西昆仑山前和田-柯克亚挤压构造带新生代变形时序及其地质意义

受西昆仑山抬升挤压的影响,西昆仑山前东段发育褶皱冲断带,最新反射地震资料显示该地区发育了多套新生代的生长地层。本文利用这些生长地层数据分析了和田-柯克亚挤压构造带的变形时序,并且结合新生界的沉积形态探讨了西昆仑山的挤压隆升时间。研究结果表明,西昆仑山前和田-柯克亚挤压构造带西段的克里阳-甫沙构造发育三期前列式的生长地层:第一期在甫东构造东端始于中新世中期安居安期;第二期从上新世早期在柯克亚背斜后翼沉积;第三期在上新世晚期沉积于柯克亚背斜前翼,揭示柯克亚背斜变形时间,并且第三期构造变形将第二期生长地层旋转变形为"反向扇形"的形态,第二期生长地层形成由翼部向背斜顶部逐渐增厚、下部地层向上部产状变陡的奇怪现象。另一方面,和田南背斜的生长地层也从中新世中期开始沉积,因此西昆仑山前和田-柯克亚挤压构造带的变形时间始于中新世中期。结合西昆仑山前东段新生代褶皱冲断带区域剖面中显示的从中新世开始、向盆地内减薄的沉积楔形体,作者认为西昆仑山中新世中期开始,挤压隆升作用已经扩展到山前和田-柯克亚挤压构造带。     

扬子地块东北缘多期叠加变形及形成演化

对扬子地块东北缘的地层序列研究进展、多期叠加变形特征等作了较系统阐明。识别出在中三叠世末至早侏罗世前,由深层滑脱折离剪切形成的区域性NW-NWW向,向西倒覆褶皱,并被随后的主期变形所叠加,形成一系列以NE向为主,在早期褶皱正常翼上为背、向斜,在倒转翼上为背形向斜、向形背斜褶皱带。晚侏罗世到早白垩世间形成滑覆逆冲构造,并随着北侧的大别山地,南部的皖南山地急剧抬升,在安徽宣州市北至贵池市南,形成由山地向盆地中心,因重力相向滑覆冲断形成的对冲带。在重新认识区内构造演化的基础上,对动力学作了初步分析。     

褶皱相关断裂构造形成条件与发育机制:燕山中部露头尺度变形研究为例

总结了褶皱相关断裂发育机制的3个构造几何学模型:同心圆褶皱模型、膝折带褶皱模型和弯流褶皱模型。基于燕山中部中、新元古界地层中发育的5个露头尺度褶皱及其中、小型断裂构造的实例剖析,探讨了收缩变形过程中褶皱与断裂构造发育时序与褶皱相关断裂构造的产生机制。研究指出,规模与所在褶皱构造相当或略小的断裂构造当中,既有形成时间早于褶皱变形的断层,也有在褶皱变形过程中调节褶皱不同部位应变差异的褶皱相关断裂构造,而且卷入后期变形的早期断裂可能成为制约褶皱成核位置的影响因素,以及成为枢纽叠覆楔构造的形成方式之一。断层位移-距离曲线特征和断层与褶皱变形几何学、运动学关系分析,可用来判断断层、褶皱变形发生相对时序。认为影响褶皱相关断裂构造发育的机制主要有3种:(1)纵弯滑褶皱作用中,翼部顺层滑动受到限制而无法持续时,将通过断层向上切层的方式予以调节,从而形成翼部或转折端揳入逆冲断裂以及背离向斜和指向背斜逆冲断层;(2)各种因素导致的褶皱曲率变化是褶皱相关断裂产生的重要机制之一,褶皱曲率变化可由褶皱轴面的合并和新生直观反映,轴面合并引起褶皱曲率变化的层位,可能是诱发褶皱相关断裂,如背离向斜和指向背斜逆冲构造开始产生的重要部位;(3)能干性差异和强硬层之间距离较大的岩层组合发生纵弯褶皱变形时,软弱岩系在褶皱核部的聚集和逃逸,是迫使递进收缩的强硬层产生褶皱相关断裂构造的重要机制。     

新疆巴楚地区共轭膝折带的物理模拟研究

本文以塔里木地区巴楚隆起地层及构造为原型,设计了3层结构模型:底部为黄油层,作为滑脱层;中间为黏土层,模拟该地区膝折发育的地层;上部为细砂层,模拟上部松散沉积.研究了挤压速率、黄油层厚度、砂层厚度等因素对共轭膝折带形成的影响,对共轭膝折带的形成和演化阶段进行分析.结果表明:形成膝折带的有利条件是较厚的基底滑脱单元、上覆...     

