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In-situ rock shattering and strain localization along a seismogenic fault in dolostones (Monte Marine fault, Italian Central Apennines) 沿白云岩地震断层的原位岩石破碎和应变定位(意大利亚平宁半岛中部的马林山断层)
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105144
S. Cortinovis , M. Fondriest , F. Balsamo , A. Lucca , F. La Valle , M. Pizzati , F. Storti , G. Di Toro
{"title":"In-situ rock shattering and strain localization along a seismogenic fault in dolostones (Monte Marine fault, Italian Central Apennines)","authors":"S. Cortinovis ,&nbsp;M. Fondriest ,&nbsp;F. Balsamo ,&nbsp;A. Lucca ,&nbsp;F. La Valle ,&nbsp;M. Pizzati ,&nbsp;F. Storti ,&nbsp;G. Di Toro","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>In-situ</em> shattered rocks are often associated with seismogenic fault zones, but their mechanism of formation is still matter of debate, partly because of the limited number of field studies. Here we describe the characteristics of <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks distribution along the NW-SE-striking seismogenic Monte Marine Fault (MMF) in the Italian Central Apennines. In the studied area, the MMF cuts through Mesozoic carbonates, is exhumed from &lt;3 km depth and consists of two &gt;5 km-long major hard-linked segments with normal kinematics. The linkage between the two fault segments occurs along a ∼2 km-long step-over zone with E-W trending faults and oblique-slip kinematics. To the northwest, fault-related shear deformation is localized in a ∼5 m-thick cataclastic fault core and off-fault deformation is dominated by <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks up to ∼40 m-thick. Instead, in the step-over zone to the southeast, the <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks are up to ∼500 m thick, particularly where MMF crosscuts older low-angle thrust faults.</p><p>We integrated detailed field structural surveys with microstructural and grain size distribution analyses of the fault rocks to assess the mechanism of (1) formation of <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks and, (2) progressive localization of shear deformation along the MMF. The obtained results, after the viability of several formation mechanisms (mechanical models) have been reviewed, support the hypothesis that the formation of <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks was associated with the propagation of (multiple) seismic ruptures (mainshocks and aftershock sequences) within a mechanically heterogeneous fault zone. Heterogeneity is due to the occurrence of preexisting damage related to previous earthquakes, but also inherited from the older low-angle thrust faults. Therefore, we suggest that the origin of these shattered rocks is more compatible with seismic related processes than only with quasi-static fault growth models. On the other hand, the cataclastic fault core derived from the progressive accommodation of shear deformation within the <em>in-situ</em> shattered rock volumes during several seismic cycles. We conclude that the large volumes of <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks are the result of seismic-related dissipative processes in a geometrically and mechanically heterogeneous fault zone. In this scenario, large volumes of <em>in-situ</em> shattered rocks are compliant low velocity zones which can influence the propagation of earthquake ruptures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814124000968/pdfft?md5=d934e7ba51bcb3bd274e9c5268194e37&pid=1-s2.0-S0191814124000968-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140825071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Interaction between basement inherited strike-slip structures and thrust wedge propagation in the northern Tianshan foreland basin: Insight from analogue modelling experiments 天山前陆盆地北部基底继承性走向滑动构造与推力楔传播之间的相互作用:模拟实验的启示
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105143
Zhenyu Peng , Fabien Graveleau , Bruno C. Vendeville , Xin Wang , Olivier Averbuch
{"title":"Interaction between basement inherited strike-slip structures and thrust wedge propagation in the northern Tianshan foreland basin: Insight from analogue modelling experiments","authors":"Zhenyu Peng ,&nbsp;Fabien Graveleau ,&nbsp;Bruno C. Vendeville ,&nbsp;Xin Wang ,&nbsp;Olivier Averbuch","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Basement inherited structures represent a significant factor affecting thrust propagation dynamics during the growth of fold-and-thrust belts. In this study inspirited from seismic data analysis of Gaoquan anticline in the Northern Tianshan foreland basin, we devised an experimental approach to investigate the structural and kinematical evolution of deformation from preexisting basement restraining bend to subsequent contractional deformation. Tested parameters included reactivation of the basement restraining bend and erosion. Results indicated that when preexisting basement restraining bend was reactivated and folded an overlying <em>décollement</em>, subsequent thrust nucleated preferentially at the top of the folded <em>décollement</em>. Erosion helped localize deformation, thereby reducing the width of the deformation zone and promoting “out-of-sequence” thrusting during compression. Finally, as we employed silicone polymer to simulate overpressured mudstone layer in the major <em>décollement</em>, our experiments also provide insights into a better understanding of the relationship between shallow salt-detached thrusting and deep inherited basement structures, such as in the Jura Mountains structures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814124000956/pdfft?md5=55b79812d79edeb3e65036521c6632ad&pid=1-s2.0-S0191814124000956-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140807619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Effect of mechanical stratigraphy on the structure and kinematics of salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from scaled analogue experiments with optical strain monitoring (digital image correlation) 机械地层对含盐褶皱推覆带结构和运动学的影响:利用光学应变监测(数字图像相关性)进行规模模拟实验的启示
