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Polymer jacketed porphyritic samples of 70% halite + 30% coarse calcite were subjected to torsion deformation to investigate the effects of a mixture of coarse calcite on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a two-phase aggregate. The experiments were run at 100 and 200 degrees C, a confining pressure of 250 MPa, and a constant shear strain rate of 3E-4 s(-1). Ultimate strengths of single-phase halite synthetic aggregates at 100 and 200 degrees C were ca. 32 and 8 Nm, respectively, and of the two-phase aggregate 39 and 18 Nm, respectively; this shows that the two-phase aggregate was much stronger, especially at 200 degrees C. Stepping strain rate tests show that the two-phase aggregate behaved as power-law viscous, with stress exponents of ca. 19 and 13 at 100 degrees C at 200 degrees C, respectively. From these high exponents, we infer that the active deformation mechanisms were not efficient enough to rapidly relax the applied stress. Halite stress exponents at 100 and 200 degrees C are typically much lower, in the order of 46, which means that the calcite porphyroclasts were obstacles to halite plastic flow and hampered stress relaxation. The drop of the stress exponent with temperature indicates that the main deformation mechanism(s) was temperature sensitive. Matrix halite deformed plastically, while calcite rotated rigidly or deformed in a brittle fashion, with grain size reduction by fracturing (e.g. bookshelf and boudinage). We conclude that halite was softer than calcite in the investigated temperature range. Strain was homogeneous at the sample scale but not at the grain scale where the foliation delineated by plastically flattened halite contoured the rigid calcite clasts. The microstructures experimentally produced at 100 and 200 degrees C are very similar and find their counterparts in natural mylonites: rolling structures, sigma and delta porphyroclast systems, bookshelf and boudinage in brittle calcite porphyroclasts, and ductile y and c' micro shear bands in the halite matrix.
- 出版日期2010-3
