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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 6, 2010
ICEM 14 – 14th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics
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Article Number | 22004 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Soils and Geomaterials | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20100622004 | |
Published online | 10 June 2010 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20100622004
High-pressure experimental models of geological structures
Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland
a e-mail : gary.couples@pet.hw.ac.uk
In order to understand deformation processes that operated in large-scale, natural systems, experimental models can provide a crucial means of developing ideas concerning the interactions of sub-systems. We describe an experimental campaign that was designed to provide new insights into a multi-scale deformation type that involves faulting, uplift and rotation of strong crustal blocks, and the folding of the overlying sequence of layered rocks. The experimental models proved, at a small scale, the existence of a process that could only be inferred at natural scale – namely, the significant lateral flow of a ductile unit that transports the overlying rocks in a nearly passive fashion.
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