Some recent advances in understanding the mineralogy of Earth's deep mantle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4273-4293

  Duffy, Thomas S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth interior; Mantle; MgSiO3; Post perovskite; Silicate liquids

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EARTH (PLANET); EQUATIONS OF STATE; LIQUIDS; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EARTH INTERIOR; MANTLE; MGSIO3; POST-PEROVSKITE; SILICATE LIQUIDS;

MATERIALS PROPERTIES;

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANETS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 54049135300     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0172     Document Type: Article

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