Water controls the fields of metastable olivine in cold subducting slabs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Hosoya, Tomofumi ^a   Kubo, Tomoaki ^b   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Sano, Asami ^a   Funakoshi, Ken Ichi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTROL; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COLD SUBDUCTING SLABS; METASTABLE OLIVINE; OLIVINE TRANSFORMATION; WATER CONTENT;

TECTONICS;

OLIVINE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WADSLEYITE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 27544511462     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023398     Document Type: Article

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