Improve Research Reproducibility A Bio-protocol resource
Concise Method
tooltip

Experimental material

AC Alexis Cartwright-Taylor
MM Maria-Daphne Mangriotis
IM Ian G. Main
IB Ian B. Butler
FF Florian Fusseis
ML Martin Ling
EA Edward Andò
AC Andrew Curtis
AB Andrew F. Bell
AC Alyssa Crippen
RR Roberto E. Rizzo
SM Sina Marti
DL Derek. D. V. Leung
OM Oxana V. Magdysyuk
request Request a Protocol
ask Ask a question
Favorite

A Permian aeolian sandstone from the Clashach quarry in Morayshire, Scotland was chosen as the experimental material. Clashach sandstone is a quartz-rich arenite composed of >92% quartz grains, <8% K-feldspar and subordinate lithics. It is well-sorted with fine to medium-sized grains 0.25–0.4 mm in diameter50. A highly cemented Clashach sample was used (17% porosity), which behaved in a mechanically brittle manner when loaded to failure at shallow crustal pressures, and emitted sufficient acoustic emissions for feedback control. Cylindrical cores of 10 mm diameter were obtained using a diamond core drill, and the ends of the cores were ground flat and parallel on a lathe to a length of 25 mm. This small sample size is required to obtain the micron-scale resolution achievable with synchrotron μCT imaging.

Copyright and License information: The Author(s) ©2022
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Do you have any questions about this protocol?

Post your question to gather feedback from the community. We will also invite the authors of this article to respond.

post Post a Question
0 Q&A