Microstructures and Shear Wave Anisotropy in Stishovite: Implications for Mid-Mantle Seismic Heterogeneities

Carmen Sanchez-Valle1, Matthias Krug1, Estelle Ledoux2, Melissa Achorner3, Jeffrey Gay2, Julien Chantel4, Ilya Kupenko1, Nathalie Balfan-Casanova5, Federica Rochira6, Anna Pakhomova7, Hans-Peter Liermann7 and Sebastien Merkel8, (1)University of Münster, Institute for Mineralogy, Münster, Germany, (2)Univ. Lille, UMET - CNRS, Lille, France, (3)University of Münster, Intitute for Mineralogy, Münster, Germany, (4)Univ. Lille, F-59000, Lille, France, (5)University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (6)University of Münster, Institute of Geophysics, Münster, Germany, (7)DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany, (8)UMET, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France