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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116652
	Effects of heterogeneous gouge segments on the slip behavior of experimental faults at dm scale
	Buijze L.; Guo Y.; Niemeijer A.R.; Ma S.; Spiers C.J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	554
英文摘要	Frictional heterogeneity within fault zones is one of the factors proposed to explain the spectrum of slow, intermediate, and fast slip behaviors exhibited by faults in nature. Numerical modeling shows how even a simplified model setup incorporating sliding on a velocity-weakening (VW) patch surrounded by velocity-strengthening (VS) material can reproduce a rich variety of slip behaviors resembling nature. However, experimental investigations of sliding on heterogeneous faults are few. In this study, the slip behavior of three, 347 mm long × 50 mm wide, heterogeneous experimental faults, constructed using diagonally sawcut PMMA forcing blocks, was investigated at low normal stresses (<10.5 MPa) and room temperature. Fault friction was controlled by including an 80 mm long, 2 mm thick, central segment of VW gypsum “gouge” flanked by two VS segments composed of calcite, quartz, or kaolinite. The length of the VW segment was of the same order or just below the critical nucleation length for gypsum gouge. Strain gauges and multi-rate digital imaging were used to map stress and displacement along the fault zone. At the highest normal stress the data showed confined ruptures, whereby rupture nucleated in the VW gypsum and was arrested or strongly decelerated in the VS segments. Slip rates on the VW segment were close to dynamic slip rates, but significant slow slip was also observed in the VW segment between rapid events. Lowering the normal stress on the fault, from 10.5 to 1 MPa resulted in slow slip events occurring uniformly over the whole fault (calcite–gypsum fault), near-stable sliding on the whole fault (quartz–gypsum fault), or persistent stick-slip behavior on the VW segment as at higher normal stress (kaolinite–gypsum fault). The spectrum of behaviors observed is consistent with that predicted by previous numerical modeling of frictionally heterogeneous faults with a similar geometry as the experiment. The experiments also showed how stress concentrations influence slip behavior. Specifically, normal stress concentrations, formed due to heterogeneous compaction of the kaolinite and VW gypsum gouges, promoted unstable sliding in the latter. Shear stress concentrations at the extremities of the VW segment caused significant slow slip to occur at the extremities of the VW segments, and in the quartz–gypsum experiment seemed to promote local slip events at low stresses. The observed fault slip behavior was thus controlled by gouge friction and stress distribution, and is consistent with numerical models and theory as applied to both natural and induced seismicity. © 2020 The Author(s)
关键词	confined rupture heterogeneous fault friction scaled experiments slow slip unstable sliding velocity-weakening asperity
英文关键词	Calcite; Gypsum; Induced Seismicity; Kaolinite; Numerical models; Quartz; Shear stress; Slip forming; Stick-slip; Strain rate; Stress concentration; Critical nucleation; Digital imaging; Experimental investigations; Fault friction; Slow slip events; Stick-slip behavior; Stress and displacements; Velocity-weakening; Fault slips; fault zone; heterogeneous medium; kaolinite; numerical model; rock mechanics; rupture; seismic velocity; shear stress; slip rate; source rock
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/203039
作者单位	High Pressure Temperature Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Applied Geosciences, Energy Transition, TNO, Netherlands; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Buijze L.,Guo Y.,Niemeijer A.R.,et al. Effects of heterogeneous gouge segments on the slip behavior of experimental faults at dm scale[J],2021,554.
APA	Buijze L.,Guo Y.,Niemeijer A.R.,Ma S.,&Spiers C.J..(2021).Effects of heterogeneous gouge segments on the slip behavior of experimental faults at dm scale.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,554.
MLA	Buijze L.,et al."Effects of heterogeneous gouge segments on the slip behavior of experimental faults at dm scale".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 554(2021).