Stability of perovskite (MgSiO3) in the earth's mantle

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5291, 1996, Pages 1357-1359

  Saxena, Surendra K ^a   Dubrovinsky, Leonid S ^a   Lazor, Peter ^a   Cerenius, Yngve ^a   Häggkvist, Patrik ^a   Hanfland, Michael ^a   Hu, Jingzhu ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SILICATE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MANTLE; PEROVSKITE; STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029659563     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5291.1357     Document Type: Article

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14. We thank D. Hausermann for helping us with the work at the ESRF. Comments by F. Seifert and H. Annersten were helpful. We thank H. Skogby and U. Hålenius, Riiksmuseet, Stockholm, for enstatite samples.The work has been supported financially by grants from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) and ESRF.