Fractured but not fractal: Fragmentation of the gulf of suez basement |
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Authors: | Gabor Korvin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, G.P.O. Box 498, 5001 Adelaide, South Australia |
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Abstract: | Recent geophysical studies revealed that the Palaeozoic basement of the Gulf of Suez consists of an enormous number of fault blocks whose network qualitavely resembles the contraction-crack polygons which can be found in nature in a wide variety of materials and on all scales (mud cracks, hardening concrete, age cracking in paintings,etc.). The fault network of the Gulf of Suez basement forms a rather uniformly spaced polygonal pattern, most of the blocks are four-sided, the lengths of block sides parallel with the Gulf of Suez axis are exponentially distributed. The power-law size distribution associated with the fractal (scale-free) fragmentation can be possibly ruled out.The paper calls attention to the necessity of calssifying the physical processes leading to fragmentations with exponential-, lognormal-, and power-law size distributions, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Fractal fragmentation size distribution Gulf of Suez |
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