The 3D microscopic 'signature' of strain within glacial sediments revealed using X-ray computed microtomography

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3501-3532

  Tarplee, Mark F V ^a   van der Meer, Jaap J M ^a   Davis, Graham R ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacial sediments; Micromorphology; Sediment kinematics; Sediment rheology; Subglacial soft sediment deformation; X ray computed microtomography

Indexed keywords

3D GEOMETRY; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BRITTLE FAILURES; CLAST PLOUGHING; DEFORMATION HISTORY; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; INTERNAL COMPOSITION; KEY INDICATOR; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LARGE DATASETS; MATRIX; MICRO-SCALES; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NORMAL LOADING; OVERCONSOLIDATION; PRINCIPAL STRESS; PROGLACIAL; ROTATIONAL STRUCTURES; SHEAR FORCE; SMALL SCALE; SOFT SEDIMENTS; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; STRAIN CYCLES; SURROUNDING MATRIX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; VOID RATIOS; VOLUMETRIC 3D; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; KINEMATICS; RHEOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLAST; DATA SET; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; KINEMATICS; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; VOID RATIO;

EID: 82555172343     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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