High temperature and acoustic emissions experimental data on 'Comiso' Limestone (Ragusa Formation; Sicily, Italy)

Castagna, Angela; Browning, Browning; Vinciguerra, Sergio; Walker, Richard; Ougier-Simonin, Audrey;

2023 || British Geological Survey - National Geoscience Data Centre (UKRI/NERC)

This dataset contains raw experimental high temperature and acoustic emission testing data on ‘Comiso’ limestone samples as outlined in "Castagna, A., Ougier-Simonin, A., Benson, P. M., Browning, J., Walker, R. J., Fazio, M., & Vinciguerra, S. (2018). Thermal damage and pore pressure effects of the Brittle-Ductile transition in Comiso limestone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(9), 7644-7660.s, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015105".
The data is provided in a .zip folder for 2 experiments that are accompanied by a README file for introduction. Files format are Microsoft Excel Worksheet (.xlsx) and data are tabulated. Each file contains the corresponding relevant sample’s details and each column of data is clearly labelled, units included. For each experiment, local time, corrected time, temperature (in degrees Celsius), acoustic emission amplitude (in decibels) and counts were recorded.
Cylindrical samples of ‘Comiso’ limestone samples (Ragusa Formation; Sicily) were heat-treated to investigate the effects of thermal stressing on the limestone’s microstructure. In all tests, a controlled heating rate of 1 °C/minute was applied, keeping the specimen at the desired maximum temperature for 30 minutes to allow complete temperature equilibration followed by natural cooling (generally less than<1 °C/minute). The experiments were conducted on the Carbolite CTF12/75/700 tube furnace of the Rock and Ice Physics Laboratory of the University College of London between the 22nd and 28th February, 2016.

The experiment were conducted by Drs A. Castagna and J. Browning, both responsible for the collection and interpretation of the data.

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  • rock and melt physics
  • paleomagnetism
  • analogue modelling of geologic processes
  • microscopy and tomography
  • geochemistry
Source http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/981867e6-2e56-4dc0-868b-330ee25f59d9
Source publisher British Geological Survey - National Geoscience Data Centre (UKRI/NERC)
DOI 10.5285/981867e6-2e56-4dc0-868b-330ee25f59d9
Authors
  • Castagna, Angela
  • University of Leicester;
  • Browning, Browning
  • University College London;
  • Vinciguerra, Sergio
  • University of Leicester;
  • Walker, Richard
  • University of Leicester;
  • Ougier-Simonin, Audrey
  • British Geological Survey;
Citation Castagna, A., Browning, B., Vinciguerra, S., Walker, R., & Ougier-Simonin, A. (2023). High temperature and acoustic emissions experimental data on 'Comiso' Limestone (Ragusa Formation; Sicily, Italy) [Data set]. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/981867E6-2E56-4DC0-868B-330EE25F59D9