Depth of oceanic-crust underplating in a subduction zone: Inferences from fluid-inclusion analyses of crack-seal veins
Depth of oceanic-crust underplating in a subduction zone: Inferences from fluid-inclusion analyses of crack-seal veins
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DOI:
10.1130/g19885.1
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发表时间:
2003-11-01
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5.8
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Ikesawa, E
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Matsumura, M;Hashimoto, Y;Ikesawa, E
Fluid inclusions in crack-seal veins are analyzed in accreted melange now on land. The vein I inclusions are observed in the necked parts of sandstone blocks in melange, and the vein 11 inclusions developed in shale below the thrust fault, which cuts the melanges. The pressure and temperature estimations from the inclusions within vein I show that the cracks were sealed at similar to125-195 degreesC under similar to92-144 MPa of fluid pressure. Vein 11 formed in cracks that might have opened in a damage zone caused by the thrust fault as it broke through oceanic crust and into the melange; these veins contain fluid inclusions trapped at similar to135-245 degreesC under similar to107-149 MPa of fluid pressure. The depth (similar to4-6 km below the seafloor) and temperature estimates are consistent with the conditions where an aseismic decollement within sedimentary rocks steps down into the oceanic basement, so that a thin section of oceanic crust underplates in the hanging wall. Such a step-down site is the updip limit of the seismogenic zone in the modern Nankai Trough.