Constraints on the Fe-S melt connectivity in mantle silicates from electrical impedance measurements

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 139-146

  Bagdassarov, N ^a,b   Golabek, G J ^a,b   Solferino, G ^b   Schmidt, M W ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earth's core; Olivine; Peridotite; Segregation; Sulfide melt

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; CLINOPYROXENES; CYLINDRICAL ELECTRODES; DIHEDRAL ANGLES; EARTH'S CORE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; EUTECTIC COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GARNET PERIDOTITE; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH-T; HIGHER-DEGREE; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN-LINE; IN-SITU; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; INTERCONNECTIVITY; MATRIX; MELT PHASE; ORTHOPYROXENE; OXYGEN FUGACITY; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PERIDOTITE; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; PISTON CYLINDERS; POWDER GRAINS; POWDER MIXTURES; PRESSURE CELL; SEGREGATION; SINTERED POWDERS; SOLID MATRIXES; SULFIDE MELT;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; EUTECTICS; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GARNETS; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAPHITE; OLIVINE; OXYGEN; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICATE MINERALS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

CORE (PLANETARY); ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN SIZE; IRON; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELT; OLIVINE; PERIDOTITE; SPECTROSCOPY; SULFIDE; XENOLITH;

EID: 70449525139     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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