Tectonic framework of Tiburon Basin,Gulf of California,from seismic reflection evidence

Tiburon Basin is characterized by a thick sedimentary fill that records the evolution of one of the rift segments of the East Pacific Rise. Its structure corresponds to an echelon pull-apart basin bounded by two dextral-oblique faults. Unlike basins in the southern Gulf of California that are underlain by oceanic crust, rift basins in the northern Gulf of California contain sedimentary thickness (up to 6 km) that masks the structure of the crust. To study the architecture of the Tiburon Basin, two-dimensional, multichannel seismic reflection data collected by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in the early 1980s were used. The data base is a grid of lines, 5–20 km apart, with 6 s of record in 48 channels. Additional seismic data of the Ulloa 99 project were also interpreted. Our results indicate that the general structural pattern of the Tiburon Basin is controlled by two dextral-oblique faults: De Mar and Tiburon. De Mar lies to the east and ends in elevated basement transferring the stress to the Desemboque fault. The latter borders the incoming basement from the Sonora and Tiburon faults to the west, ending to the north in an antiform. Four structural domains are recognized: (1) the northern Tiburon domain is a high basement that divides the Delfin Basin to the northeast and exhibits extensional folds with their axes parallel to the basement and its flanks; (2) the Libertad domain is a sheared basement high along the margin of Sonora and forms the right step of the Tepoca Basin to the north; (3) the Tiburon central domain defines a broad sag cut by a dense NE-striking pattern of normal faults with opposed dips in the depocentre and abruptly ends to the west against the Tiburon fault; and (4) the southern Tiburon domain forms a basement ramp offshore Isla Tiburon and is controlled by a pattern of NNE-striking normal faults on the south that likely connect at an oblique angle (?60°) to the De Mar fault. We propose a rhombochasm basin model with more than 6 s of sedimentary record in the depocentre, in which the basement is not recorded. The NW-trending faults in the Libertad domain possibly continue towards the Sonora coastal plain. The principal NW-trending dextral faults and the secondary NNE-striking pattern of normal faults cut the shallow strata of this domain.     

塔里木盆地构造格架和构造应力场分析

以区域构造背景为基础,分析塔里木盆地的基本构造格架是本文的主要宗旨。塔里木盆地中部存在一规模较大的近于E-W向的构造带,谓中塔里木构造带或中塔里木断裂带,平面上它大致和塔里木中央隆起带相对应,东延,和阿尔金造山复合体的一组规模较大的、近于直立的E-W向韧性剪切带和断裂带相连,西延,插入西昆仑造山带和南天山造山带的结合部位。在剖面上具有背冲式(断背状)断裂组合,其形成始于早古生代,强烈活动期在三叠纪后。断裂带具有逆冲、走滑和垂向挤出性质,是目前塔里木盆地的主要含油带。中塔里木断裂带和塔中隆起带属于同一动力学系统中不同构造阶段的产物,在空间上是互为一体的,在早古生代为一强烈坳陷带,晚古生代以后逐渐转化为隆起带。大致位于北纬39°30'~40°的E-W向高正磁异常带,为一以基性麻粒岩为代表的结晶基底、基性岩墙和花岗质类岩石,并叠加晚元古-早古生代活动陆缘岩浆弧的大型东西向构造杂岩带。中塔里木断裂带(塔中隆起带)以南至塔南前陆盆地的塔南地区,以E-W向构造岩浆岩带上叠NEE向断裂构造(断隆和断凹)为基本特征,其断裂组合完全可以与南阿尔金断裂以南的南阿尔金地体的断裂组合相类比。中塔里木断裂带以北至塔北前陆盆地的塔北地区以长期坳陷为特征。西昆仑-塔里木盆地盆山结合带表现为西昆仑山体的北向逆冲推覆和山前带的强烈挤压及塔南前陆盆地的急剧沉降,而西天山-塔里木盆地盆山结合带则表现为由于塔里木地块向天山复合造山体的强烈北向俯冲导致的南天山的南向逆冲推覆和塔北(前陆盆地后的)隆起。塔里木盆地处于南北两侧向盆地挤压、东侧左旋走滑和西侧右旋走滑的复杂构造应力状态,塔里木盆地现今构造格局的形成基本上是上述4类不同性质的构造应力场对先存的E-W向构造经多次强烈改造、叠加的结果。     

