Anisotropy of earth's D″ layer and stacking faults in the MgSiO 3 post-perovskite phase

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7071, 2005, Pages 1142-1144

  Oganov, Artem R ^a   Martoňák, Roman ^b   Laio, Alessandro ^b   Raiteri, Paolo ^b   Parrinello, Michele ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Computational Science Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences USI Campus ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY;

ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; METADYNAMICS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SLIP PLANES;

EARTH (PLANET);

MAGNESIUM SILICATE; PEROVSKITE;

FAULT; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PEROVSKITE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 29244487921     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04439     Document Type: Article

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