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Viscosity contrasts displayed in flow structures of a mountain namakier (Kuh-e-Namak - Dashti), between ‘weak’ second phase bearing rock salt and ‘strong’ pure rock salt types are studied for deformation mechanisms using detailed quantitative microstructural study. While the solid inclusions rich (“dirty”) rock salts contain disaggregated siltstone and dolomite interlayers, “clean” salts reveal microscopic hematite and remnants of abundant fluid inclusions in non-recrystallized cores of porphyroclasts. Although the flow in both, the recrystallized “dirty” and “clean” salt types is accommodated by combined mechanisms of pressure-solution creep (PS), grain boundary sliding (GBS), transgranular microcracking and dislocation creep accommodated grain boundary migration (GBM), their viscosity contrasts observed in the field outcrops are explained by: 1) enhanced ductility of “dirty” salts due to increased diffusion rates along the solid inclusion-halite contacts than along halite–halite contacts, and 2) slow rates of intergranular diffusion due to dissolved iron and inhibited dislocation creep due to hematite inclusions for “clean” salt types Rheological contrasts inferred by microstructural analysis between both salt rock classes apply in general for the “dirty” salt forming Lower Hormuz and the “clean” salt forming the Upper Hormuz of the Hormuz Formation and imply strain rate gradients or decoupling along horizons of mobilized salt types of different composition and microstructure. 相似文献
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The microstructure of halite from the subhorizontal, bedded Main Röt Evaporite Member at Hengelo, The Netherlands (AKZO well 382, depth interval of 420–460 m), was studied by transmitted and reflected light microscopy of gamma-irradiation decorated samples. Primary microstructures compare favourably with those found in recent ephemeral salt pans. Large, blocky, fluid-inclusion-poor halite grains and elongated chevrons are interpreted to have formed in the saline lake stage, while void-filling clear halite is interpreted to have formed during the desiccation stage of the salt pan. In addition, in all layers the grains are rich in deformation-related substructures such as slip bands and subgrains indicating strains of a few percent. The study of gamma-irradiation decorated thin sections shows that the main recrystallization mechanism is grain boundary migration. Grain boundary migration removes primary fluid inclusions and produces clear, strain-free new grains. Differential stresses as determined by subgrain size piezometry were 0.45–0.97 MPa. The deformation of the salt layers is probably related to Cretaceous inversion in the area. 相似文献
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Sergey Zubtsov Franois Renard Jean-Pierre Gratier Robert Guiguet Dag K Dysthe Vladimir Traskine 《Tectonophysics》2004,385(1-4):45-57
Experimental observations are reported of weakening of sediment-like aggregates by addition of hard particles. Sieved mixtures of calcite and halite grains are experimentally compacted in drained pressure cells in the presence of a saturated aqueous solution. The individual halite grains deform easily by pressure solution creep whereas calcite grains act as hard objects and resist compaction. The fastest rate of compaction of the mixed aggregate is not obtained for a 100% halite aggregate but for a content of halite grains between 45% and 75%. We propose that this unusual compaction behavior reflects the competition between two mechanisms at the grain scale: intergranular pressure solution at grain contacts and grain boundary healing between halite grains that prevent further compaction. 相似文献
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济阳拗陷东营凹陷盐岩中的烃类包裹体
及其地质意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文报道在东营凹陷盐岩中发现大量烃类包裹体,这证实盐岩曾经失去封闭能力,成为油气运移通道。在对其盐水包裹体进行均一温度测试时发现,由于捕获压力与实验环境压力差异很大,再加上岩盐在水中溶解度随温度升高而增大,导致测温过程盐水包裹体体积变化和拉伸效应明显,所以同期盐水包裹体的均一温度出现较大波动,结果也不可靠,而纯烃类包裹体在一定程度上可以避免溶解度变化的影响,其均一温度有一定指示意义。通过对岩盐中的烃类包裹体均一温度初步校正,结合埋藏史和热史分析,认为至少存在两期与盐岩层变形有关的烃类流体活动,活动时期分别在东营期和明化镇期。流体对岩盐颗粒滑动和盐岩层变形有极其重要的影响,重结晶的岩盐晶体及其中的流体包裹体是流体作用的直接证据。盐岩中的流体来源、运移方向、活动期次和流体作用下的盐岩变形温度和压力是需要解决的关键问题,这对于了解含油气盆地中盐岩层对油气成藏的控制作用有重要意义。 相似文献
