Shearing melt out of the earth: An experimentalist's perspective on the influence of deformation on melt extraction

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 561-593

  Kohlstedt, David L ^a   Holtzman, Benjamin K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic viscosity; Melt alignment; Melt segregation; Partial molten rocks; Strain localization

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC VISCOSITY; MELT ALIGNMENT; MELT SEGREGATION; PARTIAL MOLTEN ROCKS; STRAIN LOCALIZATION;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; RHEOLOGY; ROCKS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); VISCOSITY;

METAL RECOVERY;

ANISOTROPY; CHANNELIZATION; DEFORMATION; EARTH; EXTRACTION METHOD; MANTLE; MELT; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 67649246545     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100104     Document Type: Review

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