南沙中部海域沉积地层特征及其构造成因

为了深入了解南沙中部海域的沉积特征及构造演化过程,选取了该区具代表性的02N02测线对其进行详细的构造和地层解释.发现研究区南部存在一整套厚度较大的中生代甚至更老的地层,该地层普遍发生了强烈的褶皱作用,褶皱翼部存在一系列NE-NEE向断裂,控制沉积明显,背斜顶部多被剥蚀,翼部为充填沉积.新生代地层Tg(中始新世)到T4...     

柴达木盆地北缘第四纪左旋斜冲推覆构造运动

柴达木盆地北缘第四纪发育比较强烈的左旋斜冲构造运动,形成长达百余公里、宽度超过30km的大型推覆构造,由斜冲断层、逆冲岩席和褶皱构造等组成。根据野外观测相关资料,柴达木盆地北缘第四纪发生两期构造变形： 早更新世不同规模的逆冲岩席如中新元古代中深变质岩、古生代浅变质岩与中生代沉积地层沿北西西－北西向断层发生左旋斜冲构造运动,导致下伏中新统和上新统湖相沉积地层强烈褶皱变形,上覆不同规模的逆冲岩席; 晚更新世中晚期构造运动导致中晚更新世砾石层发生宽缓褶皱变形。估算柴达木盆地北缘第四纪斜冲推覆构造运动产生的最小缩短量约为 17～18km,平均缩短速率约为 6.6～6.9mm/a。柴达木盆地北缘第四纪斜冲推覆构造运动是青藏高原北部新生代逆冲推覆构造运动自南向北扩展迁移的重要表现形式。     

黄河口凹陷古近纪构造坡折带对沉积体系的控制

坡折带类型、分布对沉积体系具有明显控制作用。通过对黄河口凹陷古近系层序构成样式和沉积充填研究,结果表明:①在盆地幕式断陷活动和同沉积断裂差异活动等构造作用下,形成了断裂坡折和挠曲坡折2种类型的构造坡折带。断裂坡折可以进一步分为断阶坡折、帚状坡折和断裂转换带坡折,不同类型构造坡折带对沉积体系具有明显控制作用。②断阶坡折控制了陡坡带扇三角洲、缓坡带辫状河三角洲沉积体系的形成和分布;帚状坡折控制了沉积体系入湖方向和沉积厚度;断裂调节带控制了辫状河三角洲、湖底扇沉积体系的形成和分布;挠曲坡折控制了辫状河三角洲沉积体系的分布。③构造坡折控制不同类型的圈闭组合,断阶坡折带发育断块型圈闭、岩性上顷尖灭圈闭;帚状坡折带发育掀斜断块圈闭;断裂转换带发育岩性上倾尖灭圈闭、断鼻-岩性圈闭;挠曲坡折带发育地层超覆圈闭。不同类型坡折带对沉积体系的控制为下一步中深层油气勘探指明方向。     

西藏冈底斯中段南缘叶巴岩群膝折构造及其地质意义

位于冈底斯南缘的叶巴岩群内发育着复杂的构造变形,是典型的构造转换带,已有证据表明这些复杂的构造变形与发育在叶巴岩群中的驱龙、甲玛等大型矿床的形成密切相关,其中大量发育的膝折构造是脆-韧性转换构造带中的代表。此次研究工作的主要对象为叶巴岩群内部的膝折构造,研究其分布特征、变形及扩容方式,分析其运动学特征及温度环境,结合构造变形时代探究其形成的大地构造背景。绿泥石温度计及方解石e双晶特征实验结果显示研究区膝折构造形成温度环境在170~299℃之间,表明研究区膝折构造形成的过程伴随着构造抬升。根据宏观露头及显微视域对于膝折构造的运动学特征分析,判断主压应力方向为自上而下（铅直向下）,这一以垂向挤压的重力为主的主应力方向与该时期的冈底斯南缘大规模南北向滑覆构造的主压应力一致,研究结果认为发育于叶巴岩群内部的浅部膝折构造为25 Ma以来南拉萨地体伸展滑覆构造背景之下的变形作用的产物。      

