Phase relations of Fe-Si alloy up to core conditions: Implications for the Earth inner core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Asanuma, Hidetoshi ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Sakai, Takeshi ^a   Terasaki, Hidenori ^a   Kamada, Seiji ^a   Hirao, Naohisa ^b   Sata, Nagayoshi ^c   Ohishi, Yasuo ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; DISSOLUTION; FORMING; NONMETALS; SILICATES;

IN-SITU; INNER CORE; EARTH INNER CORE; FE-SI ALLOYS; PHASE RELATION;

SILICON ALLOYS;

ALLOY; DISSOLUTION; EARTH STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INNER CORE; IRON; SILICON; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 49849083597     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033863     Document Type: Article

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