Rheology of the lower crust and upper mantle: Evidence from rock mechanics, geodesy, and field observations

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 531-567

  Bürgmann, Roland ^a   Dresen, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brittle ductile transition; Deformation mechanisms; Postseismic relaxation; Shear zones; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COLLOIDS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEODESY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICS; MECHANISMS; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEARING MACHINES; STRESSES; VISCOSITY;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONES; EARTH'S CRUST; FAULT ZONES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD STUDIES; GRAIN SIZES; HEAT FLOWS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE ROCKS; MANTLE XENOLITHS; SHEAR ZONES; STRAIN TRANSIENTS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

ELASTICITY;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FIELD METHOD; GEODESY; GRAIN SIZE; HEAT FLOW; LOWER CRUST; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOSITY; XENOLITH;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 45849100115     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124326     Document Type: Article

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