基底收缩对挤压构造变形特征影响——来自砂箱实验的启示

进行了 4个砂箱模型的模拟实验。其中基底收缩单侧挤压剖面模型以形成后冲叠瓦式断层为特征 ,基底无收缩单侧挤压剖面模型则以发育前冲叠瓦断层为特征。基底收缩斜向双侧挤压平面模型形成两组不同走向的逆断层 ,一组为与挤压带边界基本平行的主控断层 ,另一组为与挤压方向近于垂直的雁列断层。而基底无收缩斜向双侧挤压平面模型仅形成一组与挤压带边界基本平行的逆断层。这些模型的实验结果表明 ,基底收缩对挤压构造变形特征具有重要的影响。后冲 (或向陆冲向 )叠瓦式这种较为罕见挤压构造、以及与挤压方向近垂直的雁列断层的形成与基底的收缩作用有关。对于类似于焉耆盆地这种通常认为是压剪形成的挤压构造组合 ,笔者认为用“基底收缩条件下的斜向挤压作用”可更加贴切地加以解释。     

岩石强度对冲断层形成特征影响的砂箱实验研究

实验通过地形变化的砂箱模型模拟了两盘岩石强度差异对冲断层形成特征的影响作用。模型设计为在基底收缩参与的情况下 ,变形前地面坡度递增的单侧挤压系列。实验结果显示 ,当变形前地形水平乃至初始地面坡度很小 (<7°)时 ,挤压作用形成两组倾向相反的冲断层。若初始地面坡度显著 (>7°) ,则只形成倾向与挤压方向相反的一组冲断层。结合应力分析认为 ,若两盘岩石强度均一或相近 ,挤压作用形成两组对冲断层 ;当强度明显差异的两盘发生碰撞时 ,强度大的一盘优先向能量弱的方向释放能量 ,形成向另一盘仰冲的一组冲断层。实验结果与陆陆碰撞带剖面断层形态上有较好的相似性。     

Vertical strain variations in the Osen-Røa thrust sheet,North-western Oslo Fjord,Norway

Vertical variations in deformation style and shortening within the Osen-Røa thrust sheet are examined on the north-western side of the Oslo Fjord. Using thrust distribution diagrams and graphs of throw against height in the stratigraphy, particular formations are identified in which thrusts are either created or destroyed. Many thrusts are killed by a combination of (1) dissipation of slip by splaying of thrusts in shales, and (2) the presence of a thick competent unit that requires a thrust to attain a specific displacement value in order to propagate through the unit in one jerk. The Upper Didymograptus Shales and Ampyx Limestone make an effective combination that kills thrusts with less than 50 m of throw. Within the thrust sheet, deformation styles change vertically from imbricate slices, pop-up and triangle zones with tip-line folds in the Cambro-Ordovician shales and limestones, to buckle folds in the Silurian limestones, sandstones and shales. This change is accompanied by a decrease in shortening from 34% in the former to 17% in the latter. Hence one or several higher, bedding-parallel detachment horizons need to be invoked to separate areas of varying deformation character.     

A cross-section through the Scandinavian Caledonides constructed with the aid of branch-line maps

Fault surfaces have a finite area enclosed by branch- and tip-lines. A tip-line separates the slipped from the unslipped region. A branch-line forms where one fault splays off another and occurs at the trailing or leading ends of thrust sheets and along frontal, oblique and lateral ramps. Hence potentially complicated patterns of branch- and tip-lines outline or surround the fault surface. The branch-lines determine which parts of the fault geometry, off a line of section, can be projected on to the section; help to define the fault movement direction; and identify horses or fragments left behind by the faulting. The technique of analysing branch- and tip-lines is demonstrated on the thrusts of the Trondheim area to derive a more rigorous section which is also constrained by gravimetric, aeromagnetic and metamorphic data. Lateral branch-lines, parallel to the thrust slip-direction, suggest slip vectors between 155 and 165° (SE) for three of the thrusts. Horses, left behind by the thrusts, suggest minimum displacements of 50 and 100 km for two of these thrusts.     

柴达木盆地北缘新生代构造变形的物理模拟

文中设计了3种类型的基底收缩挤压砂箱实验模型和一种基底无收缩挤压砂箱实验模型,用于研究柴达木盆地北缘新生代构造的变形机制.实验结果表明,基底收缩挤压模型以反冲断层发育为特色.在双侧对称对冲挤压模型中,正冲和反冲断层的发育程度基本处于均衡状态;在双侧不对称对冲挤压模型中,反冲断层更加发育,尤其在挤压速度较快一侧更加显著;单侧挤压模型中,以反冲断层发育、正冲断层很少为特征.由此表明,基底收缩作用和挤压作用的不对称性促使反冲断层的发育.根据实验结果与实际剖面的对比,笔者认为,基底收缩和不对称挤压是导致该区特殊剖面结构的可能原因,该区新生代构造变形是在基底收缩作用参与下、以祁连山为主的侧向不对称挤压作用的结果.     

