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The Midterm……• Marks are online• Worth 20%, avg. 67% (36-89)
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Deformation (Ch 8!)• The theory of plate tectonics tells us that the
Earth’s plates are in constant motion• They move apart, collide and slide past one
another• As well as generating earthquakes and
volcanoes these processes also deform the rocks of the crust
Compressional folding, DomeykoCordillera, Northern Chile
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DeformationMany rocks have been deformed by dynamic forces that cause fracturing, folding, and faulting of rocks. Processes that cause deformation are associated with plate boundaries and mountain building processes.
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How Does Rock Deform?• Deformation is simply a change in shape
and/or volume of rocks. • We can measure these changes both in the
field and the lab in order to try and understand how rocks deform
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Strike and Diphttp://www.dmtcalaska.org/exploration/ISU/unit1/u1lesson2.html
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Stress and strain• Stress is the force applied to a given area of rock. • It has the same definition as pressure (force acting on a
surface per unit area)• However, pressure is generally considered to be acting equally
in all directions• So geologists use the term stress
• Differential stress• Uniform stress
• Uniform stress canalso be thought of as confining pressure or confining stress
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Stress
• Stress comes in three flavours:• Compression• Tension • Shear
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Compression
In compression, rocks are squeezed by external forces acting toward one another. Compression causes rock to shorten along the direction of compression. Compression causes folding as well as reverse and thrust faulting.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
TensionTension results from force acting in opposite directions, which tends to lengthen rocks and pull them apart. Tension causes normal faults.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Shear
In shear stress, forces act opposite one another in a horizontal plane. Shear stress causes rocks to slip past one another in a horizontal plane as with strike-slip faults.
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Strain• Strain also comes in three flavours
• Elastic strain • Plastic strain • Brittle strain
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Elastic deformation
• This is a non permanent change in volume or shape
• A good example of this is a metal spring
Murck and Skinner (1999)
Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Elastic limit
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• Once the elastic limit is exceeded rocks will deform
• Ductile deformation is permanent
Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Ductile deformation
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Brittle deformation
This occurs when rocks fracture rather than bend
Murck and Skinner (1999)Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
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Deformation in rocks
Plummer et al. (2001)
Murck and Skinner (1999)
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Brittle or ductile ?
• The response to deformation is controlled by the nature of the stress, pressure, temperature, time and rock type
• Any rock under the great pressures and high temperatures of Earth’s interior is more ductile that it would be at Earth’s surface.
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Temperature
• Solids become more ductile and less brittle at high temperatures• Glass can be blown when hot but will
shatter when cold• This is why the asthenosphere ‘flows”
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Confining pressure
High confining pressure reduces brittleness by hindering fracture formation
Murck and Skinner (1999)
High confining pressure
Low confining pressure
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Rate of deformation
• The rate at which stress is applied determines if the failure will be brittle or ductile
• Think of ‘silly putty’ - it bounces if dropped but shatters if hit with a hammer
• Strain rate - this is the rate at which a rock is deformed
• Low strain rate results in ductile behaviour
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Summary
• Low temperatures, low confining pressures and high strain rates result in brittle behaviour
• High temperatures, high confining pressures and low strain rates result in ductile behaviour
• Brittle-ductile transition - the point at which behaviour changes (~10-15 km)
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Deformation & Geologic Structures
• Any feature resulting from rock deformation is a geologic structure, especially fractures, folds, and faults.
• Folding occurs in response to ductile deformation
• Faulting occurs in response to brittle deformation
• The study of these features is structural geology
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Brittle structures
• Brittle failure results in fractures in a rock.• These basically take two forms
• Joints are fractures in a rock along which no displacement has occurred.
• Faults are fractures along which blocks have moved parallel with the fracture surface
• Joints are generally small but pervasive• Faults can vary from micro fractures to continent
scale (San Andreas fault or East African Rift)
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Faults
Magnitude 6.1, Takhar Province, Afghanistan,February 4, 1998, Chernicoff et al. (2002)
Not all faults penetrate to the surface, but those that do often show a fault scarp, a cliff or bluff formed by vertical movement along the fault plane.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Faults
• There is some terminology we must know to understand faults:• Fault plane (fault scarp)• Hanging wall• Footwall
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Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Hanging wall & footwall
The footwall block lies beneath the fault plane and the hanging wall block lies above
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Fault types
We can only think of the movement on faults in terms of relative movement
• Normal or dip-slip faults• Reverse faults• Strike slip faults • Oblique slip faults– some combination
Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
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• All movement on a dip-slip fault is parallel to the dip of the fault plane, that is, movement is up or down the fault plane.
• In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down the fault plane. Normal faults result from tensional stress.
hanging wall
footwall
Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Normal dip-slip faults
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Murck and Skinner (1999)
Horst & Graben structures
Horst - uplifted block with faults dipping away
Graben - down-thrown block with faults dipping towards each other
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Reverse faults are dip-slip faults where the hanging wall has moved up the inclined fault plane. In reverse faults, the dip of the fault plane is >45°. Formed by compressional stress
Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Reverse dip-slip faults
hanging wall
footwall
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Murck and Skinner (1999)
Thrust faults
Reverse faults with fault plane dips of <45° are called thrust faults
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San Andreas Fault, Calif.Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Strike-Slip FaultsStrike-slip faults are caused by shearing forces, which cause blocks on either side of the fault plane to slide laterally past one another.
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Strike-slip faultsAs the observer looks across the fault plane to the opposite side, the offset feature will lie to the left for a left-lateral (sinistral) fault strike-slip fault and to the right for a right-lateral (dextral) strike-slip fault.
