Temperature profile in the lowermost mantle from seismological and mineral physics joint modeling

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

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22119-22123

  Kawai, Kenji ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Taku ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lowermost mantle; Phase transition; Seismic velocity; Thermal structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 76049117814     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905920106     Document Type: Article

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