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Stipp, M. and Tullis, J. (2003). The recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018444. issn: 0094-8276. |
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In order to determine a recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz, we deformed Black Hills quartzite in a molten salt assembly in a Griggs apparatus at 1.5 GPa, 800 to 1100¿C, and strain rates between 2*10-7 and 2*10-4 s-1, conditions which include dislocation creep regimes 2 and 3 of Hirth and Tullis <1992>. Flow stresses ranged from 34 ¿ 16 to 268 ¿ 38 MPa with corresponding recrystallized grain sizes from 46 ¿ 15 to 3.2 ¿ 0.7 ¿m. The data are well fit by a single piezometer relation, D = 103.56¿ 0.27 * σ-1.26 ¿ 0.13, with no change in slope at the regime 2--3 transition and no effect of temperature or α/¿ stability field. Another experimental piezometer relation for regime 1 of Hirth and Tullis <1992> differs in slope, suggesting that different recrystallization mechanisms require different piezometer calibrations. |
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Keywords
Mineral Physics, Creep and deformation, Physical Properties of Rocks, Plasticity, diffusion, and creep, Structural Geology, Microstructures, Tectonophysics, Rheology--crust and lithosphere, Tectonophysics, Stresses--crust and lithosphere |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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