Microstructure and fabric development in ice: Lessons learned from in situ experiments and implications for understanding rock evolution |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia;2. Institute of Geosciences, University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany;3. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems/GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia;4. ANSTO Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, Lucas Heights, NSW 2232, Australia;1. Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA;2. Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA;3. University of Palermo, Department of Mathematics, Palermo, Italy;1. Department of Geology, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700019, India;2. Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India;1. College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, China;2. Polar Research Center, Jilin University, China;1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK;2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;3. Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands;1. WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland;2. Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l''Environnement, CNRS/Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France |
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| Abstract: | In this contribution we present a review of the evolution of microstructures and fabric in ice. Based on the review we show the potential use of ice as an analogue for rocks by considering selected examples that can be related to quartz-rich rocks. Advances in our understanding of the plasticity of ice have come from experimental investigations that clearly show that plastic deformation of polycrystalline ice is initially produced by basal slip. Interaction of dislocations play an essential role for dynamic recrystallization processes involving grain nucleation and grain-boundary migration during the steady-state flow of ice. To support this review we describe deformation in polycrystalline ‘standard’ water-ice and natural-ice samples, summarize other experiments involving bulk samples and use in situ plane-strain deformation experiments to illustrate the link between microstructure and fabric evolution, rheological response and dominant processes. Most terrestrial ice masses deform at low shear stresses by grain-size-insensitive creep with a stress exponent (n ≤ 3). However, from experimental observations it is shown that the distribution of plastic activity producing the microstructure and fabric is initially dominated by grain-boundary migration during hardening (primary creep), followed by dynamic recrystallization during transient creep (secondary creep) involving new grain nucleation, with further cycles of grain growth and nucleation resulting in near steady-state creep (tertiary creep). The microstructural transitions and inferred mechanism changes are a function of local and bulk variations in strain energy (i.e. dislocation densities) with surface grain-boundary energy being secondary, except in the case of static annealing. As there is a clear correspondence between the rheology of ice and the high-temperature deformation dislocation creep regime of polycrystalline quartz, we suggest that lessons learnt from ice deformation can be used to interpret polycrystalline quartz deformation. Different to quartz, ice allows experimental investigations at close to natural strain rate, and through in-situ experiments offers the opportunity to study the dynamic link between microstructural development, rheology and the identification of the dominant processes. |
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| Keywords: | Ice Microstructure Crystallographic orientations In situ experiments Analogues |
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