Shear localization,velocity weakening behavior,and development of cataclastic foliation in experimental granite gouge

Microstructural aspects of room-temperature deformation in experimental Westerly granite gouge were studied by a set of velocity stepping rotary-shear experiments at 25 MPa normal stress. The experiments were terminated at: (a) 44 mm, (b) 79 mm, and (c) 387 mm of sliding, all involving variable-amplitude fluctuations in friction. Microstructural attributes of the gouge were studied using scanning (SEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), image processing, and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses. The gouge was velocity weakening at sliding distances >10 mm as a core of cataclasites along a through-going shear zone developed within a mantle of less deformed gouge in all experiments. Unlike in experiment (a), the cataclasites in experiments (b) and (c) progressively developed a foliation defined by stacks of shear bands. The individual bands showed an asymmetric particle-size grading normal to shearing direction. These microstructures were subsequently disrupted and reworked by high-angle Riedel shears. While the microstructural evolution affected the effective thickness and frictional strength of the gouge, it did not affect its overall velocity dependence behavior. We suggest that the foliation resulted from competing shear localization and frictional slip hardening and that the velocity dependence of natural fault gouge depends upon compositional as well as microstructural evolution of the gouge.     

Influence of shear velocity on frictional characteristics of rock surface

Understanding the fundamental issues related with the effect of shear velocity on frictional characteristics at the interface of rock surfaces is an important issue. In this paper, strain-rate dependence on friction is investigated in relation to sliding behaviour under normal load. The phenomenon of stick-slip of granite and shaly sandstone with a tribometer at constant rate of strain under normal loads was observed.     

Shear behaviour of fractured rock as a function of size and shear displacement

This paper presents laboratory results regarding the shear behaviour of an artificial tensile fracture generated in granite. We used a direct shear rig to test fractures of different sizes (from 100 mm to 200 mm) under various shear displacements up to 20 mm and cyclic shear stresses with constant normal stress of 10 MPa. To determine the evolution of surface damage and aperture during shear, cyclic loading was performed at designated shear displacements. These changes in the surfaces topography were measured with a laser profilometer ‘non-contact surface profile measurement system’. In addition, changes were also measured directly by using pressure-sensitive film.

The results showed that the standard deviation (SD) of the initial aperture of the sheared fracture significantly increases with both shear displacement and size, which result in an increase in the non-linearity of the closure curve (since the matedness of the fracture surfaces decreases with shear displacement). Therefore, we concluded that shear dilation is not only governed by the surfaces sliding over each other, but is also strongly influenced by the non-linearity of closure with shear displacement. Furthermore, while the shear stiffness of the fracture during the initial stage decreases with fracture size, it increases with fracture size in the residual stage. This can be attributed to the fact that only small asperities with short wavelengths were mainly damaged by shearing. Moreover the result showed that the damaged zones enlarge and localise with shear displacement, and eventually tend to form perpendicular to the shear displacement.     

Deep drilling at the Siljan Ring impact structure: oxygen-isotope geochemistry of granite

The Siljan Ring is a 362-Ma-old impact structure formed in 1700-Ma-old I-type granites. A 6.8-km-deep borehole provides a vertical profile through granites and isolated horizontal diabase sills. Fluid-inclusion thermometry, and oxygen-isotope compositions of vein quartz, granite, diabase, impact melt, and pseudotachylite, reveal a complex history of fluid activity in the Siljan Ring, much of which can be related to the meteorite impact. In granites from the deep borehole, ¹⁸O values of matrix quartz increase with depth from near 8.0 at the surface to 9.5 at 5760 m depth. In contrast, feldspar ¹⁸O values decrease with depth from near 10 at the surface to 7.1 at 5760 m, forming a pattern opposite to the one defined by quartz isotopic compositions. Values of ¹⁸O for surface granites outside the impact structure are distinct from those in near-surface samples from the deep borehole. In the deep borehole, feldspar coloration varies from brick-red at the surface to white at 5760 m, and the abundances of crack-healing calcite and other secondary minerals decrease over the same interval. Superimposed on the overall decrease in alteration intensity with depth are localized fracture zones at 4662, 5415, and 6044 m depth that contain altered granites, and which provided pathways for deep penetration of surface water. The antithetic variation of quartz and feldspar ¹⁸O values, which can be correlated with mineralogical evidence of alteration, provides evidence for interaction between rocks and impact-heated fluids (100–300° C) in the upper 2 km of the pluton. Penetration of water to depths below 2 km was restricted by a general decrease in impact-fracturing with depth, and by a 60-m-thick diabase sill at 1500 m depth that may have been an aquitard. At depths below 4 km in the pluton, where water/rock ratios were low, oxygen isotopic compositions preserve evidence for limited high-temperature (>500° C) exchange between alkali feldspar and fluids. The high-temperature exchange may have been a post-impact event involving impact-heated fluids, or a post-magmatic event.     

