Data of experimentally deformed saw-cut Carrara marble across the Brittle-Ductile Transition

The data set contains original axial displacement and internal force data and corrected stress-strain data for all 17 saw-cut Carrara marble, which were deformed in triaxial compression at temperatures of 20 – 600°C, confining pressures of 30 – 150 MPa, and constant axial strain rate 1x10-5 s-1, and also other relevant data of the figures in the paper. Depending on the applied conditions, which are nominally in the semi-brittle deformation regime of solid Carrara marble, we observed the complete spectrum of natural faulting, stable fault sliding, unstable stick-slip, and bulk deformation with locked fault. The experiments were conducted in the Experimental Rock Deformation Laboratory of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. The experimental conditions are listed in Tab. 1.

Table 1: Experimental conditions
Sample no. ß(°) T(°C) P(MPa)
CMSC04 46 20 30
CMSC06 40 20 50
CMSC07 42 20 100
CMSC03 40 20 150
CMSC20 41 100 30
CMSC15 40 200 30
CMSC19 40 200 50
CMSC12 41 300 30
CMSC10 42 300 50
CMSC18 41 300 70
CMSC09 42 300 100
CMSC02 41 300 150
CMSC17 40 400 30
CMSC16 41 400 50
CMSC21 43 500 30
CMSC22 40 500 50
CMSC08 42 600 30