Scaling properties of fault rocks

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 125-136

  Dyer, Hilary ^a   Amitrano, David ^a   Boullier, Anne Marie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Damage microstructures; Fault zone; Grain size distribution; Hurst coefficient

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; FAULT ROCK; FAULT ZONE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HURST COEFFICIENT; HURST EXPONENTS; LOCAL STRAINS; POWER LAW EXPONENT; SCALING PROPERTIES; SHEAR ZONE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL CONTEXT; SPATIAL OVERLAP; STRAIN STATE; THIN SECTION; TWO PARAMETER;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

FAULT ZONE; GRAIN SIZE; GRANITE; POWER LAW; SHEAR BAND; SHEAR ZONE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84870389244     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abe S., Mair K. Grain fracture in 3D numerical simulations of granular shear. Geophysical Research Letters 2005, 32(3):L05305.
2. Alava M., Nukala P., Zapperi S. Morphology of two-dimensional fracture surfaces. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2006, L10002.
3. Amitrano D., Schmittbuhl J. Fracture roughness and gouge distribution of a granite shear band. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107(B12):2375-2390.
4. An L.-J., Sammis C.G. Particle size distribution of cataclastic fault materials from Southern California: a 3-D study. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1994, 143(1/2/3):203-227.
5. Bistacchi A., Griffith W.A., Smith S.A.F., Di Toro G., Jones R., Nielsen S. Fault roughness at seismogenic depths from LiDAR and photogrammetric analysis. Pure and Applied Geophysics 2011, 10.1007/s00024-011-0301-7.
6. Blenkinsop T.G. Cataclasis and processes of particle size reduction. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1991, 136:60-86.
7. Boffa J.M., Allain C., Hulin J.P. Experimental analysis of fracture rugosity in granular and compact rocks. European Physical Journal Applied Physics 1998, 2:281-289.
8. Bolon, P., Raji, A., 1991. Filtrage médian récursif multi-étage. Etude des propriétés statistiques et morphologiques. In: Treizième colloque GRETSI, Juan-les-Pins, France, 1005-1008.
9. Bouchaud E. Scaling properties of cracks. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 1997, 9:4319-4344.
10. Bouchaud E., Lapasset G., Planès J. Fractal dimension of fractured surfaces: a universal value?. Europhysics Letters 1990, 13:73-79.
11. Bouchaud E., Lapasset G., Planès J., Naveos S. Statistics of branched fracture surfaces. Physics Review B-Condensed Matter 1993, B48:2917-2928.
12. Boullier A.M., Fujimoto K., Ito H., Ohtani T., Keulen N., Fabbri O., Amitrano D., Dubois M., Pezard P. Structural evolution of the Nojima fault (Awaji Island, Japan) revisited from the GSJ drill hole at Hirabayashi. Earth Planets and Space 2004, 56:1233-1240.
13. Candela T., Renard F., Bouchon M., Brouste A., Marsan D., Schmittbuhl J., Voisin C. Characterization of fault roughness at various scales: implications of three dimensional high resolution topography measurements. Pure and Applied Geophysics 2009, 166:1817-1851.
14. Candela T., Renard F., Bouchon M., Schmittbuhl J., Brodsky E. Stress drop during earthquakes: effect of fault roughness scaling. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2011, 101:2369-2387.
15. Candela T., Renard F., Klinger Y., Mair K., Schmittbuhl J., Brodsky E. Roughness of fault surfaces over nine decades of length scales. Journal of Geophysical Research 2012, 117:B8. 10.1029/2011JB009041.
16. Chester J.S., Chester F.M., Kronenberg A.K. Fracture surface energy of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system. Nature 2005, 437:133-136.
17. Cox B.L., Wang J.S.Y. Fractal surfaces: measurement and applications in the earth sciences. Fractals 1993, 1:87-115.
18. Feder J. Fractals 1988, Plenum Press, New-York.
19. Hadizadeh J., Johnson W.K. Estimating local strain due to comminution in experimental cataclastic textures. Journal of Structural Geology 2003, 25:1973-1979.
20. Heilbronner R., Keulen N. Grain size and grain shape analysis of fault rocks. Tectonophysics 2006, 427:199-216.
21. Keller J., Hall S., McClay K. Shear fracture pattern and microstructural evolution in transpressional fault zones from field and laboratory studies. Journal of Structural Geology 1997, 19:1173-1187.
