The electrical conductivity of post-perovskite in Earth's D″ layer

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5872, 2008, Pages 89-91

  Ohta, Kenji ^a   Onoda, Suzue ^b   Hirose, Kei ^a,c   Sinmyo, Ryosuke ^a   Shimizu, Katsuya ^b   Sata, Nagayoshi ^c   Ohishi, Yasuo ^d   Yasuhara, Akira ^e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e JEOL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID; HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 41749116606     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155148     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank H. Tsunakawa, K. Kawamura, M. Ichiki, and H. Nagao for thoughtful comments, and T. Komabayashi, Y. Kuwayama, and H. Ozawa for technical supports. Comments from three reviewers helped to improve the manuscript. XRD measurements were conducted at SPring-8 (proposal no. 2007A0099). The FE-SEM study was done at the Hitachi High-Technologies Co.