Perovskite as a possible sink for ferric iron in the lower mantle

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6634, 1997, Pages 694-696

  McCammon, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; OXIDATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

IRON; MANTLE (LOWER); PEROVSKITE;

EID: 0030617679     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42685     Document Type: Article

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