Olivine crystals align during diffusion creep of Earth's upper mantle

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7471, 2013, Pages 321-326

  Miyazaki, Tomonori ^a   Sueyoshi, Kenta ^a   Hiraga, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISLOCATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; OLIVINE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION CREEP; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OLIVINE CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 84885755762     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12570     Document Type: Article

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