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dc.contributor.authorKaczmarczyk, Mary-Alix
dc.contributor.authorReddy, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-15T22:01:57Z
dc.date.available2017-03-15T22:01:57Z
dc.date.created2017-02-24T00:09:20Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationKaczmarczyk, M. and Reddy, S. 2013. Mantle deformation during rifting: Constraints from quantitative microstructural analysis of olivine from the East African Rift (Marsabit, Kenya). Tectonophysics. 608: pp. 1122-1137.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49050
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tecto.2013.06.034
dc.description.abstract

Lherzolitic and harzburgitic peridotite xenoliths from the Marsabit volcanic field of the East-African Rift,Kenya, display a range of porphyroclastic to ultramylonitic textures that record intense deformation andstrain localisation during decompression, cooling and exhumation of subcontinental mantle lithosphereduring the early stages of continental rifting. Quantitative microstructural analysis by electron backscatter diffraction of both bulk fabrics and intragrain low-angle boundaries have been applied to these xenoliths to establish how deformation has evolved during this exhumation history. Bulk rock fabric analysis indicates the operation of (001)[100] (E-type) as the dominant slip system in the constituent olivines, with only one porphyroclastic xenolith recording the development of the classical (010)[100] (A-type) fabric. A weak E-type fabric is also present within the fine-grained matrix of the mylonitic and ultramylonitic xenoliths. Low-angle boundaries, preserved within individual olivine grains within the different xenoliths indicate the evolution of intra-grain slip systems from (010)[100] (A-slip) and (001)[100] (E-slip) in porphyroclastic peridotites, to dominant (001)[100] (E-slip) in the protomylonite and mylonite and dominant (100)[001] (C-slip) in the ultramylonite. Bulk fabric and intragrain low-angle boundary analyses are therefore concordant and indicate a systematic evolution of olivine slip systems from A-type to E-type to C-type during strain localisation associated with cooling during mantle exhumation. Both approaches confirm the dominant activity of the (001)[100] E-type slip system during rifting. However, the ultramylonites also provide the first evidence of [001] slip in such an environment. The activation of these two slip systems in olivine might be a useful indicator of an extensional rift margin setting in other peridotites

dc.publisherElsevier Science BV
dc.subjectContinental rifting
dc.subjectEast African Rift
dc.subjectOlivine
dc.subjectEBSD
dc.subjectMantle deformation
dc.subjectPeridotite xenoliths
dc.titleMantle deformation during rifting: Constraints from quantitative microstructural analysis of olivine from the East African Rift (Marsabit, Kenya)
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume608
dcterms.source.startPage1122
dcterms.source.endPage1137
dcterms.source.issn0040-1951
dcterms.source.titleTectonophysics
curtin.departmentDepartment of Applied Geology
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