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Along a NW-SE profile through the basement core, starting below the sedimentary unconformity and ending in the center of the nearly circular structure, the constituent quartz grains and their fluid inclusions exhibit the following characteristics:In the NW, fluid inclusions composed of CO2 and occasionally up to 50 Vol.% H2O occur along shock-induced planar elements following predominently {0 0 0 1} of coarse, largely unrecrystallized quartz grains. The planar elements are partly still open microcracks, partly they are healed, the fluid inclusions decorating the former sites of the cracks. Along these planar elements recrystallization into fine grained new quartz fabrics starts, this process increasing decidedly towards the southeast; nevertheless fluid inclusions are still retained. — Near and within the center of the dome the formerly coarse quartz grains are completely recrystallized to medium grained annealing fabrics, in which — surprizingly — the fluid inclusions have often retained their original positions relative to the old grains, so that their planar alignment now traverses the new grain boundaries. Here the enclosed fluid is pure CO2 as far as can be determined.On the basis of the homogenization temperatures of the fluid inclusions measured, and of independent petrologic geothermometry of the basement rocks near the center, the fluids trapped after the shock event had exhibited partial pressures of CO2 as high as 3 kbars at temperatures around 850° C. The derivation of these CO2-rich, post-shock fluids is either through release of older fluid inclusions from the lower crustal granulites affected by the catastrophic shattering event, or it is from a direct mantle source that might be genetically connected with the Vredefort event itself. 相似文献
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Ioannis Rigopoulos Basilios Tsikouras Panagiotis Pomonis Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou 《Engineering Geology》2011,117(1-2):104-113
The initiation and propagation of microcracks under stress are highly dependent upon the mineralogical and textural characteristics of the various lithotypes. Detailed observation and quantification of microcracks before and after uniaxial compression test were conducted. A fresh olivine-rich harzburgite and a serpentinized dunite were analyzed, collected from the Pindos and Vourinos ophiolites (northern Greece) respectively, in order to compare their microcrack patterns. Quantitative analysis indicated that during uniaxial compression the intragranular microcracks, which are the dominating crack-type, are gradually transformed or organized into transgranular cracks. Some of the newly formed transgranular cracks may also be a result of the growth of existing grain-boundary cracks. The new intragranular microcracks in the olivine-rich harzburgite are oriented predominantly parallel to the compressive stress direction, while those in the serpentinized dunite show a scattered orientation presumably due to the mesh texture of this rock-type. The new transgranular cracks of both peridotites tend to be subparallel to the compressive stress direction, however, many of them show a random orientation due to the fact that they have been formed as a result of the propagation of grain-boundary cracks. The occurrence of the soft serpentine along fracture surfaces of olivine, when it is in assemblage with orthopyroxene, tends to absorb the applied stress hampering the development of microcracks in olivine. On the other hand in serpentinized peridotites, the microcracks are enhanced in olivine because it is surrounded by large amounts of the much softer and flexible serpentine. Microcracks are usually formed along the cleavage planes of orthopyroxene porphyroclasts, indicating that such crystallographic preferred orientations act as planes of weakness, controlling the direction of the crack paths. Cr-spinel grains likely comprise locations of initiation of microcracks due to their very hard nature and different mechanical behaviour relative to the surrounding silicate phases. Knowledge of the mineralogical and textural characteristics may assist in the prediction of potential development of failure surfaces of an ultrabasic rock in-service. 相似文献
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Victoria Shushakova Edwin R. Fuller Jr. Siegfried Siegesmund 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,69(4):1263-1279
