Reversals in the polarity of structural facing across an early ductile thrust; the Central Donegal Slide,northwest Ireland

The Dalradian succession of central Donegal represents a tectono-stratigraphic sequence everywhere separated into two distinct successions by the Central Donegal Slide. Each stratigraphic package consistently youngs away from this major D₁ structure which originated during lower greenschist facies metamorphism and corresponds with the development of locally preserved penetrative S₁ fabrics. The tectonic slide and associated reversal in the direction of structural facing are commonly marked by mylonites and tectonic schists, which have been subsequently folded and reactivated by kilometric-scale sheath folds and the Ballybofey Nappe. Structural correlations with northwest Donegal suggest that the Central Donegal Slide relates to the Knockateen Slide, and represents an early thrust with top to the northwest sense of shear. The Central Donegal Slide cuts up-section through the Middle Dalradian sub-basin centred on southern Donegal, emplacing younger, anoxic basinal sediments and turbidites over an older, inverted, shelf succession. The location of the Central Donegal Slide adjacent to the margin of this sub-basin suggests that the siting and form of ductile thrusts may be strongly influenced by the geometry of the pre-existing sedimentary basin.     

Late Quaternary activity and dextral strike-slip movement on the Karakax Fault Zone, northwest Tibet

Field observations and interpretations of satellite images reveal that the westernmost segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault (called Karakax Fault Zone) striking WNW located in the northwestern margin of the Tibetan Plateau has distinctive geomorphic and tectonic features indicative of right-lateral strike-slip fault in the Late Quaternary. South-flowing gullies and N–S-trending ridges are systematically deflected and offset by up to ~ 1250 m, and Late Pleistocene–Holocene alluvial fans and small gullies that incise south-sloping fans record dextral offset up to ~ 150 m along the fault zone. Fault scarps developed on alluvial fans vary in height from 1 to 24 m. Riedel composite fabrics of foliated cataclastic rocks including cataclasite and fault gouge developed in the shear zone indicate a principal right-lateral shear sense with a thrust component. Based on offset Late Quaternary alluvial fans, ¹⁴C ages and composite fabrics of cataclastic fault rocks, it is inferred that the average right-lateral strike-slip rate along the Karakax Fault Zone is ~ 9 mm/a in the Late Quaternary, with a vertical component of ~ 2 mm/a, and that a M 7.5 morphogenic earthquake occurred along this fault in 1902. We suggest that right-lateral slip in the Late Quaternary along the WNW-trending Karakax Fault Zone is caused by escape tectonics that accommodate north–south shortening of the western Tibetan Plateau due to ongoing northward penetration of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate.     

Progressive deformation and the rotation of contemporary fold axes in the Ballybofey Nappe,north-west Ireland

Internal regions of orogenic belts may be characterized by an alignment of fold axes with mineral elongation lineations. This relationship is commonly interpreted as representing progressive tightening and rotation towards the shear direction of early buckle folds, the hinges of which were initiated orthogonal to this direction. Detailed structural analysis of lower amphibolite facies Dalradian metasediments of the Ballybofey (fold) Nappe, north-west Ireland, shows that an intense S₃ schistosity is developed axial planar to mesoscopic and minor F₃ folds. In areas of low D₃ strain, F₃ fold axes plunge gently towards the north-east, whereas in regions of greater strain plunges are towards the south-east subparallel to the constant mineral lineation. Minor folds which initiated at angles of 70–80° from the mineral lineation subsequently rotated towards the shear direction in a consistent clockwise sense. Progressive and variable non-coaxial deformation oblique to the original mean F₃ orientation has resulted in a unimodal distribution pattern of fold axes. Analysis of the angular rotation of fold axes enables estimates of the bulk shear strain to be evaluated and models of progressive deformation to be assessed.     

