Protracted fabric evolution in olivine: Implications for the relationship among strain, crystallographic fabric, and seismic anisotropy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 387, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-168

  Hansen, Lars N ^a,b   Zhao, Yong Hong ^a,c   Zimmerman, Mark E ^a   Kohlstedt, David L ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystallographic preferred orientation; Electron backscatter diffraction; Experimental rock deformation; Grain boundary sliding; Torsion; Upper mantle seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GRAIN-BOUNDARY SLIDINGS; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ROCK DEFORMATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; OLIVINE; TORSIONAL STRESS;

DEFORMATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN BOUNDARY; OLIVINE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR STRAIN; TORSION; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 84890072371     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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