Kinetics of high-pressure phase transformations: Implications to the evolution of the olivine → spinel transition in the downgoing lithosphere and its consequences on the dynamics of the mantle

Tectonophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1976, Pages 1-32

  Chien Min, Sung ^a   Burns, Roger G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIVINE;

GEOLOGY;

EID: 0016926564     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(76)90165-7     Document Type: Article

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