Properties of Rocks and Minerals - High-Pressure Melting

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 527-541

  Boehler, R ^a   Ross, M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Biology and Biotechnology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Core; High pressure; Iron; Lower mantle; Magnesium oxide; Melting; Perovskite; Transition metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882816998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00047-X     Document Type: Chapter

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