Anisotropic rheology of a cubic medium and implications for geological materials

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Aug 2007

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 170, Issue 2, pp. 876-885.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Anisotropic Rheology, Dislocation Creep, Geophysical Materials, Mantle Convection

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Dislocation creep, which is the dominant deformation mechanism in the upper mantle, results in a non-Newtonian anisotropic rheology. The implication of non-Newtonian rheology has been quite extensively studied in geodynamic models but the anisotropic aspect remains poorly investigated. In this paper, we propose to fill this gap by (1) introducing a simple mathematical description of anisotropic viscosity and (2) illustrating the link between plastic crystal deformation and bulk material rheology. The study relies on the highest symmetry of the anisotropic tensor, a cubic symmetry, for which anisotropy is characterized by one parameter only, δ. First-order implications of anisotropy are quantitatively explored as a function of δ. The effective rheology of the material is described as a function of the orientation of the crystals and of the imposed stress and the validity of the isotropic approximation is discussed. The model, applied to ringwoodite, a cubic crystal with spinel-type structure, predicts that the dynamics of the transition zone in the Earth's mantle is going to be strongly affected by mechanical anisotropy.

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