Towards a lower mantle reference temperature and composition

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 161-175

  Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aluminium perovskite; Mg perovskite; Thermal boundary layer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; LOWER MANTLE; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 2342599160     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.024     Document Type: Article

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