First-principles determination of elastic properties of CaSiO3 perovskite at lower mantle pressures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2741-2744

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic property; Mantle; Perovskite

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF SOLIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRAIN; STRESSES; TENSORS; CALCULATIONS; DATA COMPRESSION; ELASTIC WAVES; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PEROVSKITE; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATES; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CALCIUM SILICATE; ELASTIC CONSTANT TENSOR; MANTLE; PLANE WAVE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; FIRST PRINCIPLES DETERMINATION; HYDROSTATIC COMPRESSION; LINEARIZED AUGMENTED PLANE WAVES; LOWER MANTLE PRESSURES; PLANE-WAVE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; SILICATE PEROVSKITE; STRESS STRAIN RELATION;

PEROVSKITE; SHEAR FLOW;

ELASTIC PROPERTY; MANTLE; PEROVSKITE;

EID: 0032129091     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51952     Document Type: Article

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