Microstructure‐based finite-element analysis with a microcracking algorithm was used to simulate an actual degradation phenomenon of marble structures, i.e., microcracking. Both microcrack initiation and crack propagation were characterized, as were their dependence on lattice preferred orientation (LPO), grain shape preferred orientation (SPO), grain size, marble composition (calcite and dolomite) and grain‐boundary fracture toughness. Two LPOs were analyzed: a random orientation distribution function and an orientation distribution function with strong directional crystalline texture generated from a March–Dollase distribution. Three SPOs were considered: equiaxed grains; elongated grains and a mixture of equiaxed and elongated grains. Three different grain sizes were considered: fine grains of order 200 μm (only calcitic marble); medium size grains of order 1 mm (calcitic and dolomitic marbles); and large grains of order 2 mm (only dolomitic marble). The fracture surface energy for the grain boundaries, γig, was chosen to be 20 and 40 % of the fracture surface energy of a grain, γxtal, so that both intergranular and transgranular fracture were possible. Studies were performed on these idealized marble microstructures to elucidate the range of microcracking responses. Simulations were performed for both heating and cooling by 50 °C in steps of 1 °C. Microcracking results were correlated with the thermoelastic responses, which are indicators related to degradation. The results indicate that certain combinations of LPO, SPO, grain size, grain‐boundary fracture toughness and marble composition have a significant influence on the thermal-elastic response of marble. Microstructure with the smallest grain size and the highest degree of SPO and LPO had less of a tendency to microcrack. Additionally, with increasing SPO and LPO microcracking becomes more spatially anisotropic. A significant observation for all microstructures was an asymmetry in microcracking upon heating and cooling: more microcracking was observed upon cooling than upon heating. Given an identical microstructure and crystallographic texture, calcite showed larger thermal stresses than dolomite, had an earlier onset of microcracking upon heating and cooling, and a greater microcracked area at a given temperature differential. Thermal expansion coefficients with and without microcracking were also determined. 相似文献
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Abstract: Advanced techniques are examined to observe microstructure of rocks using image analysis combined with methods such as the fluorescent approach and the application of optical characteristics of minerals. Analyzed are discrimination of grains in rocks, distribution patterns of grain orientation in sandstone, changes of grain shape as weathering advances and distribution patterns of microcracks in granite. In Shirahama sandstone, relatively large and flat grains are orientated parallel to the bedding on the plane perpendicular to the bedding, while grains on the plane parallel to the bedding show random patterns. In weathered granite, it is clarified that the grain surface becomes complex as weathering advances and differences among three major mineral species are identified. In Inada granite, intracrystalline cracks predominate over intercrystalline cracks and grain boundary cracks both in total length and number. Furthermore, three types of microcracks show different orientations; the intercrystalline cracks show a dominant orientation which coincides with the orientation of the rift plane, the easiest plane to split, while the intracrystalline cracks and grain boundary cracks show no preferred orientation. 相似文献
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Zsolt Schléder János L. Urai Sofie Nollet Christoph Hilgers 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2008,97(5):1045-1056
Zechstein (Z1) rocksalt from the Fulda basin, from the immediate vicinity of the Hessen potash bed is folded into tight to
isoclinal folds which are cut by an undeformed, 1 cm thick, coarse-grained halite vein. Microstructures were investigated
in etched, gamma-irradiated thin sections from both the wall rock and the vein. The lack of synsedimentary dissolution structures
and the widespread occurrence of plate-shaped and hopper grains in the wall-rock suggests that the sedimentary environment
was perennial lake. Deformation microstructures are in good agreement with solution-precipitation creep process, and salt
flow under very low differential stress. Strength contrast between anhydrite-rich and anhydrite-poor layers caused the small
