Rheological evolution of a Mediterranean subduction complex

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-155

  Behr, Whitney Maria ^a   Platt, John Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Betic Cordillera; Continental subduction; Dislocation creep; Grain boundary sliding; Mylonites; Paleopiezometry; Pressure solution; Quartzite flow law; Stress in subduction zones; Subduction complex

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BETIC CORDILLERA; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; DISLOCATION CREEP; FLOW LAW; MYLONITES; PALEOPIEZOMETRY; PRESSURE SOLUTION; SUBDUCTION COMPLEX; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

CREEP;

EID: 84895981323     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Agard, P., Augier, R., Monie, P., Shear band formation and strain localization on a regional scale: evidence from anisotropic rocks below a major detachment (Betic Cordilleras, Spain). Journal of Structural Geology 33 (2010), 114–131.
2. Audet, P., Bostock, M.G., Christensen, N.I., Peacock, S.M., Seismic evidence for overpressured subducted oceanic crust and megathrust fault sealing. Nature 457 (2009), 76–78.
3. Augier, R., Jolivet, L., Robin, C., Late Orogenic doming in the eastern Betic Cordilleras: final exhumation of the Nevado-Filabride complex and its relation to basin genesis. Tectonics 24 (2005), 1–19.
4. Beaumont, C., Jamieson, R.A., Butler, J.P., Warren, C., Crustal structure: a key constraint on the mechanism of ultra-high-pressure rock exhumation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 287:1–2 (September 30 2009), 116–129, 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.001.
5. Behr, W.M., Platt, J.P., A naturally constrained stress profile through the middle crust in an extensional terrane. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 303:3–4 (2011), 181–192.
6. Behr, W.M., Platt, J.P., Kinematic and thermal evolution during two-stage exhumation of a Mediterranean subduction complex. Tectonics, 31(4), August 25 2012, TC4025.
7. Behrmann, J.H., Crystal plasticity and superplasticity in quartzite; A natural example. Tectonophysics 115:1–2 (1985), 101–129.
8. Benoit, M.H., Torpey, M., Liszewski, K., Levin, V., Park, J., P and S wave upper mantle seismic velocity structure beneath the northern Apennines: new evidence for the end of subduction. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12, 2011, Q06004.
9. 2. Journal of Petrology, 29(2), 1988, 445.
10. Beyssac, O., Goffé, B., Chopin, C., Raman spectra of carbonaceous material in metasediments: a new geothermometer. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 20 (2002), 859–871.
11. Cloos, M., Flow melanges: numerical modeling and geologic constraints on their origin in the Franciscan subduction complex, California. GSA Bulletin, 93(4), 1982, 330.
12. Cloos, M., Shreve, R.L., Subduction-channel model of prism accretion, melange formation, sediment subduction, and subduction erosion at convergent plate margins: 1. Background and description. Pure and Applied Geophysics 128:3 (1988), 455–500.
13. Cox, S., Paterson, M., Experimental dissolution-precipitation creep in quartz aggregates at high temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters 18:8 (1991), 1401–1404.
14. Dell'Angelo, L., Tullis, J., Textural and mechanical evolution with progressive strain in experimentally deformed aplite. Tectonophysics 256:1–4 (1996), 57–82.
15. den Brok, S.W.J., Effect of microcracking on pressure-solution strain rate; the Gratz grain-boundary model. Geology 26:10 (1998), 915–918.
16. Dewey, J., Helman, M., Turco, E., Hutton, D.H.W., Knott, S.D., Kinematics of the Western Mediterranean. Geological Society London Special Publications, vol. 45, 1989, 265–283.
17. Fagereng, Å., Diener, J.F.A., San Andreas Fault tremor and retrograde metamorphism. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, 2011.
18. Farver, J., Yund, R., Silicon diffusion in a natural quartz aggregate: constraints on solution-transfer diffusion creep. Tectonophysics 325:3 (2000), 193–205.
