Experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

 

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Experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

 

starting materials / semi-brittle & regime 1 / regime 2 / regime 2 & 3 / annealing

 

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Black Hills quartzite (BHQ) starting material.

Black Hills quartzite (BHQ) starting material, from South Dakota. Quartzite with up to 1% porosity and <1% iron oxides. Equant grains have an average diameter of ~100 mm.