Vorticity and strain analysis using Mohr diagrams |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Lithosphere Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China;3. CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China;4. Physics of the Earth, Sciences B, University of Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Fabric elements in naturally deformed rocks are usually of a highly variable nature, and measurements contain a high degree of uncertainty. Calculation of general deformation parameters such as finite strain, volume change or the vorticity number of the flow can be difficult with such data. We present an application of the Mohr diagram for stretch which can be used with poorly constrained data on stretch and rotation of lines to construct the best fit to the position gradient tensor; this tensor describes all deformation parameters. The method has been tested on a slate specimen, yielding a kinematic vorticity number of 0.8 ± 0.1. |
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