Radiometric constraints on hydrothermal circulation in cooling granite plutons

Improved precision of radiometric dating of ore deposits can provide information about the thermal history of hydrothermal circulation in cooling plutons. In Jales a Hercynian porphyritic two-mica granite and pre-Ordovician mica schists are cut and intensely altered by the Campo gold-quartz vein. The unaltered granite must be younger than 320 ± 6 Ma, and gives mica Rb-Sr ages of 308.5 ± 2.4 (1) Ma (muscovite) and 294.5 ± 1.1 Ma (biotite). Alteration muscovites from the granite give a weighted mean Rb-Sr age of 308.1 ± 1.5 Ma, and a mean ³⁹Ar-⁴⁰Ar age of 300.7 ± 2.8 Ma. Alteration muscovites from the mica schists give similar ³⁹Ar-⁴⁰Ar ages, averaging 303.0 ± 2.8 Ma. The results suggest that circulation of the Campo mineralising fluids took place no more than 2–4 Ma after the granite cooled through the muscovite Rb-Sr closure temperature, about 500 °C, and that subsequent cooling to biotite closure at about 300 °C took place at less than 14°C/Ma. The mean cooling rate following emplacement was 15 to 25 °C/Ma. The most detailed comparable published data, for the Cornubian ore field, imply much faster cooling rates.     

Metastable melting in the granite system Qz-Or-Ab-An-H2O

Time studies were performed in the quinary system Qz-Or-Ab-An-H₂O at kbars and T=665 ° and 660 ° C. Starting material was a mixture of quartz, alkali feldspar Or₈₀ and plagioclase An₃₁. The compositions of plagioclases of run products were determined and compared with the plagioclase of stable solidus conditions.The solidus of the granite system was fixed at P _HäO=5 kbars using various plagioclase — and appropriate alkali feldspar — compositions besides quartz in the starting mixture (Fig. 1).The results of time studies (Table 3 and Fig. 3) reveal metastable melting in the granite system Qz-Or-Ab-An-H₂O. Plagioclase melts almost stoichiometrically. The new plagioclase compositions formed during melting of cotectic compositions approach the theoretically expected stable plagioclase compositions only extremely slowly. An extrapolation of the data achieved in run times of 5–1,500 h indicates attainment of equilibrium after 10¹⁴ years. Metastable melting of granitic compositions is not only considered as an experimental problem but also as a rock forming process in nature.     

Displacement velocity effects on rock fracture shear strengths

Triaxial shear tests are performed to assess the effects of displacement velocity and confining pressure on shear strengths and dilations of tension-induced fractures and smooth saw-cut surfaces prepared in granite, sandstone and marl specimens. A polyaxial load frame is used to apply confining pressures between 1 and 18 MPa with displacement velocities ranging from 1.15 × 10⁻⁵ to 1.15 × 10⁻² mm/s. The results indicate that the shearing resistances of smooth saw-cut surfaces tend to be independent of the displacement velocity and confining pressure. Under each confinement the peak and residual shear strengths and dilation rates of rough fractures increase with displacement velocities. The sheared-off areas increase when the confining pressure increases, and the displacement rate decreases. The velocity-dependent shear strengths tend to act more under high confining pressures for the rough fractures in strong rock (granite) than for the smoother fractures in weaker rocks (sandstone and marl). An empirical criterion that explicitly incorporates the effects of shear velocity is proposed to describe the peak and residual shear strengths. The criterion fits well to the test results for the three tested rocks.     

