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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 193, Issue 1, Pages 489-505Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt004
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Composition of the mantle; Body waves; Surface waves and free oscillations; Seismic anisotropy; Acoustic properties; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle
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- NSF [EAR-0838269, EAR-0745588, EAR-0929777]
- Directorate For Geosciences [1219942] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1219942] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0745588] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Seismic velocities were calculated for 11 eclogites from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway, based on electron-backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The P-wave velocities are 8.0-8.5 km s(-1) and the S-wave velocities are 4.5-4.8 km s(-1); V-P/V-S1 (the ratio of P-wave to fast S-wave velocities) is 1.74-1.81. All the eclogites are relatively isotropic, with the higher anisotropies (3-4 per cent) in micaceous samples. Peridotite is comparatively more anisotropic (4-14 per cent more for P waves and up to 10 per cent more for S waves), and can have anomalously low V-P/V-S1, which may be useful means of distinguishing it from eclogite. Micaceous eclogite may be modelled using hexagonal anisotropy with a slow unique axis, whereas peridotite is most robustly modelled using orthorhombic anisotropy.
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