tera pascal (TPa) regime corresponding to conditions of exoplanet's interior. Micro-manufacturing using a FIB system enables us to control shapes of 2nd stage micro-anvils, process any materials, including nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD) and single crystal diamond, and assemble the sample exactly in a very small space between the 2nd stage anvils. This method is highly reproducible and would allow us to open a new frontier.

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  • Intermediate-depth earthquakes linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite 査読

    Tomohiro Ohuchi, Xinglin Lei, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kiyoshi Fujino, Tetsuo Irifune

    NATURE GEOSCIENCE   10 ( 10 )   771 - +   2017年10月

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    The occurrence of intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes at depths greater than 60 km in subducting slabs has long puzzled geoscientists. These earthquakes require some mechanism to accelerate the fault movement at high pressures above 1.8 GPa. Localized heating would contribute to faulting, but experimental evidence for this mechanism has been limited to pressures of up to 0.5 GPa. Here we conduct deformation experiments on dry dunite samples at pressures of 1.0 to 2.6 GPa and temperatures of 860 to 1,350 K-conditions close to those for relatively shallow intermediate-depth earthquakes. We observe plastic deformation of the dunite, followed by faulting and acoustic emissions at an accelerated strain rate of about 5 x 10(-5) s(-1) or higher. We find that ultrafine-grained gouge layers containing iron-rich melt films, which is indicative of a very high peak temperature of about 2,110 K along the fault planes. We also observe faulting in wet harzburgite-a dehydration product of antigorite-at natural stress levels of 0.3 to 0.4 gigapascals. We therefore suggest that intermediate-depth earthquakes can be induced by localized heating both in dry and wet subducting slabs, if the background strain rate exceeds a threshold value in the range from 10(-16) to 10(-13) s(-1).

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  • Phase Relations in the System MgSiO3-Al2O3 up to 2300K at Lower Mantle Pressures 査読

    Zhaodong Liu, Masayuki Nishi, Takayuki Ishii, Hongzhan Fei, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Takeshi Sakai, Lin Wang, Svyatoslav Shcheka, Takeshi Arimoto, Yoshinori Tange, Yuji Higo, Tetsuo Irifune, Tomoo Katsura

    JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH   122 ( 10 )   7775 - 7788   2017年10月

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    Phase relations in the system MgSiO3-Al2O3 were investigated at pressures of 27-45GPa and temperatures of 1700, 2000, and 2300K using sintered diamond and tungsten carbide anvils in a multianvil apparatus. The bulk compositions in the MgSiO3-Al2O3 binary system crystallize a phase assemblage of pyrope and corundum at pressures below 27GPa and an assemblage of bridgmanite and corundum at pressures above 27GPa regardless of temperatures. The solubility of Al2O3 in bridgmanite and that of MgSiO3 in corundum increases significantly with increasing temperature. The solubility of Al2O3 in bridgmanite increases from 6.7mol% at 1700K to 21.8mol% at 2500K under a constant pressure of 27GPa. Bridgmanite becomes more aluminous with increasing pressure from 27 to 45GPa at a given temperature. The MgSiO3 content in corundum increases with increasing pressure at pressure lower than 27GPa, while it decreases at pressure higher than 27GPa. Our results suggest that bridgmanite can incorporate a considerably higher Al2O3 content than that of the pyrope composition (25mol% Al2O3). The present study further suggests that the entire Al2O3 component is accommodated into bridgmanite in the pyrolite lower mantle. However, Al2O3 cannot be fully accommodated into bridgmanite in the coldest parts of subducted slabs in the shallow part of the lower mantle, and therefore, additional phases such as MgAl2O4 with calcium ferrite-type structure are necessary to host the excess Al2O3.
    Plain Language Summary Here we determined the phase relations in the system MgSiO3-Al2O3 up to 2300K under lower mantle pressures and found that the solubility of Al2O3 in bridgmanite and that of MgSiO3 in corundum increase with increasing temperature. All Al2O3 can be completely accommodated into bridgmanite in the pyrolite composition, while the Al2O3 cannot be fully accommodated into bridgmanite in the coldest parts of subducted slabs, and therefore, additional phases are required to host the excess Al2O3.

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  • Melting relations in the Fe–S–Si system at high pressure and temperature: Implications for the planetary core

    Takanori Sakairi, Eiji Ohtani, Seiji Kamada, Takeshi Sakai, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Naohisa Hirao

    Progress in Earth and Planetary Science   4   2017年3月

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    © The Author(s). 2017. The phase and melting relations in the Fe–S–Si system were determined up to 60 GPa by using a double-sided laser-heated diamond anvil cell combined with X-ray diffraction. On the basis of the X-ray diffraction patterns, we confirmed that hcp/fcc Fe–Si alloys and Fe 3 S are stable phases under subsolidus conditions in the Fe–S–Si system. Both solidus and liquidus temperatures are significantly lower than the melting temperature of pure Fe and both increase with pressure. The slopes of the Fe–S–Si liquidus and solidus curves determined here are smaller than the adiabatic temperature gradients of the liquid cores of Mercury and Mars. Thus, crystallization of their cores started at the core–mantle boundary region.

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  • Experimental and theoretical thermal equations of state of MgSiO3 post-perovskite at multi-megabar pressures 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Haruhiko Dekura, Naohisa Hirao

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS   6   2016年3月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP  

    The MgSiO3 post-perovskite phase is the most abundant silicate phase in a super-Earth's mantle, although it only exists within the Earth's lowermost mantle. In this study, we established the thermal equation of state (EoS) of the MgSiO3 post-perovskite phase, which were determined by using both laser-heated diamond anvil cell and density-functional theoretical techniques, within a multi-megabar pressure range, corresponding to the conditions of a super-Earth's mantle. The Keane and AP2 EoS models were adopted for the first time to extract meaningful physical properties. The experimentally determined Gruneisen parameter, which is one of the thermal EoS parameters, and its volume dependence were found to be consistent with their theoretically obtained values. This reduced the previously reported discrepancy observed between experiment and theory. Both the experimental and theoretical EoS were also found to be in very good agreement for volumes at pressures and temperatures of up to 300 GPa and 5000 K, respectively. Our newly developed EoS should be applicable to a super-Earth's mantle, as well as the Earth's core-mantle boundary region.

