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K. Reicherter A. Kaiser W. Stackebrandt 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2005,94(5-6):1083-1093
The recent evolution of the north German Basin (NGB), which is presently a low-seismic area, was partly affected by glacial
loading and unloading of the ice masses. Major stresses acting within the NGB are induced by the North-Atlantic ridge push,
the ongoing Alpine collision, and the post-glacial rebound of Fennoscandia. Present-day horizontal stresses within the NGB
are directed generally NW–SE, but fan and bend north of 52°N towards NNE. Major basement faults are directed NW–SE, minor
faults NE–SW and NNE–SSW, and are clearly detectable in geomorphological and satellite lineaments. Furthermore, the drainage
pattern and the distribution of lakes in northern Germany follow exactly block boundaries and, hence, mark zones of present-day
subsidence. The understanding of the post-glacial morphology and reactivation of faults requires a view into the very heterogeneous
crust and upper mantle below the NGB. The re-adjustment of the individual fault blocks during post-glacial relaxation of the
lithosphere leads to differential, crust-dependent uplift and, probably, to the formation of Urstrom valleys. The Urstrom
valleys and terminal moraines in northern Germany appear to parallel the major tectonic lineaments and lithospheric “block”
boundaries. The lithospheric memory is expressed in the post-glacial landscape evolution of the NGB. 相似文献
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Processing of gravity and magnetic maps shows that the basement of the Upper Rhine Graben area is characterized by a series
of NE–SW trending discontinuities and elongated structures, identified in outcrops in the Vosges, Black Forest, and the Odenwald
Mountains. They form a 40 km wide, N30–40° striking, sinistral wrench-zone that, in the Visean, shifted the Variscan and pre-Variscan
structures by at least 43 km to the NE. Wrenching was associated with emplacement of several generations of plutonic bodies
emplaced in the time range 340–325 Ma. The sub-vertical, NE–SW trending discontinuities in the basement acted as zones of
weakness, susceptible to reactivation by subsequent tectonism. The first reactivation, marked by mineralizations and palaeomagnetic
overprinting along NE–SW faults of the Vosges Mountains, results from the Liassic NW–SE extension contemporaneous with the
break-up of Pangea. The major reactivation occurred during the Late Eocene N–S compression and the Early-Middle Oligocene
E–W extension. The NE–SW striking basement discontinuities were successively reactivated as sinistral strike-slip faults,
and as oblique normal faults. Elongated depocenters appear to form in association with reactivated Variscan wrench faults.
Some of the recent earthquakes are located on NE–SW striking Variscan fault zones, and show sinistral strike-slip focal mechanisms
with the same direction, suggesting also present reactivation. 相似文献
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Stanislaw Mazur Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth Piotr Krzywiec 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2005,94(5-6):782-798
Several selected seismic lines are used to show and compare the modes of Late-Cretaceous–Early Tertiary inversion within the
North German and Polish basins. These seismic data illustrate an important difference in the allocation of major zones of
basement (thick-skinned) deformation and maximum uplift within both basins. The most important inversion-related uplift of
the Polish Basin was localised in its axial part, the Mid-Polish Trough, whereas the basement in the axial part of the North
German Basin remained virtually flat. The latter was uplifted along the SW and to a smaller degree the NE margins of the North
German Basin, presently defined by the Elbe Fault System and the Grimmen High, respectively. The different location of the
basement inversion and uplift within the North German and Polish basins is interpreted to reflect the position of major zones
of crustal weakness represented by the WNW-ESE trending Elbe Fault System and by the NW-SE striking Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone,
the latter underlying the Mid-Polish Trough. Therefore, the inversion of the Polish and North German basins demonstrates the
significance of an inherited basement structure regardless of its relationship to the position of the basin axis. The inversion
of the Mid-Polish Trough was connected with the reactivation of normal basement fault zones responsible for its Permo-Mesozoic
subsidence. These faults zones, inverted as reverse faults, facilitated the uplift of the Mid-Polish Trough in the order of
1–3 km. In contrast, inversion of the North German Basin rarely re-used structures active during its subsidence. Basement
inversion and uplift, in the range of 3–4 km, was focused at the Elbe Fault System which has remained quiescent in the Triassic
