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- Title
- Quantification of mineral behavior in four dimensions : grain boundary and substructure dynamics in salt
- Related
- Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems, Vol. 13, No. 5, (2012), p. Q05005-1- Q05005-9
- DOI
- 10.1029/2012GC004057
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Borthwick, V. E
- Author/Creator
- Schmidt, S
- Author/Creator
- Piazolo, S
- Author/Creator
- Gundlach, C
- Description
- Here we present the first four dimensional (time and three dimensional space resolved) experiment on a strongly deformed geological material. Results show that even complicated microstructures with large continuous and discontinuous changes in crystallographic orientation can be resolved quantitatively. The details that can be resolved are unprecedented and therefore the presented technique promises to become influential in a wide range of geoscientific investigations. Grain and subgrain scale processes are fundamental to mineral deformation and associated Earth Dynamics, and time resolved observation of these processes is vital for establishing an in-depth understanding of the latter. However, until recently, in situ experiments were restricted to observations of two dimensional surfaces. We compared experimental results from two dynamic, in situ annealing experiments on a single halite crystal; a 2D experiment conducted inside the scanning electron microscope and a 3D X-ray diffraction experiment. This allowed us to evaluate the possible effects of the free surface on grain and subgrain processes. The extent to which surface effects cause experimental artifacts in 2D studies has long been questioned. Our study shows that, although the nature of recovery processes are the same, the area swept by subgrain boundaries is up to 5 times larger in the volume than observed on the surface. We suggest this discrepancy is due to enhanced drag force on subgrain boundaries by thermal surface grooving. Our results show that while it is problematic to derive absolute mobilities from 2D experiments, derived relative mobilities between boundaries with different misorientation angles can be used.
- Description
- 9 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- annealing
- Subject Keyword
- EBSD
- Subject Keyword
- halite
- Subject Keyword
- in situ
- Subject Keyword
- surface effects
- Subject Keyword
- X-ray diffraction
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/178657
- Identifier
- ISSN:1525-2027
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2011007604
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84861308590
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright 2012 by the American Geophysical Union. Originally published as Borthwick, V. E., S. Schmidt, S. Piazolo, and C. Gundlach (2012), Quantification of mineral behavior in four dimensions: Grain boundary and substructure dynamics in salt, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q05005. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
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