Thermal and transport properties of mantle rock at high pressure: Applications to super-Earths

Icarus

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 572-596

  Stamenković, Vlada ^a,b,c   Breuer, Doris ^b   Spohn, Tilman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extrasolar planets; Geophysics; Interiors; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355125293     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.09.030     Document Type: Article

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