Thermal diffusivity of olivine single-crystals and polycrystalline aggregates at ambient conditions - A comparison

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Gibert, Benoit ^a   Schilling, Frank R ^b   Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Mainprice, David ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ANISOTROPY; HEAT TRANSFER; OLIVINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ROCKS; TENSORS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

MANTLE; PETROPHYSICAL MODELS; CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DIFFUSIVITY MEASUREMENTS; POLYCRYSTALLINE AGGREGATES; POLYCRYSTALLINE SAMPLES; SAN CARLOS OLIVINES; STRUCTURAL ORIENTATIONS; THERMAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DIFFUSIVITY; MANTLE PROCESS; OLIVINE; THERMAL REGIME; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 0942299880     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018459     Document Type: Article

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