Seismic properties of the supra-subduction mantle: Constraints from peridotite xenoliths from the Avacha volcano, southern Kamchatka

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Soustelle, Vincent ^a   Tommasi, Andra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIVINE; PARALLEL FLOW; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLVENTS; VOLCANOES;

FLOW DIRECTION; FOREARC; HYDROUS MELTS; INTRINSIC ANISOTROPY; KAMCHATKA; LOW STRESS; MANTLE WEDGE; MANTLE XENOLITHS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; WAVE POLARIZATIONS;

PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

KINEMATICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERCOLATION; PERIDOTITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; XENOLITH;

ANDES; AVACHA VOLCANO; JAPAN; KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77954686128     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043450     Document Type: Article

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