The effect of temperature on the seismic anisotropy of the perovskite and post-perovskite polymorphs of MgSiO3

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Stackhouse, Stephen ^a   Brodholt, John P ^a   Wookey, J ^b   Kendall, J M ^b   Price, G David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Core mantle boundary; High temperature elasticity; Molecular dynamics; Post perovskite; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULI; PEROVSKITE; SEISMOLOGY;

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; PEROVSKITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 12144258465     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.021     Document Type: Article

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