北海盆地维京地堑渐新统砂岩侵入体形态特征及成因

砂岩侵入体是由处于浅埋藏阶段、尚未固结的砂质沉积物发生液化并侵入到上覆盖层所形成的一类软沉积物变形,在北海盆地维京地堑渐新统地层中非常发育。为探讨砂岩侵入体的形态特征及诱发机制,通过高分辨率三维地震及测井资料,利用地震反射结构分析、地震相干切片等手段对砂岩侵入现象进行了识别;并结合多边形断层系统、流体充注与砂岩侵入之间的关联性,对砂岩侵入体的成因机制进行了分析。结果表明:在地震剖面上可识别的砂岩侵入体多呈V型或W型强振幅反射特征,其横向展布规模约1~2 km,垂向侵入高度约100~200 m;流体的大规模充注及多边形断层诱发盖层破裂是形成砂体内部超压并诱发其发生液化的关键因素。砂岩侵入体在形成之后可以作为流体运移通道,对强化流体的垂向运移具有重要意义;并且砂岩侵入体本身即可作为油气的有利储集体。因此识别并分析砂岩侵入体的成因机理,对盖层封闭性评价及油气勘探具有重要指导意义。     

地震触发下砂岩侵入体变形模拟实验研究

砂岩侵入体形成的触发机制有差异压实、地震、流体注入、波浪、重力滑动等,但普遍认为地震是最常见的一种触发机制。目前对于地震触发的砂岩侵入体的变形机理研究还相对薄弱,通过建立一套模拟地震触发砂岩侵入体的实验装置,成功地模拟了地震发生不同阶段的砂质变化过程。基于实验结果观察、分析,将地震触发砂岩侵入体的形成过程分为三个演化阶段,即：（1）震前阶段,局部地层因差异压实或地层饱含流体,导致砂质地层微弱起伏变形或无变化;（2）震中阶段,由于地震循环剪切波的影响以及不同介质内地震波波速存在差异,地层异常压力迅速增大并突破上覆盖层破裂强度,产生裂缝,同时砂质发生液化、流化形成一系列的变形构造;（3）震后阶段,伴随余震的产生,液化砂质会继续进行小规模的迁移改动直到地震完全结束,砂岩侵入体整体形态固定。地震作用可以独立触发砂岩侵入,也可以诱发其他地质作用,共同控制砂岩侵入体的形成。     

砂岩侵入复合体的建筑结构要素及其特征

砂岩侵入复合体是指沉积砂质母岩,在未固结时由于某种机制而积累了异常高压,产生液化、流化、再活动,向上覆细粒沉积物侵入的各种砂体的总和。目前已经在全球50多个深水盆地中(Braccinietal,2008)及所有的年代地层中都发现了从毫米到千米级别的砂岩侵入体。砂岩侵入复合体包含母岩、侵入体系和喷出体系三部分,通过对目前报道的一些砂岩侵入复合体实例分析,对其各建筑要素的外部几何形体和边界特征、内部沉积构造和显微结构进行了总结。不规则的几何形态,突变的边界特征,与液化作用相关的无构造砂岩、碟状构造、管状构造以及独特的泥岩碎屑表现出来的粒序性、条带等沉积构造,形状各异的矿物颗粒以及泥岩碎屑中砂岩裂缝切割等显微结构都可以作为识别砂岩侵入复合体的标准。加强砂岩侵入复合体的研究,为侵入圈闭的勘探和开发提供理论基础。     

