Supplement to: The influence of detachment strength on the evolving deformational energy budget of physical accretionary prisms

Abstract

Tracking the evolution of the deformational energy budget within accretionary systems provides insight into the driving mechanisms that control fault development. To quantify the impact of these mechanisms on overall system efficiency, we estimate energy budget components as the first thrust fault pair develops in dry-sand accretion analogue experiments.


This data set includes photos taken and forces measured in four experiments performed at Université de Cergy-Pontoise in October-November 2016. The experiments are described in McBeck et al. (submitted).


The data are organized into 5 main folders, with the following contents:
1) E373_photos: Contains 3 subfolders: droit_RDY, gauche_RDY, haut_RDY. Each subfolder contains images taken at 1 second intervals throughout experiment. droit_RDY, gauche_RDY, and haut_RDY contain photos of the right, left, and top of the sandpack.
2) E374_photos: Same organization and contents of folder E373_photos
3) E375_photos: Same organization and contents of folder E373_photos
4) E376_photos: Same organization and contents of folder E373_photos
5) forces: Contains text files that list the normal force against the backwall (N) and total applied normal displacement to the backwall (mm) in the second and first columns, respectively. The filename indicates which experiment the text file describes.

Authors

• McBeck, Jessica;University of Oslo
• Cooke, Michele;University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Souloumiac, Pauline;Université de Cergy-Pontoise
• Maillot, Bertrand;Université de Cergy-Pontoise
• Mary, Baptiste;Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Contact

• McBeck, Jessica (Post doc) ; University of Oslo;

Contributors

GECmodel - Laboratoire de modélisation analogique Géosciences et Environnement (CNRS-Cergy-Pontoise University, France )

Keywords

work budget, detachment strength, frictional work, off-fault deformation, EPOS, multi-scale laboratories, analogue models of geologic processes, analogue modelling results, detachment fault, fault > reverse fault, Force sensor, High frame rate camera, Sand, Sandbox > Sandbox (meter scale), tectonic process > accretion, tectonic process > subduction, tectonic setting > plate margin setting > subduction zone setting, Young modulus, Force sensor, High frame rate camera, Sand, Sandbox > Sandbox (meter scale), Young modulus, detachment fault, fault > reverse fault, tectonic process > accretion, tectonic process > subduction, tectonic setting > plate margin setting > subduction zone setting

GCMD Science Keywords

• EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC PROCESSES
• EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > FAULT MOVEMENT