Sensitivity of teleseismic body waves to mineral texture and melt in the mantle beneath a mid-ocean ridge

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1723, 1997, Pages 217-231

  Blackman, Donna K ^a,b   Kendall, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; MANTLE; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MINERAL TEXTURE; MINERALS; OLIVINE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC WAVES; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 0030732948     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0007     Document Type: Article

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