Laboratory measurements of P- And S-wave velocities in polycrystalline plagioclase and gabbronorite up to 700°C and 1 GPa: Implications for the low velocity anomaly in the lower crust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Kono, Yoshio ^a,b   Ishikawa, Masahiro ^a   Arima, Makoto ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVES; HEAT FLUX; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GABBRONORITE; HEAT FLOW REGIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE PLAGIOCLASE;

SURFACE WAVES;

LABORATORY METHOD; LOWER CRUST; P-WAVE; PLAGIOCLASE; S-WAVE;

EID: 33845611467     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026526     Document Type: Article

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