Water content in the transition zone from electrical conductivity of wadsleyite and ringwoodite

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7034, 2005, Pages 746-749

  Huang, Xiaoge ^a,b   Xu, Yousheng ^b   Karato, Shun Ichiro ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MELTING; SOLUBILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER;

GEOPHYSICALLY INFERRED CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION ZONES; WATER CONTENT; WATER SOLUBILITY;

MINERALS;

MINERAL; RINGWOODITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WADSLEYITE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; PARTIAL MELTING; RINGWOODITE; TRANSITION ZONE; WADSLEYITE; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 17644405811     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03426     Document Type: Article

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