砂岩侵入体系模拟及形成机理分析

砂岩侵入体系是一种普遍的地质现象,近些年来越来越受到地学界的重视,但对其形成机理探讨较少。作者及研究团队通过设计一套室内模拟实验装置,来简化模拟3层地层结构中砂岩侵入体系的形成和演化过程。在之前模拟实验(实验变量为顶层沉积物的厚度、进水管的结构)结果的基础上,进一步考察了地形坡度对实验结果的影响,并对砂岩侵入体系的形成机理进行了分析。实验过程中,共观察到7种不同形态不同样式的管道,并对实验过程中压力变化进行了测试。对实验结果分析认为:盖层厚度越大,压力下降的速度越慢,越不利于压力的释放;随着实验的继续进行,砂岩侵入体最终会转化为砂岩喷出体并喷出地表;不稳定的地形有利于触发疏松沉积物发生变形。实验表明,超压是砂岩侵入体发生的最重要条件之一, 沉积盆地中的压实不均衡和生烃作用是可独立产生大规模超压的2种主要机制。     

2018年5月28日中国吉林松原M5.7级地震引起的液化构造*

2018年5月28日,吉林松原市宁江区毛都站镇牙木吐村发生M5.7级地震(45°16'12″N,124°42'35″E),震源深度13 km,震中位于郯庐断裂带西北侧的扶余/松原—肇东断裂带、第二松花江断裂带和扶余北断裂带交汇处。地震诱发震中距3 km范围内普遍的液化和地表裂缝,给当地居民带来严重灾害。可见液化构造以砂火山为主,其次为液化砂堆、液化砂脉和液化砂席等。液化砂火山又可分为有火山口型砂火山、无火山口型砂火山和无砂型(水)火山。地震液化伴生软沉积物变形构造有变形层理、负载构造和火焰构造、滑塌褶皱、碟状构造和包卷层理等。地震诱发液化砂火山形成过程包括液化层内超孔隙流体压力形成、上覆低渗透层破裂和水、砂喷出地表后砂涌3个阶段。液化和流化砂体在上涌过程中会注入低渗透黏土层形成各种形态的砂脉、砂席和多种类型的变形构造。垂向上地震液化结构可划分为底部松散可液化层、下部液化变形层、上部液化变形层和地表砂火山4层结构。液化层埋深2~5 m,液化层厚度2 m。松原M5.7级地震发震机制为NE-SW(35°~215°)方向挤压应力使断层活跃,推测扶余/松原—肇东断裂是主要的发震断层。松原地震液化构造研究为现代地震活动区和灾害易发区预测提供依据,为地震引发的现代软沉积物变形构造研究提供丰富的素材,兼具将今论古意义,为揭示本世纪以来郯庐断裂带北段进入了一个强断裂和地震活跃阶段提供了最新的实际资料。     

山东省灵山岛下白垩统浊积岩中与滑塌作用相关的软沉积物变形构造

灵山岛上出露的软沉积物变形构造其成因具有多样性,而灯塔剖面底部滑塌层内的变形构造的触发因素尚不明确.结合野外观察和极射赤平投影方法,研究了滑塌层和内部变形构造的形成过程、触发机制和地质意义,结果表明:灯塔剖面主要由浊积岩沉积序列组成.滑塌层夹在未变形层之间,由地震触发形成,内部发育4个滑脱面,将滑塌层划分为5个变形单元,缩短率和变形程度各不相同.软沉积物变形构造主要为褶皱,形态特征表现为砂岩厚度在枢纽部位大大增加,也可见一些砂岩增厚和减薄现象,两者均是液化的砂岩在驱动力作用下的结果.滑塌过程中,滑塌层中的砂泥岩与海底沉积物之间的孔隙流体自由交换被切断,产生了暂时性的超压,导致了液化的发生.褶皱的轴线延伸方向为SSW-NNE,轴面倾斜方向主要为SEE(120°),指示古水流主要来自SEE方向,与浊积岩内底痕指示的古水流方向一致,说明斜坡沉积系统上发育的滑塌褶皱能够指示古水流方向.      

