I am looking into quantifying the energy needed to melt a 1 cm^3 sandstone. Are there values already available in the literature?
Similarly, what is the energy needed to form a 1 cm^3 crater in a sandstone? and what is the energy needed to form a certain length fracture in a sandstone?
Your help is greatly appreciated. until then let's keep making the world a happier place.
Hasso
Regarding melting: If you assume a pure quartzite, you can use the heat capacity to see how much energy is needed to bring it up to melting temperature (don't forget the phase transformations to beta-quartz, tridymite and cristobalite along the way); and then the energy that is needed to go from cristobalite to melt. Thermodynamic data is available for these things, so start calculating ;-)
Hallo Marlina,
thank you for the clarification, I will now start calculating :)
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