A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Deformation experiment using octachloropropane (1 of 5 photos) |
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| Description | These are crossed-polar thin sections of a field of grains (a “polycrystal”) of octachloropropane (C3C18). Octachloropropane is a quartz-like organic crystalline compound that melts at 160 degrees C, so even at room temperature it feels hot. The pictures were taken during a deformation experiment at room temperature. They perhaps illustrate possible behavior of quartz during slow deformation in the amphibolite facies. Field of view is about 800 microns wide. |
| Photographer | Winthrop Means. 1995. |
| Collection | Keck Structural Geology Slide Set #WM1. |
| Key words | deformation, quartz, experiment |
| Tech details | 265 KB. Thin section. |
| GeoDIL number | 3026 |
| Copyright | Winthrop Means |