Effects of the electronic spin transitions of iron in lower mantle minerals: Implications for deep mantle geophysics and geochemistry

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 244-275

  Lin, Jung Fu ^a   Speziale, Sergio ^b   Mao, Zhu ^a   Marquardt, Hauke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Helmholtz Center Potsdam German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ Potsdam   (Germany)

Author keywords

ferropericlase; lower mantle; mineral physics; perovskite; spin transition

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODYNAMICS; IRON; MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; RHEOLOGY; SPIN DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELEMENT PARTITIONING; FERROPERICLASE; FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; LOWER MANTLE; MINERAL PHYSICS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; QUADRUPOLE SPLITTING; SPIN TRANSITION;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODYNAMICS; IRON; LATTICE DYNAMICS; LOWER MANTLE; MINERAL; P-T CONDITIONS; PERICLASE; PEROVSKITE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84881068048     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rog.20010     Document Type: Article

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