沁水盆地南缘中-新生代构造变形与构造应力场

沁水盆地南缘自中生代以来,主要经历了印支期、燕山期、喜马拉雅期三期构造活动的影响。通过对地表露头的断 层面擦痕、纵弯褶皱及共轭节理系的研究,获得了古构造应力场信息。在研究区东部 NNE 向的太行山断裂带内,逆冲挤压 构造非常明显,与其相伴发育的不对称背斜构造表明其主压应力方向为 110°;中部的 EW 向正断层、地堑系可能是印支期 近 SN 向挤压作用下形成的逆冲构造经历了新生代构造反转作用而产生的,新生代伸展作用非常显著,伸展方向为 26°, 249°,347°;西部边界由近 SN 向断裂组成,存在新生代近 EW 及 NEE-SSW 向伸展运动的擦痕证据,伸展方向为 94°,72°。 区内发育 NNW-SSE,NW-SE,NE-SW,NEE-SWW,近 SN 等几个方向的共轭节理系,表明存在过燕山期 NW-SE 向的水平 挤压构造应力场和喜山期 NE-SW 向水平挤压构造应力场,近 EW 向水平挤压应力场可能是在这两期主要构造应力场转换过 程中形成的。     

渝东南正阳盆地晚白垩世构造—沉积演化

重庆黔江正阳盆地位于川东南—湘鄂西隔槽式褶皱带中,发育上白垩统正阳组,其1段为冲、洪积相砾岩,2段为河、湖相砂岩、粉砂岩,含丰富的恐龙化石。该盆地是燕山运动在川东南—湘鄂西隔槽式褶皱带中形成的典型山间盆地,研究该盆地的构造—沉积演化对探讨晚白垩世渝东南构造演化具有重要意义,但目前针对该盆地的研究较少。本研究通过测量和分析正阳组中的沉积、构造特征,探讨了盆地的控盆断裂、古水流方向、沉积物来源以及构造演化史。对正阳组古流向恢复的研究表明,其物源主要来自西侧。燕山期,北西—南东向的区域挤压作用在川东南地区形成了广泛分布的节理系及逆冲断层,这些断层随着挤压应力的持续将各滑脱层连通,岩层在断坡附近堆叠,背斜扩展,逐渐形成隔槽式褶皱。燕山末期,渝东南地区在局部拉张的构造背景下发育了正断层——“阿蓬江断裂”,其控制了正阳盆地的形成,并形成“东断西超、东低西高”的古地理格局,西侧地质体为盆地提供物源,沉积了正阳组。此后,局部挤压使得该地区抬升,遭受剥蚀,南侧抬升剥蚀较北侧明显。     

中国大陆科学钻探主孔2000米以上脆性变形构造应力场

在主孔2000米之内,存在复杂的脆性破裂系统和构造应力场。根据其充填物的特征,可划分为由石英、方解石和绿泥石等矿物充填的微破裂,发育石英、方解石等矿物薄膜或擦痕线理的微破裂和既无矿物充填、也无矿物薄膜的微破裂等3种不同类型的脆性应变现象,它们依次代表早、中、晚和深、中、浅3个不同构造层次的脆性变形。初步分析表明脆性变形阶段存在有以南东东-北西西向为主导的挤压作用、北东-南西向的区域挤压作用、南北向挤压作用和垂向伸展作用等4期构造应力场。郯庐断裂东侧的现代构造应力场在区域上具有极大的稳定性。在脆性和脆-韧性转换带,制约苏鲁高压-超高压变质带侵位的主导应力作用方式为自南东东往北西西方向的挤压,它在时间和空间上具有一定的稳定性。     

