Density of hydrous silicate melt at the conditions of Earth's deep upper mantle

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7067, 2005, Pages 488-491

  Matsukage, Kyoko N ^a,b   Jing, Zhicheng ^b   Karato, Shun Ichiro ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS;

HYDROUS SILICATE MELT; MANTLE;

SILICATES;

SILICATE; WATER;

DENSITY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SILICATE MELT; UPPER MANTLE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPRESSION; DENSITY; HYPERBARISM; MELTING POINT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 28544442783     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04241     Document Type: Article

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