Inelastic properties of several high pressure crystalline phases of H2O: Ices II, III, and V

Journal de Physique Colloques
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Abstract

We have performed deformation experiments on cylinders of polycrystalline H2O at temperatures from 178 to 257 K at pressures to 500 MPa in the stability fields of ices II, III, and V. Ice II is the strongest of the phases, having a strength under laboratory conditions roughly comparable to that of ice Ih. Ice V is somewhat weaker than ice II. Ice III is extremely weak and over geologic times must behave essentially as a liquid bounded below by ice V and above by ice II or Ih. Phase relationships are complicated by a number of phase metastabilities, the most important of which is the existence of ice III in the ice II field for extended periods of time. Even under deformation at temperatures as low as 211 K (over 30 K below the ice III field), the transformations from III to II can not be made to happen in the laboratory.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Inelastic properties of several high pressure crystalline phases of H2O: Ices II, III, and V
Series title Journal de Physique Colloques
DOI 10.1051/jphyscol:1987130
Volume 48
Issue C1
Year Published 1987
Language English
Publisher EDP Sciences
Contributing office(s) Earthquake Science Center
Description 6 p.
First page 221
Last page 226
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