西昆仑山前晚三叠世古构造特征及对侏罗-白垩纪沉积的控制

造山带和盆地是在时空发展和形成机制上具有密切联系的构造系统。青藏高原内部晚三叠世古特提斯造山带的形成,对北缘的塔里木盆地产生了重要的影响,导致了盆地内部西昆仑山前地区发生了强烈的冲断构造变形,而这一冲断构造变形所形成的古构造-古地貌对后期侏罗-白垩纪的沉积具有重要的控制作用,同时也决定了该地区的油气分布。本文基于对西昆仑山前露头区中生代地层分布详细的野外考察和盆地覆盖区钻井资料的整理,结合对盆-山结合带清晰地震剖面的详细解释,开展西昆仑山前的晚三叠世古构造特征及侏罗-白垩纪沉积充填过程研究,以期揭示晚三叠世的古构造-古地貌特征及对沉积的控制作用。通过研究发现,西昆仑山前地区发育晚三叠世前陆褶皱冲断带,冲断带根部发育基底卷入构造,锋带发育叠瓦状构造;古生界受逆冲断裂控制,形成一系列的北陡南缓的背斜隆起,冲断带前锋位置与新生代构造前锋位置相近。三叠纪末古地貌形态由于特提斯造山带的强烈隆升,总体呈南高北低的地貌形态,但是褶皱冲断构造带受地表风化剥蚀作用,背斜核部形成南缓北陡的古隆起,而断层破碎带形成南陡北缓的洼地,是侏罗系发育前的基本地貌格架。早侏罗世受特提斯造山带造山后伸展的影响,西昆仑山前发育4个箕状断陷,控陷断层发育于古造山带一侧;受大型控陷断层的影响,在断陷内部呈北高南低的地形特点,断陷内侏罗系逐渐向北部斜坡超覆。晚三叠世形成的古构造-古地貌与早侏罗世断陷叠加形成的古地理格架一直控制了侏罗纪-早白垩世的沉积,直到晚白垩世沉积时才没有起到控制作用。     

雪峰造山带南段构造变形研究

前人对雪峰造山带构造变形的认识尚存在较多分歧。本文通过构造剖面测制并结合区域地质调查,对雪峰造山带南段的不整合特征、形变类型、变形时代和强度、剖面结构以及构造变形的运动学特征、成因机制、构造体制等进行了较全面的分析研究,取得主要进展如下:(1)雪峰造山带南段形变类型主要有板劈理、膝折及折劈理、褶皱及与褶皱同走向的逆断裂、正断裂、左行和右行走滑断裂等;(2)广西运动和早中生代构造运动(印支运动与早燕山运动)中均存在明显的挤压变形,在NW-NWW向挤压下形成NE-NNE向褶皱和逆断裂;广西运动还形成了板劈理;(3)雪峰造山带南段以溆浦–靖州断裂为界分为东带和西带,分别为加里东期雪峰逆冲推覆构造的根带和中带,广西运动中东带变形强度显著大于西带,表现在东带板劈理发育且褶皱相对紧闭,而西带板劈理不发育且褶皱相对开阔,岩层倾角、不整合特征、抬升幅度、先期构造线偏转等表明早中生代构造运动中东带变形较强,而西带变形微弱;(4)劈理优势倾向以及褶皱轴面和逆断裂的倾向,反映雪峰造山带东带广西运动和早中生代构造运动中均具有背冲构造样式,但后者背冲构造的中轴相对前者显著向西迁移约20 km;(5)溆浦–靖州断裂以东在广西运动中成为雪峰推覆构造的根带,主要与其块体强度低及南华纪早期为一断陷深槽有关。     

Episodic folding inferred from syntectonic carbonate sedimentation: the Santaren anticline,Bahamas foreland

