Scaling of natural and simulated stylolites and their use as stress gouges
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Stylolites are rough dissolution pairs of surfaces that are generated by stress induced solution. These irregular structures can be found in various rock types and are mainly filled with fine-grained insoluble material. Stylolites are known to represent self-affine structures that have characteristic statistical properties (Schmittbuhl et al., 2004). We therefore investigate the scaling behaviour of natural (tectonic) and simulated stylolites, which allows comparing properties like roughness, width and saturation of the interface.
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