Dislocation interactions in olivine control postseismic creep of the upper mantle

David Wallis (), Lars N. Hansen, Angus J. Wilkinson and Ricardo A. Lebensohn
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David Wallis: Utrecht University
Lars N. Hansen: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Angus J. Wilkinson: University of Oxford
Ricardo A. Lebensohn: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Changes in stress applied to mantle rocks, such as those imposed by earthquakes, commonly induce a period of transient creep, which is often modelled based on stress transfer among slip systems due to grain interactions. However, recent experiments have demonstrated that the accumulation of stresses among dislocations is the dominant cause of strain hardening in olivine at temperatures ≤600 °C, raising the question of whether the same process contributes to transient creep at higher temperatures. Here, we demonstrate that olivine samples deformed at 25 °C or 1150–1250 °C both preserve stress heterogeneities of ~1 GPa that are imparted by dislocations and have correlation lengths of ~1 μm. The similar stress distributions formed at these different temperatures indicate that accumulation of stresses among dislocations also provides a contribution to transient creep at high temperatures. The results motivate a new generation of models that capture these intragranular processes and may refine predictions of evolving mantle viscosity over the earthquake cycle.

Date: 2021
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