Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-CG Complex & General

[S-CG63] Dynamics in mobile belts

Mon. May 23, 2016 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM A08 (APA HOTEL&RESORT TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI)

Convener:*Yukitoshi Fukahata(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Norio Shigematsu(Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Aitaro Kato(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University), Hikaru Iwamori(Geochemical Evolution Research Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Yasutaka Ikeda(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo), Toru Takeshita(Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University), Chair:Norio Shigematsu(Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Kiyokazu Oohashi(Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University)

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

[SCG63-17] Paleo temperatures, depths and stresses evaluated using calcite twinning paleopiezometry

*Atsushi Yamaji1 (1.Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

Keywords:geothermics, stress, vertical movements, exhumation

Mechanical twinning along an e-plane in calcite occurs if the resolved shear stress along the gliding direction of the e-plane exceeds a critical value, τc, which is around 10 MPa (Lacombe, 2010). Based on this twinning condition, it is possible to devise inversion schemes to determine non-dimensional deviatoric stress tensors from the orientations of e-twin lamellae (e.g., Etchecopar, 1984). The tensor is defined as the deviatoric stress tensor divided by τc. However, most of natural calcite aggregates have experienced two or more tectonic phases, which had different stress conditions. Even in such a case the non-dimensional deviatoric stress tensors can be determined from a heterogeneous data set, and the number of the tensors to be detected is evaluated using Bayesian information criterion (Yamaji, this session).
On the other hand, the mechanical twinning results in the simple shear, the amount of which can be evaluated from twin density (e.g., Groshong, 1972). Deformation experiments have demonstrated that the incremental strain increases effective τc value. Lacombe (2010) compiled the results of such experiments to show the relationship among temperature, strain and τc.
Once the τc value is obtained, the depth where the twinning occurred can be estimated from the differential stress determined from the twin data, because the critical differential stress is proportional to depth in the brittle upper crust. Assuming an appropriate geothermal gradient, the depth can be converted to temperature. Based on the relationship by Lacombe (2010) and the deviatoric stress tensors obtained from the data, it is possible to define and solve the simultaneous equations of temperature, depth, deviatoric stress tensor and τc.
This method was applied to a calcite vein in a Miocene graben, which was formed during the Japan Sea backarc opening. The preliminary results are introduced in the presentation.