Earth's core conductivities for pure iron and iron mixtures in the liquid outer core and solid inner core (NERC Grant NE/H02462X/1)

This dataset contains VASP runs performed on ARCHER to calculate the electrical and thermal conductivities of pure iron and iron alloys at Earth's core conditions using density functional theory with the Kubo-Greenwood formulation. Data are available for both the solid and the liquid phase characterising the inner and outer core respectively. Also included in the dataset the runs for computing the lattice contribution to the electrical resistivity of magnetic bcc iron at ambient pressure and two low temperatures and for computing the melting curve of fcc nickel. These data were also used for the modelling of the geodynamo and the thermal history of the Earth, to calculate the transport properties for silicon-oxygen-iron mixtures and to confirm the saturation of electrical resistivity of solid iron at Earth’s core conditions. The results from this dataset showed that both conductivities are much larger than previously thought with important implications for the geodynamo and the thermal history of the Earth, benefitting the geodynamo community. The results of our research have been recently confirmed by new experimental results obtained at Earth's core conditions. Further details can be found in Alfè et al. (2012); Pozzo et al. (2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2014, 2016); Gubbins et al. (2015); Davies et al. (2015). NERC Grant is NE/H02462X/1.
 
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. Earth's core conductivities for pure iron and iron mixtures in the liquid outer core and solid inner core (NERC Grant NE/H02462X/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/416c000d-dda2-4174-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2014
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607037

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Saturation , Resistivity , Conductivity , Earth core , Thermal conductivity
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
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English English
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  • Geoscientific information

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OnLine resource
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.02.047  
OnLine resource
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2Fs40064-016-1829-x  
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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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non geographic dataset

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2011
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2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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false
Statement
Input files for the VASP runs on ARCHER were prepared locally. VASP runs were performed on ARCHER and then securely copied locally for the final processing and the creation of figures for publication in several peer-reviewed international journals.

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416c000d-dda2-4174-e054-002128a47908   XML
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English English
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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2021-01-19
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3

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