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The idea that information about the stress history of a geological sample can be extracted from measurements made of the microstructure in the laboratory is attractive. While not attempting to be a review of palaeopiezometers, this chapter will present evidence for a ‘universal relation’ between deformation stress and the steady-state recrystallized grain size resulting from stress-induced boundary migration. This law is, of course, derived from measurements from laboratory experiments. Any application to naturally deformed rocks and minerals should only be carried out if all possible sources of confusion and error are fully understood. In particular, problems could arise from the effects of stress changing with time, and from subsequent deformation in other stress and temperature régimes leading to static recrystallization. More lengthy discussions of these problems are presented elsewhere (Mercier et al. 1977, Poirier 1985).
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Derby, B. (1990). Dynamic recrystallization and grain size. In: Deformation Processes in Minerals, Ceramics and Rocks. The Mineralogical Society Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6827-4_14
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