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Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2014

B-type olivine fabric induced by grain boundary sliding

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Mineral Lattice Preferred Orientation (LPO) in naturally deformed peridotite is typically interpreted to result from the motion of intra-crystalline dislocations during dislocation creep. The degree of mineral alignment (fabric strength) is often assumed to increase with increasing finite strain. Here, we document olivine LPOs in peridotites in a kilometer-scale mantle shear zone in the Ronda massif (Spain) that demonstrate a transition from a flow-parallel [100]-axis LPO (A-type fabric) to a flow-normal [100]-axis LPO (B-type fabric). We conclude that the B-type fabric in the Ronda peridotite results from the enhancement of grain boundary sliding (GBS) with decreasing grain size, rather than a change in the dominant dislocation slip system because: (1) dislocation sub-structures remain consistent with the A-type slip system in all samples; (2) the fabric transition correlates with decreasing fabric strength despite increasing finite strain; (3) the analysis of deformation conditions in Ronda is inconsistent with the experimental conditions, including water content, inferred to promote the dominance of (010)[001](010)[001] slip in laboratory samples, and (4) our observations are supported by experiments that document B-type fabric in olivine aggregates where deformation involves a component of GBS. Our results have important implications for interpreting the rheological properties of shear zones and upper mantle structures via micro-structural and seismic observations.
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insu-00985098 , version 1 (29-04-2014)

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Jacques Précigout, Greg Hirth. B-type olivine fabric induced by grain boundary sliding. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014, 395, pp.231-240. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.052⟩. ⟨insu-00985098⟩
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