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Mixed Deformation Styles Observed on a Shallow Subduction Thrust, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand Å https://doi.org/10.1130/G46367.1 Manuscript received 10 April 2019 Revised manuscript received 21 June 2019 Manuscript accepted 26 June 2019 © 2019 The Authors. Gold Open Access: This paper is published under the terms of the CC-BY license. Published online 16 July 2019 Mixed deformation styles observed on a shallow subduction thrust, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand Å. Fagereng1, H.M. Savage2, J.K. Morgan3, M. Wang4, F. Meneghini5, P.M. Barnes6, R. Bell7, H. Kitajima8, D.D. McNamara9, D.M. Saffer10, L.M. Wallace11, K. Petronotis12, L. LeVay12, and the IODP Expedition 372/375 Scientists* 1School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK 2Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA 3Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA 4College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China 5Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa 56126, Italy 6National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington 6021, New Zealand 7Basins Research Group, Imperial College London, Kensington SW7 2AZ, UK 8Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77845, USA 9Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK 10Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA 11GNS Science, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand 12International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77845, USA ABSTRACT and sampled the Pāpaku thrust at Site U1518 Geophysical observations show spatial and temporal variations in fault slip style on shal- offshore New Zealand’s North Island (Fig. 1). low subduction thrust faults, but geological signatures and underlying deformation processes This is a major, and highly active, splay fault remain poorly understood. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expeditions rooted in the Hikurangi margin plate interface. 372 and 375 investigated New Zealand’s Hikurangi margin in a region that has experienced Here, we describe this shallow subduction fault both tsunami earthquakes and repeated slow-slip events. We report direct observations from and discuss spatial and temporal variability in cores that sampled the active Pāpaku splay fault at 304 m below the seafloor. This fault roots fault slip style. into the plate interface and comprises an 18-m-thick main fault underlain by ~30 m of less intensely deformed footwall and an ~10-m-thick subsidiary fault above undeformed footwall. TECTONIC SETTING OF Fault zone structures include breccias, folds, and asymmetric clasts within transposed and/or THE PĀPAKU FAULT dismembered, relatively homogeneous, silty hemipelagic sediments. The data demonstrate In the area of drilling, the Pacific plate is that the fault has experienced both ductile and brittle deformation. This structural varia- subducting beneath the Australian plate at tion indicates that a range of local slip speeds can occur along shallow faults, and they are a rate of ~5.5 cm/yr (Fig. 1A; Wallace et al., controlled by temporal, potentially far-field, changes in strain rate or effective stress. 2004). Large portions of the offshore northern Hikurangi margin slip in SSEs, with small inter- INTRODUCTION existing hypotheses seek to explain temporal and vening patches of interseismic locking. SSEs The shallow portion of subduction thrust spatial variations in fault slip style: (1) contrast- repeat every 18–24 mo, last a few weeks, and faults, between the trench and the seismogenic ing material properties within the fault zone give are interpreted to accommodate ~5–25 cm of zone, can slip in a variety of modes, including rise to mixed behavior (Skarbek et al., 2012; slip on the plate interface (Wallace and Beavan, steady creep, slow-slip events (SSEs), afterslip, Webber et al., 2018); (2) perturbations to fault 2010; Wallace et al., 2016). A recent study using and coseismic slip (Saffer and Wallace, 2015; stability occur through changes in loading rate seafloor absolute pressure gauges suggested that Araki et al., 2017). Understanding how these (Scholz, 1998; Ikari and Kopf, 2017; Leeman SSEs propagate to within ≤2 km of the seafloor shallow regions accommodate displacement is et al., 2018); and (3) low effective stresses pro- (Wallace et al., 2016). The data cannot differ- critical for making estimates of potential earth- mote transitional frictional stability (Liu and entiate whether slow slip near the deformation quake magnitude and tsunami forecasts. Three Rice, 2007; Segall et al., 2010). Direct obser- front is limited to the deeper plate interface or vation of fault zone materials is necessary to also includes slip along splay faults within the *International Ocean Discovery Program, Hikurangi Subduction Margin, 26 November 2017–4 January evaluate these hypotheses. prism. Burst-type repeating earthquakes along 2018 and 8 March–5 May 2018; see the GSA Data International Ocean