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105135
Guimin Feng , Shuping Chen , Jürgen Adam , Yasuhiro Yamada , Xinpeng Wang
{"title":"Effect of mechanical stratigraphy on the structure and kinematics of salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from scaled analogue experiments with optical strain monitoring (digital image correlation)","authors":"Guimin Feng ,&nbsp;Shuping Chen ,&nbsp;Jürgen Adam ,&nbsp;Yasuhiro Yamada ,&nbsp;Xinpeng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>2D contractional scaled analogue experiments with composite materials including silica-sand and mica-flakes for overburden and silicone for salt analogue are used to investigate effects of mechanical stratigraphy on the structural evolution and kinematics of salt-detached fold-thrust-belts. Specific parameters tested are mechanical stratigraphy of the overburden and thickness variation of the basal silicone layer. The silicone-detached models in general are characterized by low-taper thrust wedge geometries and non-systematic vergence of folds and thrusts. Strain localization in the undeformed layer occurs as an in-sequence foreland breaking sequence. Strain is nucleating as detachment folds including thrust-bounded and concentric folds. Increased shortening develops break-thrusts in fold limbs. In-sequence frontal thrust interacts with out-of-sequence reactivation of older thrusts in the internal thrust wedge. Syn-kinematic silicone mobilization causes diapirism, allochthonous sheets and source-fed thrust. The specific distribution of discordant and allochthonous silicone structures vary with the mechanical stratigraphy. The impact of the mica-interlayer in the overburden sequence is strain-dependent. It strengthens the undeformed sand-pack compared to initial thrusting while active thrusts with mica-flakes in shear zones are weaker and active for longer than in homogeneous sand-pack. The longevity of thrusts correlates with the transfer of silicone to external domains and hanging-walls of thrusts. The silicone thickness controls the strain nucleation modes whether thrusting-dominated or folding-dominated predating main-thrusting stages. It also governs silicone supply and flow regimes with thick silicone source layers being readily remobilized to source-fed thrust and inflate silicone massifs in the foreland.</p><p>Insights from the modelling results are that the formation of large-transport source-fed thrusts such as Quele Thrust (China) and Chazuta Thrust (Peru) observed in salt-bearing FTB's is possibly attributed to salt detachment thickness and anisotropic overburden resulting from mechanically layered stratigraphy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140649966","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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Interplay of positive structural inversion and salt tectonics: The case study of the central algerian margin, Western Mediterranean 正构造反转与盐构造的相互作用:西地中海阿尔及利亚中部边缘的案例研究
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105133
Gaia Travan , Virginie Gaullier , Jacques Déverchère , Bruno C. Vendeville
{"title":"Interplay of positive structural inversion and salt tectonics: The case study of the central algerian margin, Western Mediterranean","authors":"Gaia Travan ,&nbsp;Virginie Gaullier ,&nbsp;Jacques Déverchère ,&nbsp;Bruno C. Vendeville","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Convergence between African and European plates generates compressional strain, primarily concentrated along the northern African margin. This is testified on the Algerian margin by numerous earthquakes (e.g. Bougrine et al., 2019) and by the presence of active folds and thrusts. Multi-channel seismic reflection profiles from the MARADJA I survey reveal north-verging thrusts rooted below the Messinian units, and the geometries of the Messinian salt structures. This study examines the characteristics of salt tectonics offshore Algiers and Dellys, focusing on the effect of the positive structural inversion of the former passive margin on geometries, timing, and mechanisms of salt deformation. The interpretation of seismic reflection and multi-beam bathymetric data of the MARADJA I survey, along with its comparison with analogue models, allowed us to reconstruct the salt tectonics processes on the margin and to identify the predominant role of a plateau uplift on salt deformation. Early and ubiquitous salt deformation by downbuilding was followed by a major phase of plateau uplift (end of Messinian Crisis), leading to westward gravity gliding and a slowdown of the salt deformation above the plateau. Km-tall salt structures were developed and thick minibasins deposited. Salt tectonics is nowadays active only where the relationship between salt and overburden thickness is favorable.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814124000853/pdfft?md5=06bf586f0749ea5e27f804771d78b945&pid=1-s2.0-S0191814124000853-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140760764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mylonite, cataclasite, and gouge: Reconstruction of mechanical heterogeneity along a low-angle normal fault: Death valley, USA 麦饭石、辉绿岩和冲沟:低角度正断层沿线机械异质性的重建:美国死亡谷
