Deformation Processes in Minerals, Ceramics and Rocks

1. Front Matter

   Pages iii-xviii

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2. An introduction

   • David J. Barber, Philip G. Meredith

   Pages 1-4

3. Fracture and failure of brittle polycrystals: an overview

   • Philip G. Meredith

   Pages 5-47

4. Single-crack behaviour and crack statistics

   • Yves Gueguen, Thierry Reuschlé, Michel Darot

   Pages 48-71

5. Fracture of polycrystalline ceramics

   • Stephen W. Freiman, Peter L. Swanson

   Pages 72-83

6. Compressive brittle fracture and the construction of multi-axial failure maps

   • Sheila D. Hallam, Michael F. Ashby

   Pages 84-108

7. Brittle-to-ductile transitions in polycrystalline non-metallic materials

   • Stanley A. F. Murrell

   Pages 109-137

8. Régimes of plastic deformation — processes and microstructures: an overview

   • David J. Barber

   Pages 138-178

9. Experimental deformation and data processing

   • Jean-Paul Poirier, Christophe Sotin, Solange Beauchesne

   Pages 179-189

10. Experimental studies of deformation mechanisms and microstructures in quartzo-feldspathic rocks

    • Jan Tullis

    Pages 190-227

11. Microstructural analysis and tectonic evolution in thrust systems: examples from the Assynt region of the Moine Thrust Zone, Scotland

    • Robert J. Knipe

    Pages 228-261

12. Mechanisms of reaction-enhanced deformability in minerals and rocks

    • David C. Rubie

    Pages 262-295

13. Thermodynamics of rock deformation by pressure solution

    • Florian K. Lehner

    Pages 296-333

14. Densification of crystalline aggregates by fluid-phase diffusional creep

    • Christopher J. Spiers, Peter M. T. M. Schutjens

    Pages 334-353

15. Dynamic recrystallization and grain size

    • Brian Derby

    Pages 354-364

16. Simulation of dislocation-assisted plastic deformation in olivine polycrystals

    • Toru Takeshita, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Gilles R. Canova, Alain Molinari

    Pages 365-376

17. On the slip systems in uranium dioxide

    • Arthur H. Heuer, Robert J. Keller, Terry E. Mitchell

    Pages 377-390

18. A TEM study of dislocation reactions in experimentally deformed chalcopyrite single crystals

    • Christa Hennig-Michaeli, Jean-Jacques Couderc

    Pages 391-414

19. Back Matter

    Pages 415-423

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This monograph has its origins in a two-day meeting with the same title held in London, England in the spring of 1987. The idea for the meeting came from members of the UK Mineral and Rock Physics Group. It was held under the auspices of, and made possible by the generous support of, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Additional financial assistance was provided by ECC International pIc and the Cookson Group pIc. The aims of the London meeting were to survey the current state of knowledge about deformation processes in non-metallic materials and to bring together both experts and less experienced Earth scientists and ceramicists who normally had little contact but shared common interests in deformation mechanisms. This monograph has similar aims and, indeed, most of its authors were keynote speakers at the meeting. Consequently, most of the contributions contain a review element in addition to the presentation and discussion of new results. In adopting this format, the editors hope that the monograph will provide a valuable state-of-the-art sourcebook, both to active researchers and also to graduate students just starting in the relevant fields.

• ceramics
• formation
• mineral
• mineral resources

• Department of Physics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK

  David J. Barber

• Rock Physics Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, University College, London, UK

  Philip G. Meredith

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