Sequences of thrusts and displacement transfer in the superposed duplexes of the Esla Nappe Region (cantabrian zone, nw spain)

In a cross-section through the southern arm of the Cantabrian Zone, several duplexes have been identified below the Esla Nappe, which is the uppermost and main thrust sheet of the area. The folds deforming the Esla Nappe are culmination walls linked to frontal and lateral ramps belonging to the lower thrust sheets. The thrust sequence can be established on the basis of quantitative analysis of displacement transfer and out of sequence thrusting. The primitive footwall ramps of the Esla Nappe Region were often subsequently broken by décollements developed in successively lower stratigraphic levels of these footwalls. The kinematics of the lowest duplex are more complicated than those of typical duplexes described elsewhere: some thrusts transfer only part of their displacement to the roof thrust, while the remaining part is accommodated along the higher thrusts of previously emplaced duplexes, cutting out of sequence one or more floor or roof thrusts. Cumulative displacement of the thrusts in this region is about 90 km, giving a present thickness 3 times that of the original pre-orogenic sequence, together with a translation of at least 60 km, for the synorogenic basin.     

Effects of topography on the curvature of fold-and-thrust belts during shortening of a 2-layer model of continental lithosphere

We have used analogue experiments to investigate the effects of surface topography on the curvature of fold-and-thrust belts, under conditions of (1) initial relief, but no erosion, and (2) no initial relief, but differential erosion, sedimentation and transport.In experiments where a 2-layer model lithosphere shortened and thickened in front of an advancing straight piston, the geometry of the developing thrust wedge was very sensitive to variations in surface topography. In models with an initially flat, horizontal surface, and in the absence of erosion and sedimentation, thrusts were straight, propagated forwards, and nucleated at buckle folds far in front of an advancing piston. Around an initial topographic high (plateau or cone), thrusts tended to be arcuate, forming salients towards the foreland. Initial plateaux and cones tended to behave rigidly, while arcuate thrust slices formed around them. To accommodate differential slip, transfer zones developed on both sides of initial highs. Fault blocks rotated about vertical axes and thrusts moved in oblique slip within transfer zones. In models with initially horizontal surfaces, which were subject to differential erosion, sedimentation and transport, thrusts initially were straight, but then progressively rotated around non-eroded, thickened and stronger areas. These worked as indenters, in front of which new thrusts nucleated at curved buckle folds. These thrusts were also curved, their apices being in front of the thickened, non-eroded areas.In nature, arcuate structural patterns are to be found around the Altiplano of the Central Andes and around the Tromen volcanic ridge in the Neuquén Basin of northern Patagonia. We infer that these areas behaved in quasi-rigid fashion, protected as they were by their high elevations, and that differential erosion at the scale of the entire Andes may have contributed to oroclinal bending.     

新疆库车坳陷逆掩断裂在油气运聚中的作用

在研究新疆库车坳陷逆掩断裂、源岩和盖层空间发育特征的基础上,研究了逆掩断裂与源岩、盖层的空间匹配关系.认为断穿源岩、盖层的逆掩断裂则是油气散失的通道;勾通源岩,但未断穿盖层的逆掩断裂则是油气聚集的输导通道,它们控制着库车坳陷油气的聚散及其在空间上的分布.在研究库车坳陷逆掩断裂活动史和源岩排烃史、盖层封闭能力形成史的基础上,研究了逆掩断裂与源岩、盖层的时间匹配关系,认为盖层与源岩的时间匹配关系控制着可供运移的油气量;逆掩断裂与源岩的时间匹配关系控制着可供聚集的油气量,盖层与逆掩断裂的时间匹配关系控制着油气的富集量.     

Magma chambers and localization of deformation during thrusting

Terra Nova, 22, 390–395, 2010 Abstract We present the results of coupled analogue and numerical models that provide new insights into the relationships between volcanoes and thrusts. The effects of both upper‐crustal magma chambers and the load of volcanoes on the geometry of thrust systems were investigated. Analogue modelling points to a strong influence exerted by a magma chamber on thrust geometry, which, as suggested by the numerical models used to rationalize these results, is related to the stress redistribution around the weak heterogeneity. The low‐viscosity body below a volcanic edifice localizes compressional deformation and causes a curvature of the thrusts towards the magma chamber, opposite to the direction of tectonic transport. In these conditions, the volcanic load has a negligible effect on the structural geometry. These results are in contrast with those of previous studies, where intrusions or the load of major volcanoes generated a curvature of the thrusts away from volcanic edifices in the direction of tectonic transport.     

