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Reply to “Comment on ‘If Not Brittle: Ductile, Plastic, or Viscous?’ by Kelin Wang” by Marco A. Lopez‐Sanchez, Sylvie Demouchy, and Catherine Thoraval
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机译：Reply to “Comment on ‘If Not Brittle: Ductile, Plastic, or Viscous?’ by Kelin Wang” by Marco A. Lopez‐Sanchez, Sylvie Demouchy, and Catherine Thoraval
Different research communities prefer using different systems of terminology to describe brittle and ductile deformation of rocks. None of them is a misnomer. The use of the term viscous to describe thermally activated creep is fully compatible with viscoplastic and viscoelastic rock behavior. For general research purposes, the coexistence of the conflicting terminology systems does not cause substantive confusion. It is more productive to pay attention to self‐consistency than to try to unify the terminology systems. To understand why a unification is impossible in the foreseeable future, one must understand the essence of each individual system.
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