五莲拆离断层带动态重结晶石英颗粒的分形特征及流变参数估算

五莲拆离断层带中石英韧性变形明显,在野外主要表现为条带状、拔丝状,显微镜下主要表现为多晶石英条带,发育亚颗粒旋转重结晶和膨凸重结晶,剪切带经历了中低温条件下的变形,变形温度为300～450℃。利用分形方法对石英颗粒边界的研究表明,发生动态重结晶的石英颗粒边界具有统计学意义上的自相似性和明显的分形特征,亚颗粒旋转重结晶石英颗粒分维数介于1. 260～1. 319之间,均值1. 276;膨凸重结晶石英颗粒的分维数为1. 217～1. 297,均值为1. 256;根据石英粒径估算出亚颗粒旋转重结晶和膨凸重结晶作用变形阶段的古差异应力,分别为7. 84～21. 58MPa和18. 51～56. 65 MPa;基于分维值计算的应变速率计算公式,获得亚颗粒旋转与膨凸重结晶石英颗粒的应变速率分别为10-8. 4～10-7. 7s-1、10-10. 5～10-9. 7s-1;基于石英流变率计算,亚颗粒旋转重结晶的石英应变速率介于10-12. 88～10-11. 73s-1之间,膨凸重结晶的为10-13. 72～10-12. 46s-1。本地区韧性变形的应变速率大于一般性韧性剪切带应变速率,可能与拆离断层带的快速拆离伸展作用有关。     

主要造岩矿物动态重结晶作用及其变质条件

动态重结晶是一种重要的矿物变形作用,主要包括膨凸、亚晶粒旋转和颗粒边界迁移重结晶作用三种变形机制。随着变质程度的不断增强,膨凸、亚晶粒旋转和颗粒边界迁移重结晶作用顺次出现。动态重结晶作用是温度、压力、应力以及流体等多方面综合作用的结果,而不仅仅与变形温度有关,因此我们认为以变质相带代替温度变化作为主要造岩矿物动态重结晶机制的转变条件应该更为合理。通过大量薄片观察和综合分析,我们概述了不同变质相条件下主要造岩矿物的变形特征组合,并提出了主要造岩矿物的动态重结晶发生的相对顺序大致应为方解石→黑云母→石英→长石→角闪石→橄榄石→辉石,与前人有所不同。     

华北克拉通基底花岗质片麻岩变形和流变学研究——以辽西寺儿堡地区为例

辽西寺儿堡镇新太古代花岗质片麻岩内发育的宏观、微观构造变形特征表明该地区曾遭受了强烈的韧性变形改造。花岗质岩石变形程度在初糜棱岩–糜棱岩之间,岩石经历了SWW向左行剪切作用改造。岩石中石英有限应变测量判别结果表明,构造岩类型为L-S型,为平面应变。岩石的剪应变平均值为1.43,运动学涡度值为0.788~0.829,指示岩石形成于以简单剪切为主的一般剪切变形中。此外,石英颗粒以亚颗粒旋转重结晶和颗粒边界迁移重结晶作用为主,长石颗粒塑性拉长,部分发生膨凸式重结晶作用;石英组构特征(EBSD)揭示石英以中–高温柱面滑移为主;石英颗粒边界具有明显的分形特征,分形维数值为1.151~1.201,指示了中高温变形条件。综合石英、长石的变形行为、石英组构特征以及分形法Kruhl温度计的判别结果,推断辽西寺儿堡镇新太古代花岗质片麻岩经历过480~600℃的中高温变形,其同构造变质相为高绿片岩相-低角闪岩相。花岗质岩石的古差异应力为10.62~12.21 MPa,估算的应变速率为10~(–11.67)~10~(–13.34) s~(–1),即缓慢的变形,可能记录早期中高温、低应变速率的韧性变形过程,反映华北克拉通基底中下部地壳变形特征。     

阿尔泰造山带内韧性剪切带的显微、超显微构造和变形机制

阿尔泰造山带的剪切带中发育大量S-C糜棱岩,其内云母产生云母鱼和扭折构造并发生边界重结晶。长石发生不同性质的系列变形,并以出熔成核为主的动态重结晶为主要变形机制,同时伴有强烈的扩散作用,属Naborrow-Herring蠕变。石英的变形呈条带状并发生完全的旋转和边界迁移动态重结晶。石英晶内变形以位错运动和动态恢复为主,形成亚颗粒构造及动态重结晶,以致产生应变弱化和超塑性变形,定量分析确定的石英变形机制主要为低温幂指数蠕变。     