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  • Constraints on Earth's inner core composition inferred from measurements of the sound velocity of hcp-iron in extreme conditions 査読

    Tatsuya Sakamaki, Eiji Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Seiji Kamada, Suguru Takahashi, Takanori Sakairi, Akihiro Takahata, Takeshi Sakai, Satoshi Tsutsui, Daisuke Ishikawa, Rei Shiraishi, Yusuke Seto, Taku Tsuchiya, Alfred Q. R. Baron

    SCIENCE ADVANCES   2 ( 2 )   2016年2月

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    Hexagonal close-packed iron (hcp-Fe) is a main component of Earth's inner core. The difference in density between hcp-Fe and the inner core in the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM) shows a density deficit, which implies an existence of light elements in the core. Sound velocities then provide an important constraint on the amount and kind of light elements in the core. Although seismological observations provide density-sound velocity data of Earth's core, there are few measurements in controlled laboratory conditions for comparison. We report the compressional sound velocity (V-P) of hcp-Fe up to 163 GPa and 3000 K using inelastic x-ray scattering from a laser-heated sample in a diamond anvil cell. We propose a new high-temperature Birch's law for hcp-Fe, which gives us the V-P of pure hcp-Fe up to core conditions. We find that Earth's inner core has a 4 to 5% smaller density and a 4 to 10% smaller V-P than hcp-Fe. Our results demonstrate that components other than Fe in Earth's core are required to explain Earth's core density and velocity deficits compared to hcp-Fe. Assuming that the temperature effects on iron alloys are the same as those on hcp-Fe, we narrow down light elements in the inner core in terms of the velocity deficit. Hydrogen is a good candidate; thus, Earth's core may be a hidden hydrogen reservoir. Silicon and sulfur are also possible candidates and could show good agreement with PREM if we consider the presence of some melt in the inner core, anelasticity, and/or a premelting effect.

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  • High-pressure generation using double stage micro-paired diamond anvils shaped by focused ion beam 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Takehiko Yagi, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Tetsuo Irifune, Yasuo Ohishi, Naohisa Hirao, Yuya Suzuki, Yasushi Kuroda, Takayuki Asakawa, Takashi Kanemura

    REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   86 ( 3 )   2015年3月

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    Micron-sized diamond anvils with a 3 mu m culet were successfully processed using a focused ion beam (FIB) system and the generation of high pressures was confirmed using the double stage diamond anvil cell technique. The difficulty of aligning two second-stage micro-anvils was solved via the paired micro-anvil method. Micro-manufacturing using a FIB system enables us to control anvil shape, process any materials, including nano-polycrystalline diamond and single crystal diamond, and assemble the sample exactly in a very small space between the second-stage anvils. This method is highly reproducible. High pressures over 300 GPa were achieved, and the pressure distribution around the micro-anvil culet was evaluated by using a well-focused synchrotron micro-X-ray beam. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

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  • The spin state of iron in Fe3+-bearing Mg-perovskite and its crystal chemistry at high pressure 査読

    Izumi Mashino, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Takaya Mitsui, Ryo Masuda, Makoto Seto, Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi, Satoshi Nakano

    AMERICAN MINERALOGIST   99 ( 8-9 )   1555 - 1561   2014年8月

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    Valence, spin states, and crystallographic sites of Fe in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite were investigated using energy-domain Fe-57-synchrotron Mossbauer spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction up to 86 GPa. The volumes of Fe3+-bearing perovskite in this study are slightly smaller than those of Mg end-member perovskite. Our Mossbauer data suggest that Fe3+ prefers A sites coupled with Mg vacancies, which is consistent with previous data at ambient conditions. Fe3+ in the A site remains in a high-spin state up to 86 GPa, and some fraction of the A site is occupied by Fe2+ at pressures above 30 GPa. Fe2+ in the A sites is also in a high-spin state up to 86 GPa. The coupled substitution from Mg2+ to a high-spin state of Fe3+ and Mg2+ vacancy would make the volume of perovskite smaller than that of Mg end-member perovskite. If the lower mantle is saturated in silica, perovskite containing high-spin Fe3+ in A site has a higher density. Such silica oversaturated regions could sink by the density difference.

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  • Discovery of coesite and stishovite in eucrite 査読

    Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, Akira Yamaguchi, Shin Ozawa, Takeshi Sakai, Naohisa Hirao

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   111 ( 30 )   10939 - 10942   2014年7月

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    Howardite-eucrite-diogenite meteorites (HEDs) probably originated from the asteroid 4 Vesta. We investigated one eucrite, Bereba, to clarify a dynamic event that occurred on 4 Vesta using a shock-induced high-pressure polymorph. We discovered high-pressure polymorphs of silica, coesite, and stishovite originating from quartz and/or cristobalite in and around the shock-melt veins of Bereba. Lamellar stishovite formed in silica grains through a solid-state phase transition. A network-like rupture was formed and melting took place along the rupture in the silica grains. Nanosized granular coesite grains crystallized from the silica melt. Based on shock-induced high-pressure polymorphs, the estimated shock-pressure condition ranged from similar to 8 to similar to 13 GPa. Considering radiometric ages and shock features, the dynamic event that led to the formation of coesite and stishovite occurred ca. 4.1 Ga ago, which corresponds to the late heavy bombardment period (ca. 3.8-4.1 Ga), deduced from the lunar cataclysm. There are two giant impact basins around the south pole of 4 Vesta. Although the origin of HEDs is thought to be related to dynamic events that formed the basins ca. 1.0 Ga ago, our findings are at variance with that idea.

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  • Equation of state of Fe3S at room temperature up to 2 megabars 査読

    Seiji Kamada, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS   228   106 - 113   2014年3月

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    The equation of state of Fe3S was investigated up to 200 GPa at room temperature using a diamond anvil cell. Fe3S adopts a tetragonal structure up to 200 GPa and no phase transition was observed. The fourth-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state (EOS) was fitted to present compression data at room temperature. The elastic parameters, such as bulk modulus (K-0), its pressure derivative (K-0'), and K-0 ''(dK'/dP) were determined to be 122.4(50) GPa, 5.36(48), and -0.066(30) GPa(-1), respectively by fixing the zero pressure volume, V-0, to be 377 angstrom(3). Based on fourth-order Birch-Murnaghan EOS of Fe3S, the maximum amount of S in the inner core was estimated to be 11.4(14) at.% based on the density deficit of the inner core. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Equation of state of pure iron and Fe0.9Ni0.1 alloy up to 3 Mbar 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi, Naoya Nishitani, Izumi Mashino, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao

    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS   228   114 - 126   2014年3月

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    Pure iron and Fe0.9Ni0.1 alloy were compressed to a pressure of 279 GPa and 272 GPa, respectively. The compression data sets were fitted using the third order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state based on six different pressure scales. Our result shows the nickel increase the density and the c/a ratio, decrease the bulk modulus. The high temperature data obtained the thermal equation of state parameters. At high temperature, although the nickel effect on density slightly decrease due to the a little larger thermal expansion, the bulk modulus difference increase to 7.3-7.8% at 329 GPa and 5000 K. Nickel effects on elasticity might be important at multimegabar pressure and especially high temperature such as the inner core condition. The core density deficit was estimated to be 3.4(1)-5.1(1)% for pure iron and 4.7(1)-6.5(2)% for Fe0.9Ni0.1 alloy if the temperature at the inner core boundary is 5000 K. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • The sound velocity measurements of Fe3S 査読

    Seiji Kamada, Eiji Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Takeshi Sakai, Hidenori Terasaki, Suguru Takahashi, Yuki Shibazaki, Satoshi Tsutsui, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    AMERICAN MINERALOGIST   99 ( 1 )   98 - 101   2014年1月

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    We measured the sound velocity of Fe3S at room temperature up to 85 GPa employing inelastic X-ray scattering to better constrain the constitution of the inner core. The density of Fe3S was also determined by X-ray diffraction under the same conditions. The relation of the P-wave velocity (v(P)) and density (rho) of Fe3S follows Birch's law, v(P)(m/s) = 1.14(5) x rho(kg/m(3)) - 2580(410). Based on Birch's law determined here for Fe3S and that for epsilon-Fe reported previously, we found that sulfur decreases both density and compressional velocity of hcp-Fe at the core pressure and 300 K.

