Sound velocities in MgSiO3-garnet to 8 GPa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4553-4556

  Gwanmesia, Gabriel D ^a,b   Chen, Ganglin ^a,c   Liebermann, Robert C ^a,c,d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d CHiPR:R A NSF Sci and Technol Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELASTIC MODULI; GARNETS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SHEAR WAVES; ALUMINUM; SHEAR FLOW;

ADIABATIC BULK MODULUS; ISOTROPIC POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; COMPRESSIONAL; PHASE COMPARISON METHODS; POLYCRYSTALLINE SPECIMEN; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; THEORETICAL DENSITY; TRANSITION ZONES; ULTRASONIC INTERFEROMETRY;

PETROLOGY; GARNETS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GARNET;

EID: 0032535735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900189     Document Type: Article

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