Fe-Mg partitioning between (Mg, Fe)SiO3 post-perovskite, perovskite, and magnesiowüstite in the Earth's lower mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kobayashi, Yusuke ^a   Kondo, Tadashi ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Hirao, Naohisa ^a   Miyajima, Nobuyoshi ^b   Yagi, Takehiko ^b   Nagase, Toshiro ^a   Kikegawa, Takumi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANALYTICAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EARTH LOWER MANTLE; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GEOPHYSICS; PEROVSKITE;

MAGNESIOWUSTITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PEROVSKITE;

ANALYTICAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CONSTANT VALUES; EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; LOWERMOST MANTLE; METALLIC PHASE; POST PEROVSKITE; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 28144449054     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023257     Document Type: Article

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