Phase transformations in serpentine and transportation of water into the lower mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 203-206

  Irifune, Tetsuo ^a   Kubo, Norifumi ^a   Isshiki, Maiko ^a   Yamasaki, Yuji ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS IN SOLIDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES;

DENSE HYDROUS MAGNESIUM SILICATES;

SERPENTINE;

A-STABILITY; DENSE HYDROUS MAGNESIUM SILICATES; HYDROUS MINERAL; LOWER MANTLE; PHASE ASSEMBLAGES; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SUBDUCTING SLABS;

EID: 0031674222     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03572     Document Type: Article

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