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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-405-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-405-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Short communication
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18 Feb 2021
Short communication |  | 18 Feb 2021

Experimental evidence that viscous shear zones generate periodic pore sheets

James Gilgannon, Marius Waldvogel, Thomas Poulet, Florian Fusseis, Alfons Berger, Auke Barnhoorn, and Marco Herwegh

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Using experiments that simulate deep tectonic interfaces, known as viscous shear zones, we found that these zones spontaneously develop periodic sheets of small pores. The presence of porous layers in deep rocks undergoing tectonic deformation is significant because it requires a change to the current model of how the Earth deforms. Emergent porous layers in viscous rocks will focus mineralising fluids and could lead to the seismic failure of rocks that are never supposed to have this occur.
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