Thickness and Clapeyron slope of the post-perovskite boundary

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7274, 2009, Pages 782-785

  Catalli, Krystle ^a   Shim, Sang Heon ^a   Prakapenka, Vitali ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; FERROPERICLASE; FERROUS ION; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM FERROUS; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALUMINUM; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MINERAL PROPERTY; MINERALOGY; PYROLITE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAPEYRON SLOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORCE; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LASER; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; THICKNESS;

EID: 72049123535     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08598     Document Type: Article

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