Fracture mechanisms of offset rock joints-A laboratory investigation

To study the failure mechanisms of joints and rock bridges in jointed rock masses a series of uniaxial compression tests were performed on specimens made of rock-like material. Specimens of size 63.5cm × 27.9cm × 20.3cm, made of 72% silica sand, 16% cement (Type I) and 12% water by weight were tested. The joint inclination angle was maintained at 45°, while the offset angle i.e. angle between the plane of the joint and the line that connects the two inner tips of the joints, was changed from 0°–120° with an increment of 15°. The tests were performed using a 2000kN universal compression machine and a HP data acquisition system. In each sample, five LVDTs were fixed to measure the displacements along and across both the bridge and the joint segment, and the total displacement along the total length of the sample. The failure mechanism was monitored by visual inspection and a magnifier to detect cracks initiation. For each test the failure surfaces were investigated to determine the characteristics of each surface. In all of the tested samples curvilinear cracks called wing cracks initiated at the joints tips due to high tensile stresses concentration. These wing cracks were directed along the direction of the uniaxial load. The coalescence mechanism of two cracks was investigated. Results showed that open cracks could coalesce by shear failure or tensile failure. The coalescence path was found to be mainly dependent on the inclination of the rock bridge between the cracks.     

A garnet-cordierite granite porphyry containing rapakivi feldspars in the Cabeza de Araya batholith (extremadura,spanish Hercynian belt)

Summary The garnet-cordierite granite porphyry is a large dyke associated with the Cabeza Araya batholith. The batholith shows S typology but with intermediate characteristics between the aluminous granite series, spatially and genetically related to the Hercynian regional metamorphism, and the calc-alkaline series of the Iberian massif. The granite porphyry is rich in megacrystic alkali feldspar often with rapakivi texture. Its mineralogy consists mainly of quartz + plagioclase + alkali feldspar + biotite I + cordierite I + garnet + biotite 11 + cordierite II ± muscovite + chlorite.Cordierite-garnet thermobarometry and stability relationships of ternary feldspars are used to estimate the T-P conditions of crystallization and the evolution of these rocks. The equilibrium temperature obtained from the cordierite-garnet pair is about 800°C (4 ± 0.5 Kb). This shows the xenocrystic origin of cordierite and garnet, in accordance with other geological and textural evidence. Garnet transformation, the genesis of Cordierite II and the formation of mantled textures are interpreted as the result of an isothermal decompression accompanying the emplacement of the porphyry.

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Eine Rapakivi-Feldspat führender Granat-Codierit-Granitporphyr aus dem Cabeza de Araya Batholith (Extremadura, Hereynischer Gürtel, Spanien)

Zusammenfassung Der Granat-Cordierit-Granit stellt einen mit dem Cabeza Araya Batholith assoziierten, mächtigen Gang dar. Der Batholith zeigt S-Typ Charakter, jedoch mit bergangsmerkmalen zu aluminösen Granitserien, und steht räumlich und genetisch im Zusammenhang mit der hercynischen Regionalmetamorphose und den Kalkalkaliserien des iberischen Massivs. Der Granitporphyr führt häufig Megakristalle von Alkalifeldspat, die oft Rapakivitextur zeigen. Die Mineralogie des Granitporphyr besteht aus Quarz + Plagioklas + Alkalifeldspat + Biotit 1 + Cordierit 1 + Granat + Biotit II + Cordierit II ± Muscovit ± Chlorit. Die P-T Bedingungen der Kristallisation und die magmatische Entwicklung dieserDie wurde, P-T Bedingungen der Kristallisation und die magmatische Entwicklung dieser Gesteine wurde, unter Anwendung der Cordierit-Granat Thermobarometrie und den Stabilitätsbeziehungen der Feldspäte, ermittelt. Die Gleichgewichtstemperatur aus Cordierit-Granat-Paaren beträgt um 800°C (4 ± 0.5 Kb). Dies zeigt die Bildung von Cordierit und Granat als Xenokristalle, in Übereinstimmung mit anderen geologischen und texturellen Merkmalen. Die Transformation des Granat. die Genese von Cordierit II und das Entstehen von mantled Texturen, kann als Resultat einer isothermalen Dekompression interpretiert werden, die die Platznahme des Porphyrs begleitet hat.

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Measurement of wall friction in direct shear tests on soft soil

If the free vertical movement of the upper rigid part of the shear box is hindered during shearing, a frictional force is mobilized between the specimen and the vertical walls of the shear box. This causes either unloading (for contractant soils) or additional loading (for dilatant soils) of the specimen during shearing. If no correction of the applied vertical load with respect to the wall friction is taken into account, the resulting shear strength can be either underestimated (for contractant soils) or overestimated (for dilatant soils). For example, in a particular investigation of a normally consolidated soil, the measured friction angle from a direct shear test was almost 8° smaller than the angle from a triaxial test. This paper, therefore, presents a method for direct measurement of the frictional force at the contact between the vertical walls of the box and a fine-grained soil. If the wall friction is taken into account, the friction angle from the shear box coincides well with the angle from triaxial tests. If the wall friction cannot be measured during the test, a sufficiently large vertical gap should be adjusted in case of soft soils, in order to enable non-restrained settlement of the upper part of the box during specimen contraction.     

