Uninterpreted sections of sandbox analog models involving salt-bearing rifted margins and salt-bearing rifted margins incorporated into fold-and-thrust belts

This dataset consists of three images resulting from a sandbox analog modeling experimental program. Sandbox analog modeling of tectonic processes is an experimental technique aiming to simulate and study natural geological processes by means of scaled models. Experimental models are scaled in dimensions, time and rheology, by using different analog materials such as colored sand or silicone. Models are performed in sandboxes that contain the analog materials. These analog materials are deformed according to specific testing parameters. At the end of the experiments, models are consolidated and sliced, and these slices photographed (sections). The figures in this dataset represent the uninterpreted sections of three sandbox analog models that experimentally simulate a salt-bearing rifted margin, a salt-bearing rifted margin incorporated into fold-and-thrust belt and a salt-bearing rifted margin incorporated into fold-and-thrust belt that grown coeval with surface processes (erosion and sedimentation). The experimental program was executed at the GEOMODELS Analogue Modelling Laboratory at the University of Barcelona.

本数据集包含3幅图像，均源自砂箱类比模拟（sandbox analog modeling）实验项目。构造过程砂箱类比模拟是一种实验技术，通过构建缩放模型来模拟并研究自然地质过程。实验模型在尺寸、时间与流变学（rheology）尺度上进行缩放，所使用的类比材料涵盖彩色砂、硅酮（silicone）等。实验模型在装有此类类比材料的砂箱中构建，此类类比材料将按照特定实验参数发生形变。实验结束后，对模型进行固结处理并切片，随后对切片进行拍摄（即剖面照片）。本数据集内的图像为3组砂箱类比模拟模型的未解释剖面，这3组模型分别模拟了：含盐裂谷边缘（salt-bearing rifted margin）、被卷入褶皱冲断带（fold-and-thrust belt）的含盐裂谷边缘，以及与地表过程（侵蚀与沉积）同期发育的、被卷入褶皱冲断带的含盐裂谷边缘。本实验项目于巴塞罗那大学GEOMODELS类比模拟实验室开展。