Mantle wedge water contents estimated from seismic velocities in partially serpentinized peridotites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Carlson, Richard L ^a   Miller, D Jay ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; EARTH (PLANET); MELTING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMOLOGY; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER CONTENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MANTLE; COMPOSITION OF THE MANTLES; DEHYDRATION REACTIONS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SERPENTINIZATION; SERPENTINIZED PERIDOTITES; SERPENTINIZED ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; SUBDUCTION ZONE SEISMICITIES; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

MANTLE CHEMISTRY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0043202673     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016600     Document Type: Article

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