Rheological contrast between garnet and clinopyroxene in the mantle wedge: An example from Higashi-akaishi peridotite mass, SW Japan

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 14-33

  Muramoto, Masashi ^a   Michibayashi, Katsuyoshi ^a   Ando, Jun ichi ^b   Kagi, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinopyroxene; Crystal preferred orientation (CPO); Dislocation; EBSD; EPMA; FTIR; Garnet; Higashi akaishi peridotite; Olivine; Rheology; TEM; Water

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENES; DISLOCATION; EBSD; EPMA; FTIR; HIGASHI-AKAISHI PERIDOTITE; TEM;

ASPECT RATIO; CREEP; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELASTICITY; GARNETS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OLIVINE; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; VISCOSITY; WATER CONTENT; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION; FOLIATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GARNET; GRAIN SIZE; MANTLE PLUME; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS; PERIDOTITE; PLASTICITY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; RHEOLOGY; WATER CONTENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 78651484943     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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