Viscosity of the upper mantle from laboratory creep and anelasticity measurements in peridotite at high pressure and temperature

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Author: Sato, Hiroki
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1991
• Subjects: Articles; Iceland Plateau; Pacific; Iceland
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/105/3/587; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1991.tb00798.x

Recent laboratory results on anelasticity and viscoelasticity of mantle rocks at high pressure and temperature show the homologous temperature dependence of seismic Q and creep rate, i.e., both depend on the mantle solidus. These laboratory results enable us to estimate viscosity of the mantle from...