Fig. 4: Schematic of the structure recovered at JFAST17, 18. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Schematic of the structure recovered at JFAST17, 18.

From: Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone

Fig. 4

Trace element stratigraphy of the JFAST core is shown on the left with sedimentary units colored and labeled as in Fig. 117. Generalized stratigraphy is shown in the middle with mudstone, smectite-rich clay, and chert lithologies indicated in different shades of gray. Previously observed faults and damage17,18,19, 47 are indicated on the right side of the stratigraphic column. On the right, a zoomed-in schematic of the structure recovered at JFAST17, 18 is shown and faults with biomarker thermal anomalies are colored by the minimum slip magnitude capable of reproducing the observations within the allowable amount of total slip13. Dashed lines represent PP948, which was not modeled as well as samples PP944 and PP951 for which structural evidence is ambiguous.

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