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Data supplement to: New analogue materials for nonlinear lithosphere rheology, with an application to slab break-off

hasData_Center_Short_Name
  • Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
hasDataset_Online_Resource
hasDataset_Release_Date
  • 2018
hasDataset_Title
  • Data supplement to: New analogue materials for nonlinear lithosphere rheology, with an application to slab break-off
hasEntry_ID
  • 10.5880/fidgeo.2018.029
hasKeyword
  • EPOS
  • Multi-scale laboratories
  • analogue models of geologic processes
  • PDMS
  • anelasticity
  • on-linear rheology
  • plasticine
  • power-law rheology
  • rheology
  • silicone polymer
hasSummary
  • This dataset provides strain and strain rate data on mixtures of plasticine, silicone oils and iron powder that has been used in slab break-of analogue experiments in the Tectonic Laboratory (TecLab) at Utrecht University (NL) as an analogue for viscously deforming lithosphere. The materials have been analyzed in a creep and recovery test, applying a parallel plate setup using an AR-G2 rheometer (by TA Instruments). The materials can in general be described as viscoelastic materials with a power-law rheology (see previous work on plasticine-silicone polymer mixtures Weijermars [1986], Sokoutis [1987], Boutelier et al. [2008]). For a couple of the tested materials we find a complementary Newtonian behavior at the low end of the tested stress levels, with a transition to power-law behavior at increasing stress. Furthermore, the materials exhibit elastic and anelastic (recoverable) deformation. The corresponding paper (Broerse et al., 2018) describes the rheology, while this supplement describes the raw data and important details of the measurement setup. The raw data concerns mostly (uncorrected) strain and strain rate data. The rheometry has been performed at the Advanced Soft Matter group at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
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