Zhang Le
2015
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Environmental Chemistry
Abstract
As an important chemical tracer,mercury can reveal tectonic activity and mechanism of strong earthquakes preparation. Research on mercury and its isotopic composition in fault zones can be used for tracing sources of mercury anomalies within fault zone,analyzing the migrated paths of mercury,and determining the role of fluid in seismogenesis. This paper summarizes the analytical method of mercury as well as its characteristic in rock,soil and groundwater in the fault zone,introduces the recent progress of mercury stable isotopes in the deep fault zone,and overviews its applications on earthquake monitoring and the detection of active faults. This study aims to further explore the relationships and mechanisms of mercury,deep fluid,tectonic activity and earthquake.Research on mercury and its isotopes in fault zone may have important scientific significance and applied value in further study about the role of mercury observations in earthquake monitoring and prediction.