Sound velocities of clinohumite, and implications for water in Earth's upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1023-1026

  Beckman Fritzel, Theresa L ^a,b   Bass, Jay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Texaco Inc Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELASTIC MODULI; HYDRATION; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ROCKS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WATER;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; HYDROUS MINERAL; NEGATIVE VELOCITIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE AGGREGATES; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; SHEAR ACOUSTIC WAVES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

SHEAR FLOW; TECTONICS;

CLINOHUMITE; UPPER MANTLE;

ACOUSTIC VELOCITY; CLINOHUMITE; ELASTIC MODULUS; UPPER MANTLE; WATER;

EID: 0031148079     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97gl00946     Document Type: Article

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