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Janssen, C; Naumann, Rudolf; Morales, L; Wirth, R; Rhede, D; Dresen, Georg (2015): Whole rock and elements concentrations from IODP Hole 343-C0019E [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.855669, Supplement to: Janssen, C et al. (2015): Co-seismic and/or a-seismic microstructures of JFAST 343 core samples from the Japan Trench. Marine Geology, 362, 33-42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.01.013

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Abstract:
The microstructures, mineralogy and chemistry of four representative samples collected from cores extracted from the Japan Trench during Integrated Ocean Drilling Project Expedition 343, the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) have been studied using optical microscopy, TEM, SEM, XRF, XRD and microprobe analyses. The samples provide a transect from relatively undeformed marine sediments in the hanging wall, to the undeformed footwall material, crossing the thrust interface between the Pacific and North American plate, where the fault slipped during the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Our preliminary results suggest that the low strength of JFAST fault gouge material is caused by the high amount of clay minerals (~ 60% smectite, ~ 14 illite). Clay minerals in the décollement (gouge) sample are partly replaced by newly formed manganese oxide, which precipitated from hydrothermal fluids. Dauphine twins were found in quartz grains of the décollement sample suggesting local high stress possible during seismic loading. Other microstructures cannot be assigned unambiguously to co-seismic or a-seismic faulting processes. The observed scaly clay fabric is consistent with observations in many other plate-boundary fault zones. Significant grain size reduction was found in the fault (decollement) zone sample. But a change in lithology of the fault material cannot be ruled out. Microstructures typical for a-seismic deformation like dissolution-precipitation features (e.g. dissolved grain boundaries, mineral alteration) occur in all JFAST core samples, but more frequently in the décollement sample.
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Latitude: 37.938905 * Longitude: 143.913473
Date/Time Start: 2012-05-11T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-05-24T00:00:00
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