Oblique collision at about 1.1 Ga along the southern margin of the Kaapvaal continent,south-east Africa

The 1.1 Ga Natal Metamorphic Province (NMP) lies at the heart of a world-wide system of Grenville age mobile belts which welded early continental fragments into the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent of Rodinia. Structural analysis of the three tectonostratigraphic terranes in Natal reveals a kinematic history characterized by prolonged NE-SW plate convergence, manifested as early thrust tectonics and later pervasive sinistral transcurrent shearing. Consequently, superimposed on the Natal tectonostratigraphic terranes is a kinematic subdivision into tectonic domains which are characterized by shallow, south-west dipping foliations, south-west plunging stretching lineations and north-east verging recumbent folds, and by younger domains with subvertical shear fabrics, subhorizontal to oblique lineations and folding about near-vertical axes. Microtextural and petrographic analyses suggest that the later shearing took place under high temperature conditions of at least 500°C. The recorded kinematic indicators suggest that early subhorizontal compressional tectonics gave rise to tectonic thickening of the crust, progressively followed by oblique transcurrent shearing within a transpressional regime. The shearing event in the southern arc-related terranes was associated with the widespread emplacement of late kinematic rapakivi granite -charnockite plutons, with A-type granite geochemical characteristics. This orogenic event took place around 1100 Ma during prolonged NE-SW collisional convergence along the southern margin of the stable Archean foreland, which lay to the north.     

结构性花岗岩残积土的剪切屈服特性试验研究

为研究结构性花岗岩残积土的剪切屈服特性,对未扰动和重塑花岗岩残积土及作比较的掺水泥的重塑土进行了一系列不同围压下的三轴排水对比试验。结果表明,未扰动花岗岩残积土与掺水泥重塑土在剪切过程中的屈服点可以从归一化的剪切切向刚度 与轴向应变 在双对数坐标下的关系曲线中确定;固结压力 对未扰动残积土与掺水泥重塑土的屈服特性都有显著影响, 越大,等向固结作用对土体结构的破坏越严重,剪切开始阶段的初始归一化刚度会相应地越小,屈服时的轴向应变也越小;当固结压力达到足够大时,土体结构被等向固结作用完全破坏,剪切过程中没有结构性屈服现象发生, 曲线与重塑土的 曲线重合;重塑土在不同固结压力下的 曲线重叠,不随固结压力而变化,剪切过程中没有结构性屈服现象发生。     

Post-failure behavior of a granite and diabase

SummaryPost-Failure Behavior of a Granite and Diabase Compression experiments have been performed on Westerly granite and Frederick diabase at a mean strain rate of 0 (10^–5) sec.^–1. In such tests Westerly granite and Frederick diabase exhibit Class II failure behavior between zero and 22000 psi and between 500 psi and 2200 psi, confining pressure respectively. In order to control brittle failure in these rocks, therefore, energy must be extracted from the samples.Complete stress-strain curves for Westerly granite can be divided into a number of characteristic regions. Each of these regions can be described in terms of distinct fracture patterns. In Westerly granite in uniaxial compression and at less than 2 900 psi confining pressure, the fracture patterns consist of local cracks predominantly parallel to the direction of greatest compression, slabs and narrow intensely crushed shear zones. At greater 2 900 psi confining pressure the fracture patterns consist of local cracks predominantly inclined to the direction of greatest compression and of macroscopic shear fractures. At high confining pressure, local cracks tend to propagate in their initial plane. The fracture patterns in Frederick diabase are sensibly the same as those in Westerly granite at 22000 psi confining pressure.The ultimate strength of Westerly granite above 22000 psi confining pressure and in Frederick diabase is controlled by faulting. At lower confining pressure faulting in granite occurs only in the post-failure region beyond the peak of the stress-strain curves.Preliminary experiments suggest that creep in Westerly granite under high and constant stress produces the same fracture patterns that occur in the post-failure region in continuous-deformation tests. In uniaxial compression creep terminates in macroscopic fracture near the intersection of the constant stress-strain path of a creep sample with the post-failure branch of the stress-strain curve of a quasi-statically loaded specimen.A comparison of all fracture patterns suggests that the fracture mechanisms in rock depend upon confining pressure, mineral composition and grain size of the rocks tested. It is unlikely, therefore, that rock failure in compression can in general be described by a single failure criterion.