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  • Stability of a hydrous δ-phase, AlOOH-MgSiO<inf>2</inf>(OH)<inf>2</inf>, and a mechanism for water transport into the base of lower mantle 査読

    Ohira, I., Ohtani, E., Sakai, T., Miyahara, M., Hirao, N., Ohishi, Y., Nishijima, M.

    Earth and Planetary Science Letters   401   12 - 17   2014年

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  • A compact system for generating extreme pressures and temperatures: An application of laser-heated diamond anvil cell to inelastic X-ray scattering 査読

    Hiroshi Fukui, Takeshi Sakai, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Seiji Kamada, Suguru Takahashi, Eiji Ohtani, Alfred Q. R. Baron

    REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   84 ( 11 )   2013年11月

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    A compact system for generating extreme pressures and temperatures was developed for versatile experiments based on laser-heated diamond anvil cell technique. This system has been used for inelastic X-ray scattering measurements for iron. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

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  • Sound velocity of hexagonal close-packed iron up to core pressures 査読

    Eiji Ohtani, Yuki Shibazaki, Takeshi Sakai, Kenji Mibe, Hiroshi Fukui, Seiji Kamada, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Yusuke Seto, Satoshi Tsutsui, Alfred Q. R. Baron

    Geophysical Research Letters   40 ( 19 )   5089 - 5094   2013年10月

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    We determined the compressional velocity of hcp-Fe using high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering combined with in situ X-ray powder diffraction: Our measurements extend up to 174 GPa at room temperature, to 88 GPa at 700 K, and to 61.5 GPa at 1000 K. Our data, including those obtained at high temperature, are well described by a linear relation to density, extending the range of verification of Birch's law and suggesting only small temperature dependence up to 1000 K. This result, once compared to the preliminary reference Earth model seismologically based model, indicates that there is either a strong temperature effect on Birch's law above 1000 K or the composition of the core is rather different than expected, containing, e.g., heavy impurities. Noting that both recent theoretical calculations and shock wave velocity measurements are consistent with modification of Birch's law at high temperature, we favor the former explanation. Key Points We measured the velocity of hcp-Fe to 174 GPa and 300 K by IXS We confirmed no temperature dependence on Birch's law to 60 GPa and 1000 K We argued the light elements in the inner core based on the present study ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

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  • Jadeite formation in shocked ordinary chondrites 査読

    Masaaki Miyahara, Shin Ozawa, Eiji Ohtani, Makoto Kimura, Tomoaki Kubo, Takeshi Sakai, Toshiro Nagase, Masahiko Nishijima, Naohisa Hirao

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   373   102 - 108   2013年7月

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    Albitic feldspar in shocked ordinary chondrites (Yamato 791384 L6 and Yamato 75100 H6) and albite recovered from static high-pressure and high-temperature synthetic experiments (Kubo et al., 2010) were investigated with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) subsequent to a conventional micro-Raman spectroscopy analysis to clarify albite dissociation reaction under high-pressure and high-temperature condition. When jadeite forms from albite, SiO2 phase as a residual phase of albite dissociation reaction should accompany jadeite from the stoichiometry. However, albitic feldspar in and adjacent to shock-melt veins of the shocked chondrites dissociates into jadeite+residual amorphous (or poorly-crystallized) material having varied chemical compositions between jadeite and SiO2 phase. TEM observations of albitic feldspar in the shocked chondrites and albite recovered from the static high-pressure and high-temperature synthetic experiments show that jadeite crystallization is initiated by grain refinement of albite (or albitic feldspar). Nucleation occurs along grain-boundaries or at triple-junctions of the fine-grained albite crystal assemblage. Jadeite crystal starts to grow from the nucleus through grain-boundary diffusion. Considering pressure condition recorded in the shock-melt veins of the shocked chondrites, stishovite is the most likely as a residual SiO2 phase accompanying jadeite. High-pressure and high-temperature condition induced by a dynamic event is very short. Stishovite would be hardy formed through a dynamic event due to sluggish nucleation rate of stishovite compared with that of jadeite, thus leading to induce heterogeneous and incomplete albite dissociation reaction; albite dissociates into jadeite+residual amorphous material. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Discovery of seifertite in a shocked lunar meteorite 査読

    Masaaki Miyahara, Shohei Kaneko, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Toshiro Nagase, Masahiro Kayama, Hirotsugu Nishido, Naohisa Hirao

    NATURE COMMUNICATIONS   4   2013年4月

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    Many craters and thick regoliths of the moon imply that it has experienced heavy meteorite bombardments. Although the existence of a high-pressure polymorph is a stark evidence for a dynamic event, few high-pressure polymorphs are found in a lunar sample. alpha-PbO2-type silica (seifertite) is an ultrahigh-pressure polymorph of silica, and is found only in a heavily shocked Martian meteorite. Here we show evidence for seifertite in a shocked lunar meteorite, Northwest Africa 4734. Cristobalite transforms to seifertite by high-pressure and -temperature condition induced by a dynamic event. Considering radio-isotopic ages determined previously, the dynamic event formed seifertite on the moon, accompanying the complete resetting of radio-isotopic ages, is similar to 2.7 Ga ago. Our finding allows us to infer that such intense planetary collisions occurred on the moon until at least similar to 2.7 Ga ago.

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  • Melting relationships in the Fe-Fe3S system up to the outer core conditions 査読

    Seiji Kamada, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Takeshi Sakai, Masaaki Miyahara, Yasuo Ohishi, Naohisa Hirao

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   359   26 - 33   2012年12月

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    In situ X-ray diffraction experiments in the Fe-Fe3S system were performed up to 175 GPa and 3500 K using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to investigate melting relationships in the system. Partial melting in the Fe-Fe3S system was observed based on the disappearance of X-ray diffraction peaks of solid Fe3S and texture observation of the recovered samples. The melting relationship of the Fe-Fe3S system as a function of pressure is evaluated based on Kraut-Kennedy law. Our results of melting relationships suggest that the temperature at the inner core boundary is between 4700(160) and 4930(330) K if sulfur is the only light element in the Earth's core. Assuming the adiabatic temperature gradient in the outer core, the temperature at the core-mantle boundary is estimated to be in the range of 3600-3770 K. The present temperature profile of the core is consistent with the core-mantle boundary temperature that can explain the core heat flux to maintain the core dynamo and the seismic structure at the base of the lower mantle. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Stability of Fe-Ni hydride after the reaction between Fe-Ni alloy and hydrous phase (delta-AlOOH) up to 1.2 Mbar: Possibility of H contribution to the core density deficit 査読

