期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 46, 期 22, 页码 12900-12908出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL085403
关键词
faults; earthquakes; healing; sealing; fractures; veins
资金
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
- National Science Foundation [EAR-1358514, 1358554, 1358401, 1358443, 1101100]
- EarthScope Awards for Geochronology Student Research (AGeS) Program
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1358401, 1358554] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1101100, 1358443] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Fracture cementation is an important control on the recovery of prefailure levels of permeability and strength in faults. The timescales of this process, however, are almost entirely unknown from direct analysis of the rock record. We report U-Th dating results that quantify rates of fracture cementation in syntectonic calcite veins from the Loma Blanca fault, New Mexico, USA. Measured rates vary from similar to 0.05 to 0.80 mm/ka and exhibit a power function correlation with minimum fracture apertures. We argue that this correlation is the result of crystal growth in a transport-limited system, where cementation rates were proportional to rates of postseismic fluid flow in individual fractures. We further argue that such transport-limited, flux-dependent cementation necessarily leads to a heterogeneous distribution of permeability and strength recovery as fluids migrate through fault-zone fracture networks. These heterogeneities may influence rupture propagations pathways and the continual development of fault-zone architecture/complexity.
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