重力流主导的深水沉积特征及其模式——以共和盆地下三叠统为例

深水沉积具有良好的油气勘探前景,近年来已成为沉积学研究的前缘和油气工业界关注的焦点。以共和盆地下三叠统为例,通过野外剖面的详细观察描述,结合室内镜下薄片鉴定与粒度分析,对深水沉积类型、沉积特征、垂向组合、成因机制以及沉积模式进行系统研究。共和盆地早三叠世深水沉积类型主要有滑塌型深水重力流沉积、底流沉积以及深水悬浮沉积,其中滑塌型深水重力流沉积又可识别出滑塌沉积、砂质碎屑流沉积与浊流沉积三种类型。滑塌沉积常见以同沉积褶皱为代表的多种软沉积物变形构造;砂质碎屑流沉积以块状砂岩为主,内部可见砂质团块、泥砾或泥质撕裂屑,块状砂岩顶底与相邻岩层均为突变接触;浊流沉积普遍发育正粒序,可见不完整的鲍马序列,底面常见多种类型的底模构造;底流沉积发育多种牵引流沉积构造。研究区软沉积物变形构造类型丰富,其中滑塌层内的软沉积物变形构造主要在斜坡滑塌过程中形成;未发生滑塌层内的软沉积物变形构造主要因地震使沉积物发生液化作用及流体化作用而形成。在综合分析盆地构造背景、深水沉积分布规律、重力流触发机制的基础上,建立了共和盆地早三叠世滑塌型重力流主导的深水沉积模式。滑塌型重力流主要由地震以及火山事件触发,水道化的地区会形成大面积的海底扇沉积体系。底流作为深水环境中不可忽视的动力因素,往往会对重力流沉积进行后期改造而使其物性变好。深水悬浮沉积作为一种背景沉积,在重力流事件的间歇期成为主要的深水沉积物。研究显示内扇、中扇可作为致密砂岩油气的勘探区,外扇可进行页岩油气勘探。     

深水盆地中大型侵入砂岩的地震识别及其成因机制探讨

侵入砂岩是深水盆地中常见的地质现象,由于本身具有高孔隙度、高渗透率的特点,对深水油气储集、运移和成藏均有重要的影响。综合国内外研究成果,探讨了深水盆地中大型侵入砂岩的地震特征和成因机制。研究表明侵入砂岩具有明显的强振幅地震反射,这些振幅异常一般呈V字形反射形态,沿着走向反映出一系列的特点,如阶梯性、分支性等,并伴有极性反转和高速度异常,在侵入砂岩下部的喉道出现上拉现象;关于侵入砂岩的成因,认为是未固结成岩阶段深水盆地中的异常超压砂体的向上侵位形成,大型的侵入砂岩及其伴生的断裂系统为流体运移提供渗流通道,深部水道或深水扇系统为侵入砂岩提供充足的物源。     

白云凹陷珠江组深水扇砂质碎屑流沉积学特征

珠江口盆地白云凹陷深海水域的珠江组为油气勘探开发新领域,但珠江组厚层块状砂岩储层的成因仍存在很大争议。通过对砂岩储层的物质组分、沉积构造、粒度分布、古地形和古构造背景及地震与测井等资料的综合分析,确定白云凹陷珠江组属于深水扇沉积体系,扇体中广泛发育的厚层块状砂岩为深水扇沉积体系中内－中扇水道的砂质碎屑流沉积充填物。在详细描述砂质碎屑流沉积学特征和识别标志的基础上,确定砂质碎屑流与低位期陆架边缘三角洲前缘砂体与海平面大幅度下降期的某种触发机制作用下发生的重力滑塌和砂崩有关,具备“源-渠-汇”耦合关系的深水扇沉积模式。     