and Jurassic but reproduced the direction of an earlier Variscan structural grain. In contrast, N-S oriented Mesozoic grabens
and troughs in the central part of the North German Basin avoided significant inversion as they were oriented parallel to
the direction of the inferred Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary compression. The comparison of the North German and Polish basins
shows that inversion structures can follow an earlier subsidence pattern only under a favourable orientation of the stress
field. A thick Zechstein salt layer in the central parts of the North German Basin and the Mid-Polish Trough caused mechanical
decoupling between the sub-salt basement and the supra-salt sedimentary cover. Resultant thin-skinned inversion was manifested
by the formation of various structures developed entirely in the supra-salt Mesozoic–Cenozoic succession. The Zechstein salt
provided a mechanical buffer accommodating compressional stress and responding to the inversion through salt mobilisation
and redistribution. Only in parts of the NGB and MPT characterised by either thin or missing Zechstein evaporites, thick-skinned
inversion directly controlled inversion-related deformations of the sedimentary cover. Inversion of the Permo-Mesozoic fill
within the Mid-Polish Trough was achieved by a regional elevation above uplifted basement blocks. Conversely, in the North
German Basin, horizontal stress must have been transferred into the salt cover across the basin from its SW margin towards
the basins centre. This must be the case since compressional deformations are concentrated mostly above the salt and no significant
inversion-related basement faults are seismically detected apart from the basin margins. This strain decoupling in the interior
of the North German Basin was enhanced by the presence of the Elbe Fault System which allowed strain localization in the basin
floor due to its orientation perpendicular to the inferred Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary far-field compression. 相似文献
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Guido Schreurs Jörg Giese Alfons Berger Edwin Gnos 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2010,99(8):1827-1847
The Ranotsara shear zone in Madagascar has been considered in previous studies to be a >350-km-long, intracrustal strike-slip
shear zone of Precambrian/Cambrian age. Because of its oblique strike to the east and west coast of Madagascar, the Ranotsara
shear zone has been correlated with shear zones in southern India and eastern Africa in Gondwana reconstructions. Our assessment
using remote sensing data and field-based investigations, however, reveals that what previously has been interpreted as the
Ranotsara shear zone is in fact a composite structure with a ductile deflection zone confined to its central segment and prominent
NW–SE trending brittle faulting along most of its length. We therefore prefer the more neutral term “Ranotsara Zone”. Lithologies,
tectonic foliations, and axial trace trajectories of major folds can be followed from south to north across most of the Ranotsara
Zone and show only a marked deflection along its central segment. The ductile deflection zone is interpreted as a result of
E–W indentation of the Antananarivo Block into the less rigid, predominantly metasedimentary rocks of the Southwestern Madagascar
Block during a late phase of the Neoproterozoic/Cambrian East African Orogeny (c. 550–520 Ma). The Ranotsara Zone shows significant
NW–SE striking brittle faulting that reactivates part of the NW–SE striking ductile structures in the flexure zone, but also
extends along strike toward the NW and toward the SE. Brittle reactivation of ductile structures along the central segment
of the Ranotsara Zone, confirmed by apatite-fission track results, may have led to the formation of a shallow Neogene basin
underlying the Ranotsara plain. The present-day drainage pattern suggests on-going normal fault activity along the central
segment. The Ranotsara Zone is not a megascale intracrustal strike-slip shear zone that crosscuts the entire basement of southern
Madagascar. It can therefore not be used as a piercing point in Gondwana reconstructions. 相似文献
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Mi-Kyung Yoon Mikhail Baykulov Stefan Dümmong Heinz-Jürgen Brink Dirk Gajewski 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2008,97(5):887-898
The influence of deep crustal processes on basin formation and evolution and its relation to current morphology is not well
understood yet. A key feature to unravel these issues is a detailed seismic image of the crust. A part of the data recorded
by the hydrocarbon industry in the late 1970s and 1980s in the North German Basin were released to the public recently. The
seismic reflection data were recorded down to 15 s two-way travel time. The mean Common Midpoint fold of about 20 is relatively
low compared to contemporary seismic acquisitions. The processing of the 1980s focussed on the sedimentary structures to explore