19. Fliervoet, T., White, S., Drury, M.R., Evidence for dominant grain-boundary sliding deformation in greenschist- and amphibolite-grade polymineralic ultramylonites from the Redbank Deformed Zone, Central Australia. Journal of Structural Geology 19:12 (1997), 1495–1520.
20. Fournier, R.O., Potter, R.W. II, An equation correlating the solubility of quartz in water from 25 to 900 C at pressures up to 10,000 bars. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 46:10 (1982), 1969–1973.
21. Galindo-Zaldívar, J., González-Lodeiro, F., Jabaloy, A., Progressive extensional shear structures in a detachment contact in the Western Sierra Nevada (Betic Cordilleras, Spain). Geodinamica Acta 1 (1989), 73–85.
22. Gerya, T., Stöckhert, B., Exhumation rates of high pressure metamorphic rocks in subduction channels: the effect of rheology. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(8), 2002, 1261.
23. Gleason, G.C., Tullis, J., A flow law for dislocation creep of quartz aggregates determined with the molten salt cell. Tectonophysics 247 (1995), 1–23.
24. Gratier, J., Guiguet Irigm, R., Experimental pressure solution-deposition on quartz grains: the crucial effect of the nature of the fluid. Journal of Structural Geology 8:8 (1986), 845–856.
25. Gratier, Jean-Pierre, Guiguet, Robert, Renard, François, Jenatton, Liliane, Bernard, Dominique, A pressure solution creep law for quartz from indentation experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research-solid Earth, 114(B3), March 6 2009, B03403, 10.1029/2008JB005652.
26. Gratier, Jean-Pierre, Dysthe, Dag K., Renard, François, The role of pressure solution creep in the ductility of the Earth's upper crust. Advances in Geophysics Advances in Geophysics, vol. 54, 2013, Elsevier, 47–179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-380940-7.00002-0.
27. Gratz, A.J., Solution-transfer compaction of quartzites; prograss toward a rate law. Geology 19 (1991), 901–904.
28. Grigull, S., Krohe, A., Moos, C., Wassmann, S., Stöckhert, B., ‘Order from Chaos’: a field-based estimate on bulk rheology of tectonic Mélanges formed in subduction zones. Tectonophysics 568 (2012), 86–101.
29. Gueydan, F., Mehl, C., Parra, T., Stress-Strain Rate History of a Midcrustal Shear Zone and the Onset of Brittle Deformation Inferred From Quartz Recrystallized Grain Size. Geological Society London Special Publications 243:1 (2005), 127–142.
30. Handy, M.R., The solid-state flow of polymineralic rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research-solid Earth B6 (1990), 8647–8661.
31. Handy, M.R., Wissing, S., Streit, L., Frictional–viscous flow in mylonite with varied bimineralic composition and its effect on lithospheric strength. Tectonophysics 303:1–4 (1999), 175–191.
32. Hansen, L.N., Zimmerman, M.E., Kohlstedt, David L., Grain boundary sliding in San Carlos olivine: flow law parameters and crystallographic-preferred orientation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 116(B8), August 5 2011, 10.1029/2011JB008220.
33. Hirth, Greg, Kohlstedt, David L., Rheology of the Upper Mantle and the Mantle Wedge: a view from the experimentalists. Geophysical Monograph 138 (2003), 83–105.
34. Hirth, G., Tullis, J., Dislocation creep regimes in quartz aggregates. Journal of Structural Geology 14:2 (1992), 145–159.
35. Hirth, G., Teyssier, C., Dunlap, W., An evaluation of quartzite flow laws based on comparisons between experimentally and naturally deformed rocks. International Journal of Earth Sciences 90:1 (2001), 77–87.
36. Holyoke, C.W., Kronenberg, A.K., Accurate differential stress measurement using the molten salt cell and solid salt assemblies in the Griggs apparatus with applications to strength, piezometers and rheology. Tectonophysics 494 (2010), 17–31.
37. Humphreys, F., Grain and subgrain characterisation by electron backscatter diffraction. Journal of Materials Science 36 (2001), 3833–3854.