Sedimentation coeval with growth of the Santaren anticline provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationships between sedimentation and anticline uplift through time. The Santaren anticline is a kilometre-scale, NW–SE trending fold offshore of Cuba, in the Bahamas foreland of the Cuban fold and thrust belt. The growth strata associated with this anticline consist of a thick package of carbonate sediments that were deposited without major interruptions from Neogene (and perhaps before) to present day.The excellent seismic resolution and age control of a number of seismic horizons within the growth strata allowed us to define 25 growth beds, each of them representing between 0.1 and 3.2 Ma. An analysis of the thickness of these beds allowed us to determine accurate quantitative values of cumulative decompacted thickness and crestal structural relief at the time of their deposition. In addition, for the same periods, sedimentation and fold uplift rates were calculated. Moreover, some information on relationships between sedimentation and fold uplift rates was inferred from the growth stratal geometry. Growth beds that overlap the fold crest and thin over it indicate that sedimentation rates outpaced fold growth rates during their deposition. Some overlapping beds have constant thickness indicating that no fold uplift occurred during their sedimentation. The rest of the growth beds exhibit onlap/offlap geometries that do not indicate a unique sedimentation/fold uplift rate relationship. Only in those cases in which the geometry of the underlying bed at the end of its deposition is known is it possible to infer a specific sedimentation/fold uplift rate relationship.As a result of this analysis, we have been able to (1) illustrate that the geometry of the growth strata associated with the Santaren anticline results from competition between sedimentation and tectonic fold uplift, (2) document the episodic and non-steady nature of fold growth, and (3) show that short-term rates (at the scale of hundreds of thousands years) provide much insight into the interplay between sedimentation and tectonic fold uplift that control the growth stratal patterns.     

A unified kinematic model for the evolution of detachment folds

Detachment folds represent a major structural element in a number of fold belts. They are common in the Jura Mountains, the Zagros fold belt, the Central Appalachian fold belt, the Wyoming fold-belt, the Brooks Range, the Parry Islands fold belt, and parts of the SubAndean belt. These structures form in stratigraphic packages with high competency contrasts among units. The competent upper units exhibit parallel fold geometries, whereas the weak lower unit displays disharmonic folding and significant penetrative deformation. Two distinct geometric types, disharmonic detachment folds, and lift-off folds have been recognized. However, these structures commonly represent different stages in the progressive evolution of detachment folds. The structures first form by symmetric or asymmetric folding, with the fold wavelength controlled by the thickness of the dominant units. Volumetric constraints require sinking of units in the synclines, and movement of the ductile unit from the synclines to the anticlines. Continuing deformation results in increasing fold amplitudes and tighter geometries resulting from both limb segment rotation and hinge migration. Initially, limb rotation occurs primarily by flexural slip folding, but in the late stages of deformation, the rotation may involve significant internal deformation of units between locked hinges. The folds eventually assume tight isoclinal geometries resembling lift-off folds. Variations in the geometry of detachment fold geometry, such as fold asymmetry, significant faulting, and fold associated with multiple detachments, are related to variations in the mechanical stratigraphy and pre-existing structure.     

Growth-strata geometry in fault-propagation folds: a case study from the Gafsa basin, southern Tunisian Atlas

The structural and sedimentological study of fault-propagation folds in Southern Tunisia highlights a special geometry of the growth strata (strata deposited simultaneously with the formation or growth of a fold). This distinct geometry is visible in the uppermost growth-strata beds and consists of one flank with unconformity as opposed to the other flank with perfect conformity. This geometry can be explained by the mechanism of fault-propagation folding, with asymmetrical flank dips and hinge migration kinematics. This kinematics was originally predicted by the fault-propagation fold model, which facilitates the study of this special geometry in a narrow domain of sedimentation-to-shortening ratios. A plot projection provides a generalisation of the results of all types of fault-propagation folds by revealing the expected geometry of the growth strata. This study constitutes one of the most complete examples of kinematic model validation on a field scale.     

Folding by cataclastic flow at shallow crustal levels in the Canyon Range,Sevier orogenic belt,west-central Utah

