On Some Properties of the Earth's Mantle

Teruo Nishitake · Zisin (Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan 2nd ser ) · 1957

Pressure coefficient of bulk modulus of rocks was estimated from data of high pressure experiments. These values for both granite and dunite are estimated to be nearly equal to 7 and 4 respectively. These obtained from high pressure experiments of dunite are well in acccord with those deduced from seismic observations.

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