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Intermediate-depth earthquakes linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite
A team of researchers at Ehime University Geodynamics Research Center (GRC) led by Dr. Tomohiro Ohuchi, Xinglin Lei, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kiyoshi Fujino & Tetsuo Irifune succeeded in discovering that intermediate-depth earthquakes are linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite.
This research was published on an online version of Nature Geoscience dated August 28th.
| Journal | Nature Geoscience https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo3011.html |
| Title of orinigal paper |
Intermediate-depth earthquakes linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite |
| Authors | Tomohiro Ohuchi(1), Xinglin Lei(2), Yuji Higo(3), Yoshinori Tange(3), Takeshi Sakai(1), Kiyoshi Fujino(1), Tetsuo Irifune(1)(4) |
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DOI |
10.1038/ngeo3011 |
| Affiliations |
(1) Ehime Univesity Geodynamics Research Center (GRC) |
For more details, please see Ehime University's website and the press release document. (sorry only Japanese press release is available)
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