Seismic velocity decrement ratios for regions of partial melt in the lower mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 421-424

  Berryman, J G ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOWER MANTLE; MELT; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITIES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; GASSMANN'S EQUATIONS; LOWER MANTLE PRESSURES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVE; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; GASSMANN'S EQUATION; POROELASTICITY; VELOCITY DECREMENT RATIO;

EID: 0034353486     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008402     Document Type: Article

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