The interaction between reaction and deformation: An experimental study using a biotite + plagioclase + quartz gneiss

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 743-762

  Holyoke II, C W ^a,b   Tullis, J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation enhanced reaction; Phase strength contrast; Reaction enhanced deformation; Shear zone; Strain localization

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; METAMORPHISM; PLAGIOCLASE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; QUARTZ; SHEAR ZONE;

EID: 33749820671     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00666.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Austrheim, H. & Boundy, T. M., 1994. Pseudotachylytes generated during seismic faulting and eclogitization of the deep crust. Science, 265, 82-83.
2. Bell, T. H., 1978. Syntectonic nucleation of new grains in deformed mica. Tectonophysics, 51, T31-T37.
3. Berger, A. & Stünitz, H., 1996. Deformation mechanisms and reaction of hornblende; examples from the Bergell tonalite (Central Alps). Tectonophysics, 257, 149-174.
4. Boullier, A. M. & Gueguen, Y., 1975. SP-mylonites; origin of some mylonites by superplastic flow. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 50, 93-104.
5. Brodie, K. H., 1995. The development of orientated symplectites during deformation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 499-508.
6. Brodie, K. H. & Rutter, E. H., 1985. On the relationship between deformation and metamorphism, with special reference to the behavior of basic rocks. In: Metamorphic Reactions; Kinetics, Textures, and Deformation (eds Thompson, A. & Rubie, D.), pp. 138-179, Springer-Verlag, New York.
7. Brodie, K. H. & Rutter, E. H., 2000. Rapid stress release caused by polymorphic transformation during the experimental deformation of quartz. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3089-3092.
8. Burnley, P. C. & Green, H. W., 1989. Stress dependence of the mechanism of the olivine-spinel transformation. Nature, 338, 753-756.
9. Connolly, J. A. D., 2005. Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming; a tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236, 524-541.
10. 2O ice. Physical Review Letters, 86, 668-671.
11. Etheridge, M. A. & Hobbs, B. E., 1974. Chemical and deformational controls on recrystallization of mica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 43, 111-124.
12. Fortier, S. M. & Giletti, B. J., 1991. Volume self-diffusion of oxygen in biotite, muscovite, and phlogopite micas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 55, 1319-1330.
13. Gleason, G. C. & Tullis, J., 1995. A flow law for dislocation creep of quartz aggregates determined with the molten salt cell. Tectonophysics, 247, 1-23.
14. Handy, M. R. & Stünitz, H., 2002. Strain localization by fracturing and reaction weakening; a mechanism for initiating exhumation of subcontinental mantle beneath rifted margins. In: Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics; Current Status and Future Perspectives (eds de Meer, S., Drury, M. R., de Bresser, J. H. P. & Pennock, G. M.), pp. 387-407, Geological Society of London, London.
15. Heilbronner, R. & Tullis, J., 2002. The effect of static annealing on microstructures and crystallographic preferred orientations of quartzites experimentally deformed in axial compression and shear. In: Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics; Current Status and Future Perspectives, Special Publication 200, (eds de Meer, S., Drury Martyn, R., de Bresser, J. H. P. & Pennock, G. M.), pp. 191-218, Geological Society, London.
16. Heilbronner, R. & Tulls, J., in press. Evolution of c-axis pole figures and grain size during progressive grain boundary migration recrystallization: Results from experimentally sheared quartzite. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
17. Hirth, G. & Tullis, J., 1992. Dislocation creep regimes in quartz aggregates. Journal of Structural Geology, 14, 145-159.
18. Holland, T. J. B. & Powell, R., 1998. An internally consistent thermodynamic data set for phases of petrological interest. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 309-343.
19. Holyoke, C. W., 2005. Strain weakening in crustal and upper mantle lithologies: Processes and consequences. PhD Thesis, Brown University, Providence, RI.
20. Holyoke, C. W. & Tullis, J., 2006a. Formation and maintenance of shear zones. Geology, 34, 105-108.
21. Holyoke, C. W. & Tullis, J., 2006b. Mechanisms of weak phase interconnection and the effects of phase strength contrast on fabric development. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 621-640.
22. Keller, L. M., Abart, R., Stünitz, H. & De Capitani, C., 2004. Deformation, mass transfer and mineral reactions in an eclogite facies shear zone in a polymetamorphic metapelite (Monte Rosa Nappe, Western Alps). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 97-118.
23. Kleemann, U. & Reinhardt, J., 1994. Garnet-biotite thermometry revisited; the effect of Al VI and Ti in biotite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 925-941.
24. Kronenberg, A. K., Kirby, S. H. & Pinkston, J., 1990a. Basal slip and mechanical anisotropy of biotite. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 19,257-19,278.
25. Kronenberg, A. K., Segall, P. & Wolf, G. H., 1990b. Hydrolytic weakening and penetrative deformation within a natural shear zone. In: The Brittle-Ductile Transition in Rocks (eds Duba, A. G., Durham, W. B., Handin, J. & Wang, H. F.), pp. 21-36, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.
