Fluid distribution in grain boundaries of natural fine-grained rock salt deformed at low differential stress (Qom Kuh salt fountain, central Iran): Implications for rheology and transport properties

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-143

  Desbois, Guillaume ^a   Urai, Janos L ^a   de Bresser, Johannes H P ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BIB cryo SEM; Fluid filled grain boundary; Grain boundary healing; Halite microstructures; Rheology and deformation mechanism of rock salt; Salt glacier

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FILMS; CRYO-SEM; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; DISLOCATION CREEP; ENERGY-DRIVEN; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID-FILLED GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN BOUNDARY MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN-BOUNDARY HEALING; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; IN-VACUUM; INTERNAL WALLS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; POLISHED SURFACES; PRESSURE SOLUTION; PRESSURE-SOLUTION CREEP; ROCK SALT; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; SLOW STRAIN RATES; SPACE AND TIME; STRESS CONDITION;

CREEP; CRYOGENICS; DRYING; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; ION BEAMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; RHEOLOGY; SALT DEPOSITS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GLACIER; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HALITE; MOBILITY; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; ROCK SALT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE; STRESS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

IRAN;

EID: 84866305484     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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