期刊
TECTONOPHYSICS
卷 721, 期 -, 页码 275-291出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.008
关键词
Kilometre-scale boudinage; Pinch and swell structure; Rheology; Numerical modelling; Polyphase rocks; Flow laws
资金
- MQRes scholarship [FT1101100070]
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
Though the rheology of kilometre-scale polymineralic rock units is crucial for reliable large-scale, geotectonic models, this information is difficult to obtain. In geotectonic models, a layer is defined as an entity at the kilometre scale, even though it is heterogeneous at the millimetre to metre scale. Here, we use the shape characteristics of the boundaries between rock units to derive the relative bulk viscosity of those units at the kilometre scale. We examine the shape of a vertically oriented ultramafic, harzburgitic-lherzolitic unit, which developed a kilometre-scale pinch and swell structure at mid-crustal conditions (similar to 600 degrees C, similar to 8.5 kbar), in the Anita Shear Zone, New Zealand. The ultramafic layer is embedded between a typical polymineralic paragneiss to the west, and a feldspar-quartz-hornblende orthogneiss, to the east. Notably, the boundaries on either side of the ultramafic layer give the ultramafics an asymmetric shape. Microstructural analysis shows that deformation was dominated by dislocation creep (n = 3). Based on the inferred rheological behaviour from the field, a series of numerical simulations are performed. Relative and absolute values are derived for bulk viscosity of the rock units by comparing boundary tortuosity difference measured on the field example and the numerical series. Our analysis shows that during deformation at mid-crustal conditions, paragneisses can be similar to 30 times less viscous than an ultramafic unit, whereas orthogneisses have intermediate viscosity, similar to 3 times greater than the paragneisses. If we assume a strain rate of 10(-14) s(-1) the ultramafic, orthogneiss and paragneiss have syn-deformational viscosities of 3 x 10(22), 2.3 x 10(21) and 9.4 x 10(20) Pa s, respectively. Our study shows pinch and swell structures are useful as a gauge to assess relative bulk viscosity of rock units based on shape characteristics at the kilometre scale and in non-Newtonian flow regimes, even where heterogeneity occurs within the units at the outcrop scale.
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