26. 2 at 1500°C and 1GPa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 4353-4367.
27. Mariani, E., 2002. An Experimental Study of the Deformation of White Mica. PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester.
28. Mitra, G., 1978. Ductile deformation zones and mylonites; the mechanical processes involved in the deformation of crystalline basement rocks. American Journal of Science, 278, 1057-1084.
29. Murrell, S. A. F. & Ismail, I. A. H., 1976. The effect of decomposition of hydrous minerals on the mechanical properties of rocks at high pressures and temperatures. Tectonophysics, 31, 207-258.
30. Olgaard, D. L., Ko, S. C. & Wong, T. f., 1995. Deformation and pore pressure in dehydrating gypsum under transiently drained conditions. Tectonophysics, 245, 237-248.
31. Poirier, J. P., 1980. Shear localization and shear instability in materials in the ductile field. Journal of Structural Geology, 2, 135-142.
32. Post, A. & Tullis, J., 1999. A recrystallized grain size piezometer for experimentally deformed feldspar aggregates. Tectonophysics, 303, 159-173.
33. Raleigh, C. B. & Paterson, M. S., 1965. Experimental deformation of serpentinite and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research, 70, 3965-3985.
34. de Ronde, A. A., Heilbronner, R., Stünitz, H. & Tullis, J., 2004. Spatial correlation of deformation and mineral reaction in experimentally deformed plagioclase-olivine aggregates. Tectonophysics, 389, 93-109.
35. de Ronde, A. A., Stünitz, H., Tullis, J. & Heilbronner, R., 2005. Reaction-induced weakening of plagioclase-olivine composites. Tectonophysics, 409, 85-106.
36. Rutter, E. H. & Brodie, K. H., 1988. Experimental "syntectonic" dehydration of serpentinite under conditions of controlled pore water pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 4907-4932.
37. Sanz, J., Gonzales-Carreno, T. & Cancedo, R., 1983. On dehydration mechanisms of a biotite in vacuo and in oxygen. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 9, 14-18.
38. Schmidt, C., Bruhn, D. & Wirth, R., 2003. Experimental evidence of transformation plasticity in silicates; minimum of creep strength in quartz. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 205, 273-280.
39. Snow, E. & Yund, R. A., 1987. The effect of ductile deformation on the kinetics and mechanisms of the aragonite-calcite transformation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 5, 141-153.
40. Steffen, K., Selverstone, J. & Brearley, A., 2001. Episodic weakening and strengthening during synmetamorphic deformation in a deep-crustal shear zone in the Alps. In: The Nature and Significance of Fault Zone Weakening. Geological Society of London Special Publication 186 (eds Holdsworth, R., Strachan, R., Magloughlin, J. & Knipe, R.), pp. 141-156. Geological Society of London, UK.
41. Stipp, M., Tullis, J. & Behrens, H., 2006. 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, 111, B04207, doi: 10.1029/2005JB003852.
42. Stünitz, H., 1998. Syndeformation recrystallization; dynamic or compositionally induced? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 131, 219-236.
43. Stünitz, H. & Fitz Gerald, J. D., 1993. Deformation of granitoids at low metamorphic grade; II, Granular flow in albite-rich mylonites. Tectonophysics, 221, 299-324.
44. Stünitz, H. & Tullis, J., 2001. Weakening and strain localization produced by syn-deformational reaction of plagioclase. Tectonophysics, 90, 136-148.
45. Terry, M. P. & Heidelbach, F., 2006. Deformation-enhanced metamorphic reactions and the rheology of high-pressure shear zones, Western Gneiss Region, Norway. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24, 3-18.
46. Tullis, T. E. & Tullis, J., 1986. Experimental rock deformation techniques. In: Mineral and Rock Deformation; Laboratory Studies; The Paterson Volume (eds Hobbs, B. E. & Heard, H. C.), pp. 297-324, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.
47. 4 under nonhydrostatic stress. Tectonophysics, 108, 299-322.
48. Wenk, H. R. & Pannetier, J., 1990. Texture development in deformed granodiorites from the Santa Rosa mylonite zone, Southern California. Journal of Structural Geology, 12, 177-184.
49. White, S. H., Burrows, S. E., Carreras, J., Shaw, N. D. & Humphreys, F. J., 1980. On mylonites in ductile shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology, 2, 175-187.
50. Whitmeyer, S. J. & Wintsch, R. P., 2005. Reaction localization and softening of texturally hardened mylonites in a reactivated fault zone, central Argentina. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 411-424.
51. Wintsch, R. P. & Dunning, J. D., 1985. The effect of dislocation density on the aqueous solubility of quartz and some geologic implications; a theoretical approach. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, 3649-3657.
52. Wintsch, R. P., Christoffersen, R. & Kronenberg, A. K., 1995. Fluid-rock reaction weakening of fault zones. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 13,021-13,032.
53. Yonkee, W. A., Parry, W. T. & Bruhn, R. L., 2003. Relations between progressive deformation and fluid-rock interaction during shear-zone growth in a basement-cored thrust sheet, Sevier orogenic belt, Utah. American Journal of Science, 303, 1-59.
54. Zurbriggen, R., Kamber, B. S., Handy, M. R. & Naegler, T. F., 1998. Dating synmagmatic folds; a case study of Schlingen structures in the Strona-Ceneri Zone (Southern Alps, northern Italy). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 403-414.