Experimental determination of electrical conductivity during deformation of melt-bearing olivine aggregates: Implications for electrical anisotropy in the oceanic low velocity zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 81-94

  Caricchi, Luca ^a,b   Gaillard, Fabrice ^a   Mecklenburgh, Julian ^c   Le Trong, Emmanuel ^a  

^a STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Deformation and electrical conductivity; Lithosphere Asthenosphere Boundary

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ANISOTROPY; BASALT; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; OLIVINE; SHEAR STRESS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MID OCEAN RIDGE BASALTS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONFINING PRESSURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LITHOSPHERE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OLIVINE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEAMOUNT; SHEAR STRESS; TORSION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78751579058     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.041     Document Type: Article

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