Iron partitioning in a pyrolite mantle and the nature of the 410-km seismic discontinuity

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6677, 1998, Pages 702-705

  Irifune, Tetsuo ^a   Isshiki, Maiko ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MINERAL; PYROLYTIC CARBON;

IRON PARTITIONING; MANTLE; PYROLITE; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL PHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0032537060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33663     Document Type: Article

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