Between a rock and a hot place: The core-mantle boundary

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1885, 2008, Pages 4543-4557

  Wookey, James ^a   Dobson, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Mineral physics; Post perovskite; Seismology

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MINERALOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOUNDARY PRESSURES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION PROPERTIES; DIAMOND ANVILS; DYNAMIC EVOLUTIONS; EARTH'S INTERIORS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS; IRON CORES; LABORATORY USING; LOWER PRESSURES; LOWERMOST MANTLES; MANTLE PLUMES; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MINERAL PHYSICS; NEW PHASE; POST-PEROVSKITE; SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZES; SOLID EARTHS; SURFACE MATERIALS;

MINERALS;

ASTRONOMY; MAGNETIC FIELD; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 55849134820     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0184     Document Type: Article

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