Discovery Program upper-plate faults coincide with tremor events Repository1 for list of participants. (IODP) Expeditions 372 and 375 drilled, logged, after northern Hikurangi SSEs, consistent with 1GSA Data Repository item 2019315, list of participants in IODP Expeditions 372/375 and Figures DR1–DR5, is available online at http:// www .geosociety .org /datarepository /2019/, or on request from editing@ geosociety .org. CITATION: Fagereng, Å., et al., 2019, Mixed deformation styles observed on a shallow subduction thrust, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: Geology, v. 47, p. 872–876, https:// doi .org /10 .1130 /G46367.1 872 www.gsapubs.org | Volume 47 | Number 9 | GEOLOGY | Geological Society of America Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-pdf/47/9/872/4819540/872.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 0 20 cm slip A Australian 17817788˚ 179˚E B October 2014 slow slip Plate m kkm NIm f Tuaheni Basin Frontal accretionary wedge k 1 m bsf h 505 m k 40 kkm rough m bs T k IODP Site SI 0 i 12 2 30 U1518 Deformation kurang Pacic ~7 Hi front Plate 5.7 3 cm/yr Gisborne 4 Hikurangi Troug km km m bsf 5 k B 39˚S 20 15 1947 ~3 Site 6 tsunami Depth (km) below sea level earthquake U1518 Reflector R3 Hawke 7 Quaternary thrust fault Normal fault VE = 2 Reflector R4 Plate boundary Bay Inactive thrust fault 5 km Unconformity R5A/5B decollement Reflector R8 Figure 1. (A) Map of the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. Shaded pink area shows slip extent from the September–October 2014 slow slip event (SSE; Wallace et al., 2016). Focal mechanisms show hypocenters of C.E. 1947 tsunami earthquakes (Doser and Webb, 2003). Yellow hexagon is location of International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedi- tion 375 Site 1518. Red line is location of seismic section in B. Inset shows map area. NI—North Island; SI—South Island; bsf—below seafloor. (B) Seismic section converted to depth using stacking velocities (high-density velocity model of Barker et al. [2018]), showing interpreted major faults, selected pre-expedition seismic reflection stratigraphy, drill site U1518, location of March 1947 tsunami earthquake (Bell et al., 2014), and distribution of slow slip during the 2014 SSE (Wallace et al., 2016). VE—vertical exaggeration. splay faults being involved in SSEs (Shaddox lel ductile extension is also interpreted from upward-fining sediments and a chaotic in- and Schwartz, 2019). pinch-and-swell structures, and dismembered ternal fabric above an erosional base (Stras- The Pāpaku thrust dips ≤30°W within the layering where clasts are not markedly asym- ser et al., 2011; Wallace et al., 2019). Figures narrow accretionary prism, 6.5 km west of the metric (Fig. 3G). These latter features resemble 3C–3F show examples of structures interpreted deformation front (Fig. 1; Wallace et al., 2019). stratal disruption, which typically implies tec- as dominantly tectonic, but we note that these It roots into the plate interface 10–25 km land- tonic modification in this setting (e.g.,Byrne, features may overprint MTDs and/or include ward of the drill site, within or immediately 1984; Maltman, 1998). We grouped all struc- elements of drilling-induced deformation. above the SSE zone (Wallace et al., 2016; Barker tures inferred to record layer-parallel, macro- The hanging wall displays intervals of reg- et al., 2018), and near or within the rupture area scopic flow as “flow banding,” as we could ularly spaced and locally pervasive fractures of two Mw 6.9–7.1 (C.E. 1947) tsunami earth- not confidently separate components of pure ≤100 m above the fault zone. These fractures are quakes (Fig. 1; Doser and Webb, 2003; Bell and simple shear. This flow banding is dis- <5 mm thick, dip 20°–80°, and lack evidence for et al., 2014). The fault cuts through the middle tinguished from gravitational mass transport significant shear displacement (Fig. 3A). Hang- of its scarp in an area of localized landslides deposits (MTDs), which are common in the ing-wall bedding dips are 0°–50°, with variable where seismic interpretation indicates ~6 km footwall but are characterized by overlying dip directions recorded in logging-while-drilling of dip-slip displacement on the fault (Fig. 1B). We interpret this bathymetric relief and large Bedding dip (°) Porosity (%) displacement to indicate recent activity, as is Core 30 60 40 50 recovery Breccias 13R also suggested based on short-lived geochemi- and 2-3 Folded 3A cal signatures preserved in interstitial waters in 280 10R locally and recovered the hanging wall and footwall (Solomon et al., fractured faulted flow 2018). Although it is currently unknown whether hanging banding 3D wall the Pāpaku fault hosts SSEs, it provides a unique 300 12R natural laboratory in which to directly observe 304 m 14R Breccia 3B fault zone structure in an area where both SSEs Main fault 1-2 and tsunami earthquakes are known to occur at zone 14R Truncated 320 recovered shallow depths.
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