Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth's lower mantle

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7049, 2005, Pages 377-380

  Lin, Jung Fu ^a,d   Struzhkin, Viktor V ^a   Jacobsen, Steven D ^a   Hu, Michael Y ^b   Chow, Paul ^b   Kung, Jennifer ^c   Liu, Haozhe ^b   Mao, Ho Kwang ^a   Hemley, Russell J ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ELASTIC MODULI; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GEOCHEMISTRY; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PEROVSKITE; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EARTH'S INTERIOR; GEODYNAMICS; PRESSURE-INDUCED ELECTRONIC SPIN; SPIN STATES;

IRON;

IRON;

IRON; LOWER MANTLE; MAGNESIOWUSTITE; PHASE TRANSITION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONICS; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 23044436244     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03825     Document Type: Article

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