Hydrologic properties and structure of the Mozumi Fault, central Japan

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30fmoz1f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 6, pp. MOZ 1-1, CiteID 8010, DOI 10.1029/2002GL014904

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Structural Geology: Fractures And Faults, Structural Geology: Role Of Fluids, Structural Geology: Mesoscopic Fabrics, Structural Geology: Microstructures, Structural Geology: Mechanics

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Analyses of rocks from the Active Fault Survey Tunnel (AFST) provides insight into the structure and hydrogeology of the northeast-trending Mozumi-Sukenobu fault, an active strike-slip fault with 125 to 500 m of right-lateral slip in central Japan. Interlayered regions of sub-vertical permeability zones formed by cataclasis and slip on clay-rich foliated zones. Core samples range from 10-19 m2 to almost 10-13 m2. CFC analyses of waters from the fault zone show that water entering the tunnel is 27-36 years old, yielding a bulk fault permeability of 10-14 to 10-15 m2. The data support a fault zone model of a fluid-saturated, low-velocity zone with a sharp velocity contrasting with the protolith. Pore-fluid pressures could build and dissipate in isolated high permeability pods 10's-100's m in dimension.

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