Strength and water weakening of mantle minerals, olivine, wadsleyite and ringwoodite

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 575-578

  Chen, Jiuhua ^a   Inoue, Toru ^a,b   Weidner, Donald J ^a   Wu, Yujun ^a   Vaughan, Michael T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; WATER; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

RINGWOODITE; WADSLEYITE;

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

MANTLE MINERAL; RHEOLOGY;

FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; HIGH-PRESSURE POLYMORPH; MANTLE MINERALS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; RINGWOODITE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WADSLEYITE; WATER-WEAKENING;

EID: 0032004414     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00043     Document Type: Article

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