Ab initio elasticity of three high-pressure polymorphs of silica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3269-3272

  Karki, Bijaya B ^a   Stixrude, Lars ^b   Crain, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SILICA; WAVE PROPAGATION; CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; OXIDE MINERALS; SHEAR STRESS; WAVES;

ELASTIC CONSTANT TENSOR; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; HIGH-PRESSURE POLYMORPH; LOWER MANTLE PRESSURES; PLANE-WAVE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTIVITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW; SILICA;

HIGH-PRESSURE POLYMORPHS;

ELASTICITY; HIGH PRESSURE; SILICA; STISHOVITE;

EID: 0031392640     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL53196     Document Type: Article

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