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DOI	10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229006
	Internal architecture and earthquake rupture behavior of a long-lived intraplate strike–slip fault: A case study from the Southern Yangsan Fault, Korea
	Kim N.; Park S.-I.; Choi J.-H.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00401951
卷号	816
英文摘要	Deciphering the internal composition of large-scale fault zones helps to better understand the various geologic factors that govern their seismic rupture behavior. We used new detailed geologic, structural, and geomorphic map of an excellent natural laboratory in the Southern Yangsan Fault (SYF) in the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula to elucidate the fault zone architecture and its controls on the rupture processes of neotectonic earthquakes. The Yangsan Fault is a major strike–slip fault, and a subsidiary fault within the fault zone ruptured during the 2016 ML 5.8 Gyeongju earthquake which is the largest instrumental record in the intraplate Korean Peninsula. The 12-km-long study area in the SYF shows along-strike variations in wall rock lithology and fault zone architecture. At the south of the study area, the fault zone surrounded by crystalline rocks consists of a single major fault core. In contrast, at the north, the fault zone is sandwiched between crystalline rocks and sedimentary rocks and exhibits multiple major fault cores bounding broken-up wall rock blocks. The width of the across-fault damage zone, which was estimated from the cumulative fracture frequency with the distance from the major fault core, widens northward, indicating the distributed deformation of the northern fault zone over a long history of fault evolution. The geometry of paleoearthquake surface ruptures traced by the geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of deformed young deposits diverge to multiple strands in the northern fault zone but converge to a single strand in the southern fault zone, directly reflecting its internal architecture. We propose that the long-lived rupturing patterns have been primarily controlled by intrinsic discontinuity- and mineralogy-dependent deformation processes in terms of strain-hardening vs. strain-weakening, along with propagation arrest and rupture tip damage due to a fault-bend geometry (geometric barrier) and an abrupt change in wall rock lithology (relaxation barrier). © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Deformation localization and distribution Fault zone architecture Paleoearthquake rupture Rupture tip damage Strain hardening
英文关键词	Architecture; Crystalline rocks; Deformation; Earthquakes; Geometry; Lithology; Minerals; Process control; Sedimentary rocks; Strain hardening; Stratigraphy; Structural geology; Deformation process; Distributed deformation; Earthquake rupture; Fault zone architecture; Fracture frequency; Internal architecture; Internal composition; Natural laboratories; Fault slips
语种	英语
来源期刊	Tectonophysics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/207997
作者单位	School of Earth System Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, South Korea; Geology Division, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, South Korea
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kim N.,Park S.-I.,Choi J.-H.. Internal architecture and earthquake rupture behavior of a long-lived intraplate strike–slip fault: A case study from the Southern Yangsan Fault, Korea[J],2021,816.
APA	Kim N.,Park S.-I.,&Choi J.-H..(2021).Internal architecture and earthquake rupture behavior of a long-lived intraplate strike–slip fault: A case study from the Southern Yangsan Fault, Korea.Tectonophysics,816.
MLA	Kim N.,et al."Internal architecture and earthquake rupture behavior of a long-lived intraplate strike–slip fault: A case study from the Southern Yangsan Fault, Korea".Tectonophysics 816(2021).