Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1979
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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 348-354.
Physics
Scientific paper
Steady-state creep in the earth's mantle is controlled by the diffusion coefficient and by the distances traveled by defects between sources and sinks. In this paper, we investigate the role played by additional vacancies created by natural radioactivity. According to recent studies, bombardment of solids by energetic particles can act as a perturbation. The resulting strain rate is proportional to the rate of vacancy creation and, contrary to ordinary creep mechanisms, is only weakly dependent on the temperature and the energy necessary to create those vacancies; it is independent of the grain size. The strain rate is of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion mechanism but smaller than the dislocation-climb rate by two to three orders of magnitude. Consequently, the strain rate produced by natural radioactivity does not play a major role in the observed rate of deformation, although it could constitute a lower limit to the creep rate and act as a regulatory mechanism. Furthermore, being less strongly affected by temperature and the vacancy-formation energy than are the other mechanisms, it is also less strongly affected by depth.
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