Murck and Skinner (1999)
Sinistral
Dextral
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Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
San Andreas fault.
• The Pacific plate appears to be moving NW relative to the North American plate
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Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Oblique slip.
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Joints
• These are formed in a variety of ways but are characterised by the fact that no movement has occurred along the fracture
• Some form as a result of regional stress, others because of cooling or pressure release
Marquette, Michigan, Wicander and Monroe (2002)
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BWicander and Monroe (2002)
JointsJoints can form in the upper parts of anticlines which undergo tension as the rocks flex around the fold axis
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Plummer et al. (2001)
JointsJoints form when rocks are stretched by
simple tension or shear stress.
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Brittle or ductile ?
• The response to deformation is controlled by the nature of the stress, pressure, temperature, time and rock type
• Any rock under the great pressures and high temperatures of Earth’s interior is more ductile that it would be at Earth’s surface.
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• When rocks deform in a ductile manner they bend and flow to form folds
• They range in scale from mm to km• There are three basic fold types
• Monoclines • Synclines• Anticlines
Folds
Rockies, Thompson and Turk (1998)
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Murck and Skinner (1999)
Some terminology
Fold limb
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Big Horn Mtns., Wyo.Wicander and Monroe (2002)
MonoclinesMonoclines are simple bends or flexures in otherwise horizontal or uniformly dipping layers. Monoclines often drape deep fractures in the rock along which vertical movement has occurred.
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Monoclines
Thompson and Turk (1998)
Thompson and Turk (1998)
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Murck and Skinner (1999)
Monoclines
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anticline
Calico Mtns., Calif.
Wicander and Monroe (2002)
AnticlinesAnticlines are arched or convex-upward folds with the oldest rocks in the core of the fold.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Synclines
Synclines are trough-like or concave-downward folds with the youngest rocks in the core of the fold.
syncline
Calico Mtns., Calif.
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British Columbia, Canada
Wicanderand Monroe
(2002)
FoldsAnticlines and synclines do not necessarily correspond to highs
and lows on Earth’s surface
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
FoldsAnticlines and synclines often occur together in alternating series. Upright folds have vertical axial planes and limbs that dip at the same angle in opposite directions.
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Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Anticlines and synclines.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
FoldsFolds with non-vertical axial planes and limbs that are in opposite directions and at different angles are inclined folds.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
FoldsFolds with non-vertical axial planes and limbs that dip in the same directions, but at different angles are overturned folds.
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Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Folded Rock LayersWhere deformation has been especially intense, folds sometimes have horizontal axial planes. These are recumbent folds. Overturned and recumbent folds are particularly common in mountain ranges formed by compression along convergent plate margins.
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A B
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Plunging Folds
• If a fold’s axis is not horizontal, the fold is plunging
• Anticlines have outcrop patterns that point in the direction of plunge.
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A B
Wicander and Monroe (2002)
Plunging Folds• Synclines have map patterns that open in
the direction of plunge. • A series of alternating, plunging
anticlines and syncline forms a zig-zag, or sawtooth map pattern
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Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)
Plunging folds
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Plunging foldsAn aerial view of Sheep Mountain in Wyoming shows that it is a plunging anticline. The plunge direction is out of the viewing plane.
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Domes and Basins• Domes and basins are circular- to oval-shaped folds. • In eroded domes, the oldest rocks lie at the middle of a bull’s
eye map pattern and all layers dip away from the center. • In basins the youngest rocks lie at the middle of a bull’s eye
map pattern and all layers dip toward the center. Most of Michigan is a large basin.
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Domes and basins.
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Dome
•Rawlings, Wyoming, •Press and Siever (2000)
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Murck and Skinner (1999)
Summary
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What type of fold?
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Symmetrical Asymmetrical
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What type of fold?
Chernicoff and Whitney (2002)Recumbent
Overturned
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Orogens a.k.a mountain belts
• Orogens are elongate belts of intensely deformed and metamorphosed rocks• ‘Oros’ - Greek for ‘mountain’• ‘Genesis’ - ‘come into being’
• Active mountain belts such as the Alps, Andes and Himalayas are clearly the result of plate tectonics
• So if we can identify them in older rocks we have evidence for plate tectonics
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Ancient orogens
• The oldest part of the Appalachian is ~600 Ma
• There is evidence for orogens as old as 1.5 Ga and maybe even older
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Appalachians
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Isostasy
In order to understand orogens we need to understand isostasy
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The Principle of IsostasyThe principle of isostasy indicates that Earth’s crust floats in equilibrium with the denser mantle below, like an iceberg floats in water. If mountain ranges had no roots, a positive gravity anomaly would be expected, but such has not been observed. In contrast, no anomaly would be expected if they have roots. The buoyant force from extension of the low-density roots into the underlying high-density mantle causes mountains to stand high
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Thick accumulation of sediment or glacial ice atop continental crust can push it lower into the mantle. Once the load is removed, the crust rises back to a position of equilibrium in a process known as isostatic rebound. Isostatic rebound affects mountain ranges. Due to isostatic rebound as mountains erode, progessivelydeeper levels are brought to the surface. If rebound continues long enough, only the plutonic and metamorphic rocks of the root will be left to record the existence of the former mountain range.
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Isostatic Rebound
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Isostasy and erosion
• As the mountain range is eroded the root rises to balance the loss of material
• Because the surrounding lithosphere is strong it is a slow process for the root to push its way up
• This process can take 100’s of millions of years
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Cratons
• These are areas that have been stable and undeformed for at least 1 Ga
• “Stable” means isostatically balanced
• May or may not have been mountain belts
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