scale folding in the halite beds. The vein is completely sealed and composed mainly of euhedral to subhedral halite grains,
which often overgrow the wall-rock grains. Those microstructures, together with the presence of occasional fluid inclusion
bands, suggest that the crystals grew into a solution-filled open space. Based on considerations on the maximum value of in-situ
differential stress, the dilatancy criteria, the amount of released fluids from the potash bed during metamorphism and the
volume change, it is proposed that the crack was generated by hydrofracturing of the rocksalt due to the presence of the salt-metamorphic
fluid at near-lithostatic pressure. 相似文献
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《Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy》2000,25(2):149-154
Rock salt formations are prime candidates for underground cavities or radioactive waste disposal sites, primarily because of their extremely low permeabilities. Combined gas-permeability and P- and S-wave velocity measurements were carried out on natural rock salt samples in order to investigate the transport properties of rock salt under mechanical stresses. Experiments were done at temperatures up to 60 °C under conditions of hydrostatic compaction and triaxial compressive and extensional strain. The crack-sensitivity of P- and S-wave velocities is used for monitoring the in situ state of the microcracking during deformation. Triaxial deformation of the compacted rock salt samples is accompanied by the onset of dilatancy, that is, the opening of microcracks. The orientation of cracks is controlled by the symmetry of the applied stress field (compressive or extensional). Cracks are mostly oriented parallel to the maximum principal stress direction leading to an anisotropic crack array within the samples. A marked permeability increase is observed under compressive strain because in this case an interconnecting permeability network is generated parallel to the deformation and measuring axis. The inversions of P- and S-wave velocities are used to define the boundary between the dilatant and compressive domains (dilatancy boundary). The results confirm the equation for the dilatancy boundary given by Cristescu & Hunsche (1998). 相似文献
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唯象学本构模型不能很好解决诸如夹杂含量、温度、应变速率等对盐岩力学性质的影响,更难以解释盐岩变形机制。盐岩为石岩晶体组成,其变形机制主要由多晶结构所控制,故基于固体位错理论研究方法建立的盐岩塑性本构模型更能反映盐岩的变形机制。研究表明,盐岩的塑性-蠕变交互作用机制是（亚）晶粒内部位错的滑移与（亚）晶界及其干涉面内位错的攀移运动之间的耦合。基于此,可确定亚晶（或晶粒）平均尺寸与流动应力之间的关系、（亚）晶内的位错平均密度;建立微观参量（位错、亚晶直径、亚晶界宽度等）演化模式;根据Orowan定律建立盐岩微观-宏观变形联系,从而导出盐岩塑性本构方程。导出的本构方程体现了盐岩塑性-蠕变变形的物理机制,相对于传统的塑性本构方程具有更好的物理意义。 相似文献
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矿物成分和细观结构与岩石材料力学性质的关系 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
岩石材料的宏观力学性质取决于其矿物成分和细观结构。使用材料试验机,测定了岩浆岩、化学沉积岩以及碎屑沉积岩9种岩样的力学性质参数。采用X射线衍射方法,测定了相应岩样的矿物成分。使用扫描电镜,观测了相应岩样的细观结构。分析了矿物成分和细观结构分别与力学性质参数的定性关系。对各组岩样的研究分析表明:存在于颗粒边界的裂隙会显著降低岩样的抗拉强度,长石矿物是岩样脆性的主要来源,颗粒大小和面理结构会对岩石的内摩擦角造成显著的影响,细晶花岗岩中较高的方解石含量使其抗压强度和弹性模量较小,细晶花岗岩中石英含量较高,其粘聚力较大;石盐晶体的细小与紧密堆积,造成了相应岩样的膨胀或蠕变特性,有机质的存在会对岩盐的力学性能产生显著的弱化;岩样中颗粒间的弱带,会弱化岩石材料的力学性能。深灰色泥岩中石英胶结物的次生加大现象,使得深灰色泥岩的力学性能得到提高。 相似文献
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C.J. Talbot 《Journal of Structural Geology》1979,1(1):5-18
A substantial glacier of rock salt flows downslope north eastwards from the salt dome at Kuh-e-Namak (Dashti), and this work describes and attempts to rationalise the deformation structures within it. The crystalline halite in both the salt dome and the glacier consists of layers of different colours, grain size and relatively insoluble mineral content. The colour bands develop folds which, together with tectonic slides, thin and multiply the colour bands in successive zones down the length of the glacier.The folds occur as trains in which the individual components increase in maturity as they move downstream. The folds characteristically mature over short distances and become isoclinal between successive fold generation zones so that refolding is rarely obvious. All the folds seen can be attributed to changes in the boundary conditions of the glacier—either of a general or local nature. Some folds can be explained in terms of either a former increase in volume or the current wasting of the salt sheet—but most obviously relate to irregularities in the bedrock channel negotiated by the salt during its downslope flow. Expressed in these terms most folds form where the salt glacier decelerates, and become inconspicuous where it accelerates.The relative volume