银川盆地构造反转及其演化与叠合关系分析

以银川盆地构造反转为研究对象,从构造反转证据、反转时期以及反转强度等方面进行了分析,以此为基础,探讨 了银川盆地中生代以来构造演化。研究表明:负反转构造的发育、新生界与中-古生界地层展布特征的差异性以及伸展构 造样式与挤压构造样式并存等方面证明银川盆地发生负反转;构造反转的挤压隆升时期为晚侏罗世,伸展沉降期为渐新世 至新近纪;银川盆地北部构造反转强度大于南部,西部反转强度大东部;银川盆地自中生代以来经历了三叠纪至早-中侏 罗世时期的整体沉降、晚侏罗世的挤压隆升与差异剥蚀、早白垩世的再次沉降、白垩纪末期至新生代早期的整体隆升剥 蚀、渐新世至新近纪的快速断陷以及第四纪的整体拗陷六个演化叠合阶段。     

On the tectonics of the Neocomian Rio do Peixe Rift Basin, NE Brazil: Lessons from gravity, magnetics, and radiometric data

A geophysical perspective based on well-acquired gravity, magnetic, and radiometric data provides good insights into the basin architectural elements and tectonic evolution of the Rio do Peixe Basin (RPB), an Early Cretaceous intracontinental basin in the northeast Brazilian rift system, which developed during the opening of the South Atlantic. NW–SE-trending extensional forces acting over an intensively deformed Precambrian basement yielded a composite basin architecture strongly controlled by preexisting, mechanically weak fault zones in the upper crust. Reactivated NE–SW and E–W ductile shear zones of Brasiliano age (0.6 Ga) divided the RPB into three asymmetrical half-grabens (Brejo das Freiras, Sousa, and Pombal subbasins), separated by basement highs of granite bodies that seem to anchor and distinguish the mechanical subsidence of the subbasins. Radiometric and geopotential field data highlight the relationship between the tectonic stress field and the role of a preexisting structural framework inserted in the final rift geometry. The up-to-2000 m thick half-grabens are sequentially located at the inflexion of sigmoidal-shaped shear zones and acquire a typical NE–SW-oriented elliptic shape. The Sousa Subbasin is the single exception. Because of its uncommon E–W elongated form, three-dimensional gravity modeling reveals an E–W axis of depocenters within the Sousa Subbasin framework, in which the eastern shoulders are controlled by NE–SW-trending faults. These faults belong to the Precambrian structural fabric, as is well illustrated by the gamma ray and magnetic signatures of the basement grain. Release faults were identified nearly perpendicular or oblique to master faults, forming marginal strike ramps and horst structures in all subbasins. The emplacement mechanism of Brasiliano granites around the RPB was partially oriented by the same structural framework, as is indicated by the gravity signature of the granitic bodies after removal of the gravity effect of the basin-filling deposits. The RPB major-fault occurrence along the releasing bend of a strong discontinuity – the so-called Portalegre Shear Zone – in addition to the configuration of a gentle crustal thinning, according to gravity field studies, suggests that a crustal discontinuity governs the nucleation of the RPB, followed probably by small displacement in deep crustal levels accommodating low-rate stretching during basin subsidence.     

秦岭构造带徽成盆地白垩纪-新生代构造应力场演化历史

沿凤-太断裂带发育的徽成盆地斜切秦岭构造带,成为东、西秦岭构造地貌的分界带。该盆地由上部成县群和下部东河群2套地层序列组成,之间为角度不整合接触。基于沉积地层序列、野外断层滑动矢量运动学分析和古构造应力场反演,结合上部成县群磁性地层学的研究结果和基性岩脉的年代测试结果,确定了该盆地2期伸展断陷成盆阶段和3期构造挤压改造的交替演化历史。认为下部盆地形成于早白垩世时期(107Ma之前),成盆应力场为NWW- SEE引张,与东西向勉略断裂带左旋走滑拉分作用有关,其中加积了一套河湖相砂砾岩沉积。该走滑盆地在沉积晚期遭受NW- SE向挤压应力作用,控盆边界断层发生反转,地层发生宽缓的褶皱变形,基性岩脉侵位其中(107Ma)。上部新生的断陷盆地很可能形成于早白垩世晚期-晚白垩世(自107Ma以来),受NW- SE引张作用,沿凤-太断裂带发生复活,其中堆积了一套河流相红色砂泥岩和砂砾岩沉积地层。该断陷盆地遭受2次挤压应力场的改造:早期NNW- SSE向挤压、晚期NNE- SSW向挤压,这两期挤压作用使控盆边界断裂(凤太断裂、勉略断裂)发生构造反转,地层陡倾,但盆地内部变形较弱。与区域构造演化历史对比,认为这两期挤压应力作用分别发生在白垩纪晚期与古近纪。     

