Trench-parallel fast axes of seismic anisotropy due to fluid-filled cracks insubducting slabs

Subducting slabs experience deformation and metamorphism as they descend into the upper mantle. Thepresence of hydrous minerals gained through the interaction with sea water at mid-ocean ridges, transformfaults or the outer rise ensures that dehydration reactions will be important at deeper levels....

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Main Authors: Healy, David, Reddy, Steven, Timms, Nicholas Eric, Gray, Erin, Brovarone, A.V.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35124