The preservation of seismic anisotropy in the Earth's mantle during diffusion creep

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1723-1732

  Wheeler, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Creep and deformation; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Plasticity, diffusion and creep; Rheology: mantle; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSION; DISLOCATION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTICITY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 69149104617     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04241.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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