The Earth's deep interior: Advances in theory and experiment

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1763, 1999, Pages 3335-3357

  Vočadlo, Lidunka ^a   Dobson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Earth's core; Earth's mantle; Experimental petrology; High P T; Mineral physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345776583     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0497     Document Type: Article

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