灵山岛早白垩世软沉积物变形构造触发机制及其古环境意义探讨

灵山岛早白垩灵山岛组发育丰富的软沉积物变形构造。野外踏勘船厂、灯塔和千层崖三个剖面,根据沉积外观可分为变形层段和非变形层段两个部分。软沉积物变形构造在变形层段和非变形层段均有发育。其中,变形层段中可见褶皱变形、变形层理及大型负载构造。非变形层段可见火焰构造、同沉积布丁构造和同沉积微断层。研究发现,变形层段软沉积物变形构造尺度大(厚度可至十多米,长度可至数百米),侧向连续性好;非变形层段软沉积物变形构造尺度小(厚度仅几个厘米),侧向连续性差。且变形层段和未变形层段厚度统计数据表明,变形层段软沉积物变形构造与砂岩厚度无必然联系,而非变形层段软沉积物变形构造多出现在粒序砂岩层底部或旋回砂岩层变厚过程中。沉积环境表明,非变形层段和变形层段为一深水低角度斜坡沉积产物。软沉积物变形构造发育形态和数量受到斜坡地形的控制。结合沉积环境及沉积特征分析,认为变形层段软沉积物变形构造触发机制为地震,而非变形层段软沉积物变形构造触发机制为负载作用。锆石测年数据表明灵山岛组与上覆流纹岩沉积时间相近,因此地震活动可能与岩浆侵入或早期火山喷发活动相关。此外,汇总早白垩世重要事件,发现灵山岛组沉积、变冷事件、恐龙迁移、海平面变化和同位素偏移具有时间一致性,因此推断这些事件可能共同对应了早白垩世一次与火山活动相关的短期灾难性事件(如早白垩世缺氧事件)。     

河床底部沙火山特征、演化及其研究意义

沉积后尚未固结的砂体在外部动力的干扰下容易发生液化,形成沙火山、液化砂岩脉等沉积构造,地震是触发液化的最常见动力.在河床现代沉积中发现大量的沙火山构造,其产生过程虽受人为活动影响,形成条件却在盆地特殊构造部位可以满足,分析其特征、演化及动力可以为震积岩及其他成因软沉积变形研究提供参考.研究结果显示,不同规模及对应特征的...     

山西云岗石窟侏罗系地震液化砂岩柱的发现及其大地构造意义

本文主要报道在华北克拉通北缘云岗石窟景区内侏罗系地层中发现的20余个由地震液化形成的砂岩柱。地震导致的砂土液化是非常普遍的自然现象,地震波的震动使埋藏在地下未固结的饱和砂质沉积物迅速变为流体并在巨大压力下喷涌至地表,形成砂火山或泥火山。2008年汶川8. 0级大地震和2012年新西兰6. 2级地震都产生了严重的液化现象,在对地表造成严重破坏的同时,分别在地表形成了一系列的溢出丘和形态完好的砂火山。古地震之后,液化砂质沉积物往往在上涌的通道内固结成岩,形成穿层的岩柱或岩管。近年来,美国科罗拉多大峡谷相继发现很多地震液化形成的中生代巨型碎屑岩柱。2018年,本文作者在云岗石窟景区内的侏罗系云岗组中发现了20多条直径15~20cm左右、高可达2m以上穿层“侵入”的砂岩柱,有的在纵向上呈串珠状排列,有的呈不规则的树枝状自下向上伸展,膨大狭缩、分支复合现象非常明显,砂岩柱内部结构均一,不见任何层理。砂岩柱顶端的泥质围岩石中有明显向上牵引、拖拽的痕迹。这些砂岩柱没有任何硅化木的特征,也不是普通成岩作用形成的结核,与暴雨、泥石流、重力滑塌等作用均无任何关系,是古地震液化作用在地层内保存的遗迹,故称为液化砂岩柱。地震液化砂岩柱发育的层位位于李振宏等人(2014)在宁武—静乐盆地侏罗系云岗组顶部的凝灰质泥晶碳酸盐层位(160 Ma)之下约40m处,初步判定形成这些液化砂岩柱的古地震发生于160. 75 Ma~160 Ma之间的晚侏罗世。古地震的形成过程与燕山运动引起的地壳运动有直接的关联,是华北克拉通内与燕山运动伴生的古地震在地层中留下的最直接证据。     