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ZusammenfassungVerhalten von Granit und Diabas nach dem Bruch Druckversuche an Westerly-Granit und Frederick-Diabas bei einer mittleren Stauchungsgeschwindigkeit von 0 (10^–5) sec^–1 haben ergeben, daß Granit in den Grenzen von Null bis 22000 psi Manteldruck und Diabas zwischen 500 psi und 2200 psi Manteldruck ein Bruchverhalten der Klasse II aufweisen. Um den Bruchvorgang im post-failure-Bereich zu kontrollieren ist es daher notwendig, daß den Prüfkörpern Energie entzogen wird.Vollständige Kennlinien von Granit und Diabas können in eine Reihe von charakteristischen Abschnitten unterteilt werden, die jeweils bestimmte und ihnen eigene Brucherscheinungen aufweisen. Bei einachsiger Belastung und im Triaxialversuch unterhalb 2900 psi Manteldruck bestehen die Brucherscheinungen in Westerly-Granit aus feinen, über den Probekörper verteilten Haarrissen, vornehmlich parallel zur Auflast, aus Schalen sowie aus dünnen, intensiv aufgemahlenen Scherzonen. Der Makroskopische Bruch erfolgt als Verschiebungsbruch. Oberhalb 2900 psi Manteldruck entstehen Haarrisse, die vornehmlich zur Auflast geneigt sind und die bei fortschreitender Verformung des Prüfkörpers in ihrer ursprünglichen Ebene weiter aufreißen. Der sichtbare Bruch erfolgt bei hohem Manteldruck als Gleitungsbruch. Die Brucherscheinungen in Frederick-Diabas sind denen in Westerly-Granit bei 22000 psi Manteldruck nahezu gleich.Die Bruchfestigkeit von Westerly-Granit bei 22000 psi Manteldruck und in Frederick-Diabas ist von der Ausbildung von Gleitungsbrüchen bestimmt. Bei niedrigerem Manteldruck entstehen Gleitungs- oder Verschiebungsbrüche in Granit jedoch erst im post-failure-Bereich nach teils erheblicher Überschreitung der Bruchfestigkeit.Vorläufige Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, daß das Kriechen in Westerly-Granit unter hoher Spannung durch die gleichen Brucherscheinungen hervorgerufen oder von ihnen begleitet wird, die im post-failure-Bereich in quasi-statischen Versuchen beobachtet werden können. Im einachsigen Druckversuch führen Kriecherscheinungen ungefähr dann zum Bruch, wenn die Kennlinie einer Kriechprobe die Kennlinie eines ebenfalls einachsig aber quasistatisch belasteten Prüfkörpers im post-failure-Bereich schneidet.Ein Vergleich der Brucherscheinungen in einigen Gesteinen läßt darauf schließen, daß sich die Bruchmechanismen in Gesteinen mit der Höhe des Manteldrucks und mit der Beschaffenheit des Gesteins ändern. Es ist daher unwahrscheinlich, daß der Bruch von Gesteinen mit Hilfe eines einzigen Bruchkriteriums hinreichend beschrieben werden kann.

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RésuméComportement post-rupture d'un granite et d'une diabase Au cours d'expériences en compression à vitesse de déformation constante (10^–5 sec^–1) le granite de Westerly et la diabase de Frederick ont un comportement à la rupture dit de classe II pour des contraintes latérales variant entre 0 et 1500 bars pour le granite, et entre 30 et 150 bars pour la diabase. Il faut donc extraire de l'énergie des éprouvettes pour en contrôler la cassure.Les courbes complètes effort-déformation du granite de Westerly peuvent être divisées en un certain nombre de régions caractérisées chacune par un réseau de fracture particulier qui dépend d'ailleurs aussi de la contrainte latérale. Lorsque celle-ci est nulle, ou inférieure à 200 bars, le granite de Westerly développe un réseau de fracture consistant en plaques, en étroites zones de broyage intense et en fissures essentiellement parallèles à la direction de compression maximale. Lorsque la contrainte latérale est supérieure à 200 bars, le réseau de fractures consiste en fractures de cisaillement macroscopiques et en fissures locales faisant pour la plupart un angle avec la direction de compression maximale. Pour des contraintes latérales élevées, les fissures locales ont tendance à se propager dans leur plan initial. Le réseau de fractures développé dans la diabase de Frederick, quelle que soit la contrainte latérale, est à peu près identique à celui qui se développe dans le granite de Westerly pour une contrainte latérale de 1500 bars.Au dessus de 1500 bars de contrainte latérale, la charge de rupture des deux roches est régie par la formation d'une faille, alors qu'en dessous de 1500 bars une faille ne se forme dans le granite que dans la région qui suit la rupture, au delà du maximum de la courbe effort-déformation.Des expériences préliminaires suggèrent que le fluage du granite de Westerly soumis à des contraintes constantes élevées produit un réseau de fracture identique à celui obtenu dans la région qui suit la rupture dans des essais de déformation continue. En outre, en compression uniaxiale, le fluage se termine par une fracture macroscopique près de l'intersection de la courbe de déformation à charge constante avec la partie décroissante de la courbe complète effort-déformation d'une éprouvette chargée de façon quasi-statique.Une comparaison de tous les réseaux de fracture obtenus suggère que les mécanismes de fracture dépendent de la contrainte latérale, de la composition minéralogique et de la taille des grains de la roche éprouvée. Il est donc peu probable que la rupture des roches en compression puisse être en général décrite par un seul critère.

