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- Provides a critical review of different geothermo-barometry and their inadequacies
- Discusses different seismic discontinuities and their correlation with respect to various phase transformations of mantle minerals
- Describes experimental techniques involving laboratory simulation to determine P and S wave velocities of rocks in the lower crust
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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National Centre of Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology, Allahabad University, Allahabad, India
Alok K. Gupta
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Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, India
Somnath Dasgupta
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
Book Subtitle: Crust, Mantle and Core
Editors: Alok K. Gupta, Somnath Dasgupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0346-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0344-0
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3986-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0346-4
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 197
Number of Illustrations: 31 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India
Topics: Geochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Crystallography and Scattering Methods