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Fractals and Fragmentation of Survivor Grains within Gouge Zones along Boundary Faults in the Tertiary Waeup Basin  

Chang, Tae-Woo (Department of Geology, Kyungpook National University)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.20, no.2, 2010 , pp. 183-189 More about this Journal
Abstract
Fault gouge samples were collected from the fault cores of the boundary faults between the Cretaceous Basement and the Tertiary Waeup Basin. Fractal dimensions (D) were obtained by using survivor grains which were analysed from six thin sections of the gouges under the optical microscope. The elliptical survivor grains show a shape preferred orientation almost parallel to clay foliation in matrix, suggesting that it was formed by the rotation of the survivor grains in abundant fine-grained matrix during repeated fault slips. The size distributions of the survivor grains follow power-laws with fractal dimensions in the 2.40-3.02 range. D values of all samples but one are higher than a specific D value equal to 2.58 which predicts the self similarity of fragmentation process in constrained comminution model (Sammis et al., 1987), which indicates large fault slip and multiple faulting. Probably the higher D values than 2.58 mean the non-self-similar evolution of cataclastic rocks where fragmentation mechanism changed from constrained comminution to the grain abrasion accompanying selective fracture of larger grains.
Keywords
fault gouge; fractal dimension; fragmentation process; constrained comminution model; grain abrasion;
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