Is the African cratonic lithosphere wet or dry?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 478, Issue , 2011, Pages 249-256

  Katayama, Ikuo ^a   Korenaga, Jun ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DEFORMATION MICROSTRUCTURE; HIGH DIFFUSIVITIES; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOCALIZED METASOMATISM; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS;

LITHOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; METASOMATISM; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; STIFFNESS; UPPER MANTLE; WATER CONTENT; XENOLITH;

AFRICA;

EID: 80051912132     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2478(13)     Document Type: Article

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