Study of nanocrystals in the dynamic slip zone |
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| Authors: | G A Sobolev S M Kireenkova Yu A Morozov A I Smul’skaya V I Vettegren V B Kulik R I Mamalimov |
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| Institution: | 1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Bol??shaya Gruzinskaya 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia
2. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia
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| Abstract: | Mineral composition is studied and a search to detect nanocrystals is conducted in the surface layers of slickensides formed due to dynamic slip in arkose sandstone. The infrared and Raman spectroscopy show that the slickensided layer is composed of nanocrystals of montmorillonite and anatase measuring ??15 nm and 3 nm, respectively. The crystalline lattice of the nanocrystals of montmorillonite is stretched by ??2.5% while the lattice of the nanocrystals of anatase is compressed by ??0.12%. Deeper than 3 mm below the slickenside surface, the sandstone contains nanocrystals of montmorillonite, beidellite and nontronite, quartz, plagioclase, and anatase. The nanocrystals of anatase have a linear size of ??8 nm. Their crystalline lattice is compressed by ??0.03%. It is supposed that montmorillonite in the slickensides was formed due to hydrolytic decomposition of silicates under friction of the fault planes sliding past each other. |
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