Seismic velocities, anisotropy and deformation in Siberian cratonic mantle: EBSD data on xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 71-84

  Bascou, Jérôme ^a   Doucet, Luc S ^a   Saumet, Sylvaine ^a   Ionov, Dmitri A ^a   Ashchepkov, Igor V ^b   Golovin, Alexander V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cratonic mantle; Crystal preferred orientation; Deformation; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CREEP; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GARNETS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CRATONIC MANTLE; CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELECTRON BACK-SCATTERED DIFFRACTION; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; CRATON; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ECLOGITE; KIMBERLITE; MANTLE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERIDOTITE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; XENOLITH;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 79952624458     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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