Rheological Properties of the Lower Mantle

Review of High Pressure Science and Technology/Koatsuryoku No Kagaku To Gijutsu

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Yamazaki, Daisuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

grain growth; grain size; lower mantle; MgSiO3 perovskite; rheology; silicon diffusion; viscosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344480749     PISSN: 0917639X     EISSN: 13481940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4131/jshpreview.9.19     Document Type: Article

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