Contributors, Vii Preface, Ix Part 1 Materials Properties, 1 1 Volatiles Under High Pressure, 3Hans Keppler 2 Earths Mantle Melting In The Presence Of C - O - H - Bearing Fluid, 38Konstantin D. Litasov, Anton Shatskiy, And Eiji Ohtani 3 Elasticity, Anelasticity, And Viscosity Of A Partially Molten Rock, 66Yasuko Takei 4 Rheological Properties Of Minerals And Rocks, 94Shun - Ichiro Karato 5 Electrical Conductivity Of Minerals And Rocks, 145Shun - Ichiro Karato And Duojun Wang Part 2 Compositional Models, 183 6 Chemical Composition Of The Earths Lower Mantle: Constraints From Elasticity, 185Motohiko Murakami 7 Ab Initio Mineralogical Model Of The Earths Lower Mantle, 213Taku Tsuchiya And Kenji Kawai 8 Chemical And Physical Properties And Thermal State Of The Core, 244Eiji Ohtani 9 Composition And Internal Dynamics Of Super - Earths, 271Diana Valencia Part 3 Geophysical Observations And Models Of Material Circulation, 295 10 Seismic Observations Of Mantle Discontinuities And Their Mineralogical And Dynamical Interpretation, 297Arwen Deuss, Jennifer Andrews, And Elizabeth Day 11 Global Imaging Of The Earths Deep Interior: Seismic Constraints On (An)Isotropy, Density And Attenuation, 324Jeannot Trampert And Andreas Fichtner 12 Mantle Mixing: Processes And Modeling, 351Peter E. Van Keken 13 Fluid Processes In Subduction Zones And Water Transport To The Deep Mantle, 372Hikaru Iwamori And Tomoeki Nakakuki Index, 393 Colour Plate Section Can Be Found Between Pages 214 - 215