Folds form by ductile deformation typically involving continuous flow. In the elastico-frictional regime, such deformation may be accomplished by cataclastic flow involving collective movement on a population of fractures and zones. The Canyon Range (CR) syncline, part of the CR thrust sheet in west-central Utah, developed in this regime. The CR syncline is composed of thick-bedded quartzite units with a small material contrast between layers, limiting limb rotation by flexural slip alone. Thus, fracture populations developed to accommodate fold tightening by limb rotation and thinning, and the formation of transverse zones across the fold. Several generations of fracture and deformation zone (DZ) networks are recognized from mesoscopic and microscopic evidence, and can be related to stages of folding. The net result of the large number of distributed fractures and deformation zones is a continuous deformation that is homogeneous at the scale of the outcrop. All these lines of evidence suggest that large-scale cataclastic flow accommodated folding by allowing rigid mesoscopic blocks to slide along bounding DZs.Along its length, the CR syncline consists of several segments bounded by transverse zones with different mechanisms accommodating fold tightening in adjacent segments. In one segment, fold tightening progressed by limb rotation, and then out-of-the-core thrusting. In contrast, fold tightening in the adjoining segments occurred by rotation and thinning of one limb and possible hinge migration, with the steeply dipping to overturned limb showing progressive thinning of units on a megascopic scale and progressive increase in the thickness and density of deformation zones at all scales.     

塔里木盆地塔北隆起英买2号背斜的成因机制与构造模型

英买力低凸起位于塔北隆起西部,是重要的含油气区域。英买2号背斜的研究与认识对于揭示区域构造演化及南部多个内幕型碳酸盐岩背斜的成因机制具有重要意义。本文运用断层相关褶皱原理及平衡剖面等方法,对英买2号背斜的地震剖面进行解释及复原。研究表明,英买2号背斜为固定翼长的滑脱褶皱,滑脱面位于中寒武统下部塑性层中,背斜演化经历了宽缓斜坡、起伏南倾、构造逆冲、稳定沉降掩埋和调整改造等5个阶段。背斜开始隆升时间为奥陶纪末期,地层缩短量为400～700 m,在海西末期隆升后遭受严重剥蚀,后期发育具传播性质的断层,伴有2期生长构造发育,背斜的前翼发生翼部旋转,发育生长三角,后翼有上超现象,体现了不同时期沉积速率的变化,也反映了后期构造活动的阶段性与持续性。     

Sequential limb rotation and kink-band migration recorded by growth strata,Almazán Basin,North Spain

The geometry of growth strata in the Almazán monocline demonstrates that limb rotation and kink-band migration can coexist as folding mechanisms. The Almazán Basin, showing an overall synclinal geometry, was one of the most actively subsiding areas during the Tertiary in the inner part of the Iberian plate, with more than 3500 m of preserved Tertiary non-marine sediments. They are arranged in five tectonosedimentary units, TSU (A1 to A5), bounded by unconformities at the basin borders. The southern basin border is defined by the WNW–ESE-trending Almazán monocline, that can be followed for 25 km along strike, with a maximum structural relief of about 2500 m. The maximum changes in thickness on both limbs of the monocline occur in units A2 and A3, which constrains the maximum deformation period to between the Middle/Upper Eocene (Headonian, top of A1) and Upper Oligocene/Lower Miocene (Agenian, base of A4). The detailed geometry of the Mesozoic, pre-growth, and the Tertiary growth strata of the Almazán monocline was determined from the analysis of six seismic reflection sections, at high angles or perpendicular with the fold axis. The average dip of the monocline changes from 15° in the east to more than 45° in the western sector, being replaced westwards by a north-verging, steeply dipping thrust. In some sections, growth strata in the dipping limb show rotational offlap–onlap syntectonic unconformities, with progressively decreasing dips from bottom to top, indicating that limb rotation took place during the first stages of folding. At the limits of the dipping limb (anticline and syncline), two kink bands appear in some of the sections, the one located on the syncline being more developed. Within each kink-band, beds show a constant dip of 30–40°. The axial surfaces of each kink band converge upwards in the third and fourth tecto-sedimentary units, being parallel in the older units. The fixed axial surface occurs in a down dip position with respect to the active axial surface. The geometry of growth strata indicates that the mechanism of folding followed a sequence of: (i) a first stage of large-scale limb rotation (wavelength larger than 5 km), with minor development of kink-bands in some sections, and (ii) a second stage of more localised kink-band migration, probably favoured by fault propagation in the basement.     