西准噶尔达拉布特断裂带中段晚古生代构造分析

走滑断裂构造在中亚造山带增生及演化过程的研究中扮演了重要角色,其主要构造单元均被走滑断裂带所分割。西准噶尔造山带是中亚增生型造山带的重要组成部分,达拉布特断裂是西准噶尔造山带中一条重要的走滑断裂,其复杂的构造表现吸引了大量研究者的关注。前人不仅在其构造解释上存在着走滑断层、逆冲断层或压扭性断层等诸多争议,且在其活动时代问题上也有不同的看法。本文依据在达拉布特断裂带中段开展的详细野外构造学工作,结合前人针对该地区石炭纪火山岩、浊积岩和造山后花岗岩侵入体所做的同位素年代学工作成果,对达拉布特断裂的活动性质和活动时代进行了讨论。结果确认在中二叠统沉积之前,达拉布特断裂带存在两期变形事件,分别对应于320Ma左右沿NE-SW的较深层次的左行走滑事件D1和表现为脆-韧性转换域的轴面倾向SE的褶皱作用构造事件D2。前者为主期变形事件,而后者发生在中二叠统沉积之前。本文同时报道了沿达拉布特断裂带出露右行走滑构造形迹,并讨论了其可能的成因。沿达拉布特断裂带的多期构造事件记录了西准噶尔地区造山后大规模走滑构造调整过程,是晚古生代晚期中亚各个陆块拼合后大规模陆内调整在西准噶尔造山带的具体体现。     

山西地堑系北部六棱山北麓断裂西段晚第四纪右旋走滑速率的约束

山西地堑系是华北中部的一个不连续的右旋剪切拉张构造带,这一观点似乎早已被学界所广泛认同。然而,目前仍缺乏对山西地堑系内部NNE向断裂右旋走滑特征的深入认识。本研究主要以山西地堑系北部六棱山北麓断裂的西段为研究对象,基于高分辨率卫星影像解译、野外地质地貌调查、无人机摄影测量和光释光测年等手段对断裂的晚第四纪运动学特征进行了厘定。跨断裂冲沟的一致性右旋偏转等表明断裂具有右旋走滑活动,断裂露头的构造解析及断层三角面、断层崖和冲沟裂点等指示断裂还具有正断分量。对断错地貌面和地质体的精确测量结果表明断裂应以右旋走滑为主,兼有正断分量,且走滑分量远大于垂直分量。结合年代学估算出断裂晚第四纪以来的右旋走滑速率为1.6±0.3 mm/a,垂直滑动速率约为0.2 mm/a。六棱山北麓断裂西段的右旋走滑速率与GPS测量的山西地堑系的右旋剪切速率大体相当,表明六棱山北麓断裂西段在山西地堑系的右旋剪切运动中起着重要的作用。六棱山北麓断裂西段的右旋走滑运动未被六棱山北麓断裂中段的水平拉张作用完全吸收和调节,剩余的应变分量可能继续向NE方向传递,故与六棱山北麓断裂西段走向基本一致的六棱山北麓断裂的东段也可能具有右旋走滑特征。

     

阿尔金断裂带最大累积走滑位移量——900km？

通过变形构造几何学、岩石学和区域构造对比研究,认为阿尔金断裂西北侧的阿尔金山北缘、南缘近EW走向的蓝片岩-榴辉岩高压变质带、榴辉岩超高压变质带分别与阿尔金断裂东南侧的北祁连山、柴北缘NW—SE/NWW—SEE走向的蓝片岩-榴辉岩高压变质带、榴辉岩超高压变质带相对应,并且,高压变质带与超高压变质带的宽度和走向在断裂两侧存在较大的变化。这种在断裂带中宽度变窄、角度趋于与断裂带走向一致的变化是韧性或韧脆性走滑过程中产生的拖曳构造。因此,阿尔金断裂带走滑过程中存在较大的韧性变形,它的最大累积走滑位移量应由韧性和脆性走滑位移量组成,至少大于500km,小于1000km。另外,拖曳构造的几何特征,以及西昆仑库地北蛇绿岩、阿尔金南缘蛇绿岩和柴北缘蛇绿岩在年龄、岩石组合及地球化学特征方面均具有相似之处,暗示在早古生代时期西昆仑和阿尔金南缘、柴北缘很可能处于相同的构造背景之中,后被阿尔金断裂所切割。因此,综合得出了阿尔金断裂带最大累积左旋走滑位移量为900～1000km。     

