The core-mantle boundary region

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

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 241-260

  Jeanloz, Raymond ^a   Williams, Quentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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GEOPHYSICS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

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