Paleomagnetic evidence for non-apenninic origin of the sila nappes (Calabria)

The magnetization of Lower Permian rocks from Sila has a mean direction D = 56.5°, I= +20.4° with ₉₅ = 9.1° after correction for Upper Neogene tilting. A further correction for the attitude of the nappes after their Middle Miocene emplacement establishes paleolatitudes consistent with those from the Lower Permian Tethys. The remarkable internal consistency of the data has not supported the distinction of units with opposite vergences within the Sila crystalline nappes. The declination indicates that the Sila massif has rotated counter-clockwise by about 90° relative to the Apennines, Sardinia and the Southern Alps and therefore the well-known Apenninic rotation alone does not account for the total change of direction in tectonic transport. Accordingly, the structural trends of tectonic phases older than the emplacement time of the Calabrian nappes should no longer be referred to present-day geographic coordinates. The post-Late Cretaceous motion relative to the north Calabrian Apennines enhances the geotectonic role of the northern boundary of the Calabrian—Peloritan arc, since its sinistral-shear character permits both tectonic transport from the west and counter-clockwise motion during tectonic transport.     

内蒙古大青山印支运动厘定

根据中下侏罗统五当沟组与下伏地层之间角度不整合接触关系，结合同位素年代与岩浆活动特征和各种构造要素之间叠加改造关系，证实了大青山地区存在强烈印支运动。构造样式和构造要素组合特点表明大青山印支运动是一次强烈逆冲推覆、褶皱造山运动，形成了东西向展布的大型逆冲推覆构造和褶皱构造，构成了大青山地区中生代造山带主体构造格架。在地壳构造变形过程中伴随有强烈岩浆活动，形成了一系列的岩株和岩墙。大青山地区印支构造运动的确定对研究阴山—燕山板内造山带形成演化历史和地球动力学机制具有重要意义。     

西秦岭两当地区太阳寺岩组碎屑锆石LA-ICP-MSU-Pb年龄：形成时代与源区特征

选取西秦岭两当地区太阳寺岩组的变质碎屑岩为研究对象,依据CL图像,采用LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素定年方法,探讨两当地区太阳寺岩组的形成时代与物源。两当地区太阳寺岩组的锆石U-Pb年龄及与邻近地层的变质变形关系和时代对比表明,太阳寺岩组的沉积时代为426～420Ma,为晚志留世—末志留世。太阳寺岩组的碎屑锆石年龄谱可分为4组：500～420Ma、955～550Ma、1866～1227Ma和3039～2132Ma。早古生代年龄组呈现最强的烈峰值特征,峰值为438Ma,该组锆石物源以西秦岭北缘构造带为主;新元古代年龄组的碎屑锆石物源为西秦岭北缘构造带和北祁连造山带;中元古代和古元古代—新太古代年龄组的碎屑锆石物源主要来自于北祁连造山带和西秦岭北缘构造带基底岩系。综合分析认为,西秦岭北缘构造带为天水两当地区太阳寺岩组碎屑沉积物的主要源区。     

西秦岭两当地区太阳寺岩组碎屑锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb年龄：形成时代与源区特征

选取西秦岭两当地区太阳寺岩组的变质碎屑岩为研究对象,依据CL图像,采用LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb同位素定年方法,探讨两当地区太阳寺岩组的形成时代与物源。两当地区太阳寺岩组的锆石U-Pb年龄及与邻近地层的变质变形关系和时代对比表明,太阳寺岩组的沉积时代为426~420Ma,为晚志留世—末志留世。太阳寺岩组的碎屑锆石年龄谱可分为4组：500~420Ma、955~550Ma、1866~1227Ma和3039~2132Ma。早古生代年龄组呈现最强的烈峰值特征,峰值为438Ma,该组锆石物源以西秦岭北缘构造带为主;新元古代年龄组的碎屑锆石物源为西秦岭北缘构造带和北祁连造山带;中元古代和古元古代—新太古代年龄组的碎屑锆石物源主要来自于北祁连造山带和西秦岭北缘构造带基底岩系。综合分析认为,西秦岭北缘构造带为天水两当地区太阳寺岩组碎屑沉积物的主要源区。     

