Phase transformations: Implications for mantle structure

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 117, Issue , 2000, Pages 215-235

  Weidner, Donald J ^a   Wang, Yanbin ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 77952552103     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM117p0215     Document Type: Chapter

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