Clay-clast aggregates: A new textural evidence for seismic fault sliding?

Details Clay-clast aggregates: A new textural evidence for seismic fault sliding? Clay-clast aggregates: A new textural evidence for seismic fault sliding?

Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3505302b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 5, CiteID L05302

Physics

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Tectonophysics: Dynamics And Mechanics Of Faulting (8004), Physical Properties Of Rocks: Microstructure, Seismology: Earthquake Dynamics (1242)

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To determine the processes responsible for slip-weakening in clayey gouge zones, rotary-shear experiments were conducted at seismic slip rates (equivalent to 0.9 and 1.3 m/s) at 0.6 MPa normal stress on a natural clayey gouge for saturated and non-saturated initial conditions. The mechanical behavior of the simulated faults shows a reproducible slip-weakening behavior, whatever initial moisture conditions. Examination of gouge obtained at the residual friction stage in saturated and non-saturated initial conditions allows the definition of two types of microstructures: a foliated type reflecting strain localization, and a non-foliated type composed of spherical aggregates. Friction experiments demonstrate that liquid-vapor transition of water within gouge due to frictional heating has a high capacity to explain the formation of spherical aggregates in the first meters of displacement. This result suggests that the occurrence of spherical aggregates in natural clayey fault gouges can constitute a new textural evidence for shallow depth pore water phase transition at seismic slip velocity and consequently for past seismic fault sliding.

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