大别造山带南界襄樊—广济断裂带的演化规律与构造意义

自中三叠世扬子与华北板块发生碰撞—深俯冲作用以来,大别造山带南界上的襄樊—广济断裂带主要经历过两次变形事件: 1)早期变形事件发生在中三叠世末—晚三叠世初的造山带折返阶段,表现为造山带南边界上的韧性剪切带。这期北西—南东走向的剪切带向南西陡倾,发育北西—南东向的矿物拉伸线理,主要为右行走滑的运动性质,属于造山带斜向折返的侧边界走滑剪切带。造山带折返过程中将前陆褶断带北缘原先东西向褶皱改造为北西—南东走向。2)晚期变形事件发生在晚侏罗世,表现为脆性逆冲断层,使得前陆褶断带向北东逆冲在造山带南缘之上,同时在前陆上形成了一系列的逆冲断层。该断裂带的晚期逆冲活动与郯庐断裂带左行平移同时发生,代表了滨太平洋构造活动的开始。     

Characteristics of plastic deformation of quartz

The fold-thrust tectonics in the Northern Tarim Basin, oriented roughly parallel to the South Tianshan orogenic belt, consists of two large-scale tectonic regimes: (1) the foreland-basin, thin-skinned deformation belt; and (2) the foreland-craton, thick-skinned-dominated (i.e., basement-involved) deformation belt. Variations in the degree of deformation in these tectonic belts and style along the regional tectonic strike can be accounted for by longitudinal (progressive) transfer or transverse (abrupt) transfer. Longitudinal transfer maintains the overall displacement or shortening within the fold-thrust belts as uniform or with gradual change along the tectonic strike. This includes the tectonic transfer between en echelon master thrusts and from the individual master thrust to terminal fold (s) or distributive thrusts. Transverse transfer resulted from an abrupt change in overall displacement or shortening along the tectonic strike. Within the transverse transfer zone, various tectonics—such as strike-slip faults, strike-slip thrusts, transverse anticlines, and en echelon folds—are developed.

The development of longitudinal transfer zones can be attributed to the gradual variation of intrinsic and extrinsic deformational conditions along the tectonic strike. The initiation of transverse transfer may be related to variations in the thickness of sedimentary layers, detachment-layer distribution limits, and variation along strike of the degree and mode of the South Tianshan orogenic belt's effect on the basin, as well as the variation of the boundary conditions of the deformation, such as in the geometry of plate margins.     

陕西陶湾群北侧剪切混杂带的确定及其地质意义

陕西境内的陶湾群和大片出露的寒牙纪地层之间，发育一套以千枚岩夹白云岩透镜体为主的复杂岩系。这套岩系实际上构成一个剪切混杂带，成为秦岭造山带和华北地台的界线，该带不是一个沉积地层单位，而应视为岩石－构造组合体，带内发育一系列冲断层，在洛南柏峪寺地区，从中可以分出３个构造岩片，其中的白云岩岩块为构造岩块。根据显微，小构造分析及岩性对比，认为冲断层由北向南逆冲，带内至少卷入有晚元古代大庄组，震旦纪罗圈组     

Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Losevo Suture Zone in the Voronezh Crystalline Massif

A new model of the tectonic evolution of the Losevo Suture Zone is advanced based on the composition of the rocks occurring therein, the U/Pb age of the Voronezh Formation, and the specified age of collision. The model comprises the destruction of the Sarmatia continent; the formation of active continental margins of the West Pacific and Andean types, replacing one another en echelon from north to south; and the collision of Sarmatia and Volgo-Uralia with a distinctly expressed late orogenic stage marked by deposition of the Voronezh Formation crowned by the Baigora volcanic-plutonic structure.     

