Effect of water on olivine-wadsleyite phase boundary in the (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Chen, Jiuhua ^a   Inoue, Toru ^b   Yurimoto, H ^c   Weidner, Donald J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; OLIVINE;

PHASE BOUNDARY; EFFECT OF WATER; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE; LOWER PRESSURES; PRESENCE OF WATER; SAN CARLOS OLIVINES; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; WATER SATURATED CONDITIONS;

OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITION; TRANSITION ZONE; WADSLEYITE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0242586116     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gl014429     Document Type: Article

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