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Effects of phase transformations on rheology.

Direct experimentation to investigate the creep strengths of high pressure silicates should be performed. Also, the role of grain-size reduction on rheology should be investigated through experimental studies on transformation kinetics and deformation in the grain-size sensitive regime.



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