Effect of Si on liquid Fe compressibility: Implications for sound velocity in core materials

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Sanloup, C ^a   Fiquet, G ^b   Gregoryanz, E ^b   Morard, G ^b   Mezouar, M ^c  

^a Laboratoire MAGIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPRESSIBILITY OF LIQUIDS; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); SILICON ALLOYS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAYS;

EARTH'S OUTER CORE; WAVE COMPRESSION; X-RAY ABSORPTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPRESSIBILITY; CORE (PLANETARY); P-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SILICON;

EID: 3042852763     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019526     Document Type: Article

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