Analysis of solution lineations in pebbles: Kinematical vs. dynamical approaches |
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Authors: | Jos L Simn |
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Institution: | aDepartamento de Geología, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain |
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Abstract: | Solution lineations in conglomerates, resulting from indentation of non-soluble grains of the matrix into the surface of soluble pebbles, make up a morphological and genetic continuum with gradual transition between orthogonal stylolites, oblique slickolites and parallel striations. The distributions of incidence angles of matrix grains have been analyzed in individual pebbles in order to discern their kinematical or dynamical meaning. As a general rule, they fit theoretical models of flow trajectories determined by the bulk strain (kinematical hypothesis). In contrast, they are not consistent with dynamical hypotheses based upon relationships with stress vectors. In particular, they do not fit the model of frictional sliding, which would give rise to a sharp discontinuity between slickolites parallel to the maximum principal stress σ1 and true striations parallel to the resolved shear stress τ. Therefore, solution lineations all around a pebble cannot be considered as an analogue of multiple fault slip data, and they should not be generally analysed by methods of stress inversion based upon Bott's principle. Under certain conditions (high pebble solubility; active pressure-solution processes able to accommodate the strain rate; earlier cementation), the solution lineations tend to be parallel to each other and to the maximum shortening/compression axis. They therefore assume a double kinematical and dynanical meaning, and the deformation involves maximum volume reduction. |
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Keywords: | Striated pebble Pressure-solution Stylolite Slickolite Palaeostress |
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