Liquid-distribution and attainment of textural equilibrium in a partially-molten crystalline system with a high-dihedral-angle liquid phase

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 517-532

  Walte, N P ^a   Becker, J K ^b   Bons, P D ^b   Rubie, D C ^a   Frost, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

analogue experiments; connectivity; core formation; FeS; grain growth

Indexed keywords

HIGH-DIHEDRAL-ANGLE LIQUID; PLANETARY CORE-MANTLE DIFFERENTIATION; TEXTURAL EQUILIBRIUM;

ANNEALING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; OLIVINE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; IRON SULFIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; TEXTURE;

EID: 35148887765     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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