1 New Developments in Deformation Studies: High-Strain
Deformation
Stephen J. Mackwell, Mervyn S. Paterson
INTRODUCTION .................................................... 1
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR LARGE STRAINS .......................... 1
Coaxial deformation .......................................... 2
Rotational deformation ....................................... 2
LARGE-STRAIN BEHAVIOR IN ROCKS - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ......... 4
LARGE-STRAIN BEHAVIOR IN ROCKS - CASE STUDIES ................... 6
Monomineralic crustal rocks .................................. 6
Monomineralic mantle rocks ................................... 9
Polyphase systems ........................................... 12
SUMMARY ........................................................ 13
APPENDIX I: Stress Analysis for Diagonally Split-Cylinder
Shear Test ........................................ 14
APPENDIX II: The Torsion Test .................................. 15
REFERENCES ..................................................... 17
2 New Developments in Deformation Experiments at High
Pressure
William B. Durham, Donald J. Weidner, Shun-ichiro Karato,
Yanbin Wang
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 21
Why is pressure important? .................................. 22
Terminology related to strength and deformation ............. 23
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HIGH-PRESSURE APPARATUS ..................... 24
To 5 GPa: Cylindrical devices ............................... 24
5 GPa and above: Anvil devices .............................. 26
MEASUREMENT METHODS AT HIGH PRESSURE ........................... 27
Stress measurement .......................................... 27
Strain rate measurement ..................................... 32
MODERN TECHNIQUES FOR DEFORMATION AT HIGH PRESSURES ............ 34
Sample assemblies ........................................... 34
Modifications to the sample assembly in a multianvil
press ....................................................... 36
Diamond-anvil cell .......................................... 37
Deformation-DIA ............................................. 37
Rotational Drickamer apparatus (RDA) ........................ 40
SUMMARY AND PERSPECTIVES ....................................... 44
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................ 45
REFERENCES ..................................................... 46
3 Deformation of Granitic Rocks: Experimental Studies and
Natural Examples
Jan Tullis
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 51
CRYSTAL PLASTICITY PROCESSES ................................... 52
MONOMINERALIC AGGREGATES: QUARTZ ............................... 55
Water ....................................................... 55
Slip systems ................................................ 56
Recrystallization mechanisms and microstructures ............ 56
LPOs ........................................................ 61
Flow laws and piezometers ................................... 64
Comparisons with naturally deformed quartzites .............. 65
MONOMINERALIC AGGREGATES: FELDSPAR ............................. 70
Water ....................................................... 71
Slip systems ................................................ 71
Recrystallization mechanisms and microstructures ............ 71
LPOs ........................................................ 74
Flow laws and piezometers ................................... 74
Comparisons with naturally deformed feldspars ............... 75
POLYPHASE AGGREGATES ........................................... 78
Quartz-feldspar aggregates .................................. 78
Effects of mica ............................................. 79
Comparisons with naturally deformed granitic rocks .......... 81
APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS .................................. 85
Information from dislocation creep microstructures .......... 85
Flow laws for crustal rocks ................................. 86
Assessing the strength of the crust ......................... 88
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................ 89
REFERENCES ..................................................... 89
4 Laboratory Constraints on the Rheology of the Upper Mantle
Greg Hirth
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 97
BACKGROUND ..................................................... 97
Brittle deformation and low-temperature plasticity .......... 97
High-temperature creep ...................................... 99
Brittle-ductile/brittle-plastic transitions ................ 102
INSIGHTS, CAVEATS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT APPLYING LABORATORY
DATA TO CONSTRAIN THE RHEOLOGY OF THE OCEANIC MANTLE .......... 103
Strength of the lithosphere and the depth of oceanic
earthquakes ................................................ 106
Strength of plate boundaries in the viscous regime ......... 109
High-temperature creep and the viscosity of the mantle ..... 112
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 116
REFERENCES .................................................... 116
5 Partial Melting and Deformation
David L. Kohlstedt
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 121
MELT DISTRIBUTIONS IN NON-DEFORMING ROCKS ..................... 121
DEFORMATION OF PARTIALLY MOLTEN ROCKS ......................... 127
MELT DISTRIBUTIONS IN DEFORMING ROCKS ......................... 131