通过构造岩鉴别岩石动态重结晶的机制

岩石如书,包含着丰富的地球演化信息。通过破解这本天书,地质学家得以了解发生在地球内部的地质过程。构造岩中的显微构造是“写在岩石中的变形过程”。通过显微构造观察,可以了解岩石矿物的变形机理。以天山造山带内发育的糜棱岩为具体实例,介绍了中、下地壳层次变形岩石动态重结晶的机理及形成的相关显微构造的特点。由于构造岩均是经历过重结晶作用的产物,显微观察只能揭示变形矿物重结晶的机制。在中、下地壳层次,矿物动态重结晶的主要机理分为3种（从低温到高温）：膨胀鼓出(BLG,又称膨凸)、亚晶粒旋转(SGR)和高温颗粒边界迁移(GBM)。这3种方式形成各具特色的显微构造：BLG形成近等粒交叉舌状构造;SGR产生定向排列的拉长新颗粒条带;而GBM造成典型的具不规则状颗粒边界、大小悬殊的新颗粒组合、颗粒内部波状消光不明显的显微构造。除了温度条件外,应变速率对动态重结晶机制也有明显的影响。在显微构造观察过程中,详细、全面应该是最重要的原则。     

哀牢山-红河剪切带中流体记录及地质意义

剪切带作为大陆岩石圈中的局部高应变带,是岩石变质变形作用和流体活动的重要场所。沿着哀牢山-红河走滑剪切带内发育的点苍山深变质杂岩,保存了新生代以来极其丰富的构造热演化信息。在点苍山杂岩体内出露有一系列具有不同构造特征的石英脉,我们选取了遭受剪切变形的石英脉作为主要研究对象,在野外构造观测和室内显微构造特征分析的基础上,利用傅立叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)、激光拉曼显微光谱(LRM)以及流体包裹体技术(FI)对其开展了进一步的精细研究。研究结果表明：(1)变形石英脉在显微镜下具有不同类型的塑性变形特征,其中以强烈细粒化和动态重结晶为主要特征的石英颗粒中包裹体类型主要为CO2-H2O包裹体和纯CO2流体包裹体,包裹体多沿颗粒边界分布;在以条带状和细粒化为主要特征且具有典型核幔构造的石英颗粒中,重结晶颗粒基本不含流体包裹体,石英条带中含有大量水溶液包裹体;在定向拉长的粗颗粒石英中其变形行为主要表现为波状消光和局部应变导致的塑性流动构造,在该类型石英颗粒中只含有水溶液包裹体且无明显分布特征。(2)根据各类流体包裹体测温数据估算出包裹体捕获温压为500~550 ℃、260~290 MPa,深度约为10 km,其流体来源主要为变质流体,剥露过程中的快速降压使得流体发生相分离及变形作用并导致的水丢失,这是CO2-H2O包裹体与水溶液包裹体出现的主要原因。(3)石英脉中的石英颗粒除含有一定量的包裹体水之外还含有少量的结构水,水在颗粒内部的分布为非均匀状态,通常边部水含量高于核部,同时水的分布特征和含量可随包裹体的变化而改变。(4)重结晶石英颗粒中的包裹体常在颗粒边界富集,认为其边界局部流体压力和流体的渗透或释放能弱化晶体平面,促进晶格位错滑移和溶解蠕变。     

