Redox freezing and melting in the Earths deep mantle resulting from carbon-iron redox coupling

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7342, 2011, Pages 209-214

  Rohrbach, Arno ^a   Schmidt, Max W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRON;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; CARBON; CARBONATE; DIAMOND; EARTH SCIENCE; FREEZING; HEAVY METAL; IMMOBILIZATION; ION; IRON; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATRIX; MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PEROVSKITE; REDOX POTENTIAL; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSITION ZONE;

ARTICLE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; FREEZING; GEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MELTING POINT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79954588911     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09899     Document Type: Article

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