Geophysical and geological observations hint for the presence in the lithospheric mantle of
both active and fossil shear zones with varied past kinematics. Shear in the lithospheric …

Flow in the Earth's mantle causes the preferred orientation of crystals called lattice/crystal
preferred orientation (LPO or CPO). This preferred orientation is one of the main reasons …

The crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) of polycrystalline olivine affects both the
viscous and seismic anisotropy of Earth's upper mantle with wide geodynamical …

We propose that strain localization in plate interiors, such as linear belts of intraplate
seismicity, may arise from spatial variations in viscous anisotropy produced by preferred …

Olivine lattice preferred orientation (LPO), or texture, forms in relation to deformation
mechanisms such as dislocation creep and can be observed in the upper mantle as seismic …

Olivine single crystals have an orthorhombic structure, and thus it is expected that the
viscosity tensor for a single crystal olivine will have orthotropic symmetry with 9 independent …