Sound velocities of majorite garnet and the composition of the mantle transition region

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7180, 2008, Pages 814-817

  Irifune, T ^a   Higo, Y ^a,b   Inoue, T ^a   Kono, Y ^a   Ohfuji, H ^a   Funakoshi, K ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Synchrotron Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYROLYTIC CARBON;

GARNET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MANTLE; MODEL; PYROLITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SOUND VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGY; MANTLE; PETROLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEISMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 39149117658     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06551     Document Type: Article

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