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岩石摩擦滑动变形演化及声发射特征研究

进行岩石摩擦滑动变形演化过程的声发射特征试验研究。以数字散斑相关方法和声发射系统为试验监测手段,采用双面剪切模型试验方法,开展界面摩擦滑动速率与声发射振铃计数、界面摩擦滑动位移与声发射累计能量、试件变形能密度与声发射b值的对应关系研究。结果表明：（1）声发射振铃计数演化受岩石界面摩擦滑动速率影响,界面摩擦滑动速率的突变与声发射振铃计数激增有较好对应关系;（2）界面摩擦滑动位移与摩擦滑动过程中声发射累计能量演化趋势具有较好的对应关系,可以利用声发射累计能量对岩石摩擦滑动位移的变化趋势进行定性判断;（3）通过声发射b值演化分析可以得出,在剪应力缓慢增长阶段,界面摩擦滑动以随机分布的小尺度微破裂为主;在剪应力线性增长阶段后期,界面摩擦滑动以锁固段的大尺度微破裂为主;在剪应力波动增长阶段,岩石摩擦滑动失稳既可能是由小尺度微破裂为主引发的状态转化,又可能是由以锁固段大尺度微破裂为主引发的稳定状态转换。     

The shear strength of rock joints in theory and practice

SummaryThe Shear Strength of Rock Joints in Theory and Practice The paper describes an empirical law of friction for rock joints which can be used both for extrapolating and predicting shear strength data. The equation is based on three index parameters; the joint roughness coefficientJRC, the joint wall compressive strengthJCS, and the residual friction angle _r . All these index values can be measured in the laboratory. They can also be measured in the field. Index tests and subsequent shear box tests on more than 100 joint samples have demonstrated that _r can be estimated to within ± 1° for any one of the eight rock types investigated. The mean value of the peak shear strength angle (arctan/ _n ) for the same 100 joints was estimated to within 1/2°. The exceptionally close prediction of peak strength is made possible by performing self-weight (low stress) sliding tests on blocks with throughgoing joints. The total friction angle (arctan/ _n ) at which sliding occurs provides an estimate of the joint roughness coefficientJRC. The latter is constant over a range of effective normal stress of at least four orders of magnitude. However, it is found that bothJRC andJCS reduce with increasing joint length. Increasing the length of joint therefore reduces not only the peak shear strength, but also the peak dilation angle and the peak shear stiffness. These important scale effects can be predicted at a fraction of the cost of performing large scale in situ direct shear tests.With 20 Figures     

Mechanisms of shear failure in artificial fractures of sandstone and their implication for models of hydromechanical coupling

Summary Direct shear tests, in which the behaviour of the rock surfaces during shear could be continuously observed, were used to study the shear failure of a profiled and clean discontinuity artificially prepared from natural sandstone. Displacement transducers were used to measure the normal and shear displacements. A series of strain gauges glued on the sides of the upper block provided information on the change of the stress field occurring close to the discontinuities whilst shear displacement increased, and these changes were then compared with the behaviour of the profiled surface. The results of the laboratory tests, the sequence of photographs taken for most of them, and the results conducted with a sample of similar shape made from the same rock material and tested in a rotary shear machine, allowed several stages and mechanisms of failure to be defined: static friction and mobilization of initial shear stiffness; mobilization of sliding; mobilization of brittle fracture; post-peak failure of the teeth; descent of the teeth; gliding and ploughing; commencement of second cycle of shearing. In many respects these stages are similar to those occurring between sliding surfaces of metal and suggest that the analyses developed in tribology may be relevant to the development of constitutive models for predicting the hydromechanical coupled behaviour of a discontinuity with shear displacement. Such models will have to consider these different stages of shear, because the original discontinuity changes its geometry with displacement and is filled with gouge which changes its grain size with displacement.     

