Reproduction of thermal pressurization and fluidization of clay-rich fault gouges by high-velocity friction experiments and implications for seismic slip in natural faults

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  • Kohtaro Ujiie
    Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0006, Japan
  • Akito Tsutsumi
    Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
  • Jun Kameda
    Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We examine the frictional properties and microstructures of clay-rich fault gouges subjected to thermal pressurization and fluidization, generated in high-velocity friction experiments under dry and wet conditions. In the dry tests, slip weakening occurs by thermal pressurization, which is marked by a fault-gouge expansion associated with a water-phase transition from liquid to vapour. The water is derived from dehydration of clay minerals by frictional heating. The resulting microstructure in the gouge layer is a random distribution of spherical clay–clast aggregates in the matrix, and mixing of different gouge constituents without shear surfaces. In the wet tests, slip weakening is caused by pore-fluid pressurization resulting from shear-enhanced compaction of the water-saturated gouge and frictional heating. Compared to the dry tests, the wet tests show smaller dynamic stress drops and slip weakening distance. The steady-state shear stress in the wet tests is almost independent of normal stress, suggesting a fluid-like behaviour of the fault gouge during high-velocity shearing. The microstructures after the wet tests show that the foliated zone is accompanied by grain-size segregation in the gouge layer. The grain-size segregation is attributed to the Brazil-nut effect resulting from the difference in dispersive pressure in the granular-fluid shear flow at high shear rates, indicating a fluidization of fault gouge. Our results obtained at seismic slip rates imply that the propagation of an earthquake rupture can be enhanced by fluid pressurization and frictional heat, potentially leaving characteristic microstructures resulting from water vaporization by frictional heating or flow sorting at high slip rates.</jats:p>

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