胶东新城金矿床控矿构造变形环境：显微构造和EBSD组构约束

新城金矿床是典型的"焦家式"破碎带蚀变岩型金矿,矿体形态和规模都严格受到断裂破碎带控制,是探讨复杂构造-流体耦合成矿系统控矿构造变形环境研究的理想选区。断裂破碎带中构造岩既是构造变形行为的载体,也是相应变形环境的受体。论文在新城金矿详细露头构造解析的基础上,系统采集该矿床控矿断裂破碎带定向构造岩样品,进行显微构造和EBSD组构分析。研究区构造岩显微构造特征主要表现为韧性变形和脆性变形。韧性变形有波状消光、带状消光、亚晶粒、动态重结晶、核幔构造、丝带构造、碎(残)斑系、扭折带、变形纹、机械双晶、蠕英结构、云母鱼等;脆性变形有书斜构造和显微裂隙等。长石(残)斑系、扭折带、变形纹、蠕英结构和石英颗粒边界迁移动态重结晶、丝带构造等矿物变形特征表明断裂带成矿前以高温韧性变形为主;石英波状消光、亚晶粒、亚颗粒旋转和膨凸动态重结晶、方解石机械双晶、长石显微裂隙充填物等矿物变形反映成矿期兼有中低温韧性变形和脆性变形;压剪性穿晶裂隙则反映出成矿后主要是低温脆性变形。根据差应力、应变测量和EBSD组构分析,将新城金矿床控矿构造变形环境可以分为3个构造期:成矿前在NW-SE向挤压作用下发生韧-脆性左行剪切变形,600~700℃,差应力61.37~111.09MPa,应变测量轴比a/c为2.295~3.978,动态重结晶石英颗粒边界分维值为1.466~1.599,反映矿区为高温中高压高应变带变形环境,应变速率较大;成矿期为NW-SE向逐渐NEE-SWW向转变的挤压作用,发生压剪性脆性变形,200~500℃,差应力65.91~135.68MPa,应变测量轴比a/c为1.403~2.204,动态重结晶石英颗粒边界分维值为1.321~1.378,反映矿区成矿期为中低温中高压低应变带变形环境,反应速率较小;成矿后在NWW-SEE向挤压作用下发生压剪变形,150~300℃,反映低温低压脆性变形环境。     

中国大陆科学钻探（CCSD）高压超高压变质岩中石英脉流体包裹体初步研究

初步的岩相学和冷热台显微测温表明，CCSDHP—UHP岩石中石英脉和后期碳酸盐脉中含有3种流体包裹体：盐水溶液(NaCl-H2O)包裹体(Ⅰ类)、NaCl-CaCl2-H20(Ⅱ类)和N2-CH4纯气相(Ⅲ类)包裹体，其中Ⅰ类盐水溶液包裹体可进一步分为中高盐度盐水溶液包裹体(Ia)、中等盐度盐水溶液包裹体(Ib)和低盐度盐水溶液包裹体(Ic)，而Ⅲ类为CCSD中首次发现：Ia、Ib和Ⅱ型流体包裹体主要以原生或假次生形式赋存在榴辉岩的石英脉或石英颗粒中，在角闪岩相的片麻岩及其石英脉中均未观察到，显示它们可能主要被捕获于榴辉岩的减压重结晶或退变质阶段，而Ic型包裹体分布广泛，表明其主体可能是在超高压变质岩折返过程的最晚阶段捕获的；N2-CH4纯气相包裹体均为原生包裹体，主要呈孤立和小群状与Ia和Ib类包裹体分布于榴辉岩中条带状石英脉中，可能主要是在高压-超高压榴辉岩相变质条件下被捕获的；CCSD榴辉岩中石英脉的主体形成于板块折返有关的减压重结晶和退变质，而片麻岩中石英脉则主要来源于角闪岩相及其后期退变质作用；榴辉岩和片麻岩中石英脉流体包裹体的组成和地球化学特征存在明显区别，但它们各自相似于其寄主岩石中的石英颗粒中包裹体，说明CCSD中HP—UHP岩石在板块折返过程中释放出的变质流体没有经过大规模的迁移。     

大青山地区韧性剪切带变形变质作用演化

大青山早前寒武纪高级变质岩系中发育三种不同类型的韧性剪切带。第一种为高温（相当于麻粒岩相级）逆冲型，第二种为中温（相当于角闪岩相级）伸展型，第三种为低温（相当于绿片岩相级）近走滑型。不同类型韧性剪切带的变形变质作用演化反映了地壳深部高级变质杂岩在隆升过程中的主要再造特征。     