    Hidenori Terasaki, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Seiji Kamada, Hidetoshi Asanuma, Yuki Shibazaki, Naohisa Hirao, Nagayoshi Sata, Yasuo Ohishi, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Akio Suzuki, Ken-ichi Funakoshi

    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS   194   18 - 24   2012年3月

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    The hydrous mineral, delta-AlOOH, is stable up to at least the core-mantle boundary, and therefore has been proposed as a water carrier to the Earth's deep mantle. If delta-AlOOH is transported down to the core-mantle boundary by a subducting slab or the mantle convection, then the reaction between the iron alloy core and delta-AlOOH is important in the deep water/hydrogen cycle in the Earth. Here we conducted an in situ X-ray diffraction study to determine the behavior of hydrogen between Fe-Ni alloys and delta-AlOOH up to near the core-mantle boundary conditions. The obtained diffraction spectra show that fcc/dhcp Fe-Ni hydride is stable over a wide pressure range of 19-121 GPa at high temperatures. Although the temperature of formation of Fe-Ni hydride tends to increase up to 1950 K with increasing pressure to 121 GPa, this reaction temperature is well below the mantle geotherm. delta-AlOOH was confirmed to coexist stably with perovskite, suggesting that delta-AlOOH can be a major hydrous phase in the lower mantle. Therefore, when delta-AlOOH contacts with the core at the core-mantle boundary, the hydrogen is likely to dissolve into the Earth's core. Based on the present results, the amount of hydrogen to explain the core density deficit is estimated to be 1.0-2.0 wt.%. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Compression of Fe88.1Ni9.1S2.8 alloy up to the pressure of Earth's inner core 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Seiji Kamada, Hidenori Terasaki, Naohisa Hirao

    JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH   117   2012年2月

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    Fe88.1Ni9.1S2.8 alloy was compressed up to 335 GPa, corresponding to the pressure at the Earth's inner core, and the hexagonal close-packed structure was found to be stable. The axial (c/a) ratio gradually decreased with increasing pressure. A linear fit as a function of pressure gave c/a = 1.605(2)-6.1(9) x 10(-5)P for P in GPa. The compression curve of Fe88.1Ni9.1S2.8 alloy was expressed by the third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state, giving K-0 = 167.0 +/- 15.0 GPa, K-0' = 4.46 +/- 0.14, and V-0 = 22.93 +/- 0.29 angstrom(3). Our results indicate that the hcp Fe-5 wt % Ni-5.7 wt % S alloy can account for the density of the inner core at 328.9 GPa, assuming a linear relationship exists between the density and the nickel and sulfur content.

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  • Sound velocity measurements in dhcp-FeH up to 70 GPa with inelastic X-ray scattering: Implications for the composition of the Earth's core 査読

    Yuki Shibazaki, Eiji Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Takeshi Sakai, Seiji Kamada, Daisuke Ishikawa, Satoshi Tsutsui, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Naoya Nishitani, Naohisa Hirao, Kenichi Takemura

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   313   79 - 85   2012年1月

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    We have determined the density evolution of the sound velocity of dhcp-FeHx (x approximate to 1) up to 70 GPa at room temperature, by inelastic X-ray scattering and by X-ray diffraction. We find that the variation of V-p with density is different for the ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic dhcp-FeHx, and that only nonmagnetic dhcp-FeHx follows Birch's law. Combining our results with Birch's law for iron and assuming an ideal two-component mixing model, we obtain an upper bound of the hydrogen content in the Earth's inner core, 0.23(6) wt.% H, corresponding to FeH0.13(3). The iron alloy with 0.23(6) wt.% H can satisfy the density, and compressional and shear sound velocities of the PREM inner core, assuming that there are no other light elements in the inner core. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Static compression of Fe0.83Ni0.09Si0.08 alloy to 374 GPa and Fe0.93Si0.07 alloy to 252 GPa: Implications for the Earth's inner core 査読

    Hidetoshi Asanuma, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   310 ( 1-2 )   113 - 118   2011年10月

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    The pressure-volume equations of state of iron-nickel-silicon alloy Fe0.83Ni0.09Si0.08 (Fe-9.8 wt.% Ni-4.0 wt.% Si) and iron-silicon alloy Fe0.93Si0.07 (Fe-3.4 wt.% Si) have been investigated up to 374 GPa and 252 GPa, respectively. The present compression data covered pressures of the Earth's core. We confirmed that both Fe0.83Ni0.09Si0.08 and Fe0.93Si0.07 alloys remain in the hexagonal close packed structure at all pressures studied. We obtained the density of these alloys at the pressure of the inner core boundary (ICB), 330 GPa at 300 K by fitting the compression data to the third order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. Using these density values combined with the previous data for hcp-Fe, hcp-Fe0.8Ni0.2, and hcp-Fe0.84Si0.16 alloys and comparing with the density of the PREM inner core, we estimated the Ni and Si contents of the inner core. The Si content of the inner core estimated here is slightly greater than that estimated previously based on the sound velocity measurement of the hcp-Fe-Ni-Si alloy at high pressure. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Phase stability and compression study of (Fe-0.89,Ni-0.11)(3)S up to pressure of the Earth&apos;s core 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Masaaki Miyahara, Masahiko Nishijima

    AMERICAN MINERALOGIST   96 ( 10 )   1490 - 1494   2011年10月

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    An in situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study on (Fe-0.89,Ni-0.11)(3)S was conducted up to 141 GPa and 1590 K. (Fe-0.89,Ni-0.11)(3)S has a tetragonal structure, which is the same structure as Ni-free Fe3S. Fitting a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state to data at ambient temperature yielded a bulk modulus of K-0 = 138.1(7.2) GPa and its pressure derivative K&apos;(0) = 4.5(3) with a zero pressure volume V-0 = 375.67(4) angstrom(3). The density of (Fe-0.89,Ni-0.11)(3)S under the core-mantle boundary condition is 1.7% greater than that of Fe3S. The axial ratio (c/a) of (Fe-0.89,Ni-0.11)(3)S decreases with increasing pressure. The addition of nickel to Fe3S leads to a softening of the c-axis. Assuming that the nickel content of the outer core is about 5 at%, we estimated 12.3-20.8 at% sulfur in the outer core for the given 6-10% density deficit between the outer core and pure iron at 136 GPa.

