Structure of massively dilatant faults in Iceland: lessons learned from high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle data

Weismüller, Christopher; Urai, Janos L.; Kettermann, Michael; von Hagke, Christoph; Reicherter, Klaus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1757-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1757-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1757-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

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24 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 24 Oct 2019

Structure of massively dilatant faults in Iceland: lessons learned from high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle data

Christopher Weismüller, Janos L. Urai, Michael Kettermann, Christoph von Hagke, and Klaus Reicherter

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to 'Comments' by Anonymous Referee #1', Christopher Weismüller, 11 Sep 2019
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- AC2: 'Reply to 'Review of Weismüller et al' by Anonymous Referee #2', Christopher Weismüller, 11 Sep 2019

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Short summary

We use drones to study surface geometries of massively dilatant faults (MDFs) in Iceland, with apertures up to tens of meters at the surface. Based on throw, aperture and structures, we define three geometrically different endmembers of the surface expression of MDFs and show that they belong to one continuum. The transition between the endmembers is fluent and can change at one fault over short distances, implying less distinct control of deeper structures on surface geometries than expected.