The postperovskite transition

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 569-599

  Shim, Sang Heon ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY (CMB); LAYERED STRUCTURED; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

PEROVSKITE; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

OXIDE MINERALS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PEROVSKITE; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 45149102098     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124309     Document Type: Article

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