the hydrocarbon potential of this area. We applied the Common Reflection Surface stack technique to the data sets, which is
well suited for low-fold data. The reprocessing was focussed on the imaging of the subsedimentary crustal range. The reprocessed
images show enhanced reflections, especially in the mid and lower crustal part. Also, the image of the salt structures in
the graben area was improved. Furthermore, the reprocessed images indicate an almost flat Moho topography in the area of the
Glückstadt Graben and an additional lower crustal structure, which can be correlated with a high-density body found in recent
gravity modeling studies. 相似文献
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Em? Márton Bruno Tomljenovi? Davor Paveli? Mihály Pethe Radovan Avani? Bogomir Jelen 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2012,101(3):879-888
The magnetic fabric of Late Miocene sediments from the southern Pannonian basin was studied on oriented samples collected
from 19 geographically distributed localities. All of them are characterized by near-horizontal magnetic foliation plane after
tilt correction, indicating weak deformation. Well-developed lineations were observed for 16 localities, which are interpreted
as due to compressional/transpressional deformation, except from three localities, where the fabric must have been formed
in an extensional setting. Comparison between the orientation of the map-scale folds and faults and magnetic lineation directions
shows that magnetic lineation is either related to NNE-SSW directed compression, leading to the formation of folds or it can
be connected to NW–SE or NNE-SSW trending dextral faults. 相似文献
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A first-order seismotectonic model was created for South Africa. This was done using four logical steps: geoscientific data
collection, characterisation, assimilation and zonation. Through the definition of subunits of concentrations of earthquake
foci and large neotectonic and structural domains, seismotectonic structures, systems and domains were created. Relatively
larger controls of seismicity exist between the Great Escarpment and the coast. In the south, this region is characterised
by large aeromagnetic anomalies and large EW trending faults. In the west, it is characterised by the NW–SE trending Wegener
stress anomaly, radial-trending dykes and earthquake clusters. In the east, it is characterised by a large neotectonic domain
where several large historical earthquakes occurred. In the centre of South Africa, several clusters of earthquake activity
are found, often related to mining activity. Further north, seismicity is related to both mining activity and neotectonic
deformation. This work contributes to the development of a seismotectonic model for South Africa by (1) bringing together,
digitally, several data sets in a common GIS platform (geology, geophysics, stress, seismicity, neotectonics, topography,
crustal and mantle structure and anisotropy), (2) understanding the significance of data sets for seismotectonic zonation
and limitations thereof and (3) obtaining a reasonable regional model for use in seismic hazard assessments. 相似文献
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Source parameters and ground motion of the Suez-Cairo shear zone earthquakes,Eastern Desert,Egypt 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Three felt earthquakes with local magnitudes 4.0 (June 29th, 2000), 4.2 (July 07th, 2005) and 3.7 (October 30th, 2007) occurred
to the southeast of Cairo along the Suez-Cairo shear zone. Being the most well recorded events by the Egyptian National Seismic
Network (ENSN) in this area, they provide us an excellent opportunity to study the tectonics, the stress field, the source
parameters, and the expected ground motion at Cairo. The focal mechanisms of the three events based on the first motion P-wave
polarities indicate mainly normal faulting with a slight strike-slip component along nodal planes trending nearly EW and NW–SE.
The three focal solutions imply a rejuvenation of the pre-existing EW and NW–SE faults due to a partly transfer of rifting
deformation from the Red Sea-Gulf of Suez along these trends. Dynamic source parameters of these events are estimated from
the P-wave spectra of the closest ENSN stations. The average values of the seismic moment, stress drop, rupture radius, and
fault dislocation are estimated from six stations and interpreted in the context of the tectonic setting. These parameters
in addition to the effects of site and path are used to synthesize the ground motion seismograms using stochastic modeling
technique at the recorded stations and at some strategic sites. 相似文献
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M. Tischler H. R. Gröger B. Fügenschuh S. M. Schmid 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(3):473-496
The interplay between the emplacement of crustal blocks (e.g. “ALCAPA”, “Tisza”, “Dacia”) and subduction retreat is a key
