Zhang, H.; Zhao, N.; Qi, C.; Huang, X.; Hirth, G. Influences of CO2 on the Microstructure in Sheared Olivine Aggregates. Minerals2021, 11, 493.
Zhang, H.; Zhao, N.; Qi, C.; Huang, X.; Hirth, G. Influences of CO2 on the Microstructure in Sheared Olivine Aggregates. Minerals 2021, 11, 493.
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Zhang, H.; Zhao, N.; Qi, C.; Huang, X.; Hirth, G. Influences of CO2 on the Microstructure in Sheared Olivine Aggregates. Minerals2021, 11, 493.
Zhang, H.; Zhao, N.; Qi, C.; Huang, X.; Hirth, G. Influences of CO2 on the Microstructure in Sheared Olivine Aggregates. Minerals 2021, 11, 493.
Abstract
Shear deformation of a solid-fluid, two-phase material induces a fluid segregation process that produces fluid-enriched bands and fluid-depleted regions, and crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) characterized by girdles of [100] and [001] axes sub-parallel to the shear plane and a cluster of [010] axes sub-normal to the shear plane, namely the AG-type fabric. Based on experiments of two-phase aggregates of olivine + basalt, a two-phase flow theory and a CPO-formation model were established to explain these microstructures. Here, we investigate the microstructure in a two-phase aggregate with supercritical CO2 as the fluid phase and examine the theory and model, as CO2 is different from basaltic melt in rheological properties. We conducted high‐temperature and high-pressure shear deformed experiments at 1 GPa and 1100ºC in a Griggs-type apparatus on samples made of olivine + dolomite, which decomposed into carbonate melt and CO2 at experimental conditions. After deformation, CO2 segregation and an AG-type fabric occurred in these CO2-bearing samples, inconsistency with basaltic melt-bearing samples. The SPO-induce CPO model was used to explain the formation of the fabric. Our results suggest that the influences of CO2 as a fluid phase on the microstructure of a two-phase olivine aggregate is similar to that of basaltic melt and can be explained by the CPO-formation model for the solid-fluid system.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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