JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[EE] 口頭発表

セッション記号 S (固体地球科学) » S-IT 地球内部科学・地球惑星テクトニクス

[S-IT24] [EE] 地殻応力研究の最前線:観測・実験・モデリングの統合

2017年5月24日(水) 15:30 〜 17:00 A09 (東京ベイ幕張ホール)

コンビーナ:呉 泓昱(海洋研究開発機構)、木下 正高(東京大学地震研究所)、宮川 歩夢(独立行政法人 産業技術総合研究所 地質情報研究部門)、Hsin-Hua Huang(Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica)、座長:木下 正高(東京大学地震研究所)、座長:宮川 歩夢(産業技術総合研究所 )

15:30 〜 15:45

[SIT24-07] 方解石双晶の方向データの応力インバージョン

★招待講演

*山路 敦1 (1.京都大学大学院理学研究科地球惑星科学専攻)

キーワード:stress inversion, differential stress, statistical mixture model, polyphase tectonics

Mechanical twins are usually observed in natural calcite under a microscope. Methods of their stress inversion are briefly reviewed in this paper. Unlike faults and seismic focal mechanisms, calcite twins provide us of the opportunity to estimate stress magnitudes.

The twins have a specific crystallographic orientation. Their formation results in the simple shear of a calcite grains along the lamellae. The twinning is allowed on condition that the stress component along the shearing direction is greater than a critical value, tauc. Since the stress component depends on the orientations of planes in a crystal under a state of stress, the orientations of twinned planes in a calcite aggregate indicate the stress that formed the observed twin lamellae. The inversion determines not only the principal orientations and stress ratio, but also the non-dimensional differential stress normalized by tauc. The inverse method based on this principle (Etchecopar, 1984) has been used mainly by French researchers. Some researchers applied it to such twin lamellae that were formed under different stress conditions in different tectonic phases. However, the conventional method is unsatisfactory for dealing with such heterogeneous data sets.

It was found recently that a geometrical condition on a sphere in five-dimensional space corresponds to the twinning condition (Yamaji, 2015a). Twin data are denoted by points on the sphere, a circular area of which stands for a deviatoric stress tensor normalized by tauc. Yamaji (2015b) found that the stress inversion of heterogeneous twin data is achieved by the fuzzy clustering of the data points on the sphere. The clustering is performed by the present author using a statistical mixture model.

Unfortunately, the tauc value at 10 MPa has been often used, but its temperature and grain size dependence is not well understood. Laboratory experiments are awaited to improve our understanding on the dependence and stress magnitudes.