The variation and visualisation of elastic anisotropy in rock-forming minerals

Healy, David; Timms, Nicholas Erik; Pearce, Mark Alan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-259-2020

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-259-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-259-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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02 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 02 Mar 2020

The variation and visualisation of elastic anisotropy in rock-forming minerals

David Healy, Nicholas Erik Timms, and Mark Alan Pearce

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RC1: '"The variation and visualisation of elastic anisotropy in rock forming minerals" by D. Healy et al.', Marco Mercuri, 09 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Authors response to reviewer Marco Mercuri', David Healy, 20 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Referee comment on “The variation and visualisation of elastic anisotropy in rock forming minerals"', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Authors response to reviewer Anonymous', David Healy, 20 Jan 2020

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AR by David Healy on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2020)

Short summary

Rock-forming minerals behave elastically, a property that controls their ability to support stress and strain, controls the transmission of seismic waves, and influences subsequent permanent deformation. Minerals are intrinsically anisotropic in their elastic properties; that is, they have directional variations that are related to the crystal lattice. We explore this directionality and present new ways of visualising it. We hope this will enable further advances in understanding deformation.