Ring-shear test data of quartz sand – silicate cenospheres mixtures used for analogue experiments at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague

Warsitzka, Michael | Závada, Prokop | Krýza, Ondřej | Pohlenz, Andre | Rosenau, Matthias

2021

This dataset provides friction data from ring-shear tests (RST) for mixtures of quartz sand and sili-cate cenospheres, which are used for analog experiments in the laboratory of the Institute of Geo-physics of the Czech Academy of Science (IG CAS) (Warsitzka et al., 2021). The mixtures have...

Ring-shear test data of quartz sand G12 used for analogue experiments in the Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling (HelTec) at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam

Rosenau, Matthias | Pohlenz, Andre | Kemnitz, Helga | Warsitzka, Michael

2018

This dataset provides friction data from ring-shear tests (RST) for a quartz sand (“G12”). This material is used in various types of analogue experiments in the Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling (HelTec) at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam for simulating...

Digital image correlation data from analogue modelling experiments addressing the influence of basin geometry on gravity-driven salt tectonics at the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Rennes (F)

Zwaan, Frank | Rosenau, Matthias | Maestrelli, Daniele

2021

This data set includes the results of digital image correlation of 35 brittle-viscous experiments on gravitational salt tectonics performed at the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Rennes 1 (UR1). The experiments demonstrate the influence of basin geometry on gravity-driven salt...

Ring Shear and Slide-Hold-Slide Test Measurements for Soda-Lime Glassbeads of 300-400µm diameter used at the Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling, Potsdam, Germany

Rudolf, Michael | Rosenau, Matthias | Oncken, Onno

2021

This data set provides two series of experiments from ring-shear tests (RST) on glass beads that are in use at the Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling (HelTec) at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. The main experimental series contains shear experiments to...

Mechanical data of simulated basalt-built faults from rotary shear and direct shear experiments

Giacomel, Piercarlo | Ruggieri, Roberta | Scuderi, Marco Maria | Spagnuolo, Elena | Di Toro, Giulio | Collettini, Cristiano

2021

Here we report the raw data of the friction experiments carried out on basalt-built simulated faults defined by rock-on-rock contacts and powdered gouge. The experiments were specifically designed to investigate the role of fault microstructure on the frictional properties of basalts and the...

PIV and topographic analysis data from analogue experiments involving 3D structural inheritance and multiphase rifting

Zwaan, Frank | Chenin, Pauline | Erratt, Duncan | Manatschal, Gianreto | Schreurs, Guido

2021

This data set includes videos depicting the surface evolution (time-lapse photographs and Particle Image Velocimetry or PIV analysis) of 38 analogue models, in five model series (A-E), simulating rift tectonics. In these experiments we examined the influence of differently oriented mantle and...

Images and videos of analogue centrifuge models exploring marginal flexure during rifting in Afar, East Africa

Zwaan, Frank | Corti, Giacomo | Keir, Derek | Sani, Federico

2020

This data set includes images and videos depicting the evolution of deformation and topography of 17 analogue experiments c passive margin development, to better understand the ongoing tectonics along the western margin of Afar, East Africa. The tectonic background that forms the basis for...

Pictures, DEMs, and raw data relative to analogue accretionary wedges

Reitano, Riccardo | Faccenna, Claudio | Funiciello, Francesca | Corbi, Fabio | Sternai, Pietro | Willett, Sean D. | Sembroni, Andrea | Lanari, Riccardo

2021

This dataset includes raw data used in the paper by Reitano et al. (2022), focused on the effect of boundary conditions on the evolution of analogue accretionary wedges affected by both tectonics and surface processes; the paper also focuses on the balance between tectonics and surface...

3D stereo DIC data from analogue models exploring fault growth and rift propagation in rotational rift systems

Schmid, Timothy | Rudolf, Michael | Schreurs, Guido | Adam, Jürgen | Rosenau, Matthias

2021

This dataset includes surface 3D stereoscopic Digital Image Correlation (3D stereo DIC) images and videos of 9 analogue models on crustal scale rifting with a rotational component. Using a brittle-viscous two-layer setup, the experiments focused on near-surface fault growth, rift segment...

Decorated dislocations and (HR-)EBSD data from olivine of the Oman-UAE ophiolite

Wallis, David | Sep, Mike | Hansen, Lars N.

2021

This dataset is supplemental to the paper Wallis et al. (2021) and contains data on dislocations and their stress fields in olivine from the Oman-UAE ophiolite measured by oxidation decoration, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and high-angular resolution electron backscatter...