Computer modelling of mantled porphyroclasts in Newtonian and non-Newtonian simple shear viscous flows

Autor: Toshiaki Masuda, Naoya Mizuno
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Journal of Structural Geology. 18:1487-1491
ISSN: 0191-8141
Popis: In computer simulations based on creeping motion equations, the difference in stress sensitivity of strain rate between Newtonian rheology and non-Newtonian power-law rheology does not greatly influence the types of mantled porphyroclast developed in simple shear viscous flows. Porphyroclast type is determined by the radius of an initial spherical mantle. When a thin mantle lies within the separatrix, ( δ 2 -objects develop at small γ, then complex porphyroclasts appear with increasing γ. When the mantle is thicker and transected by the separatrix, φ-objects form at small γ and δ 2 -objects appear with increasing γ during the same deformation. The transition from φ- to δ 2 -objects is gradual, the transition strain being dependent on the initial radius of the mantle. Our simulations did not produce θ-, δ 1 - or σ-objects.
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