38. Jabaloy, A., Galindo-Zaldívar, J., González-Lodeiro, F., The Alpujárride-Nevado-Fibábride extensional shear zone, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain. Journal of Structural Geology 15:3–5 (1993), 555–569.
39. Joesten, R., Grain growth and grain-boundary diffusion in quartz from the Christmas mountains (Texas) contact Aureole. American Journal of Science 263-A (1983), 233–254.
40. Johnson, C., Harbury, N., Hurford, A., The role of extension in the Miocene denudation of the Nevado-Filabride complex, Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). Tectonics 16:2 (1997), 189–204.
41. Jolivet, L., Faccenna, C., Goffé, B., Burov, E.B., Subduction tectonics and exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Mediterranean orogens. American Journal of Science 303:5 (2003), 353–409.
42. Kidder, Steven, Jean-Philippe, Avouac, Yu Chang, Chan, Constraints From Rocks in the Taiwan Orogen on Crustal Stress Levels and Rheology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (1978–2012), 117(B9), 2012.
43. Little, Timothy, Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., Monteleone, B., Continental Rifting and Metamorphic Core Complex Formation Ahead of the Woodlark Spreading Ridge, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea. Tectonics, 26(1), 2007.
44. Martínez–Martínez, J.M., Soto, J.I., Balanya, J.C., Orthogonal folding of extensional detachments: structure and origin of the Sierra Nevada elongated Dome (Betics, SE Spain). Tectonics, 21(3), 2002, 10.1029/2001TC001283.
45. Passchier, C.W., Trouw, R.A.J., Microtectonics. 2005, Springer-Verlag, New York, 366.
46. Paterson, M., Luan, F., Quartzite Rheology under Geological Conditions. Geological Society London Special Publications, vol. 54, 1990, 299–307.
47. Paterson, Mervyn S., A theory for granular flow accommodated by material transfer via an intergranular fluid. Tectonophysics 245:3–4 (May 1995), 135–151, 10.1016/0040-1951(94)00231-W.
48. Peacock, S.M., Christensen, N.I., Bostock, M.G., Audet, P., High pore pressures and porosity at 35 km depth in the Cascadia subduction zone. Geology 39 (2011), 471–474.
49. Platt, J., Behrmann, J.H., Structures and fabrics in a crustal-scale shear zone, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain. Journal of Structural Geology 8:1 (1986), 15–33.
50. Platt, J.P., Behr, W.M., Grainsize evolution in ductile shear zones: implications for strain localization and the strength of the lithosphere. Journal of Structural Geology 33 (2011), 537–550.
51. Platt, John, Allerton, S., Kirker, A., Mandeville, C., Mayfield, A., Platzman, E.S., Rimi, A., The ultimate arc: differential displacement, Oroclinal bending, and vertical axis rotation in the external Betic-Rif arc. Tectonics, 22(3), 2003, 1017.
52. Platt, J.P., Anczkiewicz, R., Soto, J.-I., Kelley, S.P., Thirlwall, M., Early Miocene continental subduction and rapid exhumation in the western Mediterranean. Geology 34:11 (2006), 981–984, 10.1130/G22801A.1.
53. Powell, R., Holland, T., Optimal geothermometry and geobarometry. American Mineralogist 79 (1994), 120–133.
54. Rutter, E., Pressure solution in nature, theory and experiment. Journal of the Geological Society, London 140 (1983), 725–740.
55. Rutter, E.H., The kinetics of rock deformation by pressure solution [and discussion]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1934–1990) 283 (1976), 203–219.
56. Rutter, E., Brodie, K.H., Experimental intracrystalline plastic flow in hot-pressed synthetic quartzite prepared from {B}razilian quartz crystals. Journal of Structural Geology 26:2 (2004), 259–270.
57. Saffer, D., Tobin, H.J., Hydrogeology and mechanics of subduction zone forearcs: fluid flow and pore pressure. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 39 (2011), 157–186.
58. Sanchez-Vizcaino, V., Rubatto, D., Gomez-Pugnaire, M., Trommsdorff, V., Muntener, O., Middle Miocene high-pressure metamorphism and fast exhumation of the Nevado-Filabride Complex, SE Spain. Terra Nova 13:5 (2001), 327–332.
