Deep Earth Reading Group

Articles to be presented: Ammann et al. (2010). First-principles constraints on diffusion in lower-mantle minerals and a weak D'' layer. Nature, 465, 462-465. Ammann et al. (2011). Ferrous iron diffusion in ferro-periclase across the spin transition. Earth & Planet. Sci. Letts., 302, 393-402. Walter et al. (2011). Deep mantle cycling of oceanic crust: Evidence from diamonds and their mineral inclusions. Science, 334, 54-57.