A late eocene-early Oligocene transgressive event in the Golfo San Jorge basin: Palynological results and stratigraphic implications

A new Cenozoic dataset in the subsurface of the South Flank of the Golfo San Jorge Basin (Santa Cruz province) allowed to identify a non-previously recognized transgressive event of late Eocene to early Oligocene age. Below of a marine succession containing a dinoflagellate cyst assemblage that characterizes the C/G palynological zone of the Chenque Formation (early Miocene), a 80–110 m thick marine succession contains a palynological assemblage integrated by Gelatia inflata, Diphyes colligerum and Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata supporting the occurrence of a marine incursion in the basin during the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT). The new lithostratigraphic unit - here defined as El Huemul Formation – covers in sharp contact to the Sarmiento Formation, and become thinner from East to West; the unit has been identified in about 1800 well logs covering up to 3500 km², and its subsurface distribution exceed the boundaries of the study area. The El Huemul Formation consists of a thin lag of glauconitic sandstones with fining-upward log motif, followed by a mudstone-dominated succession that coarsening-upward to sandstones, evidencing a full T-R cycle. Preservation of the El Huemul Formation in the subsurface of the South Flank has been favored by the reactivation of WNW-ESE late Cretaceous normal faults, and by the generation of N–S striking normal faults of Paleocene-Eocene age. Flexural loading associated to igneous intrusions of Paleocene?- middle Eocene age also promoted the increase of subsidence in the South Flank of the basin prior to the transgression.     

The first crocodyliform from the Chubut Group (Chubut Province, Argentina) and its phylogenetic position within basal Mesoeucrocodylia

A new crocodyliform specimen is presented here found in the Cerro Castaño Member of the Cerro Barcino Formation (Chubut Group). The material consists of cranial and postcranial remains that represent a new taxon that has strong affinities with Peirosauridae, but also shares derived features present in Araripesuchus. The phylogenetic relationships of this new taxon were tested through a cladistic analysis depicting it as a member of the Peirosauridae. The inclusion of Barcinosuchus within this clade of basal mesoeucrocodylians is supported by the presence of hypapophyses up to the third or fourth dorsal vertebrae, anterolateral facing edge on postorbital, quadrate dorsal surface divided in two planes by a ridge; mandibular symphysis tapering anterirorly in ventral view, lateral surface of dentary convex anterior to mandibular fenestra, distal body of quadrate well developed, anteroposteriorly thin and lateromedially broad. The new specimen broadens the temporal and geographical distribution of Peirosauridae during the Cretaceous of Gondwana, representing the southern-most and the most ancient record of the group in Patagonia. The new material also provides insights on the postcranial anatomy of peirosaurids, a group that has been so far studied almost exclusively from cranial material.     