of the glacier slowed by each bedrock irregularity impeding its flow decreases systematically down its length. This is thought to be due to a general decrease in competence of the rock salt down the length of the glacier as a result of a decrease in the grain size of the halite and the relative increase in the proportion of insoluble minerals due to the loss of halite by solution. The downstream decrease in grain size is similar to the process of mylonitisation in other rocks, and tends to be concentrated in particular parts of each fold generation zone.A foliation is defined to differing degrees in various parts of the glacier by shape fabrics in one or more of the glacier's three components: porphyroclastic remnants of the coarse grained transparent halite characteristic of the salt dome, a fine grained halite groundmass, and the entrained insoluble minerals. The clear halite porphyroclasts appear least susceptible to strain but their presence controls whether or not the colour bands fold near irregularities in the bedrock channel.Similarities between the structures in the salt glacier and those developed in various other rocks are obvious. 相似文献
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Xianda Shen Jihui Ding Chlo Arson Judith S. Chester Frederick M. Chester 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2021,45(1):28-44
The dependence of rock behavior on the deformation rate is still not well understood. In salt rock, the fundamental mechanisms that drive the accumulation of irreversible deformation, the reduction of stiffness, and the development of hysteresis during cyclic loading are usually attributed to intracrystalline plasticity and diffusion. We hypothesize that at low pressure and low temperature, the rate‐dependent behavior of salt rock is governed by water‐assisted diffusion along grain boundaries. Accordingly, a chemo‐mechanical homogenization framework is proposed in which the representative elementary volume (REV) is viewed as a homogeneous polycrystalline matrix that contains sliding grain‐boundary cracks. The slip is related to the mass of salt ions that diffuse along the crack surface. The relationship between fluid inclusion‐scale and REV‐scale stresses and strains is established by using the Mori–Tanaka homogenization scheme. It is noted from the model that a lower strain rate and a larger number of sliding cracks enhance stiffness reduction and hysteresis. Thinner sliding cracks (i.e., thinner brine films) promote stiffness reduction and accelerate stress redistributions. The larger the volume fraction of the crack inclusions, the larger the REV deformation and the larger the hysteresis. Results presented in this study shed light on the mechanical behavior of salt rock that is pertinent to the design of geological storage facilities that undergo cyclic unloading, which could help optimize the energy production cycle with low carbon emissions. 相似文献
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Dynamic recrystallization of wet synthetic polycrystalline halite: dependence of grain size distribution on flow stress, temperature and strain 总被引：4，自引：2，他引：4
It is often observed that dynamic recrystallization results in a recrystallized grain size distribution with a mean grain size that is inversely related to the flow stress. However, it is still open to discussion if theoretical models that underpin recrystallized grain size–stress relations offer a satisfactorily microphysical basis. The temperature dependence of recrystallized grain size, predicted by most of these models, is rarely observed, possibly because it is usually not systematically investigated. In this study, samples of wet halite containing >10 ppm water (by weight) were deformed in axial compression at 50 MPa confining pressure. The evolution of the recrystallized grain size distribution with strain was investigated using experiments achieving natural strains of 0.07, 0.12 and 0.25 at a strain rate of 5×10−7 s−1 and a temperature of 125 °C. The stress and temperature dependence of recrystallized grain size was systematically investigated using experiments achieving fixed strains of 0.29–0.46 (and one to a strain of 0.68) at constant strain rates of 5×10−7–1×10−4 s−1 and temperatures of 75–240 °C, yielding stresses of 7–22 MPa. The microstructures and full grain size distributions of all samples were analyzed. The results showed that deformation occurred by a combination of dislocation creep and