库车前陆盆地前渊带层序地层分析--以白垩系卡普沙良群为例

库车前陆盆地的白垩系由卡普沙良群(自下而上包括亚格列木组、舒善河组、巴西盖组)和巴什基奇克组组成.盆地北部克孜勒努尔沟的白垩系亚格列木组和巴什基奇克组底部均发育一大套泥石流沉积,表明白垩系卡普沙良群为一期构造活动幕的产物,为一个完整的二级层序,根据沉积演化特征可将其细分为7个三级层序.亚格列木组与舒善河组之间,扇三角洲平原相突变为滨浅湖相沉积,且舒善河组滨岸沙坝微相持续稳定发育,反映前陆盆地楔顶带的发育抑制了构造活动期源于造山带的粗碎屑的供给,使前渊带的沉积物供给速率趋于稳定.此外,克孜勒努尔沟卡普沙良群地层厚度远大于前缘隆起带,与上、下地层呈整合或平行不整合接触.研究表明,克孜勒努尔沟卡普沙良群为一套临近造山带的前渊带沉积.     

新疆库车盆地东秋里塔格构造带新生代的构造演化

东秋里塔格构造带位于库车前陆盆地的南缘,新生代经历了强烈的构造挤压和构造沉降。平衡剖面分析、生长地层识别和重点井沉降史的数值模拟表明:古新-始新世库姆格列木群沉积期间构造活动微弱并沉降缓慢。渐新世苏维依组沉积期间,构造活动开始加强,沉降速度加快,并形成了一些小断距的逆断层。中新世构造活动进一步加强,沉降加速,沉积了厚层的吉迪克组膏盐层;康村组沉积时期,构造挤压使得膏盐层发生塑性流动,形成盐枕,康村组发育生长地层。随后的上新世库车组沉积期间,研究区先发生快速沉降,然后,随着南天山急剧隆升,冲断作用迅速向南扩展。约在早更新世,库车褶皱冲断带前锋到达东秋里塔格构造带,并最终定型,使得该区发生强烈的构造变形,形成大量的逆冲断裂构造带,膏盐层表现出明显的塑性流动,形成盐推覆构造。     

塔里木盆地北部隆起负反转构造成因机制探讨

塔(里木盆地)北(部)隆起中生代以来经历了逆冲上隆,构造反转和再生前陆盆地斜坡带3个阶段,分别与库车前陆盆地构造运动强、弱、强的演化历史相对应。塔北隆起的大型负反转构造形成于白垩纪-中新世。白垩纪之前,塔北断隆作为库车前陆盆地和北部坳陷的相邻单元,发育两组背冲断裂以实现其缩短。在构造宁静期(白垩纪-新第三纪吉迪克期),岩石圈回跳,前缘隆起局部伸展,早期逆冲断块沿着原逆冲断层面下滑形成负反转构造。中新世以后,塔北地区成为库车再生前陆盆地的斜坡区,负反转构造得以保存且有进一步加剧之势。塔北隆起上伸展应力场的产生与深部岩石圈同步挠曲变形过程中波峰和波长的变化有关。     

Exhumation of the Tauern window,Eastern Alps

The exhumation of metamorphic domes within orogenic belts is exemplified by the Tauern window in the Eastern Alps. There, the exhumation is related to partitioning of final orogenic shortening into deep-seated thrusts, near-surface antiformal bending forming brachyanticlines, and almost orogen-parallel strike-slip faults due to oblique continental plate collision. Crustal thickening by formation of an antiformal stack within upper to middle crustal portions of the lower lithosphere is a prerequisite of late-stage orogenic window formation. Low-angle normal faults at releasing steps of crustal-scale strike-slip faults accomodate tectonic unloading of synchronously thickened crust and extension along strike of the orogen, forming pull-apart metamorphic domes. Initiation of low-angle normal faults is largely controlled by rock rheology, especially at the brittle-ductile transitional level within the lithosphere. Several mechanisms may contribute to uplift and exhumation of previously buried crust within such a setting: (1) Shortening along deep-seated blind thrusts results in the formation of brachyanticlines and bending of metamorphic isograds; (2) oversteps of strike-slip faults within the wrench zone control the final geometry of the window; (3) unloading by tectonic unroofing and erosional denudation; and (4) vertical extrusion of crustal scale wedges. Rapid decompression of previously buried crust results in nearly isothermal exhumation paths, and enhanced fluid circulation along subvertical tensile fractures (hydrothermal ore and silicate veins) that formed due to overall coaxial stretching of lower plate crust.     

