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Data Publication

Overviews and videos of top view imagery, topography data and DIC analysis results from analogue models of basin inversion

Richetti, Pâmela C | Zwaan, Frank | Schreurs, Guido | Schmitt, Renata S | Schmid, Timothy C

GFZ Data Services

(2023)

This data set includes videos depicting the surface evolution (time-lapse photography, topography data and Digital Image Correlation [DIC] analysis) of 11 analogue models, divided in three model series (A, B and C), simulating rifting and subsequent inversion tectonics. In these models we test how orthogonal or oblique extension, followed by either orthogonal or oblique compression, as well as syn-rift sedimentation, influenced the reactivation of rift structures and the development of new inversion structures. We compare these models with an intracontinental inverted basin in NE Brazil (Araripe Basin). All experiments were performed at the Tectonic Modelling Laboratory of the University of Bern (UB). We used an experimental set-up involving two long mobile sidewalls, two rubber sidewalls (fixed between the mobile walls, closing the short model ends), and a mobile and a fixed base plate. We positioned a 5 cm high block consisting of an intercalation of foam (1 cm thick) and Plexiglas (0.5 cm thick) bars on the top of the base plates. Then we added layers of viscous and brittle analogue materials representing the ductile and brittle lower and upper crust in our experiments, which were 3 cm and 6 cm thick, respectively. A seed made of the same viscous material was positioned at the base of the brittle layer, in order to localize the formation of an initial graben in our models. The standard model deformation rate was 20 mm/h, over a duration of 2 hours for a total of 40 mm of divergence, followed by 2 hours of convergence at the same rate (except for Models B3 and C3, since the oblique rifting did not create space for 40 mm of orthogonal inversion). For syn-rift sedimentation, we applied an intercalation of feldspar and quartz sand in the graben. Model parameters and detailed description of model set-up are summarized in Table 1, and results and their interpretation can be found in Richetti et al. (2023).

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Basin inversion
EPOS
multiscale laboratories
analogue models of geologic processes
analogue modelling results
Digital Image Correlation DIC Particle Image Velocimetry PIV
StereoScan Agisoft
continentalcrustal setting
graben
continental rift setting
intraplate tectonic setting
CRUSTAL MOTION DIRECTION
FAULT MOVEMENT DIRECTION
FAULT MOVEMENT RATE
PLATE MOTION DIRECTION
STRAIN
Electric engine mmhr
Sandbox cm scale
reverse fault
strikeslip fault
horst
normal fault
rift valley
thrust fault
Generic camera
Sectioning
SLR camera
rifting
sedimentary process
tectonic uplift
Corundum Sand
Feldspar Sand
Quartz Sand
SiliconSilly puttyPDMS
Surface image
tectonic and structural features

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
StereoScan (Agisoft)
graben
rifting
intraplate setting
strain
strain
reverse fault
strike-slip fault
horst
normal fault
rift valley
rift valley
thrust fault
camera
corundum sand
model surface monitoring (2D)

MSL enriched keywords
Software
StereoScan (Agisoft)
Modeled geomorphological feature
tectonic landforms
graben
tectonic plate boundary
divergent tectonic plate boundary
rifting
intraplate setting
Measured property
strain
Measured property
strain
tectonic deformation structure
tectonic fault
reverse fault
strike-slip fault
horst
normal fault
mountain and glacial landforms
rift valley
rift valley
thrust fault
Ancillary equipment
model surface monitoring (2D)
camera
analogue modelling material
granular modelling material
natural granular material
corundum sand
minerals
silicate minerals
tectosilicates
quartz
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
elastic modelling material
natural elastic material
natural rubber
digital image correlation (DIC)
Earth's structure
Earth crust
upper crust

MSL original sub domains

analogue modelling of geologic processes

MSL enriched sub domains i

analogue modelling of geologic processes
rock and melt physics


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/GFZ.2.5.2023.003


Authors

Richetti, Pâmela C

0000-0002-9942-0026

Programa de Pós-graduação em Geologia-PPGL, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Zwaan, Frank

0000-0001-8226-2132

Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Schreurs, Guido

0000-0002-4544-7514

Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Schmitt, Renata S

0000-0001-6349-5459

Departamento de Geologia-IGEO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Schmid, Timothy C

0000-0002-9477-9654

Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland


References

DOI of paper when available

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Contact

Richetti, Pâmela C

pamelarichetti@geologia.ufrj.br

Programa de Pós-graduação em Geologia-PPGL, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Citiation

Richetti, P. C., Zwaan, F., Schreurs, G., Schmitt, R. S., & Schmid, T. C. (2023). Overviews and videos of top view imagery, topography data and DIC analysis results from analogue models of basin inversion [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.5.2023.003


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