Prof. Seth Kruckenberg co-authors new manuscript on the crystallographic controls of void space at grain boundaries

The article, entitled "Crystallographically controlled void space at grain boundaries in the Harkless quartzite" by Nagurney et al. was published in the Journal of Structural Geology. Prof. Seth Kruckenberg, along with graduate student and faculty colleagues at Virginia Tech, use a combination of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging techniques to investigate how the crystallographic orientation of quartz grains, and the resulting rock microstructure, may play a role in the development of void space at grain boundaries due to anisotropic elastic changes in crystal lattice dimensions during exhumation.