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| Power-Law Viscoelastic Flow of the Lower Accretionary Prism in the Makran Subduction Zone Following the 2013 Baluchistan Earthquake | |
| Cheng, Guo1; Barnhart, William D.2; Li, Shaoyang3 | |
| 2022-11-01 | |
| Source Publication | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
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| ISSN | 2169-9313 |
| Volume | 127Issue:11Pages:17 |
| Abstract | Subduction zone accretionary prisms are commonly modeled as elastic structures where permanent deformation is accommodated by faulting and folding of otherwise elastic materials, yet accretionary prisms may exhibit other deformation styles over relatively short time scales. In this study, we use 6.5-year (2014-2021) Sentinel-1 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time-series of post-seismic deformation in the Makran accretionary prism of southeast Pakistan to characterize non-linear viscoelastic deformation within an active accretionary prism on short timescales (months to years). We constructed a series of 3-D finite-element models of the Makran subduction zone, including an accretionary prism, and constrained the elastic thickness of the upper wedge and the flow-law parameters (power-law exponent, activation enthalpy, and pre-exponential constant) of the lower wedge through forward model fits to the InSAR time-series. Our results show that the prism is elastically thin (8-12 km) and the non-linear viscoelastic relaxation of the deep portions of the prism alone can sufficiently explain the post-seismic surface deformation. Our best fitting flow-law parameters (n = 3.76 +/- 0.39, Q = 82.2 +/- 37.73 kJ mol(-1), and A = 10(-3.36 +/- 4.69)) are consistent with triggering of low temperature dislocation creep within fluid-saturated siliciclastic rocks. We believe that the fluids necessary for this weakening originate from sedimentary underplating and/or the presence the hydrocarbons. The presence of power-law rheology within the lower wedge impacts the estimated plate coupling and the stress state in the subduction system, with respect to the conventional elastic wedge model, and hence should to be considered in future earthquake cycle models. |
| Keyword | accretionary prism InSAR post-seismic deformation viscoelastic relaxation Makran subduction zone deformation mechanism |
| DOI | 10.1029/2022JB024493 |
| WOS Keyword | 7.7 BALOCHISTAN EARTHQUAKE ; DISLOCATION CREEP ; UPPER-MANTLE ; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATION ; SHIMANTO BELT ; THRUST BELTS ; MUD VOLCANOS ; CRUSTAL ; LOCKING ; QUARTZ |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Research Area | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| WOS Subject | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| WOS ID | WOS:000888595000001 |
| Publisher | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/107644 |
| Collection | 岩石圈演化国家重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Cheng, Guo |
| Affiliation | 1.Univ Iowa, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA 2.US Geol Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program, Golden, CO USA 3.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Lithospher Evolut, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Cheng, Guo,Barnhart, William D.,Li, Shaoyang. Power-Law Viscoelastic Flow of the Lower Accretionary Prism in the Makran Subduction Zone Following the 2013 Baluchistan Earthquake[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH,2022,127(11):17. |
| APA | Cheng, Guo,Barnhart, William D.,&Li, Shaoyang.(2022).Power-Law Viscoelastic Flow of the Lower Accretionary Prism in the Makran Subduction Zone Following the 2013 Baluchistan Earthquake.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH,127(11),17. |
| MLA | Cheng, Guo,et al."Power-Law Viscoelastic Flow of the Lower Accretionary Prism in the Makran Subduction Zone Following the 2013 Baluchistan Earthquake".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 127.11(2022):17. |
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