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A novel multi-scale approach to fault network analysis and visualization: test case Franconian Platform (SE Germany) 一种新的多尺度故障网络分析与可视化方法:测试用例Franconian平台(德国东南部)
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105481
Johannes D. Wiest , Saskia Köhler , Daniel Koehn , Harald Stollhofen , Kathrin Dengler , Hamed Fazlikhani
{"title":"A novel multi-scale approach to fault network analysis and visualization: test case Franconian Platform (SE Germany)","authors":"Johannes D. Wiest ,&nbsp;Saskia Köhler ,&nbsp;Daniel Koehn ,&nbsp;Harald Stollhofen ,&nbsp;Kathrin Dengler ,&nbsp;Hamed Fazlikhani","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Faults are essential to reconstruct geologic histories and their presence (or absence) in the subsurface plays a significant role for many societal issues, such as geothermal energy, carbon, hydrogen and hydrocarbon storage or nuclear waste deposition. In the area of the Permo-Mesozoic Franconian Platform (Northern Bavaria, SE Germany) the existence and properties of faults in the subsurface are poorly known due to limited exposure and lack of geophysical data coverage.</div><div>To address this issue, we have constructed a new fault network based on stratigraphic offsets identified in a network of 18 cross sections. In this contribution, we present our workflow which allows the effective construction of an internally consistent cross-section network covering a study area of &gt;30,000km<sup>2</sup>, while representing the geology in high detail. Data input is provided by &gt; 3500 (mostly shallow) wells and &gt;250 high-resolution geological maps, complemented by geophysical surveys and field data. We demonstrate how fault segments and their attributes (e.g., fault type, dip direction, offset, certainty of the interpretation, etc.) can be inferred from the profiles, resulting iteratively in consistent profile and fault networks.</div><div>While we highlight the non-uniqueness of the interpretation and its restriction to vertical offsets, we demonstrate advantages of the fault network, inferred through this pseudo-3D approach, compared to previously available datasets. We discuss the role of newly identified fault populations for Cretaceous inversion tectonics and Cenozoic rifting. Through the incorporation of basic measures of uncertainty and scale-dependency in the resulting fault model, quantification of the fault network can be achieved. This enables the comparison with independent datasets and different model realizations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105481"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Exploring spatial heterogeneity and topological properties of fracture Networks: A statistical characterization 探索裂缝网络的空间异质性和拓扑特性:一个统计表征
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105482
Sivaji Lahiri , Ayoti Banerjee , Ankur Roy , Madhav Jha , Sufi Md Gulzar , Alessio Lucca
{"title":"Exploring spatial heterogeneity and topological properties of fracture Networks: A statistical characterization","authors":"Sivaji Lahiri ,&nbsp;Ayoti Banerjee ,&nbsp;Ankur Roy ,&nbsp;Madhav Jha ,&nbsp;Sufi Md Gulzar ,&nbsp;Alessio Lucca","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105482","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105482","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Analyzing fracture patterns and estimating their topological and spatial properties are essential for the predictive stochastic modelling of fractured rocks. In this study, we examined 83 natural fracture patterns compiled from existing literatures, covering diverse geological settings. To investigate spatial clustering in two dimensions (2D), we employed a multiscale spatial statistical parameter ‘Lacunarity’ which quantifies textural heterogeneity. Unlike previous studies that focused solely on the clustering of two-dimensional fracture arrays, our analysis also considers the spatial clustering of topological nodes—specifically, intersection and end-tip points within fracture networks.</div><div>Our findings indicate that the spatial distribution of nodes within a fracture network follows a non-random pattern. As fracture arrays become more clustered, the clustering of nodes also intensifies. With an increase in clustering of fracture arrays, the mean branch length weakly reduces owing to the proliferation of smaller branches within the network. Moreover, we noted that the clustering of fracture array has little correlation with the topological connectivity of the fracture networks. This is because topological connectivity only considers the abundance of different types of nodes within a pattern, without considering their spatial distribution. Finally, leveraging the estimated topological and spatial properties of the analyzed fracture patterns, we have proposed a statistical model, which would be useful to modellers and engineers involved in research on the circulation of any sub-surface fluid.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Partitioning of strain rates and stresses between a thin shear zone and its walls under transpression or transtension 受压或受拉作用的薄剪切带及其壁面之间的应变率和应力的分配
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105484
Pierre-Yves F. Robin , Alexander R. Cruden
