In situ measurements of the phase transition boundary in Mg3Al2Si3: Implications for the nature of the seismic discontinuities in the Earth's mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 567-573

  Hirose, Kei ^a   Fei, Yingwei ^b   Ono, Shigeaki ^c   Yagi, Takehiko ^c   Funakoshi, Ken ichi ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discontinuities; High pressure; In situ; majorite; Mantle; Perovskite; X ray data

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; MAJORITE; MANTLE; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 0035083582     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00354-X     Document Type: Article

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