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 134
REFERENCES .................................................... 134
6 Dislocations and Slip Systems of Mantle Minerals
Patrick Cordier
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 137
BASIC CONSIDERATIONS .......................................... 137
EXPERIMENTAL ADVANCES ......................................... 142
High-pressure deformation experiments ...................... 143
Transmission electron microscopy ........................... 144
X-ray diffraction peak broadening .......................... 147
PLASTICITY OF MANTLE PHASES ................................... 147
SiO2 system ................................................ 149
Olivine, wadsleyite, ringwoodite ........................... 153
Garnets .................................................... 167
WHERE DO WE STAND? ............................................ 171
PERSPECTIVES: FROM ATOMIC TO THE GLOBAL SCALE ................. 173
REFERENCES .................................................... 174
7 Instability of Deformation
Harry W. Green, II, Chris Marone
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 181
SHEARING INSTABILITY .......................................... 182
EXPERIMENTAL HIGH-PRESSURE FAULTING MECHANISMS ................ 185
Dehydration-induced embrittlement .......................... 185
Transformation-induced faulting ............................ 188
"Brittle" versus "plastic" shear failure ................... 192
Thermal runaway due to shear heating ....................... 192
APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE MECHANISMS .......................... 193
Earthquake distribution with depth ......................... 193
Mineral reactions available to trigger earthquakes ......... 194
CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS .................................. 196
REFERENCES .................................................... 197
8 Brittle Failure of Ice
Erland M. Schulson
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 201
FAILURE UNDER TENSION ......................................... 202
Characteristics ............................................ 202
Failure mechanisms ......................................... 205
Ductile ice ................................................ 206
BRITTLE FAILURE UNDER COMPRESSION ............................. 207
Overview ................................................... 207
Brittle compressive failure under multiaxial loading ....... 210
MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES AND MECHANISMS OF BRITTLE
COMPRESSIVE FAILURE ........................................... 222
Longitudinal splits, material collapse and wing cracks ..... 222
Shear faults and comb-cracks ............................... 225
DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITION UNDER COMPRESSION ............... 234
Definition ................................................. 234
Transition models .......................................... 235
ON THE FORMATION OF "LEADS" IN THE ARCTIC SEA ICE COVER ....... 239
ICE AND ROCK .................................................. 245
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 246
REFERENCES .................................................... 246
9 Seismic Wave Attenuation: Energy Dissipation in
Viscoelastic Crystalline Solids
Reid F. Cooper
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 253
LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY: A CHEMICAL KINETICS PERSPECTIVE ....... 253
SPRING AND DASHPOT MODELS OF VISCOELASTICITY .................. 256
ATTENUATION AND THE LINEAR VISCOELASTIC MODELS ................ 259
THE ATTENUATION BAND/HIGH-TEMPERATURE BACKGROUND .............. 262
ISOLATION/CHARACTERIZATION OF A SINGLE PHYSICAL MECHANISM
PRODUCING A POWER-LAW ATTENUATION SPECTRUM: THE INTRINSIC
TRANSIENT IN DIFFUSIONAL CREEP ................................ 266
DATA EXTRAPOLATION AND APPLICABILITY OF EXPERIMENTS
TO GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS ..................................... 271
SUBGRAIN ABSORPTION AND THE ATTENUATION BAND .................. 276
IMPACT OF PARTIAL MELTING ..................................... 278
IMPACTS OF DEFECT CHEMISTRY (INCLUDING WATER) AND
THE STRUCTURE(S) OF INTERFACES ................................ 283
FINAL COMMENTS ................................................ 286
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 286
REFERENCES .................................................... 287
10 Texture and Anisotropy
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 291
MEASUREMENTS OF TEXTURES ...................................... 291
Overview ................................................... 291
X-ray pole figure goniometer ............................... 292
Synchrotron X-rays ......................................... 292
Neutron diffraction ........................................ 294
Transmission electron microscope (ТЕМ and HVEM) ............ 295
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) ......................... 296
Comparison of methods ...................................... 296
DATA ANALYSIS ................................................. 297
Orientation distributions .................................. 297
From pole figures to ODF ................................... 298
Use of whole diffraction spectra ........................... 299
Statistical considerations of single orientation