块系岩体滑移失稳中低摩擦效应的理论与试验研究

深部岩体具有块状层次结构,深部动载造成岩块发生相互间的振动脱离产生低摩擦效应,从而极易诱发原先处于平衡状态的岩体的动力变形破坏。在前人研究基础上,将块系岩体振动简化为等效质量-黏弹性模型,引入岩石摩擦滑移速率弱化模式,最终得到块系岩体滑移失稳计算模型。通过计算分析块系岩体自身特性及外荷载特性对岩块间低摩擦效应的影响。理论计算表明：水平静力及外扰动保持不变,增大岩块间弹性系数或者减小黏性系数,更容易引发岩体低摩擦滑移。随着冲击扰动、水平拉力幅值的增加,岩块的水平残余位移量值增加,当它们幅值超过一临界值时,岩块发生自持续滑移失稳运动。冲击扰动诱发岩块间不可逆位移、动力滑移失稳的临界能量与剪切力水平密切相关,在较大的剪切内力条件下,极其微弱的动力扰动即可诱发较大的岩块间不可逆位移甚至岩块的动力滑移失稳,随着剪切内力的减小,诱发岩块滑移失稳的能量阈值不断增大,当剪切内力低于岩块动摩擦强度时,单次冲击扰动只能诱发岩块间的不可逆位移。初步开展扰动诱发含初应力紫砂岩块体滑移试验,试验结果与理论计算基本符合,证明该模型的可行性。     

Constraints on Variscan granite emplacement in north-east Bavaria,Germany: further clues from a petrogenetic study of the Mitterteich granite

Petrochemical and Rb-Sr, K-Ar and Sm-Nd isotopic data presented for the Mitterteich granite provide information on whole rock and mineral compositional characteristics, intrusion and cooling history, and protolith nature and put further constraints on the Variscan magmatic evolution in north-east Bavaria.The compositional characteristics classify the Mitterteich granite as a peraluminous (monzo-)granite (SiO₂ 67.3–73.5 wt.% ). Values for K₂O/Na₂O (> 1.2 and Al₂O₃/(CaO + N₂O + K₂O) (>1.1) are in the range of S-type granites. The rare earth elements show fractionated chondrite-normalized patterns (La _N /Yb _N =24–19) with negative Eu anomalies (Eu _N /Eu _N ^*=0.35–0.19). The micas have restricted ranges of major element composition, but reveal notable variations in trace element concentrations. Different biotite fractions of single specimens show a trend to lower concentrations of compatible elements in the finer fraction which can be explained as a result of asynchronous growth during the fractionation process. The PT conditions of crystallization of the magma based on muscovite and biotite is 600–640°C at 3 kbar. Regression of the whole rock samples gives an isochron corresponding to a ⁸⁷Rb-⁸⁷Sr age of 310 ± 7 Ma, initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of 0.7104±0.0010 (2 errors) and MSWD =0.03. Muscovite and biotite yield concordant K-Ar ages between 310 and 308 Ma, indicating a fast cooling rate of the granite intrusion. _{Nd T310}values average –4.2±1.0. Nd model ages of 1.4 Ga suggest a source region of mid-Proterozoic age.The Rb-Sr isochron age and initial Sr ratio of the Mitterteich granite are indistinguishable from those of the adjacent Falkenberg granite, establishing a genetic link. However, the K-Ar mica ages suggest that the Mitterteich granite must have undergone a faster uplift or cooling history than Falkenberg. Confronted with the geochronological record of granite emplacement in north-east Bavaria, the new results substantiate the view of three key periods of magmatic activity around 330–325, 315–305 and 290 Ma.     

