Erskine Williamson, extreme conditions, and the birth of mineral physics

Physics Today

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 50-56

  Hemley, Russell J ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE IN VOLUME; DENSITY; HEAT FLOW,; MANTLE;

CALCULATIONS; COMPOSITION; COMPRESSIBILITY; DIAMONDS; EARTH (PLANET); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MINERALS; PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 33645815522     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2207038     Document Type: Article

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