Electrification Phenomena in Rocks

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Springer Science & Business Media, Nov 11, 2013 - Science - 285 pages
In many areas of geophysics, geology, geochemistry, and mining, there is considerable interest in laboratory data on the physical properties of various types of rocks. Until recently, how ever, only the mechanical properties of rocks had been studied in detail. The last few years have seen a relatively large amount of study of the electrical properties of rock samples and a need to organize the results of these studies has arisen. In"Electrical Properties of Rocks,"* E. 1. Parkhomenko reviewed and cataloged studies of electrical resistivity and the dielectric constant in rocks. In the present work she covers other electrical phenomena which are observed to occur in rocks and minerals and reviews the re sults of her own researches, as well as that of others, previously published. Theoretical and experimental data on the piezoelectric prop erties of minerals and rocks obtained since 1953 by E. 1. Parkho menko and myself as the result of laboratory investigations on quartz-bearing rocks (granite, gneiss, quartz veins, etc. ) comprise the bulk of the monograph (Chapters1-4). Itwas not previously con sidered that a polycrystalline mass such as a rock could exhibit piezoelectric properties - it was supposed characteristic only of single crystals.
 

Contents

Brief Introduction to the Piezoelectric Effect
3
Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Effects
35
Theoretical Basis for a Piezoelectric
85
Methods of Studying Piezoelectric Effects in Rocks
113
Piezoelectric Effect in Vein Quartz of Various
138
References
148
The Seismoelectric Effect in Rocks
177
Induced Polarization in Rocks
199
Phenomenon
205
Effect of the Characteristics of the Applied Field
215
Triboelectric Effects in Rocks
239
Practical Application of Electrification
255
References
275
Index
283
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