贺兰山构造带及邻区中-新生代构造事件:来自不整合面和裂变径迹的约束

贺兰山构造带及邻区的构造属性长期以来存在争议,确定该地区中新生代的构造事件及隆升过程是了解这一重要陆内变形带动力学机制的关键所在。本文采用不整合面分析法和低温热年代学方法,综合分析探讨了贺兰山构造带及邻区中新生代的构造事件及其构造演化过程。通过对该地区的野外地质调查,本次在中-新生代地层中由底到顶识别出6个不同类型的不整合面,它们分别是:(1) T_2-3/P平行不整合面;(2) J/AnJ角度不整合面-微角度不整合面;(3) K_1/AnK_1高角度不整合面;(4) E_3q/AnE_3;(5) N_1/AnN_1;(6) Q/An Q。在T_3d^3、J_2y和K_1变形前锋,可见与逆冲-褶皱造山带相关的同构造沉积生长地层,其在形态上表现为超覆、削截,在黄草滩等地局部与倒转背斜相伴生。这些不整合和生长地层是构造活动的直接证据。本次研究对采自该地区的12件样品分别进行了磷灰石、锆石裂变径迹测年及热史模拟分析。结果表明,裂变径迹年龄主要分布在4个区间,对应地质时代分别为中侏罗世-晚侏罗世(168～159Ma)、早白垩世末(139～91Ma)、晚白垩世末(79～66Ma)、始新世(59～50Ma),反映出该地区在这4个时期发生了明显的冷却抬升事件,且这4期构造事件与野外观察到的地质特征有很好的地质响应。同时,热史模拟表明该地区整体上经历了晚侏罗世、早白垩世、晚白垩世末-始新世3期快速隆升事件。综合研究表明,该地区主体逆冲褶皱的时间是从中侏罗世开始,早白垩世末构造运动最强烈,新生代又有所活动。     

北部湾盆地福山凹陷古近纪辉长岩地球化学特征及构造意义

北部湾盆地福山凹陷古近系流沙港组二段泥岩中发育大面积巨厚辉长岩?地球化学分析表明,辉长岩具有中等TiO_2含量(2.15%~2.24%),较低MgO(5.77%~5.86%)、K_2O(1.18%~1.25%),P_2O_5(0.36%~0.39%)含量,且Na_2OK_2O,指示其类似于板内拉斑玄武岩。辉长岩ΣREE为105.61×10~(–6)~111.26×10~(–6),富集LREE,(La/Yb)_N=8.74~9.64,具有右倾型稀土配分模式;与原始地幔相比,富集Rb、Ba、Th、U等大离子亲石元素以及高场强元素Nb、Ta、Zr、Hf,呈现板内碱性玄武岩特征,是地幔物质上涌与上覆薄而年轻的岩石圈地幔相互作用的产物?结合LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb测年结果显示,辉长岩形成时间介于37~32 Ma,代表福山凹陷古近系辉长岩的侵位年龄,是古近纪岩石圈持续伸展环境下的产物?这对探讨福山凹陷以及中国东南部古近纪构造活动及岩浆演化具有重要的意义。     

赣杭构造带红层盆地原型及其沉积作用

盆地原型是指盆地沉积时的构造属性类型,盆地原型分析就是按阶段的盆地结构分析法。文章暂不讨论赣杭带晚侏罗世-早白垩世早期的火山杂色断陷盆地,而以实地观察资料和前期研究成果,对早白垩世晚期以后形成的一系列NEE方向分布的红色断陷盆地及其沉积作用进行综合分析。盆地红层下部夹有玄武岩层,已有的K-Ar年龄值为 105~98Ma,由此判断赣杭带红色断陷盆地演化从早白垩世晚期开始。早期属典型的断陷盆地,呈现半地堑式形态,北界为向南倾斜的正断层,南界为超覆不整合。晚白垩世中后期演变为拗陷盆地,沉积盆地扩大,南北两侧均见到超覆不整合,北侧部分地段保留早期断裂边界。河流沉积作用为最主要沉积作用方式,盆地中心部位可见少量内生沉积的白云岩、泥灰岩及炭质泥岩。沉积组合大致为湖泊相、冲积扇相、三角洲相及河流相,代表了拉张型盆地的基本沉积类型,也反映了断陷湖盆由初始拉张断陷、中后期扩张为拗陷、到最后萎缩的完整过程。     

Basin inversion by distributed deformation: the southern margin of the Bristol Channel Basin, England