Slab breakoff: a model for Caledonian, Late Granite syn-collisional magmatism in the orthotectonic (metamorphic) zone of Scotland and Donegal, Ireland

None of the existing models for calc-alkaline “Late Granite” (Siluro–Devonian) genesis in the metamorphic Caledonian orogenic belt of Ireland and Scotland fully explains their spatial, age or chemical character. A consistent model must involve the closure of Iapetus Ocean, where slab breakoff is a natural consequence of attempted subduction of continental crust. Expected outcome is a long linear belt of high-K, calc-alkaline magmas, some with characteristic trace element signatures, specifically high Ba, Sr and Zr. Other features include the critical magmatic association of coeval appinite and granite, rapid uplift, erosion and the low-grade regional metamorphism in the Southern Uplands. The linear heat pulse on breakoff is spatially, intensity and time limited producing small volume melts emplaced as separated plutons, over a short time span. Magmatism in the Caledonian metamorphic belt is accurately accounted for by slab breakoff on collision of Baltica with the Scoto–Greenland margin during the Scandian orogeny, following Iapetus Ocean closure. The two chemically, isotopically and areally distinctive suites in the metamorphic belt in Scotland, viz. the Argyll and Cairngorm Suites, can be modelled by reference to the Donegal granites where sequential partial melting of new, lamprophyric underplated crust, then shallower old crust, as heat conduction moved up through the crust on slab breakoff, produced magmas characteristic of the two suites.     

Petrology,structure and age of the Rough Point sill,Donegal

The Rough Point sill, which is one of the thickest of a large number of sills intruded into the Appin Group metasediments of the Dalradian sequence in north Donegal, contains a number of internal features including mafic:felsic banding, pegmatite bands and significant variations in grain size. There are also appreciable variations in mineralogy, particularly the proportions of plagioclase and amphibole, and in the major and trace element chemistry. Together these features indicate that the sill is, like the metasediments which it intrudes, inverted, and is therefore older than the Caledonian F₂ structures which caused the inversion. Disruption of the sediments at the sill contact is also earlier than the F₂ event. The timing of the basic magmatic episode together with the geochemistry of the sill invite comparison with the metadolerites of the southwest Highlands of Scotland.     

Palaeostress analysis of the northern Nijar and southern Vera basins: constraints for the Neogene displacement history of major strike-slip faults in the Betic Cordilleras, SE Spain

This paper presents the results of a detailed structural analysis of the northern Nijar and southern Vera basins with special emphasis on the evolution of the regional stress field and the associated timing of movement of the Serrata, Gafarillos and Palomares strike-slip fault zones. These major fault zones control the Neogene deformation of the SE Internal Betic Cordilleras in Spain. Detailed stress analysis on Neogene sediments of the Vera and Nijar basins shows a strike-slip regime with NW–SE-oriented subhorizontal maximum principal stress (σ₁) during Tortonian and earliest Messinian times. Under the influence of this stress field, dextral displacement along the N090E-trending Gafarillos fault zone resulted in deformation of the sediments of the southern Sorbas and northeastern Nijar basins. During the early Messinian a clock-wise rotation of the stress field occurred. Stress analysis in rocks with late–early Messinian up to Quaternary ages in the Nijar and Vera basins indicates a strike-slip regime with N–S-oriented subhorizontal maximum principal stress (σ₁). Under the influence of this stress field the main activity along the N010E-striking Palomares strike-slip fault zone took place, resulting in deformation of the Neogene sediments of the southeastern Vera basin and culminating in a maximum sinistral displacement of more than 20 km. At the same time the stress field was not suitably oriented to exert a large shear component on the Gafarillos fault zone, which activity ended after the earliest Messinian. Fault and outcrop patterns of syntectonic Neogene sediments in the Vera basin show that displacement along the Palomares fault zone decreased at the end of the Middle Miocene although minor displacement phases may still have occurred during the Late Miocene and possibly even Pliocene. From the Middle Miocene onward, deformation in the Nijar basin was controlled by sinistral displacement along the N040E-trending Serrata strike-slip fault zone.     

