Effect of water on the dislocation creep microstructure and flow stress of quartz and implications for the recrystallized grain size piezometer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Stipp, Michael ^a   Tullis, Jan ^b   Behrens, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DISLOCATION; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 33744925176     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003852     Document Type: Article

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