Deformation and seismic anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle in the southeastern Carpathians inferred from the study of mantle xenoliths

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 50-64

  Falus, György ^a,b,d   Tommasi, Andrea ^b   Ingrin, Jannick ^c   Szabó, Csaba ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

anisotropy; collision; crystal preferred orientations; deformation; mantle xenoliths; microstructures; olivine; plate convergence; recrystallisation; SE Carpathians; subduction

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIANS; COARSE GRAINED (CG); CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DEFORMATION CONDITIONS; EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; EVOLUTION (CO); FINE GRAINED; HIGH STRESS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE XENOLITHS; MICRO STRUCTURAL; ORTHOPYROXENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RE CRYSTALLIZATION; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAINS; ROMANIA; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHALLOW LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); STRONG CORRELATIONS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; FORESTRY; GARNETS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; OLIVINE; POWDERS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; XENOLITH;

ANATOMY; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DEFORMATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICATES;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; PERSANI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47949128691     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.035     Document Type: Article

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