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  • First evidence for natural dissociation of olivine to silicate-perovskite and magnesiowustite in a shocked Martian meteorite DAG 735. 査読

    Miyahara M, Ohtani E, Ozawa S, Kimura M, El Goresy A, Sakai T, Nagase T, Hiraga K, Hirao N, Ohishi Y

    Meteoritics & Planetary Science   46 ( SI, 1 )   A164 - A164   2011年7月

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  • Stability field of the hcp-structure for Fe, Fe-Ni, and Fe-Ni-Si alloys up to 3 Mbar 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS   38   2011年5月

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    The phase relations of Fe, Fe90Ni10 and Fe87.9Ni4.4Si7.7 were investigated up to 273(6) GPa and 4490(560) K, 250(19) GPa and 2730(110) K and 304(3) GPa and 2780(210) K, respectively, and the hexagonal close-packed structure was found to be stable in all of these compounds under the pressure and temperature conditions studied. We did not observe other phases such as a body-centered cubic structure. The axial ratio (c/a) of Fe87.9Ni4.4Si7.7 at 300 GPa showed an almost constant value of 1.593-1.596 against temperature. The weak temperature dependency of the axial ratio of hcp-Fe-Ni-Si alloy indicates that the c-axis is still harder than the a-axis at high temperature condition. Therefore the alignment of hcp-Fe-Ni-Si alloy with the c-axis parallel to the Earth's rotation axis could account for the observation of the seismic wave anisotropy of the inner core. Citation: Sakai, T., E. Ohtani, N. Hirao, and Y. Ohishi (2011), Stability field of the hcp-structure for Fe, Fe-Ni, and Fe-Ni-Si alloys up to 3 Mbar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L09302, doi: 10.1029/2011GL047178.

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  • Liquidus and solidus temperatures of a Fe-O-S alloy up to the pressures of the outer core: Implication for the thermal structure of the Earth&apos;s core

    H. Terasaki, S. Kamada, T. Sakai, E. Ohtani, N. Hirao, Y. Ohishi

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   304 ( 3-4 )   559 - 564   2011年4月

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    The solidus and liquidus temperatures of the Fe(75)O(5)S(20) alloy are determined up to 157 GPa using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell combined with in situ X-ray diffraction technique. Fe (fcc/hcp), Fe(3)S(2)/Fe(3)S. and FeO B1/B8/rhombohedral phases are stable under subsolidus conditions. First, Fe(3)S(2) or Fe(3)S phase melts at a temperature close to the eutectic point of the Fe-Fe(3)S system, suggesting that the alloying effect of 5 at.% oxygen on the eutectic temperature in the Fe-Fe(3)S system is minor. Then FeO melts at several hundreds of degrees Kelvin higher than the solidus, and Fe is a liquidus phase in this system. The liquidus temperature is 260-670 K lower than the melting temperature of pure Fe because of the alloying effect of S and O on the melting temperature of Fe. Based on our results, the temperatures at the core/mantle boundary (T(CMB)) and at the boundary of the inner/outer core (T(ICB)) are estimated to be 3600 +/- 200 &lt; T(CMB)&lt; 4310 +/- 350 K and T(ICB)similar to 5630 +/- 350 K, respectively. These results provide important constraints on the thermal structure of the Earth&apos;s core. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Natural dissociation of olivine to (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and magnesiowustite in a shocked Martian meteorite 査読

    Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, Shin Ozawa, Makoto Kimura, Ahmed El Goresy, Takeshi Sakai, Toshiro Nagase, Kenji Hiraga, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   108 ( 15 )   5999 - 6003   2011年4月

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    We report evidence for the natural dissociation of olivine in a shergottite at high-pressure and high-temperature conditions induced by a dynamic event on Mars. Olivine (Fa(34-41)) adjacent to or entrained in the shock melt vein and melt pockets of Martian meteorite olivine-phyric shergottite Dar al Gani 735 dissociated into (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite (Pv)+magnesiowustite (Mw), whereby perovskite partially vitrified during decompression. Transmission electron microscopy observations reveal that microtexture of olivine dissociation products evolves from lamellar to equigranular with increasing temperature at the same pressure condition. This is in accord with the observations of synthetic samples recovered from high-pressure and high-temperature experiments. Equigranular (Mg,Fe)SiO3 Pv and Mw have 50-100 nm in diameter, and lamellar (Mg,Fe)SiO3 Pv and Mw have approximately 20 and approximately 10 nm in thickness, respectively. Partitioning coefficient, KPv/Mw [FeO/MgO]/[FeO/MgO](Mw), between (Mg,Fe)SiO3 Pv and Mw in equigranular and lamellar textures are approximately 0.15 and approximately 0.78, respectively. The dissociation of olivine implies that the pressure and temperature conditions recorded in the shock melt vein and melt pockets during the dynamic event were approximately 25 GPa but 700 degrees C at least.

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  • Equation of state of the NaCl-B2 phase up to 304 GPa 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi

    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS   109 ( 8 )   2011年4月

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    We compressed NaCl-B2 to 304 GPa and presented a pressure scale based on the Birch-Murnaghan and Vinet equations of state for this phase. The pressure difference between the two formulations of the equation of state was less than 2.0% within the pressure range of 50-364 GPa. The present data indicates that the uniaxial stress of the platinum used in the sample is 2.4 GPa and comparable with that of runs using a helium pressure medium. The compression curve of NaCl-B2 was expressed by the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state with fixed volume at ambient pressure, where V(0) = 37.73(4.05) angstrom(3), K = 47.00(46) GPa and K&apos; = 4.10(2) based upon Matsui et al.&apos;s platinum scale. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3573393]

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  • 高圧下における鉄―硫黄系の相平衡・融解関係:地球核への適用

    鎌田誠司, 寺崎英紀, 大谷栄治, 境毅

    高圧力の科学と技術   21 ( 2 )   77 - 83   2011年

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  • Atomic Dynamics in Extreme Environments via Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at SPring-8

    Alfred Q.R. Baron, Masanori Inui, Ejii Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Shinya Hosokawa, Tadahiko Masaki, Daisuke Ishikawa, Takeshi Sakai, Junpei T. Okada, Satoshi Tsutsui, Hiroshi Uchiyama

    Synchrotron Radiation News   23 ( 6 )   17 - 25   2010年12月

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  • Fe-Mg partitioning between post-perovskite and ferropericlase in the lowermost mantle 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Masaaki Miyahara, Masahiko Nishijima, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi, Nagayoshi Sata

    PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS   37 ( 7 )   487 - 496   2010年7月

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    Fe-Mg partitioning between post-perovskite and ferropericlase has been studied using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell at pressures up to 154 GPa and 2,010 K which corresponds to the conditions in the lowermost mantle. The composition of the phases in the recovered samples was determined using analytical transmission electron microscopy. Our results reveal that the Fe-Mg partition coefficient between post-perovskite and ferropericlase (K (D) (PPv/Fp) ) increases with decreasing bulk iron content. The compositional dependence of K (D) (PPv/Fp) on the bulk iron content explains the inconsistency in previous studies, and the effect of the bulk iron content is the most dominant factor compared to other factors, such as temperature and aluminum content. Iron prefers ferropericlase compared to post-perovskite over a wide compositional range, whereas the iron content of post-perovskite (X (Fe) (PPv) , the mole fraction) does not exceed a value of 0.10. The iron-rich ferropericlase phase may have significant influence on the physical properties, such as the seismic velocity and electrical conductivity at the core-mantle boundary region.