肥东花岗质岩脉的变形及年代学特征对郯庐断裂带早白垩世构造活动的指示

郯庐断裂带肥东段位于大别造山带与苏鲁造山带之间。在肥东段西韦采石场内发育了大规模的北北东向左行走滑韧性剪切带和一条低角度的韧性滑脱正断层。走滑韧性剪切带为郯庐断裂带走滑活动的产物,低角度滑脱正断层则代表了伸展背景下的构造活动。低角度滑脱正断层上、下盘发育未变形和变形的岩脉,走滑韧性剪切带内外也发育有受剪切带活动而变形的岩脉。对采石场内岩脉的构造和同位素年代学研究表明,低角度韧性滑脱正断层在129~126Ma之间发生过剪切活动,走滑韧性剪切带的活动时间在125Ma之后。综合研究认为,郯庐断裂带的伸展活动可能开始于早白垩世早期(130Ma),但在早白垩世并非一直处于伸展活动之中,125Ma之后的左行走滑活动很可能发生在早白垩世的晚期。     

Active rifting in the Japan and Okhotsk seas and the tectonic evolution of the Central Sakhalin Fault zone in the Cenozoic

Large-scale geological maps available for individual areas in the Central Sakhalin Fault zone and geological-geophysical maps of Sakhalin and surrounding sea areas were analyzed to elucidate the tectonic evolution of the fault zone determined by movements of crustal blocks due to the opening of rift basins. Changes in the direction of horizontal compression in the Sakhalin fold system from diagonal (NW-SE) to near-latitudinal resulted in the transformation of near-meridional right-lateral strike-slip faults into reversed faults in the Late Miocene. This allows Sakhalin faults to be interpreted as a zone of recent right-lateral shear between Eurasian and Sea of Okhotsk plates.     

柴达木盆地西北缘始新世晚期古隆起与阿尔金断裂的形成

研究阿尔金断裂的演化是理解青藏高原隆升过程的重要环节.本文以柴达木盆地西北缘的地震剖面、残余厚度图、沉积相图等资料进行沉积、构造的综合研究,揭示了柴达木盆地西北缘在始新世晚期开始抬升,因此导致柴达木盆地西北缘生长地层的发育.这种抬升作用在平面上则表现为与阿尔金断裂呈～30°相交的NWW-SEE走向古隆起,以及与之相关的如冲积扇等边缘沉积相.本文分析认为阿尔金断裂在始新世晚期开始孕育,在深部形成左旋性质的韧性剪切带,在地表则通过形成左阶雁列式褶皱(即古隆起)来调节深部的位移量.     

中国东部NWW向活动断裂带构造特征:以张家口-蓬莱断裂带为例

中国东部新构造期活动强烈,前人对该时期NE向构造已有很多研究,但NWW向构造研究程度较低.本文以张家口-蓬莱断裂带为例,从几何学、运动学、动力学及地震活动性四个方面对中国东部的NWW向活动断裂带进行了分析.结果表明,中国东部的NWW向活动断裂带具有左行走滑的运动性质,并控制了第四纪盆地左阶雁列的展布样式;NWW向活动断裂带是孕震断裂,诱发了多次地震活动.在动力学上,这些断裂带是扳缘的不同段落变形在板内不同块体间响应调节的产物,且在周边板块的联合作用下,华北和华南南部NWW向断裂可能印度-欧亚板块碰撞的影响占主导,而东北和华南东部NWW向断裂可能太平洋板块俯冲的影响占主导.     

