Ponded melt at the boundary between the lithosphere and asthenosphere

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1041-1044

  Sakamaki, Tatsuya ^a   Suzuki, Akio ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Terasaki, Hidenori ^b   Urakawa, Satoru ^c   Katayama, Yoshinori ^d   Funakoshi, Ken Ichi ^e   Wang, Yanbin ^f   Hernlund, John W ^g   Ballmer, Maxim D ^h  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASALT; DISCONTINUITY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITHOSPHERE; MELT; PARTIAL MELTING; S-WAVE; VISCOSITY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84889018075     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1982     Document Type: Article

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