Water escape structures in coarse-grained sediments

Three processes of water escape characterize the consolidation of silt-, sand-and gravel-sized sediments. Seepage involves the slow upward movement of pore fluids within existing voids or rapid flow within compact and confined sediments. Liquefaction is marked by the sudden breakdown of a metastable, loosely packed grain framework, the grains becoming temporarily suspended in the pore fluid and settling rapidly through the fluid until a grain-supported structure is re-established. Fluidization occurs when the drag exerted by moving pore fluids exceeds the effective weight of the grains; the particles are lifted, the grain framework destroyed, and the sediment strength reduced to nearly zero. Diagenetic sedimentary structures formed in direct response to processes of fluid escape are here termed water escape structures. Four main types of water escape structures form during the fluidization and liquefaction of sands: (1) soft-sediment mixing bodies, (2) soft-sedimsnt intrusions, (3) consolidation laminations, and (4) soft-sediment folds. These structures represent both the direct rearrangement of sediment grains by escaping fluids and the deformation of hydroplastic, liquefied, or fluidized sediment in response to external stresses. Fundamental controls on sediment consolidation are exerted by the bulk sediment properties of grain size, packing, permeability, and strength, which together determine whether consolidation will occur and, if so the course it follows, and by external disturbances which act to trigger liquefaction and fluidization. The liquefaction and fluidization of natural sands usually accompanies the collapse of loosely packed cross-bedded deposits. This collapse is commonly initiated by water forced into the units as underlying beds, especially muds and clays, consolidate. The consolidation of subjacent units is often triggered by the rapid deposition of the sand itself, although earthquakes or other disturbances are probably influential in some instances. Water escape structures most commonly form in fine- to medium-grained sands deposited at high instantaneous and mean sedimentation rates; they are particularly abundant in cross-laminated deposits but rare in units deposited under upper flow regime plane bed conditions. Their development is favoured by upward decreasing permeability within sedimentation units such as normally graded turbidites. They are especially common in sequences made up of alternating fine-(clay and mud) and coarse-grained (sand) units such as deep-sea flysch prodelta, and, to a lesser extent, fluvial point bar, levee, and proximal overbank deposits.     

东非鲁武马盆地始新统超深水重力流砂岩储层特征及成因

鲁武马盆地古近系-新近系发育多套超深水、超大型、富含天然气藏的重力流沉积砂体。以始新统砂体为解剖对象,分析区内重力流砂岩储层特征及成因。结果表明砂体以巨厚层状产出于深海泥岩内部,并与周围泥岩截然接触,测井曲线表现出宏观均一性;岩心揭示此类巨厚砂体是由多期单砂体叠置而成,单砂体是由底部高密度颗粒流和顶部低密度浊流两部分组成,且经历过强底流改造。鲁武马河流三角洲强大物源供给决定了区内砂体分布面积和体积规模;深海滑塌、块体搬运等重力流沉积过程控制了沉积体粒序构造和内部结构;海底区域性强底流持续冲刷并携带走单砂体顶部细粒沉积物,残留了底部“干净”的中粗粒砂岩;多期沉积事件和频繁水道迁移决定了砂体纵、横向叠加展布,并最终形成了区内厚度巨大、岩性宏观均一且连通性极好的超大型深水重力流沉积砂岩储层。     

Physical modelling of sand injectites

Sand injectites are structures that result from intrusion of fluidized sand into fractures. We have studied them in the Tampen Spur area of the North Sea, and have reproduced them experimentally, by driving compressed air through layers of sand, glass microspheres, and silica powder. The silica powder was cohesive and capable of hydraulic fracturing, whereas the sand and glass microspheres were almost non-cohesive and therefore able to fluidize. The models were dynamically similar to their natural counterparts, for as long as equilibrium was static. When the processes became dynamic, so that inertial forces were significant, the scaling was approximate and the corresponding Reynolds numbers differed. The experimental apparatus was a square box, 1 m × 1 m wide, resting on a grid of fluid diffusers. During the experiments, the fluid pressure increased, until it attained and surpassed the weight of overburden. Flat-lying hydraulic fractures, containing air, formed within cohesive and least permeable layers. Heterogeneities in material properties and layer thicknesses were responsible for localizing fracture networks. When any one network broke through to the surface, rapid flow of air through the fractures fluidized the underlying mobile materials and even depleted some of the layers. Some of the fluidized material extruded at the surface through vents, forming volcanoes and sheets. The remainder lodged at depth, forming sand injectites or laccoliths. Conical sand injectites formed preferentially, where layers had high resistance to bending. Laccoliths formed nearer the surface, where overlying layers had low resistance to bending. The experimental sand injectites were broadly similar to those in the Tampen Spur area of the North Sea, as well as other areas.     

