The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the earth's mantle

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6840, 2001, Pages 934-937

  Oganov, A R ^a   Brodholt, J P ^a   Price, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

MAGNESIUM SILICATE; PEROVSKITE;

ELASTIC PROPERTY; LOWER MANTLE; PEROVSKITE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035927633     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35082048     Document Type: Article

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