P-wave velocity and anisotropy of lawsonite and epidote blueschists: Constraints on water transportation along subducting oceanic crust

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 219-228

  Fujimoto, Yoshikazu ^a   Kono, Yoshio ^b,c   Hirajima, Takao ^a   Kanagawa, Kyuichi ^d   Ishikawa, Masahiro ^b   Arima, Makoto ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blueschist; Oceanic crust; P wave velocity; Subduction zone; Water

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHISTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; ECLOGITES; HYDROUS MINERAL; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE VELOCITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; ULTRASONIC PULSE; WATER TRANSPORTATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SILICATE MINERALS;

BLUESCHIST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EPIDOTE; LAWSONITE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 78649445371     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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