{"title":"Partitioning of strain rates and stresses between a thin shear zone and its walls under transpression or transtension","authors":"Pierre-Yves F. Robin ,&nbsp;Alexander R. Cruden","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105484","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Within a mid-crustal domain deforming in transpression or transtension, thin zones may exhibit higher strain than their immediately adjacent walls. The lower transpressive strain of the host may sometimes not be recognized and these thin bands might thus be interpreted as simple shear zones. However, their kinematic indicators should reflect the transpressional or transtensional strain imposed by the less deformed host. In order to explore the contrasting strain between such a zone and its walls, we analyse a simple model of a narrow low-viscosity oblique transcurrent shear zone held coherently within a broader, higher-viscosity host rock. The model uses strain rate as a proxy for strain.</div><div>We evaluate the contrasts in strain rate intensities and in shape parameters between such a shear zone and its walls as functions of viscosity contrast and of convergence angles. We find important differences between transpressional or transtensional shear zones and the more familiar simple shear zones.</div><div>Strain fabrics observed in some crustal scale shear zones and their walls, such as the Archean Larder Lake-Cadillac Deformation Zone (LCDZ) in Ontario and Québec, Canada, which combine transcurrent shear sense indicators and steeply plunging lineations, can indeed be explained by transpression.</div><div>We also examine the contrast in stresses between the shear zone and its walls. We find that, in transpression, buoyant fluids that might be generated in the deep crust, near the base of a deformation zone such as the LCDZ, should in fact move through the wall rock rather than within that high-deformation zone. This has implications for the location of mineral deposits traditionally associated with such deformation zones.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105484"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Integration of deformed objects into a composite object analogous to the strain ellipse: a novel graphic method of Rf/ϕ strain analysis 将变形对象集成为类似于应变椭圆的复合对象:一种新的Rf/ϕ应变分析图形方法
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105470
Yehua Shan
{"title":"Integration of deformed objects into a composite object analogous to the strain ellipse: a novel graphic method of Rf/ϕ strain analysis","authors":"Yehua Shan","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105470","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105470","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The composite object of post-strain elliptical objects is defined as having a radial length that is the square root of the normalized sum of the squared radial lengths of the objects. It proves analogous to the strain ellipse and makes <em>R</em><sub><em>f</em></sub><em>/ϕ</em> strain analysis simple. The finite strain is estimated from the overall shape of the composite object. The discrepancy between the composite object and the estimated strain ellipse is used to appraise the assumption of the uniformly distributed major axes of pre-strain objects. Two strain methods, direct calculation and numerical estimation, are developed to determine the strain from the composite object. Synthetic and natural datasets are used to validate the methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105470"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Switching from contractional to extensional tectonics along the Alpine Front: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Balagne area (northern Corsica, France) 沿阿尔卑斯锋面从收缩构造转向伸展构造:法国北科西嘉Balagne地区的构造和变质证据
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105471
Maria Di Rosa , Edoardo Sanità , Alessandro Malasoma , Luca Pandolfi , Michele Marroni
{"title":"Switching from contractional to extensional tectonics along the Alpine Front: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Balagne area (northern Corsica, France)","authors":"Maria Di Rosa ,&nbsp;Edoardo Sanità ,&nbsp;Alessandro Malasoma ,&nbsp;Luca Pandolfi ,&nbsp;Michele Marroni","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105471","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105471","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the Corsica Island (France), the tectonic boundary along which the units of Alpine Corsica overlap the Hercynian Corsica represents a first-order structure which has not been investigated in depth yet. In this paper, the reconstruction of the Alpine Corsica Front in the Balagne area through the characterization of the deformation history and the associated peak metamorphism for the units of Alpine Corsica and for the Hercynian Corsica is provided. The collected data indicate that a gap in the peak metamorphism between the less metamorphic units located at the top of the unit pile, and those located at lower structural level which registered low-blueschist facies conditions exists. Also, a detailed structural analysis of the shear zones along the Alpine Corsica Front is supplied. The studied N-S trending, E-dipping shear zones documented at the western rim of the Balagne area are characterized by deformation history indicating a top-to-E sense of shear that overprint a former top-to-W kinematics. These findings indicate that the Alpine Corsica Front was affected by extensional tectonics after the shortening, which developed during the top-to-W thrusting of the Alpine Corsica onto the Hercynian Corsica. Framing our results in the regional tectonic setting, we suggest that the extensional tectonics documented in the Balagne area developed during the Oligocene-Early Miocene, i.e., during the transition from the latest stages of orogenic exhumation within the Alpine belt to the post-orogenic rifting stage in the Liguro-Provençal and Tyrrhenian Basins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Deformation style and fluid flow behaviour in a faulted siliciclastic-carbonate sequence 断裂硅酸-碳酸盐岩层序的变形样式和流体流动特征
