Experimental investigations on dating the last earthquake event using OSL signals of quartz from fault gouges

Jae Hoon Kim; Jin Han Ree; Jeong Heon Choi; Naveen Chauhan; Takehiro Hirose; Manami Kitamura

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228191

Experimental investigations on dating the last earthquake event using OSL signals of quartz from fault gouges

Jae Hoon Kim, Jin Han Ree^*, Jeong Heon Choi, Naveen Chauhan, Takehiro Hirose, Manami Kitamura

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Abstract

Obtaining a reliable age of the latest seismic slip event along an active fault is important for seismic hazard assessment. Here, we observe changes in the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signal of quartz crystals due to frictional heating in artificial fault gouges (comprising a mixture of quartz grains and Ca-bentonite powder). The fault gouge was deformed using a high-velocity rotary-shear apparatus at room temperature and room humidity. At a seismic slip rate of 1.31 m·s⁻¹, intense slip localization occurred along a very thin layer (~300 μm thick) within the simulated fault zones (1 mm thick). The estimated temperature of the slip-localized layer (SLL) increased by ~475 °C from frictional heating. The quartz OSL signals of the gouges were fully reset, most noticeably for the SLL. In contrast, there was rare slip-localization at subseismic slip rates (0.06–0.001 m·s⁻¹), for which the estimated temperature rise in the SLL was ~120 °C; hence, the quartz OSL signal was not reset under this condition. The results suggest that quartz OSL dating can be used to constrain the age of the latest seismic event in natural quartz-bearing fault zones where a SLL occurs.

Original language	English
Article number	228191
Journal	Tectonophysics
Volume	769
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228191
Publication status	Published - 2019 Oct 20

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Funding Information:
We thank Andre Niemeijer and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that improved the manuscript. This work was supported by the Nuclear Safety Research Program through the Korea Foundation of Nuclear Safety (KoFONS) using financial resources granted by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of the Republic of Korea (No. 1705010 ) and in part by the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Research Fund (to JH Ree).

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Keywords

Fault gouge
Frictional heating
High-velocity rotary-shear apparatus
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
Slip localization

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Geophysics
Earth-Surface Processes

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