Oligocene-to-Early Miocene depositional and structural evolution of the Calabria–Peloritani Arc southern terrane (Italy) and geodynamic correlations with the Spain Betics and Morocco Rif

The Calabria–Peloritani Arc southern terrane is a stack of crystalline basement nappes, some of them provided with a widely outcropping Alpine sedimentary cover, sealed by clastics of the Stilo–Capo d’Orlando Formation (SCOF). New field observations in the Stilo area lead to define a Pignolo Formation as a sedimentary cycle predating the emplacement of the uppermost nappe (Stilo Unit) of the tectonic pile. It includes the well-known Lithothamnium and larger foraminifers bearing calcarenites, previously interpreted as a basal member of the SCOF. The biostratigraphic revision of both formations, together with recently published data about other preorogenic deposits, point to a stacking of the whole terrane between the Aquitanian and the middle–late Burdigalian. A comparison between the sedimentary cycles characterising the Calabria–Peloritani southern terrane during the Oligocene–Early Miocene and those almost coeval of the Betic–Rifian internal units highlights their quite similar evolution. Thus it is reliable that both the orogenic belts originated from contiguous paleogeographic realms. These considerations confirm that the present western Mediterranean Chains were originally segments of a continuous orogenic belt disrupted by the opening of the Balearic and Tyrrhenian basins.     

前陆盆地的构造演化及其沉积、地层响应——以库车坳陷下白垩统为例

逆冲推覆构造近年来的研究表明,由于逆冲带内超压的反复积聚和释放,冲断活动表现为间歇式前展逆冲方式,且具有早期长周期低前展速率、晚期短周期高前展速率的特点,由此导致作用于前陆盆地的构造负载早期以垂向加载为主、晚期则以递进加载为主。库车坳陷下白垩统记录了一幕完整的前陆盆地构造演化过程,卡普沙良群和巴什基奇克组分别对应于逆冲期和构造宁静期,两者之间发生了地层几何形态的重大转变以及内部削截反射终止点的迁移。与早、晚期冲断活动特征对应,在前隆向前渊的斜坡带,卡普沙良群的下部和上部分别发育大套向逆冲带的前积反射和向克拉通方向的退积超覆反射。在紧邻造山带的前渊带,亚格列木组砾质粗碎屑沉积体标志着逆冲推覆的重新开始;巴西盖组三角洲体系的发育说明快速前展逆冲导致宽缓的楔顶带的形成;巴什基奇克组底部粗碎屑发育及其与巴西盖组之间沉积突变,反映为宁静期岩石圈强烈回弹的结果。最终,前陆盆地构造演化的逆冲期可细分为初始逆冲、?冲、前展逆冲、逆冲减弱—停滞等4个阶段。     

Influence of syn-sedimentary faults on orogenic structures in a collisional belt: Insights from the inner zone of the Northern Apennines (Italy)

This paper discusses the possible influence of syn-sedimentary structures on the development of orogenic structures during positive tectonic inversion in the inner Northern Apennines (Italy). Examples from key areas located in southern Tuscany provided original cartographic, structural and kinematics data for Late Oligocene-Early Miocene thrusts, organized in duplex systems, verging in the opposite direction of the foreland propagation (back-thrusts), which affected the Late Triassic-Oligocene sedimentary succession of the Tuscan Domain, previously affected by pre-orogenic structures. These latter consist of mesoscopic-to cartographic-scale Jurassic syn-sedimentary normal faults and extensional structures, which gave rise to effective stratigraphic lateral variation and mechanical heterogeneities. Structural analysis of both syn-sedimentary faults and back-thrusts were therefore compared in order to discuss the possible role of the pre-existing anisotropies in influencing the evolution of the back-thrusts. As a result, it can be reasonably proposed that back-thrusts trajectories and stacking pattern were controlled by relevant syn-sedimentary normal faults; these latter were reactivated, in some cases, if properly oriented. Such an issue adds new inputs for discussing the potential role of structural inheritance during tectonic inversions, and helps to better understand the processes suitable for the development of back-thrusts in the inner zones of orogenic belts, as it is the case of the inner Northern Apennines.     