Several models of basin inversion described in the literature are tested in a study of Triassic and Early Jurassic strata exposed along the southern margin of the Bristol Channel Basin in Somerset, England that has been exhumed by <3 km. Two key features of the superbly exposed normal faults are that they formed at several times during basin evolution—not during Triassic to Early Jurassic growth, but during Late Jurassic rifting, and during and after inversion; and that >95% of them are still in net extension, despite widespread kinematic evidence for reverse reactivation. When coupled with the general absence of thin-skinned thrusts and the widespread occurrence of regional contractional folds, it appears that none of three main inversion models—the fault-reactivation model, the thin-skinned model and the buttress model—are by themselves applicable. We erect a new model of basin inversion, the distributed deformation model, which consists of three stages of basin inversion. Stage one involved early partial reactivation of large-displacement steep normal faults. Stage two was dominated by folding, wherein fault blocks underwent oblique (non-coaxial) shortening by map scale folding, accompanied by formation of outer arc normal faults, minor cleavage and neoformed thrusts. Stage three involved reverse reactivation of outer arc normal faults and activation of oblique and strike-slip faults that partitioned deformation into compartments.     

Numerical modeling of Late Miocene tectonic inversion in the Xihu Sag,East China Sea Shelf Basin,China

The East China Sea Shelf Basin is an important oil- and gas-bearing basin in the West Pacific continental margin. This region was affected by subduction of the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate in Cenozoic and experienced multi-stage tectonic inversions. This paper presents results from a numerical simulation by finite element method to the Xihu Sag in the East China Sea Shelf Basin and neighboring areas in an attempt to evaluate the WNW-directed compression on the sag during Late Miocene. Based on comprehensive structural analysis of a large number of seismic profiles, we determine the structural geometry of the sag, including the basement of the basin, the sedimentary cover, and 29 major faults in the Xihu Sag. Simulation results show that under continuous WNW-directed compression, tectonic inversion occurred firstly in the Longjing and Yuquan tectonic zones in the sag. Based on quantitative analysis of vertical displacement field of the Xihu Sag and peripheral areas and its stress intensity evolution, we identify a compressional regime in the Longjing Anticline Zone with a gradually propagated uplifting from south to north; whereas the propagation of uplifting in the Yuquan Anticline Zone is from north to south. The inversion intensity decreases from north to south. The formation of the tectonic inversion zone in the Xihu Sag is not only correlated to the direction of compression and fault patterns in the basin, but also closely related to the spatial configuration of fault surfaces of the Xihu–Jilong Fault in the Xihu Sag.     

尼日尔Termit盆地及其周缘晚白垩世古地理演化

Termit盆地及其周缘是中西非裂谷中典型的中、新生代裂谷盆地,也是中石油海外最具潜力的风险勘探区,但由于多期构造运动的复杂性,研究区晚白垩世的古地理演化缺乏系统的分析研究。本文将Termit盆地及其周缘作为研究区域,在构造演化的基础上利用地球化学、地层学及地球物理等手段进一步分析了研究区的古沉积环境、古气候及古物源,最终明确了晚白垩世的古沉积演化。研究认为,晚白垩世早期的森诺曼阶（Cenomanian）研究区开始发生海侵,三冬阶（Santonian）时期达到最大海侵范围,之后开始逐渐海退的过程。马斯特里赫特阶（Maastrichtian）时期的区域构造挤压事件使盆地形态发生改变,该构造事件最终以区域不整合结束。地球化学资料、岩性资料以及地震资料综合表明,森诺曼阶（Cenomanian）-三冬阶（Santonian）时期研究区处于偏还原的浅海陆架沉积,属典型的热带气候,接受来自北东向的物源供给;至坎潘阶（Campanian）-马斯特里赫特阶（Maastrichtian）时期,伴随着海平面的下降,研究区由海相沉积逐渐转变为海陆过渡相沉积,且物源主要来自于北东及南西两个方向。本次研究明确了Termit盆地及其周缘在晚白垩世的古沉积演化过程,这为进一步明确研究区的沉积体系及砂体的预测提供了理论依据。     

Control of slope deformations in high seismic area: Results from the Gulf of Corinth observatory site (Greece)

