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The effect of dissolved magnesium on creep of calcite II: transition from diffusion creep to dislocation creep

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We extended a previous study on the influence of Mg solute impurity on diffusion creep in calcite to include deformation under a broader range of stress conditions and over a wider range of Mg contents. Synthetic marbles were produced by hot isostatic pressing (HIP) mixtures of calcite and dolomite powders for different intervals (2–30 h) at 850°C and 300 MPa confining pressure. The HIP treatment resulted in high-magnesian calcite aggregates with Mg content ranging from 0.5 to 17 mol%. Both back-scattered electron images and chemical analysis suggested that the dolomite phase was completely dissolved, and that Mg distribution was homogeneous throughout the samples at the scale of about two micrometers. The grain size after HIP varied from 8 to 31 μm, increased with time at temperature, and decreased with increasing Mg content (>3.0 mol%). Grain size and time were consistent with a normal grain growth equation, with exponents from 2.4 to 4.7, for samples containing 0.5–17.0 mol% Mg, respectively. We deformed samples after HIP at the same confining pressure with differential stresses between 20 and 200 MPa using either constant strain rate or stepping intervals of loading at constant stresses in a Paterson gas-medium deformation apparatus. The deformation tests took place at between 700 and 800°C and at strain rates between 10−6 and 10−3 s−1. After deformation to strains of about 25%, a bimodal distribution of large protoblasts and small recrystallized neoblasts coexisted in some samples loaded at higher stresses. The deformation data indicated a transition in mechanism from diffusion creep to dislocation creep. At stresses below 40 MPa, the strength was directly proportional to grain size and decreased with increasing Mg content due to the reductions in grain size. At about 40 MPa, the sensitivity of log strain rate to log stress, (n), became greater than 1 and eventually exceeded 3 for stresses above 80 MPa. At a given strain rate and temperature, the stress at which that transition occurred was larger for samples with higher Mg content and smaller grain size. At given strain rates, constant temperature, and fixed grain size, the strength of calcite in the dislocation creep regime increased with solute content, while the strength in the diffusion creep regime was independent of Mg content. The results suggest that chemical composition will be an important element to consider when solid substitution can occur during natural deformation.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge Xiaohui Xiao who provides us extensive assistance with the Paterson Rig at MIT. We benefited from the help from Ulrich Mok, Jock Hirst, Nilanjan Chatterjee, and Yong Zhang with our experimental studies. We are grateful for the constructive comments by the Editor, Jonathan Blundy, and anonymous reviewers, which have helped us to improve the manuscript. This research was supported by NSF’s grant EAR-050412 and 0711139.

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  1. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Lili Xu & Brian Evans

  2. Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    Jörg Renner

  3. Institute for Geology, University Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Marco Herwegh

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Xu, L., Renner, J., Herwegh, M. et al. The effect of dissolved magnesium on creep of calcite II: transition from diffusion creep to dislocation creep. Contrib Mineral Petrol 157, 339–358 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-008-0338-5

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