Isothermal compressibility of hydrous ringwoodite and its relation to the mantle discontinuities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-416

  Yusa, H ^a   Inoue, T ^a   Ohishi, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; RINGWOODITE;

ELASTIC MODULI; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF SOLIDS; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ISOTHERMS; SEISMOLOGY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS IN SOLIDS; MINERALS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BIRCH-MURNAGHAN EQUATION OF STATE; HIGH-PRESSURE X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; ISOTHERMAL BULK MODULUS; ISOTHERMAL COMPRESSIBILITY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SOLID SOLUTION RANGE; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE;

EQUATIONS OF STATE; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BIRCH-MURNAGHAN EQUATION; RINGWOODITE;

EID: 0034353488     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011032     Document Type: Article

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