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105468
Cyrill Labry , Antonio Funedda , Anita Torabi , Claudio Arras , Stefania Da Pelo
{"title":"Deformation style and fluid flow behaviour in a faulted siliciclastic-carbonate sequence","authors":"Cyrill Labry ,&nbsp;Antonio Funedda ,&nbsp;Anita Torabi ,&nbsp;Claudio Arras ,&nbsp;Stefania Da Pelo","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105468","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105468","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding fluid flow behaviour of faults is important for resource exploitation and management. Most studies analysing fluid flow behaviour in fault zones focus on either high-porosity or low-porosity sequences. In this study, we analyse various mechanical layers within alternating siliciclastic-carbonate sequences in fault zones in the Oligo-Miocene Logudoro basin, located in northern Sardinia (Italy). We combined a variety of methods, including field measurements of structures, in-situ permeability and Schmidt Hammer rebound measurements converted to uniaxial compressive strength. Furthermore, we performed thin section analysis, to characterize grain size, porosity, and mineral compositions. We used the gathered data to model the fluid flow conditions within deformation patterns present in one fault-zone. Deformation styles are related to mechanical properties of the rocks at the time of faulting, juxtaposition and differences in intergranular space and porosity in sandstones. The permeability is influenced by the presence of deformation structures such as fractures (high permeability), compactional shear bands (low permeability) and fault rocks within fault core (high and/or low permeability). The fluid flow model highlights the significant influence of deformation bands on the flow field and hydraulic gradient, demonstrating the importance of including these structures in the analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fault zone deformation and fracture intensity in chalk-dominated carbonates 白垩系碳酸盐岩中断裂带变形与断裂强度
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105469
David A. Ferrill , Adam J. Cawood , Kevin J. Smart , Daniel J. Lehrmann , Mark A. Evans , Lisa D. Stockli , Daniel F. Stockli
{"title":"Fault zone deformation and fracture intensity in chalk-dominated carbonates","authors":"David A. Ferrill ,&nbsp;Adam J. Cawood ,&nbsp;Kevin J. Smart ,&nbsp;Daniel J. Lehrmann ,&nbsp;Mark A. Evans ,&nbsp;Lisa D. Stockli ,&nbsp;Daniel F. Stockli","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105469","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105469","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cretaceous Anacacho Limestone within the Balcones fault system (central Texas) is investigated to understand fracturing of chalk-dominated carbonates in a normal faulting deformation regime. Development of opening-mode fractures is highly sensitive to mineralogy and associated mechanical behavior. Low mechanical rebound beds that have &gt;7 % clay and &lt;90 % carbonate generally lack well-developed opening-mode fracture sets. High-rebound beds with &lt;7 % clay and &gt;90 % carbonate contain opening-mode fracture networks. Away from mapped faults (with ∼10 m or greater throw), deformation is represented by opening-mode fractures in two orthogonal sets with intensities of &lt;1 fracture/meter. The NE-SW-striking dominant set parallels regional normal-fault strike. Deformation adjacent to a ∼10-m-throw normal fault includes small-displacement (antithetic and synthetic) normal faults and opening-mode fractures. Near-fault fracture intensity reaches &gt;5 × background levels, and decays to background intensity ∼30 m from the fault. Fluid inclusion analyses of calcite from dilational crack-seal zones along normal faults and opening-mode fractures within the fault damage zone reveal: (i) liquid hydrocarbon inclusions with ∼28–36 API gravity oil; (ii) homogenization temperatures from two-phase inclusions used to estimate burial depths of 0.9–1.5 km (oil inclusions) up to 2.4–2.9 km (aqueous inclusions); and (iii) aqueous inclusion ice-melting temperatures indicating basinal brine rather than near-surface meteoric water during vein cementation. U-Pb ages from these veins indicate Paleocene-Eocene faulting and fracturing (57.9 ± 3.2 to 38.9 ± 4.1 Ma), and limited Miocene (16.6 ± 2.2 Ma) activity. This work documents the essential role of small-displacement faults and opening-mode fractures in the migration of hydrocarbons through low-permeability chalk dominated carbonates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A long history of ductile and brittle deformation of Eastern Pyrenees fault zones: coupling 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, chlorite geothermometry and structural observation 东比利牛斯断裂带韧性和脆性变形的悠久历史:40Ar/39Ar年代学、绿泥石地热测量和构造观测的耦合
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105465
Gaétan Milesi , Philippe Münch , Delphine Charpentier , Arthur Iemmolo , Aoutmane Bouaoudi , Andreï Lecomte , Virginie Moutarlier , Renaud Gley , Michael Bonno , Patrick Monié
