Origin of high electrical conductivity in the lower continental crust: A review

X Yang - Surveys in Geophysics, 2011 - Springer
Electromagnetic measurements have demonstrated that the lower continental crust has
remarkable electrical anomalies of high conductivity and electrical anisotropy on a global …

The petrologic case for a dry lower crust

BWD Yardley, JW Valley - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid pressure in the crust may be controlled by different mechanisms according to depth,
temperature, and the mineralogy of the host rocks. Where rocks are fluid‐saturated, fluid …

Migration of metamorphic fluid: some aspects of mass and heat transfer

AB Thompson, JAD Connolly - Earth-Science Reviews, 1992 - Elsevier
Minute amounts of free fluids contained along grain boundaries or in fluid inclusions in the
rocks of the lower continental crust, mostly remain trapped until dislodged by thermally …

Absorption of ant-provided carbon dioxide and nitrogen by a tropical epiphyte

KK Treseder, DW Davidson, JR Ehleringer - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
ALTHOUGH ant-plant mutualisms have been described in many ecosystems, the magnitude
of the direct benefits from such relationships are hard to quantify. In Bako National Park …

Electrical conductivity of orthopyroxene and plagioclase in the lower crust

X Yang, H Keppler, C McCammon, H Ni - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2012 - Springer
The electrical conductivities of lower crustal orthopyroxene and plagioclase, as well as their
dependence on water content, were measured at 6–12 kbar and 300–1,000° C on both …

Effect of water on the electrical conductivity of lower crustal clinopyroxene

X Yang, H Keppler, C McCammon, H Ni… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The electrical conductivity of lower crustal clinopyroxene was measured at 6–12 kbar, 250–
1000° C, and Ni‐NiO buffer conditions. The dependence of electrical conductivity on water …

The origin of electrically conductive lower continental crust: saline water or graphite?

RD Hyndman, LL Vanyan, G Marquis… - Physics of the Earth and …, 1993 - Elsevier
Magnetotelluric measurements show the lower continental crust to be electrically conductive
globally, typically 100–1000 times more conductive than dry rocks measured in the …

Trapping of aqueous fluids in the deep crust

RC Bailey - Geophysical Research Letters, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Free aqueous fluids in the deep (ductile) crust have residence times there which are very
short in geological terms. If not consumed by retrograde metamorphic reactions, they empty …

Archaean cratonic roots, mantle shear zones and deep electrical anisotropy

M Mareschal, RL Kellett, RD Kurtz, JN Ludden, S Ji… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
THE extent to which the mantle participated in the growth and stabilization of ancient cratons
is central to our understanding of the evolution of the continents1. The detection of seismic …

Grain-boundary graphite in Kapuskasing gneisses and implications for lower-crustal conductivity

M Mareschal, WS Fyfe, J Percival, T Chan - Nature, 1992 - nature.com
SURFACE electromagnetic measurements commonly reveal that the intermediate and lower
continental crust has an appreciable electrical conductivity, much higher than that found for …