Composition, textures, seismic and thermal anisotropies of xenoliths from a thin and hot lithospheric mantle (Summit Lake, southern Canadian Cordillera)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Morales, Luiz Fernando Grafulha ^a   Tommasi, Andréa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

High thermal gradient; Melt rock reaction; Seismic anisotropy; Thermal conductivity; Thin lithosphere; Upper mantle xenoliths

Indexed keywords

HIGH THERMAL GRADIENT; MELT-ROCK REACTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; THIN LITHOSPHERE; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LAKES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SOLVENTS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; LHERZOLITE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEXTURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE PROPAGATION; XENOLITH;

CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79959747284     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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