{"title":"A long history of ductile and brittle deformation of Eastern Pyrenees fault zones: coupling 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, chlorite geothermometry and structural observation","authors":"Gaétan Milesi ,&nbsp;Philippe Münch ,&nbsp;Delphine Charpentier ,&nbsp;Arthur Iemmolo ,&nbsp;Aoutmane Bouaoudi ,&nbsp;Andreï Lecomte ,&nbsp;Virginie Moutarlier ,&nbsp;Renaud Gley ,&nbsp;Michael Bonno ,&nbsp;Patrick Monié","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105465","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105465","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In orogenic settings, fault networks accommodate crustal deformation during the evolution of mountain ranges. Fault zones exhibit multiphase ductile and brittle activity, complicating their interpretation. Dating deformation in orogenic basement remains a challenge. In this study, we conducted structural and microstructural observations, coupled with <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar dating on encapsulated mineral fractions and chlorite thermometry, on major fault zones in the Eastern Pyrenees. To overcome the presence of K-feldspar within fault gouge, a major issue for fault gouge argon dating, we present a method to estimate the contribution of two mixed K-rich phases from <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar step heating. This method provides limit or maximum age for the deformation recorded by fault gouges in which illite polytypes are mixed with K-feldspar. Our results reveal a ductile-to-brittle transition between 40 and 35 Ma (Priabonian-Bartonian), characterized by 2<em>M</em>1 muscovite and evidence of strike-slip movement along the Py NE-SW fault and NW-SE secondary faults. The Py fault gouge contains muscovite formed at temperatures exceeding 200–250 °C. In the Têt NE-SW fault gouge, the coexistence of 2<em>M</em>1 and 1<em>M</em> illite polytypes suggests late-stage crystallization of 1<em>M</em> illite at 22.1 ± 1.4 Ma, at temperatures between 100 and 150 °C, as determined by chlorite thermometry. These findings confirm significant normal faulting activity on the Têt fault during the Oligo-Miocene, consistent with published low-temperature thermochronology data indicating early exhumation of the Canigou massif relative to the Carança massif, facilitated by normal displacement along the Py fault, and a later exhumation of both massifs in relation to the Têt normal fault activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105465"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Depth-dependent in-situ stress state of the Longmen Shan fault Belt: Evidence from Wenchuan earthquake fault scientific drilling project Hole-2 image logs and core 龙门山断裂带深度地应力状态:来自汶川地震断裂带科学钻探工程2孔影像测井和岩心的证据
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105467
Chunrui Li , Haibing Li , Huan Wang , Jialiang Si , Lei Zhang
{"title":"Depth-dependent in-situ stress state of the Longmen Shan fault Belt: Evidence from Wenchuan earthquake fault scientific drilling project Hole-2 image logs and core","authors":"Chunrui Li ,&nbsp;Haibing Li ,&nbsp;Huan Wang ,&nbsp;Jialiang Si ,&nbsp;Lei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105467","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105467","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Longmen Shan Fault Belt, as a critical tectonic boundary along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, exhibits stress field characteristics that are important for understanding the kinematic features of the fault zone and its seismic activity. Recent studies have demonstrated significant variations in the shallow stress field of the fault zone, particularly when seismic ruptures propagate to shallow depths where the kinematic characteristics undergo marked changes. To investigate the stress states at different depths within the fault zone, this study systematically analyzed the in-situ stress field of the Yingxiu-Beichuan Fault through borehole wall image logs and core samples from the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Project Hole 2 (WFSD-2). Combined with previous research findings, six depth intervals (424–569 m, 958–1163 m, 1271–1357 m, 1523–1623 m, 1870–2081 m, 2112–2178 m) were identified, with mean maximum horizontal principal stress orientations of 318°, 301°, 291°, 306°, 328°, and 190°, respectively, showing ∼20° inter-segment variations. Regional fault geometry analysis revealed distinct kinematic behaviors: Interval 1 exhibited pure thrust motion; Intervals 2–4 showed thrust-dominated motion with right-lateral strike-slip components; and Intervals 5–6 showed thrust motion with left-lateral strike-slip components. Integrated with existing studies, the 750–950 m and 1300–1500 m depth segments correspond to pure thrust and right-lateral strike-slip thrust regimes, respectively, matching the coseismic slip patterns of the Yingxiu-Beichuan Fault and Shenxigou Fault during the Wenchuan earthquake. These depth-dependent differential stress states, manifested as coseismic response features along the fault zone, result from the vertically heterogeneous rupture processes during the Wenchuan earthquake. This postsismic stress configuration reflects the kinematic adjustments of different fault segments, which fundamentally explains the structural complexity of the Longmen Shan Fault Belt and the multi-stage rupture characteristics observed in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 105467"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144178528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Crystal preferred orientation of lawsonite and glaucophane in lawsonite blueschist deformed in general shear 一般剪切变形的铁榴石蓝片岩中铁榴石和蓝榴石的晶体择优取向
IF 2.6 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105464
Seungsoon Choi , Haemyeong Jung, Sejin Jung
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