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Giuntoli F, Menegon L, Siron G, Cognigni F, Leroux H, Compagnoni R, Rossi M, Vitale Brovarone A. Methane-hydrogen-rich fluid migration may trigger seismic failure in subduction zones at forearc depths. Nat Commun 2024; 15:480. [PMID: 38212306 PMCID: PMC10784519 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44641-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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Metamorphic fluids, faults, and shear zones are carriers of carbon from the deep Earth to shallower reservoirs. Some of these fluids are reduced and transport energy sources, like H2 and light hydrocarbons. Mechanisms and pathways capable of transporting these deep energy sources towards shallower reservoirs remain unidentified. Here we present geological evidence of failure of mechanically strong rocks due to the accumulation of CH4-H2-rich fluids at deep forearc depths, which ultimately reached supralithostatic pore fluid pressure. These fluids originated from adjacent reduction of carbonates by H2-rich fluids during serpentinization at eclogite-to-blueschist-facies conditions. Thermodynamic modeling predicts that the production and accumulation of CH4-H2-rich aqueous fluids can produce fluid overpressure more easily than carbon-poor and CO2-rich aqueous fluids. This study provides evidence for the migration of deep Earth energy sources along tectonic discontinuities, and suggests causal relationships with brittle failure of hard rock types that may trigger seismic activity at forearc depths.
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- Francesco Giuntoli
- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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- The Njord Centre, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI), Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRAE, Centrale Lille, UMR 8207, UMET, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Lille, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI), Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France.
- Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, National Research Council of Italy, Pisa, Italy.
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Klinge S, Hackl K, Renner J. A mechanical model for dissolution–precipitation creep based on the minimum principle of the dissipation potential. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In contrast to previous approaches that consider dissolution–precipitation creep as a multi-stage process and only simulate its governing subprocess, the present model treats this phenomenon as a single continuous process. The applied strategy uses the minimum principle of the dissipation potential according to which a Lagrangian consisting of elastic power and dissipation is minimized. Here, the elastic part has a standard form while the assumption for dissipation stipulates the driving forces to be proportional to two kinds of velocities: the material-transport velocity and the boundary-motion velocity. A Lagrange term is included to impose mass conservation. Two ways of solution are proposed. The strong form of the problem is solved analytically for a simple case. The weak form of the problem is used for a finite-element implementation and for simulating more complex cases.
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- S. Klinge
- Institute of Mechanics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund 44227, Germany
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- Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum 44780, Germany
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- Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum 44780, Germany
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Lagoeiro L, Gonçalves CC. SEM observation of grain boundary structures in quartz-iron oxide rocks deformed at intermediate metamorphic conditions. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2011. [DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652011005000015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Several studies have demonstrated the effect of a second phase on the distribution of fluid phase and dissolution of quartz grains. However, as most observations came from aggregates deformed under hydrostatic stress conditions and mica-bearing quartz rocks, 3-D distribution of pores on quartz-quartz (QQB) and quartz-hematite boundaries (QHB) has been studied. Several fracture surfaces oriented according to finite strain ellipsoid were analyzed. The pore distribution characterizes the porosity and grain shape as highly anisotropic, which results from the nature and orientation of boundaries. QHB have physical/chemical properties very different from QQB, once the hematite plates have strong effect on wetting behavior of fluid, likewise micas in quartzites. They are pore-free flat surfaces, normal to compression direction, suggesting that they were once wetted with a continuous fluid film acting as faster diffusion pathway. At QQB, the pores are faceted, isolated, close to its edges reflecting the crystallographic control and an interconnected network of fluid along grain junctions. The QQB facing the extension direction are sites of fluid concentration. As consequence, the anisotropic dissolution and grain growth were responsible for the formation of hematite plates and tabular quartz grains significantly contributing for the generation of the foliation observed in the studied rocks.
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Stöckhert B, Renner J. Rheology of Crustal Rocks at Ultrahigh Pressure. When Continents Collide: Geodynamics and Geochemistry of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9050-1_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Zhang S, Cox SF, Paterson MS. The influence of room temperature deformation on porosity and permeability in calcite aggregates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1029/94jb00647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hickman SH, Evans B. Chapter 10 Growth of Grain Contacts in Halite by Solution-transfer: Implications for Diagenesis, Lithification, and Strength Recovery. International Geophysics 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0074-6142(08)62825-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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