Data Publication

Supplementary material for analogue experiments on the interactions of two indenters, and their implications for curved fold-and-thrust-belts

Reiter, Karsten | Kukowski, Nina | Ratschbacher, Lothar | Rosenau, Matthias

GFZ Data Services

(2016)

Descriptions

This data publication includes animations and figures of eight scaled analogue models that are used to investigate the evolution of a curved mountain belt akin to the Pamir and Hindu Kush orogenic system and adjacent Tadjik basin. Crustal deformation is simulated by means of indentation of two basement blocks into a sedimentary sequence and the formation of a curved fold-and-thrust belt. The experimental set-up has two adjacent rigid indenters representing the basement blocks moving in parallel with a velocity difference (Figure 1). The slow indenter moves with a relative velocity ranging from 40 to 80% of that of the fast one. A layer of quartz sand in front of the indenters, 1 by 1 meter in size and 1.5 cm thick, represents the sedimentary basin infill. A basal detachment layer is made up of low-friction glass beads or viscous silicone oil representing weak shale or evaporates layers, respectively. The surface evolution by means of topography and strain distribution is derived from 3-D particle image velocimetry (PIV). This allows visualizing and analysing the development of the model surface during the complete model run at high spatio-temporal resolution. All details about the model set-up, modelling results and interpretation can be found in Reiter et al. (2011). The here provided additional material includes time-lapse movies showing the topographic evolution of the eight models. These visualizations are oblique views played back at 60-fold velocity for the “glass beads experiments” (gb40 to gb80) and 3600-fold velocity for the “silicone experiments” (si60, si-gb60). In addition to the experiment movies we provide a set of figures. The figures include surface views as well as cross-sections through the finite models highlighting the link between topography and internal structure of the simulated curved fold-and-thrust belts. Additionally, attribute maps of distinct morphometric measures (curvature, slope) and deformation parameters (uplift, horizontal translation) for the experiments with glass beads detachments are given. Finally, the movie “Experimenting.avi” shows in time-lapse the whole workflow of setting up, conducting and documenting an experiment, which originally required three days (for experiment si-gb60). An overview on the parameters used in the experimental series of the movie sequences is given in the explanatory file (Explanations_Reiter-et-al-2016.pdf). A full list of files is given in “list-of-files-Reiter-et-al-2016.pdf”.

Keywords

MSL enriched keywords
Software
digital image correlation (DIC)
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
tectonic plate boundary
convergent tectonic plate boundary
continental collision
Apparatus
analogue modelling
deformation experiments
tectonic deformation structure
tectonic fault
detachment fault
Modeled geomorphological feature
mountain and glacial landforms
mountain
oblique-slip fault
reverse fault
minerals
chemical elements
silicon
measured property
silicon
thrust fault
Ancillary equipment
model surface monitoring (2D)
camera
wrench fault
sedimentary rock
mudstone
shale
silicate minerals
tectosilicates
quartz
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
analogue modelling material
granular modelling material
synthetic granular material
glass microspheres
viscous modelling material
synthetic viscous material
silicone
silicone oil
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
strain
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
frictional deformation
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
strain
fold-and-thrust belt
Earth's structure
Earth crust
MSL vocabulary keywords corresponding to originally assigned keywords
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
continental collision
deformation experiments
detachment fault
mountain
oblique-slip fault
reverse fault
silicon
silicon
thrust fault
camera
wrench fault
Originally assigned keywords
two indenter tectonics
particle image velocimetry
fold-and-thrust belts
Tajik basin
Pamir
4D analogue experiments
mountain building
continental collision
sandbox model
digital elevation model
analogue model
EPOS
multi-scale laboratories
analogue models of geologic processes
analogue modelling results
crustal setting > upper continental crustal setting
detachment fault
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC PROCESSES
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > FAULT MOVEMENT
Microsphere > Glassy
mountain
oblique slip fault
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
reverse fault
Sand > Quartz Sand
Sandbox > Sandbox (cm scale)
Sectioning
Silicon
tectonic and structural features
tectonic process > continental_collision
tectonically defined setting > collisional setting
tectonically defined setting > foreland setting
thrust fault
Time lapse camera
wrench fault

Metadata


MSL enriched sub domains

analogue modelling of geologic processes
geochemistry
rock and melt physics

Resource Type

Dataset


Source


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services

DOI

10.5880/gfz.4.1.2016.007

Creators

Reiter, Karsten
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-7426
TU Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Darmstadt, Germany
Kukowski, Nina
Personal
Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Jena, Germany
Ratschbacher, Lothar
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-2084
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Geologie, Freiberg, Germany
Rosenau, Matthias
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Contributors

Reiter, Karsten
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-7426
TU Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Darmstadt, Germany
Reiter, Karsten
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-7426
TU Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Darmstadt, Germany
Kukowski, Nina
Personal
Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Jena, Germany
Kukowski, Nina
Personal
Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Jena, Germany
Ratschbacher, Lothar
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-2084
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Geologie, Freiberg, Germany
Ratschbacher, Lothar
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-2084
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Geologie, Freiberg, Germany
Rosenau, Matthias
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Rosenau, Matthias
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Rosenau, Matthias
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
HelTec-Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany)
Personal
9ba34c109b827b177aab36e0266b1643
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Reiter, Karsten
Personal
TU Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften
Rosenau, Matthias
Personal
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Citation

Reiter, K., Kukowski, N., Ratschbacher, L., & Rosenau, M. (2016). Supplementary material for analogue experiments on the interactions of two indenters, and their implications for curved fold-and-thrust-belts [Dataset]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.1.2016.007


References


Dates

Issued 2016

Language

en



Rights

Name Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
URI https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Identifier cc-by-4.0
Identifier Scheme SPDX
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Locations


Geo location(s)

Tajik Basin, Pamir


Spatial coordinates