Si and O diffusion in (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 wadsleyite and ringwoodite and its implications for the rheology of the mantle transition zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 103-112

  Shimojuku, Akira ^a,b   Kubo, Tomoaki ^b   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Nakamura, Tomoki ^b   Okazaki, Ryuji ^b   Dohmen, Ralf ^c   Chakraborty, Sumit ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion; mantle transition zone; rheology; ringwoodite; wadsleyite

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS RELATIONS; COLD SUBDUCTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM MAP; DIFFUSING ELEMENTS; DIFFUSION CREEP; DIFFUSION PROFILES; DIFFUSION RATE; DISLOCATION CREEP; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE CREEP; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; METASTABLE OLIVINE; MULTI-ANVIL HIGH-PRESSURE APPARATUS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; RATE-CONTROLLING; RINGWOODITE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SI DIFFUSION; SILICATE PEROVSKITE; STARTING MATERIALS; WADSLEYITE;

CREEP; DEPTH PROFILING; ELASTICITY; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; OLIVINE; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; PLASTICITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RHEOLOGY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

DIFFUSION;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSION; HIGH PRESSURE; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY; RINGWOODITE; TRANSITION ZONE; WADSLEYITE;

EID: 67449093519     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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