Physical properties data for basalt

The effective viscosity of rocksalt: implementation of steady-state creep laws in numerical models of salt diapirism

“…The boundaries are free-slip and the bottom boundary is kept at 160°C implying an average geothermal gradient of 35 K/km. The salt has the dislocation creep properties of West Hackberry rocksalt (WH2; see Table 21, a grain size of d = 3 cm, and density psalt = 2160 kg rnm3, which lies midway in the range recorded for natural salt (Gevantman, 1981;Hatheway and Kiersch, 1982). The sediments are isoviscous with qsediment = 3 x 1019 Pa s. The density of the sediments is Psediment = 2300 kg m3.…”

Dilational fault slip and pit chain formation on Mars

“…Hoek-Brown failure envelopes (Hoek and Brown, 1988;Schultz and Zuber, 1994) were constructed for an average basalt and two end-member basalts based on failure test data from 37 basalts (Gevantman, 1982). Basalt was chosen as a likely rock type on Mars because extensive volcanic plains cover half of its surface (Gornitz, 1997).…”