Tectonic stress field and fractal distribution of volcanoes in the Michoacan-Guanajuato region of the Mexican Volcanic Belt

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Ken Kurokawa
Kenshiro Otsuki
Toshiaki Hasenaka

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El campo de esfuerzos tectónicos del Campo Volcánico de Michoacán-Guanajuato es estimado a partir de la orientación de fallas normales y del alineamiento de los volcanes: σ1 (el esfuerzo principal compresional máximo) es vertical en toda la región y σ2 se orienta E-W en el área norte y NE-SW en el área sur. El origen del campo de esfuerzos es atribuido al deslizamiento en dirección a la trinchera de la porción de arco sobre la superficie del límite quebradizo/dúctil inducido por el enrollamiento del eje de la Trinchera Mesoamericana. Esto se atribuye a la tasa de subducción de la Placa de Cocos que es más lenta que la tasa crítica de 7.2 cm/año. La distribución espacial de los centros volcánicos y el volumen de los cuerpos volcánicos son fractales; las dimensiones fractales son 1.63 y 1.44 respectivamente. El origen de la fractalidad y los valores elevados de la dimensión fractal son explicados mediante una analogía con la interdigitación viscosa o invasión percolante en medio poroso que es un efecto del perfil del esfuerzo cortical del campo de esfuerzos tensional.

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Kurokawa, K., Otsuki, K., & Hasenaka, T. (1995). Tectonic stress field and fractal distribution of volcanoes in the Michoacan-Guanajuato region of the Mexican Volcanic Belt. Geofísica Internacional, 34(3), 309–320. https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.00167169p.1995.34.3.726
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