Sulfide melts and long-term low seismic wavespeeds in lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Helffrich, G ^a,b   Kendall, J M ^b   Hammond, J O S ^b   Carroll, M R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY TIME; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; REFERENCE MODELS; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SOURCE REGION; STABLE REGION; SULFIDE MELT; THERMAL PERTURBATIONS; VOLCANIC REGION;

SEISMOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BUOYANCY; FUGACITY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC WAVE; SULFIDE; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY PROFILE; VOLCANISM; WAVE VELOCITY; XENOLITH;

EID: 79957939229     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047126     Document Type: Article

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