Feedback between melt percolation and deformation in an exhumed lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 401-413

  Le Roux, V ^a,b   Tommasi, A ^a   Vauchez, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

crystal preferred orientation; diffusion; dislocation creep; harzburgites; mantle lithosphere; melt percolation; melt segregation; olivine; pyroxene; refertilization reactions, lherzolites; strain localization; websterites

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC MELTS; CRYSTAL-PREFERRED ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION PROCESSES; DISLOCATION CREEP; DISLOCATION GLIDING; HARZBURGITE; HARZBURGITES; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOCAL STRAINS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; MELT FRACTION; MELT PERCOLATION; MELT SEGREGATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; PYRENEES; PYROXENE; REFERTILIZATION; REFERTILIZATION REACTIONS, LHERZOLITES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STRAIN INTENSITY; STRAIN LOCALIZATION; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS; WEBSTERITES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CANNING; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); IGNEOUS ROCKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OLIVINE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RATE CONSTANTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLVENTS;

STRAIN RATE;

DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FOLIATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEODYNAMICS; HARZBURGITE; LHERZOLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PYROXENITE; SILICATE MELT; STRAIN RATE;

ARIEGE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; LHERZ MASSIF; MIDI-PYRENEES; PYRENEES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 52749099120     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.053     Document Type: Article

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