issue for understanding the Miocene tectonic history of the Carpathians. Coeval thrusting and basin formation is linked by
transfer zones, such as the Mid-Hungarian fault zone, which seperates ALCAPA from Tisza-Dacia. The presented study provides
new kinematic data from this transfer zone. Early Burdigalian (20.5 to ∼18.5 Ma) SE-directed thrusting of the easternmost
tip of ALCAPA (Pienides), over Tisza-Dacia is linked to movements along the Mid-Hungarian fault zone and the Periadriatic
line, accommodating the lateral extrusion of ALCAPA. Minor Late Burdigalian (∼18.5 to 16 Ma) NE-SW extension is interpreted
as related to back-arc extension. Post Burdigalian (post-16 Ma) NE–SW shortening and NW–SE extension correlate with “soft
collision” of Tisza-Dacia with the European foreland coupled with southward migration of active subduction. During this stage
the Bogdan-Voda and Dragos-Voda faults were kinematically linked to the Mid-Hungarian fault zone. Sinistral transpression
(16 to 12 Ma) at the Bogdan-Voda fault was followed by sinistral transtension (12–10 Ma) along the coupled Bogdan-Dragos-Voda
fault system. During the transtensional stage left-lateral offset was reduced eastwards by SW trending normal faults, the
fault system finally terminating in an extensional horse-tail splay. 相似文献
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The NW–SE-striking Northeast German Basin (NEGB) forms part of the Southern Permian Basin and contains up to 8 km of Permian to Cenozoic deposits. During its polyphase evolution, mobilization of the Zechstein salt layer resulted in a complex structural configuration with thin-skinned deformation in the basin and thick-skinned deformation at the basin margins. We investigated the role of salt as a decoupling horizon between its substratum and its cover during the Mesozoic deformation by integration of 3D structural modelling, backstripping and seismic interpretation. Our results suggest that periods of Mesozoic salt movement correlate temporally with changes of the regional stress field structures. Post-depositional salt mobilisation was weakest in the area of highest initial salt thickness and thickest overburden. This also indicates that regional tectonics is responsible for the initiation of salt movements rather than stratigraphic density inversion.Salt movement mainly took place in post-Muschelkalk times. The onset of salt diapirism with the formation of N–S-oriented rim synclines in Late Triassic was synchronous with the development of the NNE–SSW-striking Rheinsberg Trough due to regional E–W extension. In the Middle and Late Jurassic, uplift affected the northern part of the basin and may have induced south-directed gravity gliding in the salt layer. In the southern part, deposition continued in the Early Cretaceous. However, rotation of salt rim synclines axes to NW–SE as well as accelerated rim syncline subsidence near the NW–SE-striking Gardelegen Fault at the southern basin margin indicates a change from E–W extension to a tectonic regime favoring the activation of NW–SE-oriented structural elements. During the Late Cretaceous–Earliest Cenozoic, diapirism was associated with regional N–S compression and progressed further north and west. The Mesozoic interval was folded with the formation of WNW-trending salt-cored anticlines parallel to inversion structures and to differentially uplifted blocks. Late Cretaceous–Early Cenozoic compression caused partial inversion of older rim synclines and reverse reactivation of some Late Triassic to Jurassic normal faults in the salt cover. Subsequent uplift and erosion affected the pre-Cenozoic layers in the entire basin. In the Cenozoic, a last phase of salt tectonic deformation was associated with regional subsidence of the basin. Diapirism of the maturest pre-Cenozoic salt structures continued with some Cenozoic rim synclines overstepping older structures. The difference between the structural wavelength of the tighter folded Mesozoic interval and the wider Cenozoic structures indicates different tectonic regimes in Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic.We suggest that horizontal strain propagation in the brittle salt cover was accommodated by viscous flow in the decoupling salt layer and thus salt motion passively balanced Late Triassic extension as well as parts of Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary compression. 相似文献
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The Andaman-Sumatra subduction zone is seismically one of the most active and complex subduction zones that produced the 26
December 2004 mega thrust earthquake (Mw 9.3) and large number of aftershocks. About 8,000 earthquakes, including more than
3,000 aftershocks (M ≥ 4.5) of the 2004 earthquake, recorded during the period 1964–2007, are relocated by the EHB method. We have analysed this
large data set to map fractal correlation dimension (Dc) and frequency-magnitude relation (b-value) characteristics of the seismogenic structures of this ~3,000-km-long mega thrust subduction zone in south-east Asia.
