The transition from brittle cataclasis to viscous flow during the weakening of carbonate gouges sheared at seismic velocities recorded through the activity of acoustic emissions.

Giacomo Pozzi1, Philip M Benson2, Simon Guerin-Marthe1, Nicola De Paola3, Stefan Bjorklund Nielsen4, Leon Bowen5, Ricardo Tomas2 and Robert Holdsworth3, (1)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (3)Durham University, Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (5)University of Durham, Department of Physics, Durham, United Kingdom