Upper mantle tectonics: Three-dimensional deformation, olivine crystallographic fabrics and seismic properties

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 173-186

  Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Tikoff, Basil ^b   Vauchez, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Lithosphere; Numerical models; Petrofabrics; Rift zones; Strike slip faults; Tectonics; Transpression; Transtension; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OLIVINE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TECTONICS; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 0033617597     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00046-1     Document Type: Article

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