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  • Melting of iron-silicon alloy up to the core-mantle boundary pressure: implications to the thermal structure of the Earth&apos;s core 査読

    Hidetoshi Asanuma, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Tadashi Kondo, Takumi Kikegawa

    PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS   37 ( 6 )   353 - 359   2010年6月

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    The melting temperature of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy was determined up to 119 GPa based on a change of laser heating efficiency and the texture of the recovered samples in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments. We have also investigated the subsolidus phase relations of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy by the in-situ X-ray diffraction method and confirmed that the bcc phase is stable at least up to 57 GPa and high temperature. The melting curve of the alloy was fitted by the Simon&apos;s equation, P(GPa)/a = (T (m)(K)/T (0)) (c) , with parameters, T (0) = 1,473 K, a = 3.5 +/- A 1.1 GPa, and c = 4.5 +/- A 0.4. The melting temperature of bcc Fe-18 wt% Si alloy is comparable with that of pure iron in the pressure range of this work. The melting temperature of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy is estimated to be 3,300-3,500 K at 135 GPa, and 4,000-4,200 K at around 330 GPa, which may provide the lower bound of the temperatures at the core-mantle boundary and the inner core-outer core boundary if the light element in the core is silicon.

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  • Phase relationships of the Fe-FeS system in conditions up to the Earth's outer core 査読

    Seiji Kamada, Hidenori Terasaki, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Takumi Kikegawa, Yasuo Ohishi, Naohisa Hirao, Nagayoshi Sata, Tadashi Kondo

    EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS   294 ( 1-2 )   94 - 100   2010年5月

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    In situ X-ray diffraction experiments in the Fe-FeS system were performed up to 220 GPa and 3300 K using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. Fe3S and epsilon-Fe coexisted stably up to 220 GPa and 3300 K, and thus, Fe3S is likely to be the stable S-bearing iron alloy under the Earth's core conditions. The solid iron (E-Fe) also contained 7.6(0.8) at.% of sulfur at 86 GPa and 2200 K. The amount of sulfur in the solid iron increased with increasing pressure at the eutectic temperatures. If the sulfur content obtained in this study is extrapolated to the conditions at the inner core, all the sulfur in the solid inner core can be stored in epsilon-Fe.
    The eutectic composition becomes nonsensitive to pressure and seems to be constant around 20 at.% of sulfur at pressures above 40 GPa. The pressure gradient of the melting curve of the Fe-FeS system is 13.4 (0.7) K/GPa. Based on our results of melting relationship, the temperature at the core-mantle boundary should be greater than 2850(100) K, assuming that sulfur is the only light element in the Earth's liquid outer core. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Partitioning of oxygen between the Earth's mantle and core 査読

    Daniel J. Frost, Yuki Asahara, David C. Rubie, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Christian Holzapfel, Eiji Ohtani, Masaaki Miyahara, Takeshi Sakai

    JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH   115   2010年2月

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    Experiments to investigate the partitioning of oxygen between liquid iron and (Mg,Fe)O magnesiowustite were conducted at 30-70 GPa and 2800-3500 K using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. A thin foil was prepared from the reacted regions in the recovered samples using a focused ion beam. The compositions of coexisting quenched iron and magnesiowustite were measured using a transmission electron microscope equipped with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy. In order to understand and model the results, additional experiments were performed to determine the activity of oxygen, or rather FeO, in liquid Fe metal. Multianvil experiments to measure the oxygen contents of coexisting immiscible metallic and ionic liquids in the Fe-FeO system were performed up to 25 GPa. The results were used to extract excess mixing properties for Fe-FeO liquids at high pressure and temperature. These properties were used to derive a model that describes oxygen partitioning in the Fe-Mg-O system that is independent of the actual experimental partitioning data. The model indicates that the oxygen content of liquid Fe becomes a strong nonlinear function of the FeO content of magnesiowustite at pressures greater than 25 GPa. This prediction is in excellent agreement with the experimental partitioning data, which is faithfully reproduced in most instances. The new results confirm that the Earth's core is undersaturated in oxygen with respect to the FeO content of the bulk mantle, which will result either in FeO being depleted from the very base of the mantle or lead to the development of an FeO-enriched outer layer of the core. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

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  • Natural dissociation of olivine to perovskite and magnesiowustite in a Martian meteorite 査読

    Miyahara M, Ohtani E, Ozawa S, Kimura M, El Goresy A, Sakai T, Nagase T, Hiraga K, Hirao N, Ohishi Y

    Annual report of Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut fur Experimentelle Geochemie und Geophysik, Universitat Bayreuth   173 - 176   2010年

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  • Fe-Mg partitioning between perovskite and ferropericlase in the lower mantle 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Naoki Sawada, Yusuke Kobayashi, Masaaki Miyahara, Masahiko Nishijima, Naohisa Hirao, Yasuo Ohishi, Takumi Kikegawa

    AMERICAN MINERALOGIST   94 ( 7 )   921 - 925   2009年7月

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    Fe-Mg partitioning between perovskite and ferropericlase in the MgO-FeO-SiO2 system has been studied up to about 100 GPa at around 2000 K using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC). The compositions of both phases were determined by using analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) on the recovered samples. Present results reveal that the Fe-Mg apparent partition coefficient between perovskite and ferropericlase [K-D(Pv/Fp) = ((XFeXMgFp)-X-Pv)/((XMgXFeFp)-X-Pv)] decreases with increasing pressure for a constant FeO of the system, and it decreases with increasing FeO content of ferropericlase. The gradual decrease of K-D(Pv/FP) with increasing pressure is consistent with the spin transition in ferropericlase Occurring in the broad pressure range from 50 to 100 GPa at around 2000 K.

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  • Phase relations and compression of FeSi and FeNiSi Alloys: Implications for silicon content of the core 査読

    E. Ohtani, H. Asanuma, T. Sakai, N. Hirao

    GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA   73 ( 13 )   A967 - A967   2009年6月

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  • Recent advances in the study of mantle phase transitions 査読

    Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai

    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS   170 ( 3-4 )   240 - 247   2008年11月

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    We review recent advances in the study of phase transitions of minerals in the Earth's mantle, including unsolved problems regarding these processes. The phase boundaries of (Mg,Fe)(2)SiO4 in the mantle transition zone are modified under the wet conditions by changes in thermodynamic properties of its polymorphs because of differences in the water solubilities of these minerals. The shift of phase boundaries has significant implications for the topography of the 410 km and 660 km seismic discontinuities. The post-perovskite phase with CaIrO3 Structure exists at pressures above 110 GPa and at high temperature. The effects of Al and Fe on phase transition are under debate. Several post-stishovite phases have been reported but equilibrium boundaries and existence in the real lower mantle are also still debatable. Spin transition occurs in magnesiowustite, perovskite, and post-perovskite phases at high pressures of the lower mantle and core. The pressure interval in the spin transition can be large at high temperature and so the transition might not cause a discrete change in physical properties under real Earth conditions. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Phase relations of Fe-Si alloy up to core conditions: Implications for the Earth inner core 査読

    Hidetoshi Asanuma, Eiji Ohtani, Takeshi Sakai, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Nagayoshi Sata, Yasuo Ohishi

    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS   35 ( 12 )   2008年6月

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    X-ray diffraction experiments were conducted to 257 GPa and high temperature in situ on an iron-silicon alloy containing 3.4 wt% silicon, a candidate for the Earth's inner core forming material. The results revealed that fcc and hcp phases coexist up to 104 GPa. A single hcp phase is stable at higher pressures at least up to 3600 K at 242 GPa and to 2400 K at 257 GPa. Dissolution of silicon in the liquid outer core following reaction with the silicate mantle during core formation strongly suggests the existence of silicon in the solid inner core. Our results revealed that the iron-3.4 wt% silicon alloy in the inner core is likely to possess an hcp structure, which can explain the inner core anisotropy observed in seismology.

