Microstructure, texture and seismic anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle above a mantle plume: Insights from the Labait volcano xenoliths (Tanzania)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 295-314

  Vauchez, Alain ^a   Dineur, Florence ^a   Rudnick, Roberta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratonic lithosphere; Crystallographic preferred orientation; Labait volcano; Mantle plume; Microstructure; Seismic anisotropy; Tanzania; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATION (CPO); LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

MANTLE PLUME; MICROSTRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; XENOLITH;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

EID: 17044436930     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.024     Document Type: Article

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