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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-827-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-827-2025
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25 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2025

Evolution of crystallographic preferred orientations of ice sheared to high strains by equal-channel angular pressing

Qinyu Wang, Sheng Fan, Daniel H. Richards, Rachel Worthington, David J. Prior, and Chao Qi

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Ice often exhibits a single-cluster fabric when deformed to high strains in glaciers and ice sheets. Using the equal-channel angular pressing technique, we achieved high shear strains in laboratory experiments and examined the fabrics. We investigated the evolutions of fabric and recrystallization mechanisms with strain. The results suggest that rotation recrystallization dominates fabric development when ice is deformed to high strains, explaining the fabrics found in natural ice.
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