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Dauphiné twinning and texture memory in polycrystalline quartz. Part 1: Experimental deformation of novaculite

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Mechanical Dauphiné twinning in quartz has been of long-standing interest, both in single crystals and polycrystalline aggregates. This study investigates texture development in fine-grained quartz rock novaculite with no initial texture using compression experiments conducted in the Paterson gas apparatus to explore the influence of stress and temperature. Texture patterns are measured with time-of-flight neutron diffraction and hard synchrotron X-rays, analyzing diffraction data with the Rietveld method. Similar texture patterns are observed as described previously but the new results establish a profound influence of temperature and document that twinning initiates at stresses less than 50 MPa. Possibilities of using Dauphiné twinning as a paleopiezometer in quartz-bearing rocks are discussed.

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Acknowledgments

We are appreciative to M. Naumann, S. Gehrmann and K. Peach for help with deformation experiments and sample preparation. Jan Tullis provided some of the samples and inspiring discussions. Comments from a reviewer were most helpful. Texture measurements were performed at synchrotron beamlines PETRA2 at HASYLAB 6 (DESY) and ID 15B of ESRF. Some samples were also measured by neutron diffraction with HIPPO at LANSCE with the help of Sven Vogel. HRW is grateful for hospitality at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam during a sabbatical leave. The work of NB was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48 (UCRL-JRNL-220357). Research was supported by NSF (EAR 0337006) and DOE (DE-FG02-05ER15637).

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Hans-Rudolf Wenk & Ivan Lonardelli

  2. GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473, Germany

    Erik Rybacki & Georg Dresen

  3. LLNL, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    Nathan Barton

  4. DESY, Hamburg, 22607, Germany

    Hermann Franz

  5. ESRF, BP220, Grenoble, 38043, France

    Gabriela Gonzalez

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Wenk, HR., Rybacki, E., Dresen, G. et al. Dauphiné twinning and texture memory in polycrystalline quartz. Part 1: Experimental deformation of novaculite. Phys Chem Minerals 33, 667–676 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-006-0115-9

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