阿尔金断裂走滑位移的确定——来自阿尔金山东段构造成矿带的新证据

阿尔金断裂是中国西北地区最大走滑断裂之一,呈北东东向延绵近1500km,以其强烈的贯穿性、巨大的规模、强烈的活动性和巨大的位移量为特征。但是对于其左行位移量一直存在比较大的争议,一些学者认为300～500km,而另外一些学者认为700～800km,甚至900～1000km。最近十余年的找矿进展显示出阿尔金山东段是一条重要的铁铜金铅锌多金属成矿带,其矿床成因类型、不同矿种组合关系及其反映的成矿作用条件与北祁连山西段非常相似,可以认为阿尔金山东段成矿带是北祁连山西段成矿带的西延部分,即阿尔金山东段成矿带是北祁连山西段成矿带被阿尔金断裂左行走滑断错的部分。因此,依据阿尔金山东段成矿带与祁连山西段成矿带的可比性,将此作为标志物,作者认为阿尔金断裂左行走滑总位移量为400km左右。     

利用拉分盆地和错断河流阶地定量评估康西瓦断裂晚第四纪平均左旋走滑速率

康西瓦断裂为青藏高原西北缘的一条大型左旋走滑断裂。目前,不同学者对康西瓦断裂晚第四纪的平均走滑速率仍存在较大争议。文章以青藏高原西北缘喀拉喀什河谷段一处冲洪积扇上发育的一个小型拉分盆地以及该冲洪积扇上发育的一个错断河流阶地为研究对象,基于拉分盆地演化的两种简单模式,分别利用拉分盆地的长边和斜边限定对应冲洪积扇的水平位错位量和错位量的上限值,而通过光释光定年技术约束该冲洪积扇的形成年代,结合相关数据,分别估算出康西瓦断裂晚第四纪以来的平均左旋走滑速率为小于或等于8.6±1.0 mm/a和小于约12.4 mm/a。与此同时,利用该冲洪积扇上发育的错断河流阶地的水平位错和对应阶地的放弃年龄,估算出康西瓦断裂晚第四纪以来的平均左旋走滑速率为8.4±1.0 mm/a。

     

古新世以来郯庐断裂的位移量及其对莱州湾凹陷的控制

高分辨三维地震可视化及方差切片分析显示,郯庐断裂渤海海域莱州湾段北北东向断裂系发育。断层在水平方差切片上的拖拽现象、断裂带内部断层的组合关系以及凹陷沉积中心的迁移等,表明古新世以来该区存在右旋走滑运动。假设在东、西两支断层的走滑拉分作用下,根据可容纳空间不变原理,设计了三角形模型、长方形模型、半地堑型模型以及地堑型模型共四种模型,计算莱州湾凹陷南北长度和凹陷深度的关系,其中半地堑模型计算得到的郯庐断裂的水平位移为7km。结合断层的平面分布和断层的切割关系,表明古新世以来郯庐断裂的走滑拉分作用难以控制莱州湾凹陷的形成,走滑拉分作用只是在走滑断裂带内部形成了局部小型洼地,其规模很小,影响非常有限。     

Early Permian strike-slip basin formation and felsic volcanism in the Manning Group,southern New England Orogen,eastern Australia

The Manning Group is characterised by rapidly filled strike-slip basins that developed during the early Permian along the Peel--Manning Fault System in the southern New England Orogen. Typically, the Manning Group has been difficult to date owing to the lack of fossiliferous units or igneous rocks. Thus, the timing of transition from an accretionary convergent margin in the late Carboniferous to dominantly strike-slip tectonic regimes that involved development and emplacement of the Great Serpentinite Belt (Weraerai terrane) is not well constrained. One exception are rhyolites of the Ramleh Volcanics that were erupted into the Echo Hills Formation. These developed along the dextral Monkey Creek Fault splay east of the Peel--Manning Fault System. Zircons extracted from the Ramleh Volcanics yield a U–Pb (SHRIMP) age of 295.6?±?4.6?Ma that constrains the minimum age of deposition in this basin to earliest Permian. Whole-rock geochemistry indicates these are peraluminous felsic melts enriched in LREE and incompatible elements with strong depletions in U, Nb, Sr and Ti. These are similar in age and composition to the nearby S-type Bundarra and Hillgrove plutonic supersuites. We suggest that extensive movement along the east-dipping Peel--Manning Fault System was responsible, not only for strike-slip basin development at the surface (Manning Group), but was also the locus for crustal melting that was responsible for generating S-type felsic melts that utilised hanging-wall fault splays as conduits to the surface or to coalesce in the crust as batholiths exclusively to the east of the Peel--Manning Fault System.     

