Simultaneous high P-T measurements of ultrasonic compressional and shear wave velocities in Ichino-megata mafic xenoliths: Their bearings on seismic velocity perturbations in lower crust of northeast Japan arc

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Nishimoto, Soshi ^a,b   Ishikawa, Masahiro ^a   Arima, Makoto ^a   Yoshida, Takeyoshi ^c   Nakajima, Junichi ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORNBLENDE; LOWER CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE VELOCITY; XENOLITH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 61449255353     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005587     Document Type: Article

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