carried out in part at the NSLS;supported by the US Department of Energy,the Division of Material Sciences;the Division of Chemical Sciences under contract No.DE-AC02 98CH10886;the NSF Grant EAR-0711365,EAR652887,EAR0809397;the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 01-35554.MPI publication No.480.
This paper reports recent studies of the rheological and viscoelastic properties of minerals at mantle pressure and temperature using Deformation multi-anvil apparatus(D-DIA).Stress-strain-time relations were measured...