Variable microstructure of peridotite samples from the southern Mariana Trench: Evidence of a complex tectonic evolution

Tectonophysics

Volumn 444, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 111-118

  Michibayashi, Katsuyoshi ^a   Tasaka, Miki ^b   Ohara, Yasuhiko ^c   Ishii, Teruaki ^b   Okamoto, Atsushi ^d   Fryer, Patricia ^e  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department Japan Coast Guard   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenger Deep; Crystal preferred orientation; Mantle wedge; Mariana Trench; Microstructure; Olivine

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; FOLIATION; LINEATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; PERIDOTITE; PETROFABRIC; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; RESEARCH VESSEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC WEDGE; TEXTURE;

MARIANA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34948839394     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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