Syntectonic growth strata and implications for late Cenozoic tectonic uplift in the northern Tian Shan,China

Propagation of faults and folds in the foreland basins of Tian Shan is an important process accommodating Cenozoic crustal shortening and mountain building, but little is known about the accurate time of the Cenozoic tectonic deformation. Based on growth strata and age determination, we show that syntectonic growth strata began to develop in the middle part of Tian Shan since 6 Ma ago. Geometry analysis indicates that formation of the growth strata is associated with progressive fold-limb rotation. Formation of the growth strata is contemporaneous with the tectonic deformation in the thrusting and folding zones. Together with the remarkable increase of sedimentation rate as well as the accumulation of coarse molasse deposits, we conclude that the late Cenozoic crustal shortening and mountain building in the region initiated since about 6 Ma and lasted to the early Pleistocene, as a consequence of intracontinental deformation within the India–Eurasia convergent system.     

Interpretation of a set of faults across the hinge and a limb of a large-scale flexure in the Mount Isa district, Queensland, Australia, in terms of fractures related to the folding process

A revised interpretation of a number of faults across the hinge and western limb of a large-scale anticlinal flexure in the Mount Isa district has been made in terms of the faults following earlier-formed be joints. Such joints often develop in weakly or moderately folded competent sediments, as a result of either tensile stresses that were active at a late stage during folding or the influence of residual stresses generated during tectonic uplift. The joints are oriented such that on a stereographic projection their poles plot parallel to the a axis of a fabric cross and at 90° to the fold axis (b). bc joints are thus approximately normal to bedding and contain the fold axis, and hence they fan around the axial plane of the fold containing them. Across the hinge and western limb of a steeply N-plunging large-scale F₂ flexure in the Mount Isa district, a number of faults at high angles to bedding fan about the axial plane. Making use of the fold geometry and local bedding orientation it is possible to predict the orientation of ideal bc fractures at locations within the fold. These predictions fit well with the observed fault pattern. The movement on the faults, although apparently complex, appears consistent with continued shortening perpendicular to an axial-plane cleavage during the D₂ deformation or as part of a later D₂ deformation.     

新疆南天山西段中新生代构造变形与盆山耦合机制探讨

南天山西段山峦叠嶂,沟壑深切,褶皱强烈,断裂纵横。构造演化与中生代以来新疆地区的强烈隆升以及其后的塔里木盆地大规模断陷密切相关,受典型的盆山耦合机制控制。从卷入褶皱作用的地层展布和区域构造变形特征分析,新疆地区在原塔里木地块的基础上,由于大规模地慢物质上涌,于中生代晚期发生强烈隆升,并在隆升的北西缘西南天山一带形成北东东向构造岩浆带。新生代以来,由于新疆隆起轴部强烈的热减薄作用,导致隆起中部发生大规模裂陷,并逐渐形成塔里木断陷盆地。与此同时,构造岩浆活动形成的南天山西段造山带与塔里木断陷盆地构成了较大的（地形）位势差,进而引起南天山西段由北西向南东拆离滑脱。第一期形成的区域性褶皱被改造成一系列倒转褶皱,往往表现出北西翼平缓,地层出露齐全,南东翼陡倾或倒转,甚至在某些背斜倒转翼形成较大规模的逆冲推覆构造,同时相伴产生多条北西向走滑断裂,以调节沿走向滑脱拆离幅度的不均匀性。因此,南天山西段,甚至整个新疆地区,中新生代的区域构造演化应从盆山耦合的视角分析其地球动力学过程。这也许是解开西南天山复杂变形历史的钥匙。     

Growth trishear model and its application to the Gilbertown graben system, southwest Alabama

Fault-propagation folding associated with an upward propagating fault in the Gilbertown graben system is revealed by well-based 3-D subsurface mapping and dipmeter analysis. The fold is developed in the Selma chalk, which is an oil reservoir along the southern margin of the graben. Area-depth-strain analysis suggests that the Cretaceous strata were growth units, the Jurassic strata were pregrowth units, and the graben system is detached in the Louann Salt.The growth trishear model has been applied in this paper to study the evolution and kinematics of extensional fault-propagation folding. Models indicate that the propagation to slip (p/s) ratio of the underlying fault plays an important role in governing the geometry of the resulting extensional fault-propagation fold. With a greater p/s ratio, the fold is more localized in the vicinity of the propagating fault. The extensional fault-propagation fold in the Gilbertown graben is modeled by both a compactional and a non-compactional growth trishear model. Both models predict a similar geometry of the extensional fault-propagation fold. The trishear model with compaction best predicts the fold geometry.