Water weakening of quartz, and its application to natural rock deformation
- 1 July 1975
- journal article
- Published by Geological Society of London in Journal of the Geological Society
- Vol. 131 (4) , 429-432
- https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.131.4.0429
Abstract
New experimental data show that the weakening effect of structure-bound water in the quartz lattice occurs at hydroxyl concentrations lower than those previously considered. This is used, along with analyses of the hydroxyl concentrations of naturally deformed quartz, to show that water weakening can explain low temperature plastic flow in quartz from low grade metamorphic environments.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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