22. Kendall K. The impossibility of comminuting small particles by compression. Nature 1978, 272:710-711.
23. Keulen N., Heilbronner R., Stünitz H., Boullier A.M., Ito H. Grain size distributions of fault rocks: a comparison between experimentally and naturally deformed granitoids. Journal of Structural Geology 2007, 29:1282-1300.
24. King G., Sammis C. The mechanisms of finite brittle strain. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1992, 138:611-640.
25. Lin A. S-C cataclasite in granitic rock. Tectonophysics 1999, 304:257-273.
26. Lopez J.M., Schmittbuhl J. Anomalous scaling of fracture surfaces. Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 1998, 57:6405-6409.
27. Mair K., Main I., Elphick S. Sequential growth of deformation bands in the laboratory. Journal of Structural Geology 2000, 22:25-42.
28. Maloy K.J., Hansen A., Hinrichsen E.L., Roux S. Experimental measurements of the roughness of brittle cracks. Physics Review Letters 1992, 68:213-215.
29. Mandelbrot B.B., Passoja D.E., Paullay A.J. Fractal character of fracture surfaces of metals. Nature 1984, 308:721-722.
30. Marone C., Scholz C.H. Particle-size distribution and microstructures within simulated fault gouge. Journal of Structural Geology 1989, 11:799-814.
31. Menendez B., Zhu W., Wong T.F. Micromechanics of brittle faulting and cataclastic flow in Berea Sandstone. Journal of Structural Geology 1996, 18:1-16.
32. Michibayashi K. The role of intragranular fracturing on grain size reduction in feldspar during mylonitization. Journal of Structural Geology 1996, 18:17-25.
33. Monzawa N., Otsuki K. Comminution and fluidization of granular fault materials: implications for fault slip behaviour. Tectonophysics 2003, 367:127-143.
34. Moore D., Summers R., Byerlee J. Sliding behaviour and deformation textures of heated illite gouge. Journal of Structural Geology 1989, 11:329-342.
35. Power W.L., Durham W.B. Topography of natural and artificial fractures in granitic rocks: Implications for studies of rock friction and fluid migration. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 1997, 34:979-989.
36. Power W.L., Tullis T.E., Brown S.R., Boitnott G.N., Scholz C.H. Roughness of natural fault surfaces. Geophysical Research Letters 1987, 14:29-32.
37. Prasher C. Crushing and Grinding Processes Handbook 1987, Wiley, New York.
38. Renard F., Voisin C., Marsan D., Schmittbuhl J. High resolution 3D laser scanner measurements of a strike-slip fault quantify its morphological anisotropy at all scales. Geophysical Research Letters 2006, 33:L04305.
39. Sammis C., King G., Biegel R. The kinematics of gouge deformation. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1987, 125:777-812.
40. Sammis C.G., King G.C.P. Mechanical origin of power law scaling in fault zone rock. Geophysical Research Letters 2007, 34:L04312.
41. Sammis C.G., Osborne R.H., Anderson J.L., Banerdt M., White P. Self-similar cataclasis in the formation of fault gouge. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1986, 214:53-78.
42. Schmittbuhl J., Gentier S., Roux S. Field measurements of the roughness of fault surfaces. Geophysical Research Letters 1993, 20:639-641.
43. Schmittbuhl J., Roux S., Berthaud Y. Development of roughness in crack propagation. Europhysics Letters 1994, 28:585-590.
44. Schmittbuhl J., Vilotte J.P., Roux S. Reliability of self-affine measurements. Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 1995, 51:131-147.
45. Schmittbuhl J., Schmitt F., Scholz C. Scaling invariance of crack surfaces. Journal of Geophysical Research 1995, 100:5953-5973.
46. Steier K., Schönert K. Verformung und Bruchphänomene unter Druckbeanspruchung von sehr kleinen Körnen aus Kalkstein, Quarz und Polystyrol. Dechema Monograph 1972, 69:167-192.
47. Stünitz H., Keulen N., Hirose T., Heilbronner R. Grain size distribution and microstructures of experimentally sheared granitoid gouge at coseismic slip rates: criteria to distinguish seismic and aseismic faults?. Journal of Structural Geology 2010, 32:59-69.
48. Turcotte D.L. Fractals and Chaos. Geology and Geophysics 1992, Cambridge University Press, New York.
49. Wang W., Scholz C. Wear processes during frictional sliding of rocks: a theoretical and experimental study. Journal of Geophysical Research 1994, 99:6789-6799.
50. Wibberley C., Petit J.-P., Rives T. Micromechanics of shear rupture and the control of normal stress. Journal of Structural Geology 2000, 22:411-427.