solution-precipitation creep. Dynamic recrystallization occurred in all samples and was dominated by fluid assisted grain boundary migration. During deformation, grain boundary migration results in a competition between grain growth due to the removal of grains with high internal strain energy and grain size reduction due to grain dissection (i.e. moving boundaries that crosscut or consume parts of neighbouring grains). At steady state, grain growth and grain size reduction processes balance, yielding constant flow stress and recrystallized grain size that is inversely related to stress and temperature. Evaluation of the recrystallized grain size data against the different models for the development of mean steady state recrystallized grain size revealed that the data are best described by a model based on the hypothesis that recrystallized grain size organizes itself in the boundary between the (grain size sensitive) solution-precipitation and (grain size insensitive) dislocation creep fields. Application of a piezometer, calibrated using the recrystallized grain size data, to natural halite rock revealed that paleostresses can vary significantly with temperature (up to a factor of 2.5 for T=50–200 °C) and that the existing temperature independent recrystallized grain size–stress piezometer may significantly underestimate flow stresses in natural halite rock. 相似文献
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We use quantitative microstructural analysis including misorientation analysis based on electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data to investigate deformation mechanisms of naturally deformed plagioclase in an amphibolite gabbro mylonite. The sample is from lower oceanic crust exposed near the Southwest Indian Ridge, and it has a high ratio of recrystallized matrix grains to porphyroclasts. Microstructures preserved in porphyroclasts suggest that early deformation was achieved principally by dislocation creep with subgrain rotation recrystallization; recrystallized grain (average diameter ∼8 μm) microstructures indicate that subsequent grain boundary sliding (GBS) was active in the continued deformation of the recrystallized matrix. The recrystallized matrix shows four-grain junctions, randomized misorientation axes, and a shift towards higher angles for neighbor-pair misorientations, all indicative of GBS. The matrix grains also exhibit a shape preferred orientation, a weak lattice preferred orientation consistent with slip on multiple slip systems, and intragrain microstructures indicative of dislocation movement. The combination of these microstructures suggest deformation by dislocation-accommodated GBS (DisGBS). Strain localization within the recrystallized matrix was promoted by a transition from grain size insensitive dislocation creep to grain size sensitive GBS, and sustained by the maintenance of a small grain size during superplasticity. 相似文献
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CHEN Yong WANG Jiuyuan ZHOU Zhenzhu CHEN Xiaolan ZHAO Zhenyu SHI Peng HAN Yun 《《地质学报》英文版》2021,95(3):1008-1015
Trapped ancient microorganisms in halite fluid inclusions are of special interest to the understanding of biology and ecology in salt lake systems.With the integration of petrologic,microthermometric,and Raman spectroscopic analyses,this study utilizes fluid inclusions from Chaka Salt Lake,eastern Qaidam Basin,NW China,to assess the possibility of microorganism-trapping by fluid inclusions.Here,we report that the solid phase of some primary fluid inclusions contains carotenoids,which is interpreted as evidence of Dunaliella algae,and that the coexisting liquid phase comprises SO_4~(2-).The homogenization temperatures of single-phase primary fluid inclusions indicate that the precipitation temperature of the Holocene halite in Chaka Salt Lake ranges from 13.5°C to 36.4°C.This suggests that fluid inclusions in halite are a good medium for trapping and preserving ancient microorganisms and organic matter in salt lakes,and that Raman spectroscopy has good potential to identify halophilic archaea. 相似文献
