Elasticity and pressure-induced structural changes in vitreous MgSiO3-enstatite to lower mantle pressures

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 523-530

  Sanchez Valle, Carmen ^a   Bass, Jay D ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brillouin spectroscopy; Compressibility; MgSiO3 glass; Polyamorphism; Sound velocities

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; BRILLOUIN SPECTROSCOPY; COMPRESSIONAL; COORDINATION NUMBER; DECOMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; DENSIFICATION MECHANISMS; DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL; EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTH'S MANTLE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; HIGH PRESSURE; IN-SITU; INTERMEDIATE RANGE ORDER; LOWER MANTLE PRESSURES; MAGMA OCEAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC CALCULATION; POLYAMORPHISM; PRESSURE RANGES; PRESSURE-DENSITY RELATION; RING STATISTICS; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SILICATE MELTS; SOUND VELOCITIES; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COMPRESSIBILITY; DENSIFICATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SILICATES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GLASS;

BULK MODULUS; COMPRESSIBILITY; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; ELASTICITY; ENSTATITE; LOWER MANTLE; S-WAVE; SHEAR MODULUS; SILICATE MELT; SOUND VELOCITY; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 77953724947     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.034     Document Type: Article

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