A seismologically consistent compositional model of Earth's core

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7542-7545

  Badro, James ^a,b   Côté, Alexander S ^a,c   Brodholt, John P ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First principles; Geophysics; Mineral physics

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; IRON; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; EARTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERBARISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

FIRST PRINCIPLES; GEOPHYSICS; MINERAL PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; IRON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXYGEN; SILICON; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SULFUR;

EID: 84901650150     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316708111     Document Type: Article

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