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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104487
Keywords
Microstructure; Paleopiezometry; Migration recrystallization; Ice; Quartz; Electron backscatter diffraction
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- Uni-versity of Southern California
- Marsden Fund from the Royal Society of New Zealand [UOO052]
- University of Otago Doctoral scholarship
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Research shows that grain-boundary migration (GBM) microstructures appear at low stress and high homologous temperature. Experimental results indicate that GBM microstructures have certain crystallographic characteristics, which may help determine paleostress.
Quartz and ice both exhibit distinctive microstructures when deformed at low stress and high homologous temperature, known as grain-boundary migration (GBM) microstructures. These are difficult to reproduce experimentally in silicate minerals, and no correlation has been established between quantifiable aspects of the microstructure and deformational conditions. We carried out direct shear experiments to investigate the effect of stress and temperature (T) on GBM microstructures in ice, which is crystallographically analogous to quartz. Differential stress was 0.7-6.0 MPa, confining pressure 4-9 MPa, and T -3 degrees to -25 degrees C. There is a clear transition at - -12 degrees C from granular microstructures produced by rotation recrystallization at high stress and low T, to GBM microstructures at low stress and high T, accompanied by an increase in strength of the crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO). Samples with GBM microstructure show lobate grain-boundaries and island grains where several distinct and separate areas have the same crystallographic orientation, representing lobes of a single grain isolated on the cut surfaces. The size of lobes and island grains define an array with respect to stress with a slope of 0.9, similar to but offset from the slope of published stress/grain-size data. This suggests the possibility of determining paleostress from GBM microstructures in both ice and quartz.
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