Elastic isotropy of e-Fe under Earth's core conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sha, Xianwei ^a,b   Cohen, R E ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; COMPRESSIONAL; EARTH'S CORE; EARTH'S ROTATION; ELASTIC ISOTROPY; FE CRYSTALS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; INHOMOGENEITIES; INNER CORE; LINEAR RESPONSE; ORBITAL CALCULATION; SOUND VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRAVEL TIME;

TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; EARTH ROTATION; INNER CORE; ISOTROPY; S-WAVE; SOUND VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOELASTICITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77953079337     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042224     Document Type: Article

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