3D active fault kinematic behaviour reveals rapidly alternating near-surface stress states in the Eastern Alps

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BAROŇ Ivo MELICHAR Rostislav SOKOL Ľuboš ROWBERRY Matt PLAN Lukas STEMBERK Josef

Rok publikování 2024
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Geological Society Special Publications
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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www https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/SP546-2023-32
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP546-2023-3
Popis Stress variations in the Earth's crust need to be understood in both the spatial and temporal domains to address a number of pressing societal issues. In this paper, precise three-dimensional records of fault kinematic behaviour obtained by mechanical extensometers are used to investigate changes in stress states along major faults in the Eastern Alps. The monitored faults are fractures with evident Upper Quaternary displacement and are directly attributed to their master tectonic structures. The results demonstrate that activity at the submillimetric scale is highly episodic; periods of repose are punctuated by conspicuous reactivation events affecting one or more of the displacement components. An original approach named the SMB2018 method is used to define the stress state associated with each fault reactivation event. The outputs evidence significant short-term changes in the local stress regime. The directions of the principal normal stresses calculated from these reactivation events present generally similar patterns for both compressional and extensional stress states. Consequently, submillimetric fault activity cannot be controlled by a rotating stress field; such shifts can only be caused by a change in the magnitude of the individual principal normal stresses so that the maximum compression changes to the minimum and vice versa.
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