Reactive dissolution instability driven by chemical diffusion with applications to harzburgite reactive dissolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Liang, Yan ^a   Guo, Yan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYSTEM STABILITY; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GRAIN GROWTH; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY;

MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL DIFFUSION; DIFFUSE BOUNDARIES; HARZBURGITES; MORPHOLOGICAL INSTABILITY; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; POROUS SYSTEM; REACTIVE DISSOLUTIONS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; DISSOLUTION;

BOUNDARY; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; DUNITE; HARZBURGITE;

EID: 0141625917     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017687     Document Type: Article

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