First principles investigation of the postspinel transition in Mg2SiO4

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Yu, Yonggang G ^a   Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^a   Tsuchiya, Taku ^b   Umemoto, Koichiro ^a   Weidner, Donald J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION (GGA); LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION (LDA); POSTSPINEL TRANSITION; QUASI-HARMONIC FREE ENERGY COMPUTATIONS; RINGWOODITE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FREE ENERGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VOLUME FRACTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNESIUM; PERICLASE; PEROVSKITE; RINGWOODITE; SPINEL; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 34447550066     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029462     Document Type: Article

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