Microtomography of partially molten rocks: Three-dimensional melt distribution in mantle peridotite

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6025, 2011, Pages 88-91

  Zhu, Wenlu ^a   Gaetani, Glenn A ^b   Fusseis, Florian ^c   Montési, Laurent G J ^a   De Carlo, Francesco ^d  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; HISTOGRAM; MELTING POINT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLTEN ROCK; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SYNCHROTRON;

EID: 79953268333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1202221     Document Type: Article

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32. This work is supported by NSF-EAR 0753505 (W.Z. and G.A.G.) and NSF-OCE 0937277 (L.G.J.M.). F.F. was supported by the Western Australian State Government through the Premier's Fellowship Program and the Australian Synchrotron Research Program, funded by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Major National Research Facilities Program. Use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. We thank X. Xiao and J. Liu for their assistance. We furthermore acknowledge the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis for use of an electron microprobe and iVEC for use of their data storage and visualization facilities.