measurements ............................................... 300
From textures to elastic anisotropy ........................ 301
POLYCRYSTAL PLASTICITY SIMULATIONS ............................ 302
General comments ........................................... 302
Deformation ................................................ 303
Recrystallization .......................................... 306
APPLICATIONS OF POLYCRYSTAL PLASTICITY ........................ 307
Introduction ............................................... 307
Coaxial thinning versus non-coaxial shearing (calcite) ..... 307
Anisotropy in the upper mantle (olivine) ................... 309
Lower mantle ............................................... 312
Core ....................................................... 314
PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES .................................... 316
CONCLUSIONS ................................................... 322
REFERENCES .................................................... 323
11 Modeling Deformation of Polycrystalline Rocks
Paul R. Dawson
MODELING PRELIMINARIES ........................................ 331
Length scales .............................................. 331
General comments ........................................... 332
Small-scale simulations .................................... 332
Large-scale simulations .................................... 333
SINGLE CRYSTAL CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOR .......................... 334
Slip systems ............................................... 334
Crystal kinematics ......................................... 334
Crystal compliance and stiffness ........................... 335
POLYCRYSTAL CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS ............................ 336
Orientational averages ..................................... 336
Linking crystal responses to continuum scale motion ........ 337
SMALL-SCALE HYBRID ELEMENT FORMULATION ........................ 337
LARGE-SCALE VELOCITY-PRESSURE FORMULATION ..................... 339
HALITE TEXTURE EVOLUTION: A SMALL-SCALE APPLICATION ........... 340
Generalities ............................................... 340
Simulation specifics ....................................... 342
Simulation results ......................................... 342
MANTLE CONVECTION - A LARGE-SCALE APPLICATION ................. 343
Generalities ............................................... 343
Simulation specifics ....................................... 345
Simulation results ......................................... 346
SUMMARY ....................................................... 350
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 350
REFERENCES .................................................... 350
12 Seismic Anisotropy and Global Geodynamics
Jean-Paul Montagner, Laurent Guillot
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 353
CAUSES OF SEISMIC ANISOTROPY FROM MICROSCOPIC TO LARGE
SCALE ......................................................... 354
Shape Preferred Orientation (S.P.O.) ....................... 354
Lattice Preferred Orientation (L.P.O.) ..................... 355
EFFECT OF ANISOTROPY ON SEISMIC WAVES ......................... 357
Body waves ................................................. 358
Surface waves .............................................. 359
Comparison between surface wave anisotropy and SKS
splitting data ............................................. 363
ANISOTROPY IN THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF THE EARTH AND THEIR
GEODYNAMIC APPLICATIONS ....................................... 365
Reference 1-D Earth models ................................. 366
Evidence of anisotropy in the upper 410 km of the mantle ... 367
Oceanic plates ............................................. 367
Continents ................................................. 370
Anisotropy in the transition zone .......................... 372
Anisotropy in the D''-layer ................................ 372
NUMERICAL MODELING AND BOUNDARY LAYERS ........................ 373
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 377
APPENDIX A Basic Theory of Wave Propagation in Anisotropic
Media ............................................. 377
APPENDIX B Tensors and Matrices Manipulations ................ 378
REFERENCES .................................................... 380
13 Theoretical Analysis of Shear Localization in the
Lithosphere
David Bercovici, Shun-ichiro Karato
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 387
THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES ..................................... 388
SHEAR LOCALIZING FEEDBACK MECHANISMS .......................... 389
Thermal feedback with decay-loss healing ................... 390
Simple-damage feedback with decay-loss healing ............. 396
Grain-size feedback ........................................ 399
Thermal and simple-damage feedbacks with diffusive-loss
healing .................................................... 405
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS .......................................... 411
Two-dimensional examples ................................... 411
More sophisticated damage theories ......................... 413
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ....................................... 413
REFERENCES .................................................... 418
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