Towards evaluating the viscosity of the Earth's outer core: An experimental high pressure study of liquid Fe-S (8.5 wt.% S)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Rutter, Michael D ^a   Secco, Richard A ^a   Uchida, Takeyuki ^b   Liu, Hongjian ^a   Wang, Yanbin ^b   Rivers, Mark L ^b   Sutton, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MELTING; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVATION VOLUME; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; HIGH PRESSURE STUDY; HIGH-PRESSURE VISCOSITY; INNER CORE BOUNDARY; ISOTHERMAL VISCOSITY; PRESSURE DEPENDENT; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037092340     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014392     Document Type: Article

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