Deformation and melt transport in a highly depleted peridotite massif from the Canadian Cordillera: Implications to seismic anisotropy above subduction zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 252, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 245-259

  Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Vauchez, Alain ^a   Godard, Marguerite ^a   Belley, France ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

deformation; melt transport; olivine; seismic anisotropy; subduction; upper mantle; water

Indexed keywords

MELT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

DEFORMATION; DIKE; DIP; LINEATION; OBDUCTION; OLIVINE; P-WAVE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROPERTY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RYUKYU ISLANDS; SAKHALIN; TAIWAN; TONGA;

EID: 33751161063     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.042     Document Type: Article

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