Thermodynamic properties and phase relations in mantle minerals investigated by first principles quasiharmonic theory

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Volumn 71, Issue , 2010, Pages 59-98

  Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^a   Yu, Yonggang G ^b   Wu, Zhongqing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ANHARMONIC; ANHARMONIC CONTRIBUTIONS; ANHARMONIC EFFECT; ANHARMONICITIES; BOND-BREAKING; BULK MODULUS; CLAPEYRON SLOPE; CONSTANT PRESSURES; CONSTANT VOLUMES; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH INTERIOR; ENDMEMBERS; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FORSTERITES; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW PRESSURES; LOWER PRESSURES; MAJORITE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; MANTLE MINERALS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; MOTION EFFECT; MOTION ENERGY; PHASE RELATION; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; PHONON DENSITY OF STATE; PHONON FREQUENCIES; PHONON SOFTENING; PLANE WAVE; POINT SAMPLING; POST-PEROVSKITE; POSTERIORI; PRESSURE CALIBRATION; PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; PYROLITE; SEISMIC DATAS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SOUND VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE LIMITS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL EXPANSIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS PROPERTY; WADSLEYITE; ZERO-POINT;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; MAGNESIUM; MINERALS; OLIVINE; PEROVSKITE; PHASE BOUNDARIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHONONS; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

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EID: 78149443319     PISSN: 15296466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2010.71.4     Document Type: Article

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