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105132
B.M. Lutz , G.J. Axen
{"title":"Mylonite, cataclasite, and gouge: Reconstruction of mechanical heterogeneity along a low-angle normal fault: Death valley, USA","authors":"B.M. Lutz ,&nbsp;G.J. Axen","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The spectrum of slip behavior in crustal faults generates various rock types that can inform the mechanics of earthquake genesis. However, a single fault exposure may contain evidence of slip at various depths and temperatures due to progressive fault rock formation and overprinting during exhumation. Here, we unravel the spatiotemporal evolution of mechanical transitions along the Boundary Canyon detachment, a low-angle normal fault northeast of Death Valley, USA. Field, microstructural, and geochemical characterizations of fault rocks are compared to existing laboratory experiments and combined with a thermo-kinematic model of fault evolution. Together, these constrain the depths of mechanical transitions along the fault and reveal the evolution of earthquake nucleation zone thickness. Fault exposures from different initial paleodepths passed through the mechanical transitions during footwall exhumation, resulting in overprinting of mylonite by cataclasite and ubiquitous late formation of foliated, illite-rich gouge within the uppermost crust. We present evidence of coseismic low-angle normal fault slip (e.g., injection veins of cataclasite, laminar and grain-inertial fluidization). Coseismic slip likely nucleated at strength contrasts within the fault zone (i.e., contacts between quartzite breccia and calc-mylonite; quartz ribbons and mylonite matrix; breccia and clay gouge) at ≈ 5–9.5 km depth. Observations including mutually overprinting cataclasite/ultramylonite and exposures of pulverized gouge support that dynamic rupture propagated down-dip through the brittle-ductile transition zone (≈10–11 km depth) and up-dip through velocity-strengthening fault patches (≈0–5 km depth). Rapid fault exhumation increased the geotherm, leading to upward advection of the brittle-ductile transition and shallowing/thinning of the earthquake nucleation zone. This process may explain the rarity of large magnitude earthquakes on low-angle normal faults.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140638784","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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Initiation and development of tectonic stylolite – Vein system in micritic limestone (Les Matelles, France) 微晶质石灰岩中构造性水帘洞--矿脉系统的形成与发展(法国莱斯马泰尔)
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105130
Grégory Ballas , Suzanne Raynaud , Michel Lopez , Emilien Oliot , Jean-Pierre Sizun , Jacinthe Caillaud , Fabrice Barou , Benoit Ildefonse
{"title":"Initiation and development of tectonic stylolite – Vein system in micritic limestone (Les Matelles, France)","authors":"Grégory Ballas ,&nbsp;Suzanne Raynaud ,&nbsp;Michel Lopez ,&nbsp;Emilien Oliot ,&nbsp;Jean-Pierre Sizun ,&nbsp;Jacinthe Caillaud ,&nbsp;Fabrice Barou ,&nbsp;Benoit Ildefonse","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we describe the characteristics of tectonic stylolites and related veins affecting a low-porosity micritic limestone (Jurassic carbonates, Les Matelles, South of France) in order to unravel the conditions of initiation and interaction between pressure-solution and fracturing in such rock. Field description, various petrographic and microstructural investigations (cathodoluminescence, <em>SEM</em> imaging, <em>EBSD</em> analysis), and petrophysical/geochemical analyses (<em>Hg</em> porosimetry, <em>XRD, EPMA</em>) are used. We document that pressure-solution initiates at micropores and propagates along calcite grain contacts, connecting surrounding stylolite micro-segments, and progressively concentrates insoluble material such as clays and siliceous particles. The dissolved material is evacuated to the veins where the newly-formed porous space is progressively filled by calcite cement. These deformation processes are strictly restricted to the stylolitic interface and veins, as no modification of porosity or grain deformation is detected in the neighboring host rock. This is due to the low-permeability of the surrounding host rock impeding the evacuation of dissolved material and fluids through interstitial porosity around the pressure-solution zone, leading to overpressure and veins formation. The water release and microporosity caused by diagenesis of the clay fraction (smectite-illite transformation) are discussed as key diagenetic processes instigating the conditions of pressure-solution initiation, then tectonic stylolite formation in low-porosity limestones.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140617004","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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Sand, salt, and models: The legacy of Bruno Vendeville 沙、盐和模型:布鲁诺-旺德维耶的遗产
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105131
