Geochemical signals for determining the slip-weakening mechanism of an ancient megasplay fault in the Shimanto accretionary complex

Details Geochemical signals for determining the slip-weakening mechanism of an ancient megasplay fault in the Shimanto accretionary complex Geochemical signals for determining the slip-weakening mechanism of an ancient megasplay fault in the Shimanto accretionary complex

Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3806310h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 6, CiteID L06310

Physics

Structural Geology: Dynamics And Mechanics Of Faulting (8118), Seismology: Subduction Zones (1207, 1219, 1240), Seismology: Earthquake Dynamics (1242)

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To investigate the slip behavior of a megasplay fault branching from a subduction boundary megathrust, we investigated the geochemistry of an out-of-sequence thrust that formed at 2.5-5.5 km depth. Rocks from the slip zone show major-element and fluid-immobile trace-element compositions that are consistent with disequilibrium flash melting. Distinct depletions of Li, Rb, and Cs in the slip-zone rocks indicate fluid-rock interactions at high temperatures (>350°C). These findings suggest a slip process in which high-temperature pore fluids were generated by frictional slip, but the thermally-enhanced pressure might not have reached a sufficient level to cause thermal pressurization, and the temperature continued to increase to attain melting of mica minerals. Comparison with slip zone that formed at a shallower depth (1-2 km), where only thermal pressurization occurred, suggests a transition from melt lubrication at depth to thermal pressurization at shallower depths along a megasplay faults.

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