Selected elastic moduli and their temperature derivatives for olivine and garnet with different Mg/(Mg+Fe) contents: Results from GHz ultrasonic interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-8

  Chen, Ganglin ^a,b   Spetzler, Hartmut A ^a   Getting, Ivan C ^a   Yoneda, Akira ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; VELOCITY;

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HIGH-PRECISION; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SINGLE CRYSTAL SAMPLES; TECTONIC REGIONS; TEMPERATURE DERIVATIVES; ULTRASONIC INTERFEROMETERS; ULTRASONIC INTERFEROMETRY;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; GARNET; OLIVINE; P WAVE; TRAVELTIME; ULTRASONIC INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0029769363     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03604     Document Type: Article

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