Experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

 

Effect of annealing

Experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

 

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

 

List of microstructures

 

 

 

 

13

 

BHQ shortened 60% at 800°C, 10-6/sec and 1200 MPa; regime 2 dislocation creep.

14

 

BHQ shortened 60% at 800°C, 10-6/sec and 1200 MPa (regime 2 dislocation creep); then annealed at 900°C for 120 hrs.