Plastic deformation of silicate spinel under the transition-zone conditions of the Earth's mantle

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6699, 1998, Pages 266-269

  Karato, Shun Ichiro ^a   Dupas Bruzek, Catherine ^b   Rubie, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICATE;

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY; SPINEL; TRANSITION ZONE;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; GRAIN; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032541655     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26206     Document Type: Article

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