藏南泽当地区大反向逆冲断层变形研究——以磁组构与EBSD组构分析为例

仁布-泽当逆冲断层是喜马拉雅大反向逆冲断层（GCT）在藏南地区的重要延伸部分,也是喜马拉雅造山带北部边界新生代最为活动的构造单元之一。新生代以来特提斯喜马拉雅的构造变形组构特征的研究对于深入理解碰撞造山带演化与高原隆升具有重要构造意义。本文综合GCT泽当-琼结段断层的宏观与微观变形特征,对断裂带石英脉、围岩中石英和云母矿物的电子背散射（EBSD）组构及断层两侧岩石磁组构（AMS）特征进行对比分析。结果表明对AMS主要贡献来自顺磁性云母、绿泥石等,磁化率各向异性椭球体以压扁状为主,磁面理与构造面理（劈理、断层面）基本重合,显示较强的构造变形磁组构特征;磁线理优选方向近南北向,且与观测北向逆冲断层方向一致,揭示剪切作用在变形过程中的持续作用。研究发现泽当地区GCT附近石英微观结构从围岩至断层区,石英至少呈现3种不同类型的微观变形机制：围岩区溶解蠕变、断裂带石英以膨凸重结晶和亚颗粒旋转重结晶作用为主。断裂带石英的c轴EBSD组构指示变形为低温（300~400℃）环境,其中黑云母的结晶学优选（CPO）与磁组构主轴优选方向存在高度的一致性,进一步证实了顺磁性矿物黑云母对AMS的主要贡献。综合研究表明泽当地区GCT的韧性变形是断层处在中上地壳韧性带的活动阶段变形的结果,也代表了特提斯喜马拉雅在碰撞、高原隆升期的变形主要特征。     

Strain-rate estimation using fractal analysis of quartz grains in naturally deformed rocks

The area-perimeter fractal dimension (D) of quartz grains has earlier been proposed as a strain-rate gauge based on experimental deformation of quartz aggregates. To test the application in naturally deformed rocks, D is calculated in (a) three quartzites belonging to the Lunavada Group of rocks (Aravalli Mountain Belt, NW India) that developed textures between 420–600°C and (b) one quartz reef sample from the Malanjkhand Granite (Central India), which underwent dynamic recrystallization between 250–400°C. Using the above T ranges and calculated D values, strain-rates are calculated for the two sets of samples. A 10^−12.7 s⁻¹ strain rate at 250°C is calculated for the quartz reef sample. However, at higher temperatures the calculated strain-rate is >10⁻¹⁰ s⁻¹ for the quartz reef and the quartzite samples. The quartzites show evidence of dynamic recrystallization by grain boundary migration (GBM) and subgrain rotation (SGR), while the quartz reef is replete with evidence of bulging (BLG) recrystallization. T and calculated strainrates are plotted on available recrystallization map of quartz. It is demonstrated that whilst the T/strain-rate of the quartzites does not fall in the region of GBM and SGR, the T/strain-rate of the quartz reef falls in the BLG region. The problems with strain-rate calculations using area perimeter fractal dimension are discussed. It is concluded that the method of strain-rate calculation can be used only for lower T.     

High Temperature Mylonitization of Quartzofeldspathic Gneisses: Example from the Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica

In the Schirmacher Hills, most of the ductile shearing took place under high to medium grade amphibolite facies metamorphism. The microstructure of the mylonites shows characteristic features of high temperature deformation and thus gives us an idea of deformation mechanisms of the constituent minerals at great crustal depth. The variation in microstructure of the sheared rock is partly due to heterogeneity of the intensity of strain from domain to domain, producing protomylonites, orthomylonites and ultramylonites. However, a large part of the microstructural variation has resulted from syn- to post-tectonic recrystallization and grain growth of constituent minerals. Both quartz and feldspar have deformed by crystal plastic processes with dominant grain boundary migration. The present aspect ratio of the feldspar grains is a result of various degrees of dynamic recrystallization along the grain boundary. The ratio varies between 1.5 and 2. Presence of exsolution lamellae in perthites and formation of myrmekite at the strained grains of K-feldspar suggest diffusion assisted dislocation creep. These mylonites are characterized by the presence of weakly strained or unstrained long quartz ribbons. The development of quartz ribbons with the absence of significant strain suggests grain recovery and grain growth during high temperature mylonitization. The growth of quartz ribbons took place by coalescing neighbouring grains both along and across the ribbon length. At the ultramylonite stage the fine-grained matrix of quartz and feldspar mostly accommodates the bulk strain.     

