The Journal of Engineering Geology (지질공학)
- Volume 8 Issue 2
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- Pages.175-188
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- 1998
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- 1226-5268(pISSN)
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- 2287-7169(eISSN)
Formation Processes of Fault Gouges and their K-Ar Ages along the Dongnae Fault
동래단층 지역 단층비지의 생성과정과 K-Ar 연령
Abstract
This paper describes the internal structures and K-Ar ages of fault gouges collected from the Dongnae fault zone. This fault zone is internally zoned and occurs in the multiple fault cores. A fault core consists of thin gouge and narrow cataclastic zones that are bounded by a much thicker damage zone. Intensity of deformation and alteration increases from damage zone through cataclastic zone to gouge zone. It is thought that cataclasis of brittle deformation was the dominant strain-accomodation mechanism in the early stage of deformation to form the gouge zone and that crushed materials in the regions of maximum localization of fault slip subsequently moved by cataclastic flow. Deformation mechanism drastically changed from brittle processes to fluid-assisted flow along the gouge zone as the high porosity and permeability of pulverzied materials during faulting facilitated the influx of the hydrothermal fluids. Subsequently, the fluids reacted with gouge materials to form clay minerals. Fracturing and alteration could have repeatedly taken place in the gouge zone by elevated fluid pressures generated from the reduction of pore volume due to the formation of clay minerals and precipitation of other materials. XRD analysis revealed that the most common clay minerals of the gouge zones are illite and smectite with minor zeolite and kaolinite. Most of illites are composed of 1Md polytype, indicating the products of hydrothermal alteration. The major activities of the Dongnae fault can be divided into two periods based upon K-Ar age data of the fault gouges : 51.4∼57.5Ma and 40.3∼43.6Ma. Judging from the enviromental condition of clay mineral formation, it is inferred that the hydrothermal alteration of older period occured at higher temperature than that of younger period.
선형계곡을 따라 발달하는 동래 단층대의 단층비지를 조사 연구하였다. 이 단층대는 내적으로 대상구조를 가지며 다중 단층핵의 형태로 산출된다. 단층핵은 비지대와 파쇄대로 구분되며 단층대의 최외곽부인 손상대에 의해 둘러싸인다. 변형작용과 변질작용의 강도는 모암으로부터 손상대
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