广泛的断层区使深层流体运输成为可能,并限制地震强度
Konstantinos Leptokaropoulos1,2, Catherine A Rychert3,4, Nicholas Harmon5,6
1Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. K.Leptokaropoulos@soton.ac.uk.
Nature communications
|September 16, 2023
概括
断层破坏区促进流体运输,影响地震深度和强度. 这限制了大规模地震在海洋上,通过冷却地幔来转化断层.
科学领域:
- 地质物理学 地质物理学
- 构造学 构造学 构造学 构造学
- 地震学 地震学
背景情况:
- 了解控制断层断裂的因素至关重要.
- 石质层中的流体路径显著影响地震行为.
- 海洋转变断层为研究断层动态和流体流动提供了简化系统.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究流体在断层破裂过程中的作用.
- 为了分析沿着海洋变形断层的地震性和地震结构.
- 为了确定断层特征如何影响流体路径和地震强度.
主要方法:
- 分析了石化层-石化层边界 (PI-LAB) 实验的被动成像数据的地震性数据.
- 对地震速度结构的检查.
- 地震性模式与形态特征和热模型的相关性.
主要成果:
- 横压特征下的地震发生的深度比预测更深,这表明流体的影响.
- 断层损坏区域显示了水热变化的特征.
- 更广泛的断层损伤区域可以增强流体的运输,冷却地幔.
结论:
- 广泛的断层损坏区域优先引导流体,影响地幔温度.
- 变形断层内的局部障碍,受到流体运输的影响,限制了大地震的可能性.
- 液体辅助冷却和局部屏障减少了转换断层上的总体地震强度.
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