The maps revealed the seismic characteristics of the Andaman-Sumatra-Java trenches, West Andaman fault (WAF), Andaman Sea
Ridge (ASR), Sumatra and Java fault systems. Prominent N–S to NW–SE to E–W trending fractal dimension contours all along the
subduction zone with Dc between 0.6 and 1.4 indicate that the epicentres mostly follow linear features of the major seismogenic
structures. Within these major contours, several pockets of close contours with Dc ~ 0.2 to 0.6 are identified as zones of
epicentre clusters and are inferred to the fault intersections as well as asperity zones along the fault systems in the fore
arc. A spatial variation in the b-value (1.2–1.5) is also observed along the subduction zone with several pockets of lower b-values (1.2–1.3). The smaller b-value zones are corroborated with lower Dc (0.5–0.9), implying a positive correlation. These zones are identified to be the
zones of more stress or asperity where rupture nucleation of intermediate to strong magnitude earthquakes occurred. 相似文献
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Victor Maksaev Francisco Munizaga Mark Fanning Carlos Palacios José Tapia 《Mineralium Deposita》2006,41(7):637-644
The Antucoya porphyry copper deposit (300 Mt at 0.45% total Cu) is one of the largest deposits of a poorly known Early Cretaceous porphyry belt in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile. It is related to a succession of granodioritic and tonalitic porphyritic stocks and dikes that were emplaced within Jurassic andesitic rocks of the La Negra Formation immediately west of the N–S trending sinistral strike-slip Atacama Fault Zone. New zircon SHRIMP U–Pb data indicate that the porphyries of Antucoya crystallized within the time span from 142.7 ± 1.6 to 140.6 ± 1.5 Ma (±2 σ), and late, unmineralized, NW–SE trending dacite dikes with potassic alteration and internal deformation crystallized at 141.9 ± 1.4 Ma. The Antucoya porphyry copper system appears to be formed after a change of stress conditions along the magmatic arc from extensional in the Late Jurassic to transpressive during the Early Cretaceous and provides support for an Early Cretaceous metallogenic episode of porphyry-type mineralization along the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile. 相似文献
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A statistical analysis was carried out to investigate spatial associations between natural seismicity and faults in southeastern Ontario and north-central New York State (between 73°18′ and 77°00′W and 43°30′ and 45°18′N). The study area is situated to the west of the seismically active St. Lawrence fault zone, and to the east of the Lake Ontario basin where recently documented geological and geophysical evidence points to possible neotectonic faulting. The weights of evidence method was used to judge the spatial associations between seismic events and populations of faults in eight arbitrarily defined orientation groups. Spatial analysis of data sets for seismic events in the periods 1930–1970 and post-1970 suggest stronger spatial associations between earthquake epicentres and faults with strikes that lie in the NW–SE quadrants, and weaker spatial associations of epicentres with faults that have strikes in the NE–SW quadrants. The strongest spatial associations were determined for groups of faults with strikes between 101° and 146°. The results suggest that faults striking broadly NW–SE, at high angles to the regional maximum horizontal compressive stress, are statistically more likely to be spatially associated with seismic events than faults striking broadly NE–SW. If the positive spatial associations can be interpreted as indicating genetic relationships between earthquakes and mapped faults, then the results may suggest that, as a population, NW–SE trending faults are more likely to be seismically active than NE–SW striking faults. Detailed geological studies of faults in the study area would be required to determine possible neotectonic displacements and the kinematics of the displacements. 相似文献
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Examination of damages affecting the buildings of the archaeological sites of Phaistos and Agia Triada (southern Crete) suggests that these Minoan settlements were probably destroyed by two major seismic events characterized by MKS intensities of IX–X and occurred at the end of the Protopalatial (1700 BC) and the Neopalatial (1450 BC) periods. Geological and morphological studies carried out in the neighbouring areas show the occurrence of E–W trending Quaternary normal fault segments (Spili and Agia Galini faults) that control the present topography and morphology, and exhibit steep young scarps mostly Holocene in age. These fault segments are related to a NW–SE extension direction, which is consistent with that indicated by the available focal mechanisms of the earthquakes occurring in this area in the last 50 years. Combining structural and seismic data we can infer that the Spili and Agia Galini fault segments could represent good candidates to be considered active faults generating large earthquakes (M6.5) that were responsible for the damages of Phaistos and Agia Triada. This hypothesis suggests that the Minoan palatial centres were destroyed by several large earthquakes related to ruptures along distinct fault segments rather than by a single catastrophic event that caused the abrupt destruction of the Minoan civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean. 相似文献
