Postperovskite phase equilibria in the MgSiO3-Al 2O3 system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19160-19164

  Tsuchiya, Jun ^a   Tsuchiya, Taku ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ab initio density functional method; D seismic discontinuity; Earth's lower mantle; Rh2O3(II) structure; Solid solution thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; PEROVSKITE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDES; OXYGEN; SILICON; THERMODYNAMICS; TITANIUM;

EID: 58149149884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805660105     Document Type: Article

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