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De La Chapelle et al. 1998
De La Chapelle, S., Castelnau, O., Lipenkov, V. and Duval, P. (1998). Dynamic recrystallization and texture development in ice as revealed by the study of deep ice cores in Antarctica and Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: doi: 10.1029/97JB02621. issn: 0148-0227.

The preferred c axis orientation of ice from polar ice sheets develops essentially as a result of intracrystalline slip; but dynamic recrystallization appears to alter the kinetics of the development of deformation textures and is, at high temperature, at the origin of recrystallization textures. The purpose of this work is to obtain a better understanding of recrystallization processes that occur in polar ice sheets and to clarify the relationship between dynamic recrystallization and textures. The study was based on two deep ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, the GReenland Ice core Project (GRIP) and Vostok ice cores. The structure along the GRIP core displays normal grain growth in the first 100 m of the ice sheet and rotation recrystallization and migration recrystallization near the bottom. Only grain growth and rotation recrystallization appear to occur in the Vostok ice core. The transition between these recrystallization regimes was studied, estimating, for interglacial ice, the evolution with depth of the dislocation density. This calculation has shown the efficiency of grain boundary migration for the absorption of dislocations. At Vostok, the highest value of the dislocation density is found at a depth of about 1000 m and the continuous decrease in the dislocation density below this depth is related to the increase of the grain boundary migration rate. It is shown that the driving force required to initiate migration recrystallization is not reached in interglacial ice at Vostok. The observed textures were compared with those predicted by the self-consistent approach. Recrystallization textures are interpreted by assuming that the less stressed grains, i.e., the best oriented for basal slip, are favored by the size advantage of subgrains. The recrystallization textures are compared with those of other materials. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union

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Hydrology, Glaciology, Hydrology, Snow and ice, Physical Properties of Rocks, Plasticity, diffusion, and creep, Mineral Physics, Creep and deformation
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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