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  • Application of FIB system to ultra-high-pressure Earth science 査読

    Masaaki Miyahara, Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Yusuke Kobayashi, Seiji Kamada, Tadashi Kondo, Toshiro Nagase, Jung Ho Yoo, Masahiko Nishijima, Zahra Vashaei

    JOURNAL OF MINERALOGICAL AND PETROLOGICAL SCIENCES   103 ( 2 )   88 - 93   2008年4月

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    The conventional focused ion beam (FIB) sample preparation technique "lift-out method" was modified for the reliable analysis of a laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC) sample. Box-shaped grooves were prepared in the LHDAC specimen in order to recover a block using a gallium ion beam in the vicinity of the area to be characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM). The recovered block was fixed on the stage of a copper (or molybdenum) grid and thinned by the gallium ion beam in order to obtain a TEM foil. Our modified lift-out method allows us to thin the entire vertical section (from the upper anvil surface to the lower anvil surface) of the LHDAC sample.

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  • Aluminous hydrous mineral delta-AlOOH as a carrier of hydrogen into the core-mantle boundary 査読

    Asami Sano, Eiji Ohtani, Tadashi Kondo, Naohisa Hirao, Takeshi Sakai, Nagayoshi Sata, Yasuo Ohishi, Takumi Kikegawa

    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS   35 ( 3 )   2008年2月

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    In-situ X-ray diffraction experiments were conducted to determine the stability field of the aluminous hydrous mineral delta-AlOOH over the entire conditions of the lower mantle. We observed delta-AlOOH at pressures from 33 to 134 GPa at 1350-2300 K, indicating that this hydrous mineral in the sediment layer of a subducting slab could transport hydrogen into the core-mantle boundary (CMB).

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  • Hollandite II phase in KAlSi(3)O(8) as a potential host mineral of potassium in the Earth&apos;s lower mantle 査読

    Naohisa Hirao, Eiji Ohtani, Tadashi Kondo, Takeshi Sakai, Takumi Kikegawa

    PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS   166 ( 1-2 )   97 - 104   2008年1月

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    High-pressure and high-temperature experiments on the KAlSi(3)O(8) composition were conducted in a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell at pressures up to 128 GPa, which correspond to the lowermost mantle conditions. In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the hollandite II phase in KAlSi(3)O(8) with a monoclinic symmetry of I2/m, was stable over the entire range of mantle conditions, and the tunnel structure formed by the double chains of edge-sharing (Si,AI)O(6) octahedra, which could accommodate a larger cation such as potassium, was sustained. The (Si,AI)O(6) octahedra in the KAlSi(3)O(8) hollandite II phase showed a similar compression behavior to those in high-pressure silicate structures, such as rutile-type and perovskite-type phases, and were found to be less compressible than the KO(8) polyhedra. The KAlSi(3)O(8) hollandite II phase is a potential host mineral for potassium under lower mantle conditions and, therefore, may have a significant influence on geochemistry if potassium feldspar KAlSi(3)O(8) in the Earth&apos;s crust is transported into the Earth&apos;s mantle through subduction. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • FIB法によるDAC試料のTEM薄膜試料作製

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    高圧力の科学と技術   18 ( 1 )   38 - 43   2008年

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    Analytical transmission electron microscope (ATEM) is a powerful tool for analyses of the samples recovered from ultrahigh pressure experiments. Recently, Focused Ion Beam (FIB) system has been applied to prepare a TEM foil of sample recovered from laser heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC). It has some advantages compared to conventional argon ion milling method. In this article, recent advances in the DAC sample preparation for TEM observation using FIB system are reviewed.

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  • Interaction between iron and post-perovskite at core-mantle boundary and core signature in plume source region 査読

    Takeshi Sakai, Tadashi Kondo, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Noriaki Endo, Toshiko Kuba, Toshiaki Suzuki, Takumi Kikegawa

    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS   33 ( 15 )   2006年8月

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    Interaction between the lower mantle and core is essential for understanding the nature of D '' layer at the core-mantle boundary (CMB). Here, we report the reaction between post-perovskite (PPv) and metallic iron under the condition of the CMB, for example, 139 GPa and 3000 Kelvin. Analytical transmission electron microscope ( ATEM) analysis revealed that significant amount of oxygen up to 6.3 weight percent (wt.%) and silicon up to 4.0 wt.% can be dissolved into molten iron. The dihedral angle between PPv and molten iron is 67 degrees. Thus, a small amount of core metal of about 2 volume percent (vol.%) can be trapped without separation in the PPv region at the CMB. The amount of core metal trapped by this mechanism can produce the isotopic signature of the outer core in the plume source at the base of the lower mantle.

    DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026868

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  • Fe-Mg partitioning between post-perovskite and magnesiowustite 査読

    T. Kondo, T. Sakai, Y. Kobayashi, E. Ohtani, M. Masaaki, J. -H. Yoo, T. Nagase

    GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA   70 ( 18 )   A329 - A329   2006年8月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)   出版者・発行元:PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD  

    DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.664

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  • 地球科学の事典

    鳥海光弘( 担当: 分担執筆 範囲: 3章3.9 核の物質科学)

    朝倉書店  2018年4月 

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  • 理学部ベストレクチャー賞

    2019年4月   愛媛大学理学部  

    境 毅

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  • 日本鉱物科学会研究奨励賞

    2017年9月   日本鉱物科学会  

    境 毅

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共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題

  • 新しい高圧発生技術による極高圧物質科学の開拓

    2021年7月 - 2026年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  挑戦的研究(開拓)

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    配分額:24960000円 ( 直接経費:19200000円 、 間接経費:5760000円 )

    本研究では、コニカルサポート型2段式ダイヤモンドアンビルセル(cs-ds-DAC)やトロイダル型ダイヤモンドアンビルセル(t-DAC)といった新しい高圧発生技術の開発を通して、極高圧物質科学・巨大惑星深部科学の開拓を行うことを目的としている。
    初年度である令和3年度は、①t-DACへのレーザー加熱技術の応用、②超高圧発生試験、③高荷重型ダイヤモンドアンビルセルの設計・開発を行った。まず①については、300 万気圧を超える圧力領域かつ高温状態で期待される相転移現象として、(Mg,Fe)O固溶体における相転移現象の探索を行った。特に鉄に富む(Mg0.1,Fe0.9)Oについて、約330万気圧において2000度の高温条件で試料を加熱することに成功し、かつ新しいX線回折パターンが出現することを見出した。この新しい相はB2相ではなくB8相である可能性があるが、詳細については解析中である。
    ②については、MgOとWを試料とした加圧実験を行った。使用したアンビルの先端形状は我々のグループで450 万気圧の発生実績のある形状と先行研究(Dewaele et al., 2018)との中間的な形状を試みた。最高圧力は380 万気圧程度と400 万気圧に満たないものであったが、300-400 万気圧領域においてMgOとWの状態方程式の相互の整合性を議論するには十分な圧縮データを取得することができた。
    ③については、従来のセル(φ48mm)よりも一回り大きく(φ54mm)、加圧ネジもM5からM6へと変更した高荷重対応ダイヤモンドアンビルセルおよびこれに対応するメンブレンを設計・作成した。メンブレンの加圧面積は従来の約1.5倍に拡大されており、放射光施設でのオンライン実験においてガス圧により加減圧を行う際に、単純にこれまでの1.5倍の荷重をかけることが可能であると期待される。

