4D X-Ray CT data and surface view videos of a systematic comparison of experimental set-ups for modelling extensional tectonics

Zwaan, Frank | Schreurs, Guido | Buiter, Susanne J.H.

2019

This data set includes 40 videos (+ 1 image) depicting the surface evolution of 39 experiments on crustal extension, as well as 4D CT imagery (figures and videos) of 6 of these experiments. The experiments examined the influence of the method for driving extension (foam base, rubber base, plate...

Dataset for the influence of water content and temperature on electrification in rapid decompression experiments

Stern, Sönke | Cimarelli, Corrado | Gaudin, Damien | Scheu, Bettina | Dingwell, Donald B.

2019

This data publication provides data from 42 experiments from 2018 and 2019 in the Fragmentation Lab at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (Germany). The experiments were taken out to analyse the influence of the water content and the initial temperature of the pre-experimental sample on...

Rheology of viscous materials from the CNR-IGG Tectonic Modelling Laboratory at the University of Florence (Italy)

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

2020

This dataset provides rheometric data of three viscous materials used for centrifuge experiments at the Tectonic Modelling Laboratory of CNR-IGG at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Florence (Italy). The first material, PP45, is a mixture of a silicone (Polydimethylsiloxane...

Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of quarz sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern

Schmid, Timothy | Schreurs, Guido | Warsitzka, Michael | Rosenau, Matthias

2020

This dataset provides friction data from ring-shear tests (RST) for a quartz sand (“A”). This material is used in various types of analogue experiments in Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern as an analogue for brittle layers in the crust or lithosphere. The material has been...

Digital image correlation data from analogue modelling experiments addressing extension of weakened crust

Osagiede, Edoseghe E. | Rosenau, Matthias | Rudolf, Michael | Rotevatn, Atle | Gawthorpe, Robert | Jackson, Christopher A.-L.

2021

This data set includes the results of digital image correlation analysis applied to analogue modelling experiments (Table 1) on the effect of weakness during distributed crustal extension performed at the Helmholtz Laboratory for Tectonic Modelling (HelTec) of the GFZ German Research Centre for...

Fluid-Induced Fault Slip Experiments in the Laboratory on Critically Stressed Saw-Cut Sandstone Samples with High Permeability

Wang, Lei | Kwiatek, Grzegorz | Rybacki, Erik | Bonnelye, Audrey | Bohnhoff, Marco | Dresen, Georg

2020

To understand the physical mechanisms governing fluid-induced seismicity at field-scale fluid injection projects, we conducted fluid-induced fault slip experiments in the laboratory on critically stressed saw-cut sandstone samples with high permeability using different fluid pressurization...

Ring-shear test data of feldspar sand from the CNR-IGG Tectonic Modelling Laboratory at the University of Florence (Italy)

Zwaan, Frank | Rudolf, Michael | Pohlenz, Andre | Corti, Giacomo | Keir, Derek | Sani, Federico

2020

This dataset provides internal data from ring-shear tests (RST) on a feldspar sand material that has been used in tectonic experiments by among others Montanari et al. (2017) and Zwaan et al. (2020) in the Tectonic Modelling Laboratory of CNR-IGG at the Earth Sciences Department of the...

Ash generation of volcanic lapilli during rotary tumbling

Hornby, Adrian | Küppers, Ulrich | Maurer, Benedikt M. | Poetsch, Carina | Dingwell, Donald B.

2020

Data supporting the publication Hornby, AJ, Kueppers U, Maurer BM, Poetsch C and Dingwell DB (2020) "Experimental constraints on volcanic ash generation and clast morphometrics in pyroclastic density currents and granular flows". In this study, fine ash is generated from lapilli-sized...

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 in 17 analogue experiments of passive margin development, to better understand the ongoing tec-tonics along the western margin of Afar, East Africa. The tectonic background that forms the basis for...

Digital image correlation data from analogue subduction megathrust earthquakes addressing the control of geodetic coverage on coseismic slip inversion

Kosari, Ehsan | Rosenau, Matthias | Bedford, Jonathan | Rudolf, Michael | Oncken, Onno

2020

This data set includes digital image correlation data from thirteen analogue earthquakes generated by means of an analogue seismotectonic scale model approach. The data consists of grids of 3D static coseismic surface displacements. The data have been derived using a stereo camera setup and...