Spatial Characteristics and Controlling Factors of the Strike‐slip Fault Zones in the Northern Slope of Tazhong Uplift,Tarim Basin: Insight from 3D Seismic Data

The detailed characteristics of the Paleozoic strike-slip fault zones developed in the northern slope of Tazhong uplift are closely related to hydrocarbon explorations. In this study, five major strike-slip fault zones that cut through the Cambrian-Middle Devonian units are identified, by using 3D seismic data. Each of the strike-slip fault zones is characterized by two styles of deformation, namely deeper strike-slip faults and shallower en-echelon faults. By counting the reverse separation of the horizon along the deeper faults, activity intensity on the deeper strike-slip faults in the south is stronger than that on the northern ones. The angle between the strike of the shallower en-echelon normal faults and the principal displacement zone(PDZ) below them is likely to have a tendency to decrease slightly from the south to the north, which may indicate that activity intensity on the shallower southern en-echelon faults is stronger than that on the northern ones. Comparing the reverse separation along the deeper faults and the fault throw of the shallower faults, activity intensity of the Fault zone S1 is similar across different layers, while the activity intensity of the southern faults is larger than that of the northern ones. It is obvious that both the activity intensity of the same layer in different fault zones and different layers in the same fault zone have a macro characteristic in that the southern faults show stronger activity intensity than the northern ones. The Late Ordovician décollement layer developed in the Tazhong area and the peripheral tectonic events of the Tarim Basin have been considered two main factors in the differential deformation characteristics of the strike-slip fault zones in the northern slope of Tazhong uplift. They controlled the differences in the multi-level and multi-stage deformations of the strike-slip faults, respectively. In particular, peripheral tectonic events of the Tarim Basin were the dynamic source of the formatting and evolution of the strike-slip fault zones, and good candidates to accommodate the differential activity intensity of these faults.     

柴达木盆地北缘断裂(阿木尼克山段)构造地貌及晚第四纪活动速率研究

柴达木盆地北缘断裂是控制盆地东北部的重要边界活动断裂,其晚第四纪活动特性的研究,对理解南祁连山应变分配模式及断裂活动向柴达木盆地内部挤压扩展过程具有重要意义。柴达木盆地北缘断裂在阿木尼克山段遥感影像线性特征明显,发育一系列断层陡坎、断层三角面、水系扭错等地貌现象。本研究通过遥感解译、地质调查、探槽开挖、GPS地形剖面测量、OSL地质测年等研究表明:在阿木尼克山山前存在长约30 km的地震地质遗迹,连续性好,发育断层陡坎、断层凹槽、地震鼓梁(包)、水系扭错等地貌现象。通过对典型地貌面GPS测量及OSL测年,得到全新世平均垂直速率为0.43±0.02 mm/a。通过DEM图解译得到Fan2洪积扇地貌面最大水平走滑量达48 m,得到13 ka以来走滑速率为3.38～4.21 mm/a; Fan1洪积扇地貌面最大水平走滑量达14 m,计算得到5.1 ka以来走滑速率2.50～2.75 mm/a。     

沂沭断裂带晚白垩世-早古新世左行走滑的低温年代学约束

沂沭断裂带晚白垩世地层中保留大量的左行压剪的几何学与运动证据,左行活动时限为晚白垩世—古近纪。取自4条主断层的不同部位断层泥及断层碎裂岩的磷灰石裂变径迹年龄,远小于周围未发生变形的地层年龄,构造活动使得断层带物质的磷灰石裂变径迹完全退火。通过相关软件对不同磷灰石裂变径迹数据模拟,显示在70~60Ma前及约10Ma开始出现快速抬升(冷却)。综合分析认为,沂沭断裂在70~60Ma经历过较大规模左行挤压活动。约10Ma的快速抬升事件,具有区域性,可能与青藏高原约10Ma的快速伸展有关。