Constraining kinetics of metastable olivine in the Marianas slab from seismic observations and dynamic models

Tectonophysics

Volumn 526-529, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-55

  Quinteros, Javier ^a,b   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Marianas; Metastable olivine; Numerical modeling; Subduction

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; FORCE BALANCES; KINETICS MODELS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; MARIANAS; METASTABLE OLIVINE; NUMERICAL MODELING; P WAVES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SHEAR HEATING; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL STATE; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL; TRANSFORMATION KINETICS;

KINETICS; LATENT HEAT; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; VISCOELASTICITY;

TECTONICS;

CODA; ELASTOPLASTICITY; ISOTHERM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SLAB; SPINEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC WEDGE; THERMOMECHANICS; TRANSITION ZONE; VISCOPLASTICITY;

MARIANA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857923151     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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