Experimental Constraints on Core Composition

Treatise on Geochemistry

Volumn 2-9, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-31

  Li, J ^a   Fei, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; CORE COMPOSITION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LOW VELOCITY REGION; MASS-FRACTION; PRELIMINARY REFERENCE EARTH MODELS; WAVE TRAVELING;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 84942426473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/02014-4     Document Type: Chapter

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