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EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 304, Issue 1-2, Pages 55-63Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.015
Keywords
crystallographic preferred orientation; olivine; deformation; fabric transition; seismic anisotropy
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- Ehime University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23740393, 22340161, 20244086, 21740382, 22740346] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The effects of pressure on crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) of olivine aggregates were investigated through simple-shear deformation experiments at pressures between 2.1 and 7.6 GPa and temperatures of 1493-1673 K under dry conditions using a deformation-DIA apparatus, and the variations in seismic anisotropy were evaluated under the Earth's upper mantle conditions. We found that the monotonic decrease in seismic anisotropy with depth is caused by the pressure-dependency of the seismic properties of A-type (developed by the (010)[100] slip system) olivine fabric, while the rapid decrease is caused by the fabric transition from A-type to B/C-type (by the (hk0)[001] slip systems) at 7.6 GPa and 1673 K. Moreover, an alternative transition, from A-type fabric to B-type-like fabric (by the (010)[001] slip system), occurs at 7.6 GPa and lower temperature. These two temperature-dependent fabric transitions occurring at 7.6 GPa result in low seismic anisotropy with V-SH/V-SV (the ratio of horizontally and vertically polarized shear waves)> 1 at low temperatures (i.e., old-continental mantle conditions) and V-SH/V-SV < 1 at high temperatures (i.e., oceanic mantle conditions) at greater depths, consistent with seismological observations. Thus, the variations of CPO with pressure and temperature in olivine under dry conditions can explain the seismic anisotropy signatures observed in the upper mantle, without invoking other mechanisms. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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