Connectivity of aqueous fluid in the Earth's upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1233-1236

  Mibe, Kenji ^a   Fujii, Toshitsugu ^a   Yasuda, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHEDRAL ANGLE; SOLVENTS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PRESSURE EFFECTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

AQUEOUS FLUIDS; GEOMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN JUNCTIONS; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT; LOWER PRESSURES; MEASUREMENTS OF; PRESSURE RANGES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TECTONICS;

GEOMETRICAL FLUID DISTRIBUTION;

AQUEOUS FLUID; FORSTERITE; MANTLE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032522050     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00872     Document Type: Article

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