Seismological and experimental constraints on metastable phase transformations and rheology of the Mariana slab

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 12-23

  Kubo, Tomoaki ^a   Kaneshima, Satoshi ^a   Torii, Yoku ^a,b   Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hewlett Packard Japan Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

660 km seismic discontinuity; metastable olivine; rheology; subducting slabs; water

Indexed keywords

CLAPEYRON SLOPE; DRY CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL KINETICS; FERROPERICLASE; GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION; LOWER MANTLE; METASTABLE OLIVINE; METASTABLE PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; NUCLEATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OVERPRESSURE; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; RINGWOODITE; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITY; SUBDUCTING SLABS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TRANSITION ZONES;

ELASTICITY; METASTABLE PHASES; NUCLEATION; OLIVINE; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY; WATER CONTENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

MARIANA ARC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 70349405156     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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