Fluidization and injection in the deep-water sandstones of the Eocene Alba Formation (UK North Sea)

The Nauchlan Member of the Late Eocene Alba Formation (UK North Sea) consists of a deep‐water channel fill that was extensively modified by post‐depositional sand remobilization and injection. Sandstone textures, facies associations and the geometry of the channel fill were affected. A suite of sand‐rich facies was produced by large‐scale fluidization and injection within the channel fill and above it. These facies, termed here unstratified facies, are characterized by the absence of stratification surfaces and by discordant relationships with bedding in the adjacent succession. They reflect variable degrees of disruption of the primary sedimentary structures caused by escaping pore fluid, the velocity of which is estimated at least in the order of 0·1 ms^?1. Adjacent mudstones were severely disrupted by hydraulic fracturing, and fragments of fractured mudstone were incorporated into the fluidized sand. Average porosity was decreased in the sandstones affected by fluidization. Two main phases of sand injection are inferred to occur at different burial depths. A shallow burial phase (below 100 m) produced thin dykes with ptygmatic folds. The second phase occurred at the boundary between Eocene and Oligocene (≈ 300 m burial depth) and resulted in large‐scale tabular wing‐like dykes that project from the edges of the channel fill. The significant pore‐fluid overpressure, which was required to hydraulically fracture the thick mudstone seal and to fluidize the large volume of sand, was likely to be built up by static liquefaction of the source sand and was possibly enhanced by hydrocarbon gas influx.     

覆水砂土场地中桥梁群桩基础地震响应离心试验研究

为探究覆水饱和砂土场地中土-群桩基础-桥梁结构体系动力相互作用规律,自主设计并制作了直（斜）群桩基础-桥梁结构物理相似模型,开展了不同地震动强度和不同特性地震波输入下的离心机振动台试验,分析了群桩基础-桥梁结构动力特性指标,探究了覆水饱和砂土地基超孔隙水压力发展规律和桩-土相互作用动力响应特性。研究结果表明：覆水的存在对地基土-桥梁结构体系的基本周期和阻尼影响很小,但会导致直群桩基础桥梁结构的振动幅值增加20%,而斜群桩基础桥梁结构的振动幅值降低10%;斜群桩基础模型阻尼比是直群桩基础模型的2倍。上覆水导致饱和砂土地基由受低频振动液化深度更大变为受高频振动地基液化深度更大,同时导致小震作用下促进超孔隙水压力发展,而大震作用下则反之。上覆水会增大桥梁上部结构的动力响应和桩身弯矩。上述研究结果可为覆水场地中桥梁工程抗震设计提供关键参考依据。     

陕北延长组成岩圈闭油藏的形成及其重要意义

陕甘宁盆地南部陕北地区的上三叠统延长组,是一套湖盆三角洲体系的碎屑岩沉积。延长组油气资源丰富,但砂体储油物性极差。近期研究发现了一些富含浊沸石胶结物的砂体中,由于浊沸石胶结物的溶蚀而形成的渗透性砂岩,以及浊沸石胶结物再沉淀而成的成岩致密带和压溶嵌合作用形成的致密带。砂体溶蚀带与上倾方向的致密带配套,构成了大型成岩圈闭油藏,并已在此类油藏中探明了可观的石油储量和生成了多量石油。