Laboratory measurements of P-wave and S-wave velocities across a surface analog of the continental crust-mantle boundary: Cabo Ortegal, Spain

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 27-38

  Brown, D ^a   Llana Funez, S ^b   Carbonell, R ^a   Alvarez Marron, J ^a   Marti, D ^a   Salisbury, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cabo Ortegal; crust mantle boundary; seismic velocities

Indexed keywords

BARCELONA , SPAIN; CABO ORTEGAL; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; ECLOGITE; ECLOGITES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HIGH PRESSURE; IN-SITU; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LATE DEVONIAN; MAJOR ELEMENTS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; NW SPAIN; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PALEOZOIC; POISSON'S RATIO; ROCK TYPES; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE REFLECTION COEFFICIENT;

ANISOTROPY; REFLECTION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

VELOCITY;

CALIBRATION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LABORATORY METHOD; LITHOLOGY; MOHO; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

CABO ORTEGAL; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA [SPAIN]; LA CORUNA [GALICIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67650635132     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.032     Document Type: Article

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