Spinel-Garnet Phase Transition: A Key Player in the Seismic makeup of the Earth’s Upper Mantle

Published: 6 September 2026| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/6dg9c4c4ng.1
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Zeinab Gholami Mahmoodabadi

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Elastic constants of 50% Cr-spinel and 50%-Cr garnet.

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All calculations have been carried out using first-principles density functional theory (DFT). The Predew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) formalism of the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) was chosen as the exchange-correlation functional.

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Mineralogy, Elasticity

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