Dehydration of serpentinized slab mantle: Seismic evidence from southwest Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 861-871

  Seno, Tetsuzo ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Kobayashi, Yoji ^c   Nakamura, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SERPENTINIZATION;

EID: 0000316355     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351683     Document Type: Article

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