Diffusion creep of dry, melt-free olivine

Faul, Ulrich; Jackson, Ian

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Diffusion creep of dry, melt-free olivine

Date

2007

Authors

Faul, Ulrich

Jackson, Ian

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Abstract

Deformation experiments were conducted on fine-grained (3-6 μm), fully synthetic Fo90 olivine aggregates in a gas-medium apparatus at 300 MPa confining pressure and temperatures of 1150-1360°C. The strain rates of the solution-gelation-derived and there