Electrical conductivity of silicate perovskite at lower-mantle conditions

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6701, 1998, Pages 493-495

  Katsura, Tomoo ^a   Sato, Kiminori ^a,b   Ito, Eiji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC PROSPECTING; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LOWER MANTLE CONDITIONS; SILICATE PEROVSKITE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

PEROVSKITE;

IRON DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; PYROLYTIC CARBON; SILICATE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MANTLE; PEROVSKITE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032188781     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26736     Document Type: Article

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