Oxygen in the Earth's core: A first-principles study

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 191-210

  Alfè, Dario ^a   Price, G David ^a   Gillan, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth; First principles; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); INNER CORE; OUTER CORE; OXYGEN;

EID: 0033540354     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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