Iron partitioning in earth's mantle: Toward a deep lower mantle discontinuity

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5620, 2003, Pages 789-791

  Badro, James ^a   Fiquet, Guillaume ^a   Guyot, François ^a   Rueff, Jean Pascal ^b   Struzhkin, Viktor V ^c   Vankó, György ^d   Monaco, Giulio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6   (France)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); IRON; IRON DEPOSITS; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE MINERALS;

MANTLE;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

FERROPERICLASE; IRON DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; PEROVSKITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISCONTINUITY; IRON; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PARTITIONING; PEROVSKITE; STRATIFICATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 0037741964     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081311     Document Type: Article

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