59. Schmid, S.M., Casey, M., Complete fabric analysis of some commonly observed quartz C-axis patterns. Hobbs, B.E., Heard, H.C., (eds.) Mineral and Rock Deformation: Laboratory Studies Geophys. Monogr. Ser, vol. 36, 1986, AGU, Washington, D. C., 263–286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/GM036p0263.
60. Shimizu, I., Kinetics of pressure solution creep in quartz: theoretical Considerations. Tectonophysics 245:3 (1995), 121–134.
61. Spiers, C., Schutjens, P., Densification of polycrystalline aggregates by fluid-phase diffusional creep. Barber, D., Meridith, P.G., (eds.) Deformation Processes in Minerals, 1990, Ceramics and Rocks, London.
62. Sterner, S.M., Pitzer, K.S., An equation of state for carbon dioxide valid from zero to extreme pressures. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 117:4 (1994), 362–374.
63. Stipp, M., Stunitz, H., Heilbronner, R., Schmid, S., Dynamic Recrystallization of Quartz: Correlation between Natural and Experimental Conditions. Geological Society London Special Publications, vol. 200, 2002, 171–190.
64. Stipp, M., Tullis, J., The recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(21), 2003, 2088.
65. Stipp, M., Tullis, J., Behrens, H., Effect of water on the dislocation creep microstructure and flow stress of quartz and implications for the recrystallized grain size piezometer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, 2006, B04201.
66. Stipp, M., Kunze, K., Dynamic recrystallization near the brittle-plastic transition in naturally and experimentally deformed quartz aggregates. Tectonophysics 448:1–4 (2008), 77–97.
67. Stipp, M., Tullis, J., Scherwath, M., Behrmann, J.H., A new perspective on paleopiezometry: dynamically recrystallized grain size distributions indicate mechanism changes. Geology 38 (2010), 759–762.
68. Stöckhert, B., Stress and Deformation in Subduction Zones: Insight from the Record of Exhumed Metamorphic Rocks. Geological Society London Special Publications, vol. 200, 2002, 255–274.
69. Tichelaar, B.W., Ruff, L.J., Depth of seismic coupling along subduction zones. Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993), 2017–2037.
70. Thomas, J., Bruce Watson, E., Spear, F., Shemella, P., Nayak, S., Lanzirotti, A., Titani{Q} under pressure: the effect of pressure and temperature on the solubility of {T}i in quartz. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 160 (2010), 743–759, 10.1007/s00410-010-0505-3.
71. Vergnolle, M., Calais, E., Dong, L., Dynamics of continental deformation in Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, 2007, B11403.
72. Vidal, O., Parra, T., Trotet, F., A thermodynamic model for Fe-Mg aluminous chlorite using data from phase equilibrium experiments and natural pelitic assemblages in the 100 to 600 C, 1 to 25 kb range. American Journal of Science 301 (2001), 557–592.
73. Vissers, R., Platt, J., van der Wal, D., Late orogenic extension of the Betic Cordillera and the Alboran Domain: a lithospheric view. Tectonics 14:4 (1995), 786–803.
74. Vissers, R.L.M., Meijer, P.T., Iberian plate kinematics and Alpine collision in the Pyrenees. Earth-science Reviews 114 (2012), 61–83.
75. Wark, D., Watson, E., Titani{Q}: a titanium-in-quartz geothermometer. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 152 (2006), 743–754.
76. 2O at 1 GPa, with implications for mass transport in the crust and upper mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 130:1 (1997), 66–80.
77. Weyl, P.K., Pressure solution and force of crystallization—phenomenological theory. Journal of Geophysical Research 64 (1959), 2001–2025.
78. White, S., Geological significance of recovery and recrystallization processes in quartz. Tectonophysics 39:1–3 (1977), 143–170.
79. Yardley, B.W.D., Effect of cooling on the water content and mechanical behavior of Metamorphosed rocks. Geology 9:9 (1981), 405–408.