The metastable olivine wedge in fast subducting slabs: Constraints from thermo-kinetic coupling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 109-118

  Däßler, Rolf ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT DIFFUSION; LATENT HEAT; OLIVINE WEDGE; OLIVINE/SPINEL TRANSITION; PHASE TRANSITION; SUBDUCTED SLAB; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0029753685     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(95)00219-3     Document Type: Article

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