Melting of iron-silicon alloy up to the core-mantle boundary pressure: Implications to the thermal structure of the Earth's core

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 353-359

  Asanuma, Hidetoshi ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Sakai, Takeshi ^a   Terasaki, Hidenori ^a   Kamada, Seiji ^a   Kondo, Tadashi ^a,b   Kikegawa, Takumi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Core; FeSi alloy; High pressure; Melting

Indexed keywords

BCC PHASE; CORE BOUNDARY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH'S CORE; FE-SI ALLOYS; HIGH PRESSURE MELTING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU X-RAY DIFFRACTION; INNER CORE; LASER-HEATED DIAMOND ANVIL CELLS; LIGHT ELEMENTS; LOWER BOUNDS; MELTING CURVES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; PRESSURE RANGES; PURE IRON; SI ALLOYS; SUBSOLIDUS PHASE RELATIONS; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; IRON ALLOYS; LASER HEATING; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; METAL RECOVERY; SILICON; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SILICON ALLOYS;

ALLOY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INNER CORE; IRON; MELTING; OUTER CORE; SILICON; TEXTURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 77953028580     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: 14322021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-009-0338-7     Document Type: Article

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