Vertical-incidence reflection profiling has identified several characteristic features of the
continental lithosphere including a generally transparent upper crust, a reflective lower crust …

Recent investigations of the lower continental crust have progressed along three relatively
independent fronts: geophysics, field mapping, and study of xenoliths brought to the earth's …

Despite its importance to the study of continental crustal evolution, the composition of the
lower part of the Earth's crust remains poorly known, largely because of the difficulty of …

Continental China consists of a complex amalgamation of geotectonic units and has
experienced strong and widespread tectonic deformation since the Mesozoic. To …

Magnetotelluric and multichannel seismic reflection measurements indicate that the
Phanerozoic lower continental crust is commonly electrically conductive and reflective, in …

The continental crust is exposed in cross-section at numerous sites on the earth's surface.
These exposures, which appear to have formed by obduction along great faults during …

Based on published results of experiments on low‐temperature, low‐pressure frictional
sliding and creep at higher temperature and pressure, theoretical curves of yield strength …

A numerically efficient global matrix approach to the solution of the wave equation in
horizontally stratified environments is presented. The field in each layer is expressed as a …

Mantle derived rocks—peridotites from St. Pauls rocks, dunite xenoliths from the Kaupulehu
flow in Hawaii, as well as peridotite, dunite, and eclogite xenoliths from Roberts Victor …

The densities of mantle magmas such as MORB-like tholeiites, picrites, and komatiites at 10
kilobars are greater than densities for diorites, quartz diorites, granodiorites, and granites …