Lower mantle mineralogy and the geophysical perspective

Ultrahigh Pressure Mineralogy: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Interior

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 205-240

  Bina, Craig R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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LOWER MANTLE;

MINERALS;

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