The plastic deformation of iron at pressures of the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1044-1047

  Wenk, H R ^a   Matthies, S ^a   Hemley, R J ^b   Mao, H K ^b   Shu, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

CORE (PLANETARY); EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; IRON; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034729697     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016558     Document Type: Article

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