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Using a 3-D structural model, we performed a basin-scale analysis of the tectonically inverted Mid-Polish Swell, which developed above the NW–SE-oriented Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone. The later separates the Paleozoic West European Platform from the Precambrian East European Craton. The model permits a comparison between the present depths and sedimentary thicknesses of five layers within the Permian–Mesozoic and Cenozoic successions. The inversion of the NW–SE-trending Mid-Polish Trough during the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene resulted in uplift of a central horst, the Mid-Polish Swell, bounded by two lateral troughs. These structural features are induced by squeezing of a weak crust along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone. The swell is characterized by an inherited segmentation which is due to NE–SW transversal faults having crustal roots. From NW to SE, we distinguish the Pomeranian, Kujavian, and Ma
opolska segments, that are separated by two transversal faults. During the inversion, the Zechstein salt occurring in the Pomeranian and Kujavian segments in the NW acted as decoupling level between the basement and the post-salt cover, leading to disharmonic deformation. Conversely, because no salt occurs in the SE, both basement and cover were jointly deformed. The vertical tectonic uplift at the surface is estimated to amount to 3 km in the Ma
opolska segment. The structural inheritance of the basement is expressed by the heterogeneous geometry of the swell and tectonic instability during Mesozoic sedimentation. The reasons for the inheritance are seen in the mosaic-type Paleozoic basement SW of the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone, contrasting the Precambrian East European Craton which acted as a stable buttress in the NE. The horst and trough geometry of Cenozoic sediments blanketing the Mid-Polish swell reveals the ongoing intracontinental compressional stress in Poland. 相似文献
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The study area is located in the south-eastern part of the Crati valley (Northern Calabria, Italy), which is a graben bordered by N–S trending normal faults and crossed by NW–SE normal left-lateral faults. Numerous severe crustal earthquakes have affected the area in historical time. Present-day seismic activity is mainly related to the N–S faults located along the eastern border of the graben. In this area, much seismically induced deep-seated deformation has also been recognised.In the present paper, radon concentrations in soil gas have been measured and compared with (a) lithology, (b) Quaternary faults, (c) historical and instrumental seismicity, and (d) deep-seated deformation.The results highlight the following:
- (a) There is no evidence of a strong correlation between lithology and the radon anomalies.
- (b) A clear correlation between the N–S geometry of radon anomalies and the orientation of main fault systems has been recognised, except in the southernmost part of the area, where the radon concentrations are strongly affected by the superposition of the N–S and the NW–SE fault systems.
- (c) Epicentral zones of instrumental and historical earthquakes correspond to the highest values of radon concentrations, probably indicating recent activated fault segments. In particular, high radon values occur in the zones struck by earthquakes in 1835, 1854, and 1870.
- (d) Deep-seated gravitational deformation generally coincides with zones characterised by low radon concentrations.
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R. Del Rio Salas J. Ruiz L. Ochoa-Landín O. Noriega F. Barra D. Meza-Figueroa F. Paz-Moreno 《Mineralium Deposita》2008,43(4):467-482
The manganese ores in the Santa Rosalía region, western Mexico, are mainly stratiform horizons or mantos, constrained to the
initial stages of sedimentary cycles of the Miocene Boléo Formation. The manganese mineralization is generally restricted
to isolated paleo-basins and related to NW–SE faults formed during the early stages of the opening of the Gulf of California.
Jasper, Fe, and Mn oxides associated to the NW–SE structures may represent feeder zones for the mineralized system. The manganese
oxide minerals include pyrolusite, cryptomelane, todorokite, hollandite, jacobsite, and pyrochroite. Trace elements in the
manganese ores indicate a hydrothermal origin for the deposits of the Santa Rosalía area. Rare earth elements (REE) patterns
obtained for manganese minerals from the Lucifer and El Gavilán deposits also support a hydrothermal origin, whereas the middle
REE enrichment observed in samples from the Boléo district indicates mixing between hydrothermal and hydrogenous sources.
Osmium and rhenium concentrations of the manganese minerals range between 33–173 ppt and 0.14–89 ppb, respectively. The initial
187Os/188Os ratios in the manganese oxides from Lucifer and the Boléo district range between 0.43 to 0.51 and 0.70 to 0.74, respectively.