The restricted stability of osumilite under hydrous conditions in the system K2O-MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O

Osumilite_ss was synthesized as a single phase product in the model system K₂O-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂ at 800° C/ 0.5 Kbar water pressure and at 800° to 840° C/1.0 Kbar total pressure with 0.3 in the gas phase. The experimentally determined solid solubility range of synthetic osumilites can be expressed by the formula KMg₂(Al_3-xMg_x) (Al_2–xSi_10+x)O₃₀ with 0x0.4. A survey of sixteen chemical analyses of natural osumilites from eleven occurrences shows a solid solubility characterized by 0x0.6. Reversed stability experiments for the synthetic osumilite KMg₂(Al_2.75Mg_0.25)(Al_1.75Si_10.25)O₃₀ determined at water pressure equal to total pressure demonstrate its restriction to water pressures below 0.8 Kbar (at 0.5 Kbar, the stability range is between 765° and 800° C). At the lower thermal stability limit osumilite+H₂O vapor break down to cordierite+K feldspar+phlogopite_ss+quartz, at the higher one to cordierite+K feldspar+phlogopite+liquid. Reduction of water fugacity will expand the stability field largely by shifting the lower and higher thermal stability limits to lower and higher temperatures, respectively. The dependence of osumilite stability on water fugacity makes osumilite a sensitive indicator mineral for dry conditions in rocks formed at total pressures higher than about 0.8 Kbar.     

On the rate of lava- and tephra production and the upward migration of magma in four icelandic eruptions

The rate of the lava production of three Icelandic fissure eruptions (Lakagigar 1783, Hekla 1947, Askja 1961) is calculated and an attempt is made at a reasonable approximation of the rate of lava production per length and width of the feeding fissures and the rate of upward migration of the magma through the fissures. The results are summed up in Table 2. The figures for the maximum upward migration there presented should be regarded as minimum figures. As a comparison with the mainly lava producing fissure eruptions the tephra production of the acid and highly explosive Askja eruption of 1875 is discussed. It has hitherto been assumed that the enormous amount of tephra, about 2 km₃, which was produced by this eruption in 8 1/2 hours, came entirely from the Viti crater, but with regard to its small diameter it seems likely that the very fine grained tephra produced during the first hours of the eruption was partly expelled from nearby fissures now covered by Lake Öskjuvatn.

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Zusammenfassung Die Rate der Lavaförderung bei drei isländischen Spalteneruptionen (Lakagigar 1783, Hekla 1947, Askja 1961) wird errechnet, und es wird versucht, einen Annäherungswert zu gewinnen über die Rate der Lavaförderung, bezogen auf Länge und Weite der Zuführungsspalten und die Rate der Aufwärtsbewegung des Magma durch die Spalten. Die Ergebnisse sind in Tafel 2 zusammengefaßt. Die darin angegebenen Zahlen für die maximale Aufwärtsbewegung sollten als Minimum aufgefaßt werden. Als Vergleich mit den hauptsächlich Lava führenden Spalteneruptionen wird die Tephraproduktion der sauren und hochexplosiven Askja Eruption von 1875 behandelt. Bisher wurde angenommen, daß die enorme Menge Tephra — ungefähr 2 km₃, die diese Eruption in 8 1/2 Stunden hervorbrachte — ausschließlich aus dem Viti Krater kam; aber in Anbetracht seines geringen Durchmessers scheint es wahrscheinlich, daß die sehr feinkörnige Tephra, die während der ersten Stunden der Eruption entstand, teilweise von nahegelegenen Spalten ausgeworfen wurde, die jetzt vom Öskjuvatn-See bedeckt sind.

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Résumé La mesure de production de lave de trois éruptions fissurales de l'Islande (Lakagigar 1783, Hekla 1947, Askja 1961) est calculée et il est essayé de rapprocher la mesure de cette production à l'égard de longueur et largeur des fissures d'alimentation, et la mesure de la migration vers le haut du magma par les fissures. Les résultats sont présentés au tableau 2. Les chiffres de la migration maximum vers le haut doivent être entendus comme minimum. En comparaison avec l'éruption fissurale produisant principalement de la lave, la téphra production de l'acide et fort explosive éruption de l'Askja de 1875 est discutée. On a supposé jusqu'à présent que l'énorme masse de téphra, environ 2 km₃, qui fut produite lors de cette éruption en 8 1/2 heures, provenait seulement du cratére Viti; mais considérant son petit diamètre il est probable que la téphra de grain fin fut en partie lancée par des fissures voisines et qui à présent sont couvertes par le Lac Öskjuvatn.

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(Lakagígar 1783; Hekla 1947; Askja 1961). . Askja 1875 , . .

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Dedicated to Professor Dr. A.Rittmann on the occasion of his 75. birthday