Data Publication

Data for coupled brittle-viscous deformation of folded olivine veins in metaserpentinite: implications for slow slip and tremor

Austin Arias

Utrecht University

(2026)

Descriptions

We documented the microstructural and geochemical characteristics of partially dehydrated and deformed metaserpentinite rocks from Erro-Tobbio, Voltri Massif, Italy. A thin section was prepared from a hand specimen taken from Erro-Tobbio. The thin section contains a folded olivine vein surrounded by an antigorite serpentine matrix. During preparation the thin section was cut parallel to the shortening direction of the olivine vein. We characterized the vein mineral chemistry using using an electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA), and crystallographic orientation data was measured using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) mapping. In this repository, EPMA and EBSD data is provided in the Data folder. The data and results within this repository will be used to support an in-preparation manuscript. Scripts used to reproduce figures of this manuscript are provided with the associated figure subfolder in the Figures folder of the repository.

Keywords

MSL enriched keywords
minerals
silicate minerals
nesosilicates
olivine
metamorphic rock
serpentinite
Technique
crystal structure analysis
electron diffraction
electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
brittle-viscous deformation
viscous deformation
Inferred behavior
anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and remanence
ductile deformation
Analyzed feature
deformation microstructure
pressure solution microstructure
vein
phyllosilicates
serpentine
antigorite
grain size and configuration
crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO)
MSL vocabulary keywords corresponding to originally assigned keywords
olivine
serpentinite
electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
Originally assigned keywords
FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
Olivine
Serpentinite
Dehydration
Seismicity
EBSD
EPMA

Metadata


MSL enriched sub domains

microscopy and tomography
rock and melt physics
paleomagnetism

Resource Type

Research Data


Source

https://public.yoda.uu.nl/geo/UU01/UZYMST.html

Source publisher

Utrecht University

DOI

10.24416/uu01-uzymst

Creators

Austin Arias
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6575-4191
Utrecht University

Citation

Arias, A. (2026). Data for coupled brittle-viscous deformation of folded olivine veins in metaserpentinite: implications for slow slip and tremor [Dataset]. Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.24416/UU01-UZYMST


Dates

Issued 2026-07-07T10:16:02
Updated 2026-07-07T10:16:10
Collected 2025-01-01/2025-08-01

Language

en


Funding References

Funder Name NWO

Rights

Name Open - freely retrievable
URI info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Name Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
URI https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Identifier cc-by-4.0
Identifier Scheme SPDX
Scheme URI https://spdx.org/licenses/

Locations


Geo location(s)

Erro-Tobbio, Voltri Massif, Italy