Quantitative analysis of the inclined low-velocity zone in the mantle wedge of northeastern Japan: A systematic change of melt-filled pore shapes with depth and its implications for melt migration

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 59-70

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Takei, Yasuko ^b   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Low velocity zone; Mantle wedge; Melt fraction; Northeastern Japan

Indexed keywords

HIGH-PRESSURE ELASTICITY; MANTLE; MANTLE MINERALS; TRAVEL-TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

ASPECT RATIO; ATTENUATION; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MECHANICAL WAVES; MINERALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

EARTH SCIENCES;

LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 18444416816     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.033     Document Type: Article

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