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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS017 Oral Presentation 2374<br />

Continental crust-rheology, thermal state and petrology<br />

Dr. Svyatoslav Milanovskiy<br />

Institute Physics of the Earth Russian Academy of Science IAHS<br />

Nikolaevskiy Viktor Nikolaevich, Kaban Mihail Konstantinovich<br />

Shear fracture of rocks depends on general level of pressure and temperature and is generated by the<br />

tectonic stress difference. Corresponding correlation of triaxial experimental data of core fracturing with<br />

deep seismic sounding leads to the concept of the Earth crust stratification by the fracture intensity.<br />

Types of rupture of rock materials are classified according to their changes with pressure and<br />

temperature. Granite is selected as a typical geomaterial of the continental crust. There are two distinct<br />

criteria of brittle-ductile transition. The first one is defined by disappearance of stress drop and<br />

corresponds to the Conrad boundary. The second is disappearance of stable cracks in finite state and<br />

corresponds to the Mohorovichich boundary. It explains low velocity and electric resistance zones by<br />

cataclastic (semi-brittle) geomaterial states that possess high fluid permeability (due to dilatancy) and<br />

therefore admit intense mass transfer. However, at the Mohorovichich boundary the thermodynamic<br />

state corresponds to true plastic failure, correspondingly the rock permeability for fluids is annihilated<br />

and phase transition to mantle rocks occurs at the Moho. Stresses that are necessary for tectonic<br />

rupture and crust dynamic are estimated. Seismic reflectors are explained by deep listric faults filled<br />

with crushed or intruded geomaterials. Deep fault inclination can be used for estimation of stress<br />

anisotropy. Waveguides are presented by bands of dilatant crack localization. Between the Conrad and<br />

Mohorovichich boundary the geomaterials are in cataclastic state with special dilatant rheology. The<br />

absence of elastic energy accumulation in the mantle is explained by rock strength dependence on<br />

strain rate. As a sequence earthquake hypocenters are concentrated above the Conrad boundary but<br />

they are absent beneath the Mohorovichich boundary. The Mohorovichich boundary the thermodynamic<br />

state corresponds to true plastic failure. This means the fracture permeability annihilation in rocks and<br />

transition to the upper mantle can take place. However, faults can cross the whole lithosphere in a<br />

brittle manner during earthquake events with high rate. Faults can exist in the lower crust beneath<br />

sedimentary basins. It explains fluidodynamics of mantle helium, hydrocarbons, etc., and their<br />

accumulation. In this work are presented results obtained during years of case study of continental<br />

crust based on superdeep drilling, DSS, thermal and gravity field.<br />

Keywords: crust, fractures, boundaries

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