内蒙古狼山西北缘乌兰敖包地区“阿木山组”沉积时限、物源特征及其地质意义

沉积盆地的研究对于理解造山带的构造演化具有重要意义.内蒙古狼山地区位于中亚造山带中段,构造演化历史复杂,晚古生代沉积盆地的大地构造背景存在争议.在对狼山西北缘乌兰敖包地区出露的"阿木山组"岩性特征、沉积构造及沉积环境的系统研究基础上,将该组分为3个岩性段.一段主要为粗碎屑岩,交错层理发育,沉积环境为辫状河三角洲;二段底部主要为粗碎屑岩,向上沉积物粒度变细,顶部出现生物碎屑灰岩,在岩屑石英砂岩中新发现芦木Calamites sp.,座延羊齿Alethopteris sp.,带科达Cordaites principalis Gein等植物化石,沉积环境由辫状河三角洲向滨海环境过渡;三段主要岩性为结晶灰岩,含生物碎屑,沉积环境为滨-浅海环境."阿木山组"一、二段砂岩碎屑锆石年龄可分为~2.5 Ga、~1.8~1.2 Ga、~826 Ma、461~440 Ma和313~273 Ma五个时间段,其中最小年龄为273 Ma,结合植物化石鉴定结果以及上覆火山岩地层年代,确定"阿木山组"沉积时代为265~273 Ma.研究区内同时代的岩浆岩指示该区在早中二叠世处于古亚洲洋向华北板块俯冲的岩浆弧环境,结合"阿木山组"的沉积特征、沉积时代及所处构造位置,对其地层划分与对比方案提出建议.      

喜马拉雅造山带造山模式探讨

喜马拉雅是典型的碰撞型造山带,造山带结构构造复杂,可大致划分为以逆冲推覆构造为主的南喜马拉雅造山带和以各种伸展性构造为主的北喜马拉雅造山带,造山带内各类构造均发生过多期变形,且发生过多次缩短与伸展的构造反转,大喜马拉雅结晶杂岩系(GHC)内变形、岩浆及变质作用证明造山过程中存在渠道流作用。据此,本文提出一种由印度-欧亚大陆汇聚速率控制的多阶段造山模式:两大陆汇聚速度快时,青藏高原内形成南北向裂谷系(NSTR),喜马拉雅内经历造山过程,并在造山带中、下地壳形成作为底部拆离层的塑性层,汇聚速率慢时,青藏高原内形成共轭走滑断裂,喜马拉雅造山带内的塑性层发生松弛和重力扩散,形成渠道流,导致藏南拆离系(STDS)的启动、GHC的挤出和北喜马拉雅片麻岩穹窿(NHGD)的形成。上述的增厚与松弛均是在挤压体制下形成的,构造的反转是因挤压速率变化而产生的结构调节作用。     

华北克拉通北缘侏罗纪造山过程及关键时限的沉积证据

宁武-静乐盆地与浑源盆地位于华北克拉通中北部,侏罗纪地层序列完整,物源指向于阴山-燕山造山带中段,通过对盆地内侏罗纪沉积特征的研究,可以演绎华北克拉通北缘侏罗纪的造山过程。在盆地沉积分析的基础上,通过宁武-静乐盆地中侏罗统云岗组顶部的凝灰质泥晶碳酸盐岩及浑源盆地上侏罗统髫髻山组玄武-安山岩锆石U-Pb同位素测年,结合国际地层年代表推荐年龄及中侏罗统的沉积速率,对整个侏罗纪沉积序列转换的关键时限进行了限定。研究认为：中侏罗统云岗组底部砾岩沉积时期,侏罗纪沉积演化序列经历了早期湖进至晚期湖退的转换过程,暗示着区域应力场由早期的拉张向晚期的挤压转换,孕育着侏罗纪造山运动的开始,具体时限大约为168 Ma;中侏罗统云岗组顶部凝灰质泥晶碳酸盐岩沉积时期,沉积地层的颜色由其下的灰绿色突变为其上的紫红色,孕育着湖盆地形的突然抬升,区域氧化性增强,气候环境的突变,侏罗纪造山运动进入了快速发展阶段,具体时限为161.0～159.0 Ma;中/晚侏罗世沉积序列具有继承性的发育特征,随着湖盆地形的进一步抬升,侏罗纪沉积范围迅速退至造山带前缘,以砾岩沉积为主,为同期造山运动的产物,侏罗纪造山运动进入了高峰期,具体时限为159.0～153.0 Ma;晚侏罗世晚期,区域上以玄武-安山岩及凝灰质角砾岩沉积为主,侏罗纪造山运动进入了造山期后的调整阶段。     

