Constraints on the Presence or Absence of Post-Perovskite in the Lowermost Mantle from Long-Period Seismology

Post-Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 191-216

  Houser, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSITY PROFILE; INTEGRAL CONSTRAINTS; LOWERMOST MANTLE; POST PEROVSKITE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR VELOCITIES; THERMOCHEMICAL MODELS;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 55849115426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/174GM14     Document Type: Chapter

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