Elasticity and rheology of iron above 220 GPa and the nature of the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6713, 1998, Pages 741-743

  Mao, Ho Kwang ^a   Shu, Jinfu ^a   Shen, Guoyin ^b   Hemley, Russell J ^a   Li, Baosheng ^c   Singh, Anil K ^d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SURFACE ENGINEERING DIVISION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IRON;

CORE (PLANETARY); ELASTICITY; IRON; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0032585516     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25506     Document Type: Article

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