Non-Critical Precursory Accelerating Seismicity Theory (NC PAST) and limits of the power-law fit methodology

Iron formation rocks of Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil, were deformed at greenschist facies. Quartz grains in bedding parallel veins were sheared and deformed by a combination of mechanisms assisted by aqueous fluids. Veins in the outcrop appear to be stretched parallel to the compositional layering. The overall vein shapes resemble those of boundinage and pinch and swell. In thin sections, veins show microstructures similar to those observed in hand samples, where domains of large quartz crystals are pulled apart for several millimeters. The voids between quartz fragments are filled with domains of polycrystalline quartz. The microstructural and orientation data show that the strain imposed on the vein as a rigid and competent layer was not accommodated in the quartz polycrystals exclusively by crystal plastic deformation or dynamic recrystallization. The new grains are strain-free, with straight boundaries and with weak to random crystallographic fabrics. We interpret these features to have resulted from a combination of processes, which included grain boundary sliding accomplished by solution transfer. We propose that the coeval operation of both mechanisms allows the aggregate to deform at higher strain rates without necking of the vein layer in a type of flow similar to those described in superplastic regimes.     

Variscan deformation,microstructural zonation and extensional exhumation of the Moravian Cadomian basement

Abstract

The Cadomian Dyje Batholith, in the foot–wall of the Variscan Moravian nappe pile, has been involved in Variscan ductile deformation. The Cadomian Brunovistulian rocks were obliquely underthrusted during Carboniferous dextral transpression.

Strain intensity is inversely proportional to the distance from the contact of the Variscan thrust front. The microstructures of deformed granodiorites and quartz–diorites show a characteristic zonality marked by relatively high temperature flow in the west (550–580 °C) characterized by dynamic recrystallization of feldspars and grain boundary migration recrystallization of quartz. The size of quartz grains decreases with decreasing strain towards the east. At the easternmost part of the autochthonous Dyje massif, fracturing of feldspar and subgrain rotation recrystallization of quartz predominate. Flow stress estimates calculated from recrystallized quartz grain size show a regional increase of stress intensity from the highly strained margin towards the less deformed core of the Dyje massif. This microstructural zonation is oblique with respect to the major thrust boundary and corresponds roughly to metamorphic isogrades. The microstructural zonation reflects underthrusting of the Brunovistulian domain below the Moldanubian nappe.

The main ductile tectonic event D₁ is followed by a retrogressive brittle–ductile and brittle deformation D₂. D₂ results in the development of shear zones and faults superimposed on the D₁ mylonite fabric. D₂ is related to extension oblique to the D₁ fabric, associated with detachment and the westward movement of the Moravian nappes. © Elsevier, Paris     

The effect of deformation on the TitaniQ geothermobarometer: an experimental study

We performed high strain (up to 47 %) axial compression experiments on natural quartz single crystals with added rutile powder (TiO₂) and ~0.2 wt% H₂O to investigate the effects of deformation on the titanium-in-quartz (TitaniQ) geothermobarometer. One of the objectives was to study the relationships between different deformation mechanisms and incorporation of Ti into recrystallized quartz grains. Experiments were performed in a Griggs-type solid-medium deformation apparatus at confining pressures of 1.0–1.5 GPa and temperatures of 800–1,000 °C, at constant strain rates of 1 × 10^?6 or 1 × 10^?7 s^?1. Mobility of Ti in the fluid phase and saturation of rutile at grain boundaries during the deformation experiments are indicated by precipitation of secondary rutile in cracks and along the grain boundaries of newly recrystallized quartz grains. Microstructural analysis by light and scanning electron microscopy (the latter including electron backscatter diffraction mapping of grain misorientations) shows that the strongly deformed quartz single crystals contain a wide variety of deformation microstructures and shows evidence for subgrain rotation (SGR) and grain boundary migration recrystallization (GBMR). In addition, substantial grain growth occurred in annealing experiments after deformation. The GBMR and grain growth are evidence of moving grain boundaries, a microstructure favored by high temperatures. Electron microprobe analysis shows no significant increase in Ti content in recrystallized quartz grains formed by SGR or by GBMR, nor in grains grown by annealing. This result indicates that neither SGR nor moving grain boundaries during GBMR and grain growth are adequate processes to facilitate re-equilibration of the Ti content in experimentally deformed quartz crystals at the investigated conditions. More generally, our results suggest that exchange of Ti in quartz at low H₂O contents (which may be realistic for natural deformation conditions) is still not fully understood. Thus, the application of the TitaniQ geothermobarometer to deformed metamorphic rocks at low fluid contents may not be as straightforward as previously thought and requires further research.     

