Recent advances in the study of mantle phase transitions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 170, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 240-247

  Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Sakai, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lower mantle; Phase transition; Post perovskite; Spin transition; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPIN DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

LOWER MANTLE; PHASE TRANSITION; POST-PEROVSKITE; SPIN TRANSITION; TRANSITION ZONE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MINERAL PROPERTY; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMORPHISM; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

EID: 54049133599     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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