Mark G. Rowan , Oriol Ferrer , Fabien Graveleau , Virginie Gaullier , Hemin Koyi , Sandra Borderie , Marwa Boussarsar , G. Ian Alsop
{"title":"Sand, salt, and models: The legacy of Bruno Vendeville","authors":"Mark G. Rowan ,&nbsp;Oriol Ferrer ,&nbsp;Fabien Graveleau ,&nbsp;Virginie Gaullier ,&nbsp;Hemin Koyi ,&nbsp;Sandra Borderie ,&nbsp;Marwa Boussarsar ,&nbsp;G. Ian Alsop","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bruno Vendeville (1961–2022) was the foremost practitioner of analog modeling applied to the field of salt tectonics, with his work providing and promoting significant advances in our understanding of this field over more than three decades. Bruno and his collaborators contributed major works in: the mechanics of salt-related deformation; the key processes of extensional, contractional, loading-induced, and strike-slip salt tectonics; the drivers and patterns of gravity-driven, linked systems of salt-detached deformation; and the structural style and evolution of specific salt basins. In this Special Issue devoted to his legacy, we offer a series of papers that build on his foundational work and honor his critical role in advancing the theory and application of salt tectonics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763129","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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An improved incremental shortening calculation method of the shear fault-bend fold 改进的剪切断层-弯曲褶皱增量缩短计算方法
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105129
Weiheng Zhang , Jie Chen , Tao Li , Yuan Yao , Qi Liu , Ning Di
{"title":"An improved incremental shortening calculation method of the shear fault-bend fold","authors":"Weiheng Zhang ,&nbsp;Jie Chen ,&nbsp;Tao Li ,&nbsp;Yuan Yao ,&nbsp;Qi Liu ,&nbsp;Ning Di","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Shear fault-bend folds, a common feature of fault bend folds in foreland fold-and-thrust belts, originate in the early deformation stage. Building upon Suppe's geometric model of 'shear fault-bend folding,' we present refined calculation formulas for total shortening, incremental shortening, and the shear coefficient specific to these folds, as well as ideas to verify model parameters. The practicality and versatility of our refined approach are confirmed through case studies of the Pakuashan anticline in Taiwan and the Tugulu anticline in North Tian Shan. This improved incremental shortening calculation formula, conserves the bed length and eliminates errors of the widely used shortening calculation formula, is crucial for understanding deformation processes and assessing seismic risks shear fault bend folding. To obtain more precise incremental shortening calculations, it should further refine the geometric and kinematic models of shear fault bend folding in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140649967","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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Fracture ellipticity as a measure of chemical reaction-controlled fracture growth 以断裂椭圆度衡量化学反应控制的断裂增长
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105127
Natchanan Doungkaew , Peter Eichhubl
{"title":"Fracture ellipticity as a measure of chemical reaction-controlled fracture growth","authors":"Natchanan Doungkaew ,&nbsp;Peter Eichhubl","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Natural fractures are generally viewed as elliptical in shape, consistent with elastic fracture mechanics. To quantify deviations of fracture shape from theoretically predicted elliptical opening distributions and to evaluate processes leading to non-elliptical fracture shapes, we measured aperture profiles of quartz-cemented opening-mode fractures in low-grade metamorphic sandstone. Ellipticity was quantified by the Lamé n-value, with measured n-values deviating significantly from n = 2 for elliptical shapes, ranging from 0.7 for tapered fractures to 3.2 for blunted fractures.</p><p>While some deviation from n = 2 can be explained by mechanical interaction with nearby fractures and layer boundaries, we explain the generally observed large variation in n values with competing processes between chemically assisted subcritical fracture propagation, leading to preferred fracture length growth and tapered tips for non-recoverable inelastic fracture opening by solution-precipitation creep, and preferred aperture growth and tip blunting by locally enhanced solution-precipitation creep in the fracture tip region. Using geometric models, we show that preferred length growth with non-recoverable fracture opening strain can lead to tapered fractures with n = 1; Preferred aperture growth and opening increments with Lamé n = 3 result in overall blunted fracture shapes with n &gt; 2. We propose that fracture ellipticity provides a measure of chemically reactive fracture growth processes in geological systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140606844","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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3D variation of shortened salt walls from the Moroccan Atlas: Influence of salt inclusions and suprasalt sedimentary wedges 摩洛哥阿特拉斯缩短盐壁的三维变化:盐夹杂物和超盐沉积楔的影响
IF 3.1 2区 地球科学
Journal of Structural Geology Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105125
Antonio Teixell , Michael R. Hudec , María-Luisa Arboleya , Naiara Fernandez
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