The northern coast of the Peloponnesus (Greece) is characterized by high seismic activity related to the Gulf of Corinth opening with an extension rate of 16 mm y^− 1. Studies presented in this paper focus on the characterization of links between tectonic and slope deformations on the Panagopoula slope, located on the southern coast. The approach is centred on qualitative and quantitative data acquisition based on geological and geomorphological investigations, geophysical imagery by electrical resistivity tomography and slope displacement monitoring.Firstly, we highlight two different types of slope deformation on Panagopoula: a superficial landslide affecting weathered limestone, and a large-scale deformation without global failure expressed in the field. Tectonic features play a major role in these two dynamic processes, taking into account the strong geometrical link between the inherited fractures and gravitational scarps mapped in the field.Secondly, the displacements survey network, distributed on both sides of a significant fault crossing the slope, allows the quantification of slope displacements underlying two components: (i) a gravitational sliding (N010) along the slope, and (ii) a supposed tectonic component (N240).     

Structure of the Cobar Basin,New South Wales,based on seismic reflection profiling

The Cobar Basin in central western New South Wales is a mineral‐rich Early Devonian basin typical of those that characterize the Siluro‐Devonian history of the Lachlan Orogen of southeastern Australia. One hundred and seventy kilometres of seismic profiling in three lines across the basin have shown it to be asymmetrical in shape with an east‐dipping western margin that is steeper than the moderately west‐dipping eastern margin. Maximum basin thickness is around 6 km, but there are significant thickness changes, especially from south to north, which reflect the effect of synsedimentary faulting. Seismic profiling suggests that the basin deformed by thin‐skinned tectonics; postulated strike‐slip effects were not visible on the sections. The seismic profiling has, for the first time, imaged the western synrift basin margin which is generally not exposed. Strain variations during deformation along this edge were taken up by the formation of a major jog ('dog‐leg') which has propagated into the basin as a tear fault. Intrabasinal tears, as well as thrusts, which link into one or more detachments, provide potential pathways for mineralizing fluids during basin inversion.     

塔里木盆地东南缘(阿尔金山)"变质基底"记录的多期构造热事件:锆石U-Pb年代学的制约

塔里木盆地东南缘的阿尔金山被认为是塔里木克拉通变质基底的主要出露地区之一。 本文通过阿尔金山北坡不整合在太古代-古元古代变质基底之上的安南坝群中的碎屑岩和中南阿尔金中深变质岩石(原定为阿尔金岩群)的锆石U-Pb年代学研究,来确定塔里木盆地东南缘变质基底的性质及所经历的多期构造热历史。研究结果显示,塔里木盆地东南缘的安南坝群中含砾砂岩的碎屑锆石年龄集中在1.92Ga左右,少量在2.0~2.4Ga,表明其碎屑物质主要来源于下伏的太古代-早元古代米兰岩群和相关的深成侵入体。在中阿尔金地块和南阿尔金俯冲碰撞杂岩带的深变质岩石中,锆石U-Pb年代学数据表明其记录有新元古代早期(920~940Ma)、新元古代晚期(760Ma左右)和早古生代(450~500Ma)三期构造热事件,新元古代早期的构造热事件与塔里木(或晋宁)造山作用有关,它普遍存在于塔里木盆地周缘的和南中国地块(扬子克拉通)的变质基底岩石中,与Rodinia超级大陆汇聚相关;新元古代晚期的构造热事件也同样广泛存在于塔里木盆地周缘和扬子克拉通之中,被认为与Rodinia超大陆的裂解作用有关。因此,在新元古代时期,阿尔金的地质演化历史与扬子克拉通非常相似,而与华北则有很大的不同,锆石U-Pb测定还表明中南阿尔金的深变质岩石普遍遭受了早古生代的变质作用的改造,显示它们普遍卷入了早古生代的碰撞造山事件之中,成为早古生代碰撞造山带的组成部分。     

Heterogeneous tectonic inversion of the Mid-Polish Trough related to crustal architecture, sedimentary patterns and structural inheritance

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.