Melting in the deep upper mantle oceanward of the Honshu slab

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 137-144

  Bagley, Brian ^a   Courtier, Anna M ^b   Revenaugh, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuities; Low velocity zone; Mantle; Partial melting; Transition zone; Water

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITIES; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE; PARTIAL MELTING; TRANSITION ZONE;

MELTING; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER CONTENT;

VELOCITY;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 67349208927     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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