Spin crossover and iron-rich silicate melt in the Earthĝ€™ s deep mantle

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7346, 2011, Pages 199-202

  Nomura, Ryuichi ^a,b   Ozawa, Haruka ^a,c   Tateno, Shigehiko ^a   Hirose, Kei ^a,c   Hernlund, John ^d   Muto, Shunsuke ^e   Ishii, Hirofumi ^f   Hiraoka, Nozomu ^f  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MAGNESIUM; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSIPATION; EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON; MAGMATISM; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRESSURE EFFECT; SHOCK WAVE; SILICATE; SOLID EARTH; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOLUME; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; SPECTROSCOPY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

EID: 79955892873     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09940     Document Type: Article

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