Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-259-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-259-2020
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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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.