Sentences with phrase «deep mantle conditions»

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Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the Earth, and used this to discover an important property of the dominant mineral in Earth's mantle, a region lying far below our feet.

In a lab at Ohio State, the researchers compress different minerals that are common to the mantle and subject them to high pressures and temperatures using a diamond anvil cell — a device that squeezes a tiny sample of material between two diamonds and heats it with a laser — to simulate conditions in the deep Earth.

«Interactions between oxygen and iron dictate Earth's formation, differentiation — or the separation of the core and mantle — and the evolution of our atmosphere, so naturally we were curious to probe how such reactions would change under the high - pressure conditions of the deep Earth,» said Mao.

«Because the diamond windows are transparent, we can look into the high - pressure device and watch reactions occurring at conditions of the deep mantle,» he said.