Trench-parallel fast axes of seismic anisotropy due to fluid-filled cracks in subducting slabs

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 75-86

  Healy, David ^a   Reddy, Steven M ^a   Timms, Nicholas E ^a   Gray, Erin M ^a   Brovarone, Alberto Vitale ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

dehydration; eclogite; high pressure metamorphism; serpentinite; shear wave splitting; vein

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; SERPENTINITE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; VEIN;

ANISOTROPY; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; DEWATERING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOOLS;

DEHYDRATION;

DEHYDRATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; FOREARC BASIN; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SERPENTINITE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 67349286563     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.037     Document Type: Article

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