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Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1509-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1509-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
Research article
 | 
16 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2024

Influence of lateral heterogeneities on strike-slip fault behaviour: insights from analogue models

Sandra González-Muñoz, Guido Schreurs, Timothy C. Schmid, and Fidel Martín-González

Data sets

Rheology of PDMS-corundum sand mixtures from the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern (CH) F. Zwaan et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2018.023

Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of corundum sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern (CH) T. Schmid et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2020.005

Experimental pictures article: Influence of lateral heterogeneities on strike-slip fault behaviour: insights from analogue models S. González-Muñoz et al. https://doi.org/10.21950/WVB8ZO

Model code and software

anne-glerum/paper-Schmid-Tectonic-interactionsduring-rift-linkage A. Glerum https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701374

Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: ring-shear test data of quarz sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern T. Schmid et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2020.006

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Short summary
This work investigates how strike-slip faults propagate across domains with lateral contrasting brittle strength using analogue models. The introduction of brittle vertical domains was achieved using quartz microbead sand. The reference vertical domains influence synthetic fault propagation, segmentation, and linkage, as well as the antithetic faults which rotate about a vertical axis due to the applied simple shear. The results aligned with the faults in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula.
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