No interconnection of ferro-periclase in post-spinel phase inferred from conductivity measurement

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Yoshino, Takashi ^a   Yamazaki, Daisuke ^a   Ito, Eiji ^a   Katsura, Tomoo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNESIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ACTIVATION ENTHALPIES; BULK COMPOSITIONS; BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; INTERCONNECTIVITY; LOWER MANTLES; MAGNESIUM SILICATES; MATRIXES; MULTI-ANVIL APPARATUS; PERICLASE; SILICATE PEROVSKITES; SINGLE PHASE; SPINEL PHASE; SPINEL PHASIS;

PEROVSKITE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENTHALPY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PERICLASE; PEROVSKITE;

EID: 60149108521     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035932     Document Type: Article

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