Abstract
Rheological experiments on fine-grained water ice II at low strain rates reveal a creep mechanism that dominates at conditions of low stress. Using cryogenic scanning electron microscopy, we observed that a change in stress exponent from 5 to 2.5 correlates strongly with a decrease in grain size from about 40 to 6 micrometers. The grain size-sensitive creep of ice II demonstrated here plausibly dominates plastic strain at the low-stress conditions in the interior of medium- to large-sized icy moons of the outer solar system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1267-1269 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 311 |
| Issue number | 5765 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 3 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General
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Kubo, T., Durham, W. B., Stern, L. A., & Kirby, S. H. (2006). Grain size-sensitive creep in ice II. Science, 311(5765), 1267-1269. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121296