Toward an experimental study of deep mantle rheology: A new multianvil sample assembly for deformation studies under high pressures and temperatures

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B9, 1997, Pages 20111-20122

  Karato, Shun Ichiro ^a,b   Rubie, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MANTLE RHEOLOGY; MULTIANVIL;

EID: 0031426183     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb01732     Document Type: Article

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