Fabric transition with dislocation creep of a carbonate fault zone in the brittle regime
- Authors
- Kim, Sungshil; Ree, Jin-Han; Han, Raehee; Kim, Nahyeon; Jung, Haemyeong
- Issue Date
- 16-1월-2018
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Fabric transition; Lattice preferred orientation; Frictional heating; Seismic slip; Garam thrust
- Citation
- TECTONOPHYSICS, v.723, pp.107 - 116
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- TECTONOPHYSICS
- Volume
- 723
- Start Page
- 107
- End Page
- 116
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/77961
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.12.008
- ISSN
- 0040-1951
- Abstract
- Fabric transition by a switch in the dominant slip system of minerals in the plastic regime can be induced by changes in temperature, strain rate, or water content. We propose here this fabric transition by frictional heating in seismogenic fault zones in the brittle regime. The Garam Thrust in the Taebaeksan Basin of South Korea has a hanging wall of Cambrian dolostone juxtaposed against a footwall of Ordovician limestone and records a minimum displacement of similar to 120 m. In a 10 cm thick plastically deformed layer adjacent to the principal slip layer of the fault zone, the lattice preferred orientation of calcite grains suggests that the dominant slip system changes, approaching the principal slip layer, from r < 02-21 > and e-twinning, through r < 02-21 > and basal < a >, to basal < a >. This fabric transition requires a high temperature-gradient of 40 degrees C/cm, which we infer to result from frictional heating of the seismic fault zone. We suggest that fabric transition within a thin plastically deformed layer adjacent to the principal slip layer of a fault zone indicates an unusually steep temperature gradient and provides strong evidence of seismic slip.
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