Sound velocities of ferropericlase in the Earth's lower mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Lin, Jung Fu ^a   Jacobsen, Steven D ^b,c   Sturhahn, Wolfgang ^d   Jackson, Jennifer M ^b,e   Zhao, Jiyong ^d   Yoo, Chong Shik ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; EARTH'S SEISMIC STRUCTURE; FERROPERICLASE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES; SOUND VELOCITIES;

EARTH (PLANET);

COMPRESSION; LOWER MANTLE; PERICLASE; S-WAVE; SOUND VELOCITY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 33846888700     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028099     Document Type: Article

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