Elasticity of post-perovskite MgSiO3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Tsuchiya, Taku ^a   Tsuchiya, Jun ^a   Umemoto, Koichiro ^a   Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; SEISMOLOGY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ISOTROPIC AGGREGATES; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

PEROVSKITE;

ANISOTROPY; BULK MODULUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; PEROVSKITE; POLYMORPHISM; SHEAR MODULUS;

EID: 4644305115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020278     Document Type: Article

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