Coseismic microstructures of experimental fault zones in Carrara marble
- Authors
- Ree, Jin-Han; Ando, Jun-ichi; Han, Raehee; Shimamoto, Toshihiko
- Issue Date
- 9월-2014
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- High-velocity-rotary-shear apparatus; Carrara marble; Seismic faulting; Thermal decomposition; Coseismic microstructure; Welded gouge
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, v.66, pp.75 - 83
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
- Volume
- 66
- Start Page
- 75
- End Page
- 83
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/97584
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsg.2014.05.012
- ISSN
- 0191-8141
- Abstract
- Experimental fault zones developed in Carrara marble that were deformed at seismic slip rates (1.18 -1.30 m s(-1)) using a high-velocity-rotary-shear apparatus exhibit very low friction (friction coefficient as low as 0.06) at steady state due to nanoparticle lubrication of the decomposition product (lime). The fault zones show a layered structure; a central slip-localization layer (5-60 mu m thick) of lime nanograins mantled by gouge layers (5-150 mu m thick) and a plastically deformed layer (45-500 mu m thick) between the wall rock and gouge layer in the marginal portion of cylindrical specimens. Calcite grains of the wall rock adjacent to the slip zone deform by dislocation glide when subjected to frictional heating and a lower strain rate than that of the principal slip zone. The very fine (2-5 mu m) calcite grains in the gouge layer show a foam structure with relatively straight grain boundaries and 120 degrees triple junctions. This foam structure is presumed to develop by welding at high temperature and low strain once slip is localized along the central layer. We suggest that a seismic event can be inferred from deformed marbles, given: (i) the presence of welded gouge with foam structure in a fault zone where wall rocks show no evidence of thermal metamorphism and (ii) a thin plastically deformed layer immediately adjacent to the principal slip zone of a cataclastic fault zone. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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