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  • 超高圧合成法と量子ビームによる材料評価を活用した新奇酸窒化物の創成

    2018年4月 - 2022年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(A)

    西山 宣正, 周 游, 日向 秀樹, 尾崎 典雅, 川村 史朗, 境 毅

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    配分額:44850000円 ( 直接経費:34500000円 、 間接経費:10350000円 )

    自然界に存在する唯一の酸窒化物であるSi2N2Oシノアイトを出発原料として、超高圧高温下での合成手法を用いて、全物質中で3番目に硬い立方晶窒化ケイ素(Si3N4)と最も硬い酸化物であるSiO2スティショバイトのナノナノコンポジットの合成に成功した。この物質はセラミックスとしては高い破壊靭性を有し、かつ、工業的に量産可能な条件で合成できるため、実用材料としても期待できる。さらに、レーザー衝撃圧縮とX線自由電子レーザーを用いたその場観察手法を組み合わせ、立方晶窒化ケイ素の1 TPa, 1万度までの条件下での状態の探索を行った。その結果、窒化ケイ素が超高圧超高温下で金属液体化する可能性を確認した。

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  • 極高圧条件における内部整合圧力スケール群の構築

    2017年4月 - 2021年3月

    日本学術振興会  基盤研究(B) 

    境 毅

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    担当区分:研究代表者  資金種別:競争的資金

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  • 核-マントル物質の精密高圧実験技術の開発

    2015年6月 - 2020年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)

    入舩 徹男, 山崎 大輔, 小松 一生, 境 毅, 西 真之, 石松 直樹

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    超硬合金(WC)、焼結ダイヤモンド(SD)、ナノ多結晶ダイヤモンド(NPD)の3種類の超硬材料を静的超高圧実験用のアンビルとして用い、新たな超高圧及び高温発生実験技術の開発を行った。これにより、それぞれの材料を用いた従来の限界を超える圧力や温度の発生に成功するとともに、多様な実験手法への応用が進められた。この結果、下部マントル~核領域での変形実験、X線吸収実験、中性子回折実験、電気伝導率・弾性波速度測定実験などが可能になり、核-マントル相互作用に関連した新しい実験技術を提供するとともに、これらを活用した共同研究を推進した。

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  • 静的圧縮による1テラパスカル発生への挑戦

    2015年4月 - 2018年3月

    日本学術振興会  挑戦的萌芽研究 

    境 毅

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    担当区分:研究代表者  資金種別:競争的資金

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  • 下部マントルの化学組成と初期地球の分化過程

    2013年5月 - 2018年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(S)

    入舩 徹男, 大藤 弘明, 境 毅, 西 真之, 肥後 祐司, 丹下 慶範

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    配分額:218140000円 ( 直接経費:167800000円 、 間接経費:50340000円 )

    川井型多アンビル装置を中心とした実験技術開発に基づき、下部マントル上部に対応する高温高圧下での弾性波速度測定技術を確立するとともに、下部マントル深部に対応する温度圧力の安定発生を可能にした。これらの実験技術に基づき、下部マントル条件下での(1)主要高圧相の弾性波速度の精密測定、(2)マントル関連物質の融点・融解関係と元素分配、(3)沈み込むスラブ関連物質や含水高圧相の安定性、等に関して実験解明をおこなった。これらの実験結果と地震学・地球化学などから得られる情報を対比することにより、下部マントルを中心とした地球深部領域の化学組成と進化過程、また物質循環とダイナミクスに対して重要な制約を与えた。

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  • マルチメガバール領域における基礎物性データの取得~地球からスーパーアースへ~

    2011年4月 - 2015年3月

    日本学術振興会  若手研究(A) 

    境 毅

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    担当区分:研究代表者  資金種別:競争的資金

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  • 地球惑星中心領域の超高圧物質科学

    2010年4月 - 2015年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  特別推進研究

    大谷 栄治, 村上 元彦, 鈴木 昭夫, 寺崎 英紀, 平尾 直久, 宮原 正明, 福井 宏之, 境 毅, 坂巻 竜也, 鎌田 誠司

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    配分額:482430000円 ( 直接経費:371100000円 、 間接経費:111330000円 )

    Fe-Fe3S系, Fe-S-Si系、Fe-C系Fe-Fe3S系、FeNiSi合金、FeNiS合金などの鉄・軽元素系について、地球核の高温高圧下において、相関係・溶融関係を明らかにした。また、放射光X線を用いて地球核の圧力条件において、Fe-軽元素系の状態方程式の決定、X線非弾性散乱実験によって音速の測定、磁性およびスピン状態を決定した。特に、173 GPa 3000Kという世界最高の温度圧力条件で鉄の音速の測定に成功した。以上の実験を総合して、地球核に含まれる軽元素組成、内核境界および核マントル境界の温度構造を明らかにした。

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  • マルチメガバール領域での圧力スケールの確立と地球中心核像の再構築

    2009年4月 - 2011年3月

    日本学術振興会  若手研究(B) 

    境 毅

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    担当区分:研究代表者  資金種別:競争的資金

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  • 地球の核圧力条件下での鉄-軽元素系の融点の決定と温度構造モデルの構築

    2007年4月 - 2009年3月

    日本学術振興会  若手研究(スタートアップ) 

    境 毅

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    担当区分:研究代表者  資金種別:競争的資金

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  • スラブ滞留・崩落過程の物質科学的モデリング

    2004年 - 2008年

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  特定領域研究

    大谷 栄治, 鈴木 昭夫, 寺崎 英紀, 長瀬 敏郎, 廣瀬 敬, 村上 元彦, 境 毅, 近藤 忠, 久保 友明, 小宮 剛, 大石 泰生, 近藤 忠, 久保 友明, 小宮 剛, 大石 泰生

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    配分額:258200000円 ( 直接経費:258200000円 )

    水の存在下でマントル遷移層の相転移境界の深さが変化する。揮発性物質を含むマグマの密度測定によると、このマグマが上部マントル最下部で安定である。これらの結果から滞留した深部スラブからの脱水と上部マントル下部での重い含水マグマの生成というDeep Dehydration modelを提案した。パイロライトやMORB組成中のポストペロフスカイト相転移境界を決定し、D"不連続面の成因をあきらかにした。下部マントル全域でMORB成分はカンラン岩成分より重く、核マントル境界にMORB成分が堆積する。

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