These ratios are different from seawater at 7 Ma (0.84–0.89), which suggests important contributions of osmium from underlying
rocks such as the Miocene volcanic rocks and the Cretaceous quartz–monzonite basement. Field evidence, manganese oxide mineralogy
coupled with major and trace element geochemistry and Re–Os systematics support a hydrothermal origin for the manganese deposits
from the Santa Rosalía region. The ore deposition style indicates an exhalative-intraformational environment restricted to
isolated basins in a diagenetic stage related to the initial evolution of the Gulf of California. 相似文献
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Jin Zhang Jinyi Li Yanfeng Li Zongjin Ma 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2009,98(6):1511-1527
The Cenozoic deformation of the Alxa Block resulted directly from the evolution of the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However,
many data show that the deformation occurred only in the Middle-Late Miocene. Our studies show that the Altyn Tagh fault did
not pass through the Alxa Block; on the contrary it went along the southern boundary of the Jintai-Huahai Basin, linking with
the Helishan—southern Longshoushan fault. Due to important tectonic events in the northern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during
the Middle-Late Miocene time, the northern plateau underwent rapid uplift and the plateau compressed the Hexi Corridor Region,
resulting in a change from NS-trending to EW-trending structures in the Jinta-Huahai basin, and in the development of compressive
structures in the Beishan. The southern Alxa fault underwent right lateral movement, and in the northern and central parts
of the block, NS-trending Tertiary extensional structures formed. These basins controlled by Tertiary faults are similar to
basins developed by lateral extrusion with a strong foreland and weak limited boundaries. The authors suggest that a regional
“conjugate” fault system resulted from nearly NS-trending compression from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the Miocene
and Pliocene in the Alxa Block and southern Mongolia. And due to the control of early structures in these regions, most brittle
faults reactivated earlier ductile faults; NW–SE faults along the Altai Mountain and NE–SW faults to the southeast in Mongolia
consist of a “conjugate” fault system to the north. The Altyn Tagh fault and southern Helishan-Longshoushan fault comprise
a “conjugate” fault system to the south. The Beishan and Jinta-Huahai Basin occupied the convergent area between these two
sets of faults; the compression controlled the Tertiary deposition and led to the development of the Cenozoic Jinta-Huahai
Basin. The Alxa Block bounded by these two sets of faults moved eastwards, which resulted in the development of Cenozoic compressive
structures to the west of Helan Shan, and superimposed early ductile shear zones along the northeastern and southwestern boundaries
of the Alxa Block respectively. This model could explain the Cenozoic deformation occurring in and around the Alxa region. 相似文献
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We present a series of high-resolution seismic reflection lines across the Yizre'el valley, which is the largest active depression in Israel, off the main trend of the Dead Sea rift. The new seismic reflection data is of excellent quality and shows that the valley is dissected into numerous small blocks, separated by active faults. The Yizre'el valley is found to consist of a series of half grabens, rather than a single half graben, or a symmetrical graben. The faults are generally vertical and appear to have a dominant strike-slip component, but some dip-slip is also evident. A marked zone of compression near Megido is associated with the intersection of the two largest faults in the valley, the Carmel fault and the Gideon fault. Variable trend of the faults reflects the complexity of the local geology along the boundary between the wide NW–SE trending Farah–Carmel fault zone and the E–W trending basins and ranges in the Lower Galilee. This tectonic complexity is likely to result from a highly variable stress pattern, modified by the structures inside it. Normal faulting in the valley occurred at an early stage of its development as a tectonic depression. However, strike-slip motion on the Carmel fault, and possibly also on some of the other faults, appears to have started together with the onset of normal faulting. Earthquake hazard in the area appears to be uniform as faults are distributed throughout the Yizre'el valley. 相似文献
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Christophe Basile 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2006,95(5):791-801
Five stages of faulting were observed in and around the Stephanian Decazeville basin, in the SW French Massif Central, at the southern edge of the Sillon houiller fault. The older stage ends during middle Stephanian time, and corresponds to a strike-slip regime with N–S shortening and E–W extension. Before the end of the middle Stephanian, three other stages were recorded: two strike-slip regimes with NW–SE, then E–W compression and NE–SW, then N–S extension; and finally a NNE–SSW extensional regime during the main subsidence of the basin from the end of the middle Stephanian to late Stephanian. Based on mining documents, a new interpretation of the N–S striking folds of the Decazeville basin is proposed. Folding may not be associated with E–W compression but with diapirism of coal seams along syn-sedimentary normal faults during the extensional phase. A last strike-slip regime with N–S compression and E–W extension may be related to Cainozoic Pyrenean orogeny. At a regional scale, it is suggested that from the end of the middle Stephanian to the late Stephanian, the main faults in the Decazeville basin may represent a horsetail splay structure at the southern termination of the Sillon houiller fault. 相似文献