Late Carboniferous-Permian intracontinental extension and orogeny in Dashizhai-Holin Gol area,Inner MongoliaSCIEI北大核心CSCD

俯冲和挤压过程将形成具有加厚地壳的岛弧带或造山带,而伸展过程则形成具有减薄地壳的伸展盆地,因此可以通过地壳厚度推测岩石组合形成时的大地构造背景,并揭示它代表的深部地球动力学过程。兴蒙造山带东部大石寨地区以著名的大石寨组火山岩为特征,其岩浆活动的性质、形成过程和构造背景一直备受争议,其中,该套岩石的构造背景的认识存在岛弧和陆内裂谷两种主要观点。本文根据岩性组合及年代学特征,将大石寨地区主要岩石组合从下到上分为晚石炭世火山岩、早二叠世寿山沟组和大石寨组、中二叠世哲斯组,并利用大石寨-霍林郭勒地区的火山岩和碎屑岩锆石的微量元素及火山岩的全岩微量元素数据,估算了晚石炭世-二叠纪地壳厚度的变化趋势。结果表明,360Ma到320Ma时期发生地壳加厚,320~300Ma地壳从加厚转为减薄;而在300~280Ma时期,地壳厚度减薄最明显且厚度最小。综合岩浆活动、沉积环境和地壳厚度变化曲线等特征,可将大石寨-霍林郭勒地区晚石炭世到二叠纪的构造演化分为4个阶段:第一阶段(360~320Ma),碰撞产生的挤压背景导致区域性隆升和早-中古生代造山带物质的堆叠,使地壳厚度增大,导致幔源岩浆上侵,引起部分熔融作用,形成以侵入岩为特征的地壳垂向增生;第二阶段(320~300Ma),由于碰撞后伸展使得地壳处于从加厚到减薄的转换过程,发育与伸展相关的岩浆活动;第三阶段为300~280Ma,软流圈上涌造成地壳发生强烈伸展,导致地壳厚度明显减薄和大规模岩浆活动,以大石寨组岩浆活动进入高峰期为标志。该时期大规模岩浆活动和裂谷沉积特征与地壳厚度减薄的地球动力学背景高度吻合,从而揭示大石寨-霍林郭勒地区早-中二叠世处于地壳伸展而非俯冲-碰撞过程。第四阶段为280~260Ma,由于蒙古-鄂霍茨克造山带和大别-秦岭中央造山带的远距离效应造成地壳加厚,形成陆内造山带。     

Clinoform deposition across a boundary between orogenic front and foredeep – an example from the Lower Cretaceous in Arctic Alaska

The Lower Cretaceous Fortress Mountain Formation occupies a spatial and temporal niche between syntectonic deposits at the Brooks Range orogenic front and post‐tectonic strata in the Colville foreland basin. The formation includes basin‐floor fan, marine‐slope and fan‐delta facies that define a clinoform depositional profile. Texture and composition of clasts in the formation suggest progressive burial of a tectonic wedge‐front that included older turbidites and mélange. These new interpretations, based entirely on outcrop study, suggest that the Fortress Mountain Formation spans the boundary between orogenic wedge and foredeep, with proximal strata onlapping the tectonic wedge‐front and distal strata downlapping the floor of the foreland basin. Our reconstruction suggests that clinoform amplitude reflects the structural relief generated by tectonic wedge development and load‐induced flexural subsidence of the foreland basin.