Olivine crystallographic control and anisotropic melt distribution in ultramafic partial melts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2901-2904

  Jung, Haemyeong ^a   Waff, Harve S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle; Olivine; Partial melting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WETTING; BASALT; OLIVINE; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

MANTLE; MILLER INDICES; OLIVINE BASALT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; ANISOTROPIC WETTING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MELT DISTRIBUTIONS; OLIVINE BASALTS; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

BASALT; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

MANTLE; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING;

EID: 0032148076     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02177     Document Type: Article

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