Low-Temperature Plasticity of Naturally Deformed Calcite Rocks

Optical, cathodoluminescence and transmission electron microscope (TEM) analyses were conducted on four groups of calcite fault rocks, a cataclastic limestone, cataclastic coarse-grained marbles from two fault zones, and a fractured mylonite. These fault rocks show similar microstructural characteristics and give clues to similar processes of rock deformation. They are characterized by the structural contrast between macroscopic cataclastic (brittle) and microscopic mylonitic (ductile) microstructures. Intragranular deformation microstructures (i.e. deformation twins, kink bands and microfractures) are well preserved in the deformed grains in clasts or in primary rocks. The matrix materials are of extremely fine grains with diffusive features. Dislocation microstructures for co-existing brittle deformation and crystalline plasticity were revealed using TEM. Tangled dislocations are often preserved at the cores of highly deformed clasts, while dislocation walls form in the transitions to the fine-grained     

The deformation and recrystallization of quartz in a mylonite zone, Central Australia

Hydrolytic weakening in quartz has been extensively demonstrated by experimental deformation of single crystals and aggregates. This paper describes the deformation and recrystallization microstructures and preferred orientations of quartz in a mylonite zone separating granulite facies (0.2% H₂O) from amphibolite facies (1.0% H₂O) acid gneisses. The transition from slightly deformed country rock on both sides to the ultimate product of mylonitization (a phyllite) is described and the following major differences are noted:

1. (1) The strain prior to recrystallization is higher on the granulite side.

2. (2) Misorientations across deformation-band boundaries are much higher on the granulite side.

3. (3) Subgrains and new grains are considerably smaller at the same stage of recrystallization on the granulite side.

4. (4) Preferred orientation of [0001] developes more rapidly with respect to strain on the amphibolite side.

5. (5) There is a closer orientation relationship between host and recrystallized (new) grains on the granulite side.

The microstructures and preferred-orientation development on both sides are related to concurrent ductile deformation, dynamic recovery and recrystallization processes. The differences between the two sides is attributed to the difference in bulk H₂O content of the rocks and a resultant difference in strain rate. The suggested effect of water on recovery processes is favoured over its possible role in slip processes.     

The eastern Tonale fault zone: a ‘natural laboratory’ for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700 °C

Near the eastern end of the Tonale fault zone, a segment of the Periadriatic fault system in the Italian Alps, the Adamello intrusion produced a syn-kinematic contact aureole. A temperature gradient from 250 to 700 °C was determined across the Tonale fault zone using critical syn-kinematic mineral assemblages from the metasedimentary host rocks surrounding deformed quartz veins. Deformed quartz veins sampled along this temperature gradient display a transition from cataclasites to mylonites (frictional–viscous transition) at 280±30 °C. Within the mylonites, zones characterized by different dynamic recrystallization mechanisms were defined: Bulging recrystallization (BLG) was dominant between 280 and 400 °C, subgrain rotation recrystallization (SGR) in the 400–500 °C interval, and the transition to dominant grain boundary migration recrystallization (GBM) occurred at 500 °C. The microstructures associated with the three recrystallization mechanisms and the transitions between them can be correlated with experimentally derived dislocation creep regimes. Bulk texture X-ray goniometry and computer-automated analysis of preferred [c]-axis orientations of porphyroclasts and recrystallized grains are used to quantify textural differences that correspond to the observed microstructural changes. Within the BLG- and SGR zones, porphyroclasts show predominantly single [c]-axis maxima. At the transition from the SGR- to the GBM zone, the texture of recrystallized grains indicates a change from [c]-axis girdles, diagnostic of multiple slip systems, to a single maximum in Y. Within the GBM zone, above 630±30 °C, the textures also include submaxima, which are indicative of combined basal a- and prism [c] slip.     

Development of quartz ribbons in quartzofeldspathic granulites

In high-grade (granulite facies) quartzofeldspathic rocks the progressive development of a fabric records contrasting deformation behaviour of quartz and feldspar. Feldspar has undergone deformation mainly by recrystallization-accommodated dislocation creep and produced smaller recrystallized grains progressively in the course of deformation. Quartz has not deformed solely by dislocation creep but also by a diffusion-controlled mechanism. Dislocation climb is important in the dislocation creep of quartz. In contrast to feldspar, quartz grains have not recrystallized into smaller grains at any stage of deformation. Rather, they have transformed initially to short monocrystalline ribbons and ultimately to long polycrystalline ribbons. This textural change of quartz is a continuous process and has taken place in the course of bulk textural change of the rocks during the deformation.