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New Crystal Preferred Orientation of Amphibole Experimentally Found in Simple Shear
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- Issue Date
- 2019-11
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union
- Citation
- Geophysical Research Letters, Vol.46 No.22, pp.12996-13005
- Abstract
- The crystal preferred orientation (CPO) of amphibole has a large effect on seismic anisotropy in the crust. Previous studies have reported four CPO types (I-IV) of amphibole, but the genesis of type IV CPO, which is characterized by [100] axes aligned in a girdle subnormal to the shear direction, is unknown. In this study, shear deformation experiments on amphibolite were conducted to find the genesis of type IV CPO at high pressure (0.5 GPa) and temperature (500-700 degrees C). The type IV CPO was found under high shear strain (gamma > 3.0), and the sample exhibited grains in a range of sizes but generally smaller than the grain size of samples with lower shear strain. The seismic anisotropy of type IV CPO is lower than that of types I-III. The weak seismic anisotropy of highly deformed amphibole could explain weak seismic anisotropy observed in the middle crust.
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- 0094-8276
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