Properties of Rocks and Minerals - The Electrical Conductivity of Rocks, Minerals, and the Earth

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 631-642

  Tyburczy, J A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Diffusion; Electrical conductivity; Grain boundaries; High pressure; Hydrogen in minerals; Magnesiow stite; Magnetotellurics; Mantle; Melt; Olivine; Oxygen fugacity; Partial melt; Perovskite; Polarons; Ringwoodite; Transition zone; Vacancies; Wadsleyite

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051569203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00050-X     Document Type: Chapter

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