Variations in stress and driving pore fluid pressure ratio using vein orientations along megasplay faults : Example from the Nobeoka Thrust, Southwest Japan

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• 作者：Makoto Otsubo ; Ayumu Miyakawa ; Ryoji Kawasaki ; Katsushi Sato ; Asuka Yamaguchi and Gaku Kimura
• 刊名：Island Arc
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：6
• 页码：421-432
• 全文大小：4964K
• ISSN：1440-1738

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The Nobeoka Thrust of Southwest Japan is an on-land example of an ancient megasplay fault that provides an excellent record of deformation and fluid flow at seismogenic depths. The present study reports: (i) temporal stress changes for the seismogenic period of the Nobeoka Thrust; and (ii) spatial heterogeneities in driving pressure ratios P* obtained from mineral veins around the Nobeoka Thrust fault zone. Many quartz veins that filled mode I cracks can be observed in the hanging wall and footwall of the thrust. Inversion for stress orientation suggests that normal faulting dominated in both the hanging wall and footwall, with similar stress axis orientations in both. The orientation of σ₃ for the estimated stress regime is parallel to the slip direction of the Nobeoka Thrust. The detected normal-faulting-type stress regimes likely resulted from post-seismic stress buildup after megathrust earthquakes. The hanging wall of the Nobeoka Thrust has smaller P* values than the footwall. Two possible explanations are proposed for the observed spatial variations in the driving pore fluid pressure ratio, P*: spatial variations in pore fluid pressure P_f are directly responsible for P* variations, or P* variations are controlled by differences in mechanical properties between the hanging wall and footwall.