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It is now admitted that the high strength of the subcontinental uppermost mantle controls the first order strength of the lithosphere. An incipient narrow continental rift therefore requires an important weakening in the subcontinental mantle to promote lithosphere-scale strain localisation and subsequent continental break-up. Based on the classical rheological layering of the continental lithosphere, the origin of a lithospheric mantle shear/fault zone has been attributed to the existence of a brittle uppermost mantle. However, the lack of mantle earthquakes and the absence of field occurrences in the mantle fault zone led to the idea of a ductile-related weakening mechanism, instead of brittle-related, for the incipient mantle strain localisation. In order to provide evidence for this mechanism, we investigated the microstructures and lattice preferred orientations of mantle rocks in a kilometre-scale ductile strain gradient in the Ronda Peridotites (Betics cordillera, Spain). Two main features were shown: 1) grain size reduction by dynamic recrystallisation is found to be the only relevant weakening mechanism responsible for strain localisation and 2), with increasing strain, grain size reduction is coeval with both the scattering of orthopyroxene neoblasts and the decrease of the olivine fabric strength (LPO). These features allow us to propose that grain boundary sliding (GBS) partly accommodates dynamic recrystallisation and subsequent grain size reduction.A new GBS-related experimental deformation mechanism, called dry-GBS creep, has been shown to accommodate grain size reduction during dynamic recrystallisation and to induce significant weakening at low temperatures (T < 800 °C). The present microstructural study demonstrates the occurrence of the grain size sensitive dry-GBS creep in natural continental peridotites and allows us to propose a new rheological model for the subcontinental mantle. During dynamic recrystallisation, the accommodation of grain size reduction by three competing deformation mechanisms, i.e., dislocation, diffusion and dry-GBS creeps, involves a grain size reduction controlled by the sole dislocation creep at high temperatures (> 800 °C), whereas dislocation creep and dry-GBS creep, are the accommodating mechanisms at low temperatures (< 800 °C). Consequently, weakening is very limited if the grain size reduction occurs at temperatures higher than 800 °C, whereas a large weakening is expected in lower temperatures. This large weakening related to GBS creep would occur at depths lower than 60 km and therefore provides an explanation for ductile strain localisation in the uppermost continental mantle, thus providing an alternative to the brittle mantle. 相似文献
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Fluid Assisted Recrystallization in Upper Mantle Peridotite Xenoliths from Kimberlites 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
The development of recrystallization microstructures has beenstudied in some ‘hot deformed’ peridotite xenolithsfrom the Thaba Putsoa Kimberlite pipe in S. Africa. The xenolithswere deformed to high strains by dislocation creep in the uppermantle and then annealed as they were uplifted by the kimberlitefluid. Static recrystallization occurs during annealing producingeuhedral shaped ‘tablet’ grains. Tablet grain boundariesare sub-parallel to crystal growth habits in olivine and orthopyroxene.This microstructure is characteristic of recrystallization byfluid-assisted grain boundary migration, where a thin fluidfilm is present along the boundary. There is microstructural evidence for a complex fluid infiltrationhistory involving an early Fe-Ti rich metasomatic silicate fluidand later kimberlite fluids. Minor partial melting of clinopyroxenecan also be inferred, which, is consistent with infiltrationof a kimberlite-derived C-H-O rich fluid into the xenoliths.Any of these fluids could have been present along the tabletgrain boundaries during static recrystallization. The occurrenceof tablet grains in ‘cold deformed’ xenoliths, whichhave a simple infiitration history, suggests that a C-H-O richfluid derived from kimberlite is the most probable boundaryfluid in both the hot and cold deformed xenoliths. The occurrence of dynamically stable semi-continuous grain boundaryfluid films during re crystallization indicates that mechanismsof fluid segregation and transport in the upper mantle are likelyto be dependent upon the type of deformation and recrystallizationmechanisms operating. In addition the destabilization of thestatic fluid distribution by grain boundary migration and deformationwill also influence the rheology of the upper mantle where fluidsare present.
*Present address: Mineralogy Research Centre, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. 相似文献