A balanced cross section across the Himalayan foreland belt, the Punjab and Himachal foothills: A reinterpretation of structural styles and evolution

The Siwaliks in the foothills of the Himalayas, containing molasse sediments derived from the rising mountain front, represent a foreland fold-thrust belt which was deformed during the continued northward convergence of the Indian plate following the continent-continent collision. In this contribution we present balanced and restored cross sections along a line from Adampur through Jawalamukhi to Palampur in the foothills of the Punjab and Himachal Himalayas using published surface/subsurface data. The cross section incorporates all the rock units of the Sub-Himalaya Zone as well as that of the northern Lesser Himalaya Zone. The structural geometry of the fold-thrust belt in this section is largely controlled by three buried thrusts within the Sundernagar Formation of the Lesser Himalaya Zone. Two of these buried thrusts splay from the basal detachment and delineate a buried horse. Three thrusts towards foreland, including the Main Frontal Thrust (inferred to be a blind thrust in this sector), splay from these buried thrusts. In the hinterland, an anticlinal fault-bend fold was breached by a sequence of break-back thrusts, one of which is the Main Boundary Thrust. A foreland propagating thrust system is inadequate to explain the evolution of the fold-thrust-belt in this section. We show that a “synchronous thrusting” model in whichin-sequence initiation of thrusts at depth combined with continued motion on all the thrusts leading toout-of-sequence imbrication at the upper structural levels better explains the evolution of the fold-thrust belt in the Jawalamukhi section. The estimated shortening between the two chosen pin lines is about 36% (about 72 km).     

On the number and spacing of faults

Orogens and rift zones have a finite number of regional faults. The accretionary prisms analysed here have a number of thrusts < 50, whereas extensional areas have a number of normal faults ranging between six and 44. The average spacing of thrusts is between 5 and 25 km; spacing of normal faults is more restricted into two peaks, at 25–29 km and 4–6 km, in which the latter is the most common. The number and spacing of faults appear to be mainly controlled by the depth of the decollement plane, which seems to be more variable in compressive settings with respect to rift zones. Basement‐involved orogens present fewer and more spaced thrusts; by contrast, a greater number of thrusts with shorter spacing characterize thin‐skinned thrust belts. The shallower the decollement is, the stronger it appears to control the palaeogeography, in the sense of rheological lateral variations in the sedimentary cover.     

On the role of the Hercynian and Alpine thrusts in the Upper Paleozoic rocks of the Central and Eastern Pyrenees

Abstract

The structure of the Pyrenean pre-Hercynian rocks involved in the “Axial Zone” antiformal stack, results from the association of Hercynian cleavage-related folds and Hercynian and Alpine thrusts. Some of these Alpine and Hercynian thrusts separate thrust sheets in which Upper Paleozoic rocks, Devonian and pre-Hercynian Carboniferous, exhibit different lithostratigraphy and internal structure.

In order to know both, the original Devonian facies distribution and the structural characteristics, the effects of the Alpine and the Hercynian thrusts must be considered. If a conceptual restored cross-section is constructed taking into account both the Alpine and Hercynian thrusts, a different Devonian facies distribution is achieved. Devonian carbonatic successions were originally located in a northernmost position, whereas sequences made by alternations of slates and limestones lie in southernmost areas. Moreover, a N-S variation of the Hercynian structural style appears. In the northern units thrusts are synchronous to folding development and they are the most conspicuous structures. In the intermediate units, thrust postdate cleavage-related folds, and in the southernmost units several folding episodes, previous to the thrusts, are well developed.

We present some examples which enable us to discuss the importance of the Hercynian and Alpine thrusts in the reconstruction of the Pyrenean pre-Alpine geology.     

Déformations néogènes et quaternaires de la bordure nord haut atlasique (Maroc): rôle du socle et consequences structurales

According to major discontinuities, continental deposits in the Cenozoic Atlas basins are subdivided into three groups (pre-, syn- and post-tectonic). Progressive unconformities are the main characteristic of the syntectonic formations, implying that the Atlas tectonic episode is synchronous with Neogene and Quaternary sedimentation. This tectonic episode is responsible for the inversion of Early Mesozoic extensional structures within the basement, which were reactivated into symmetrical thrusts or transpressional faults. Shortening of the basement induced the detachment of the cover. Deformation of the cover is expressed by thrust faults (with southern and northern vergences), folds and flexures linked to blind thrusts. Kinematic data show that the main regional compression was directed N150 ± 10° during the Neogene and north-south during the Quaternary. The involvement of the upper crust, in the Alpine Atlasic Belt, contributed to create areas of high relief. The High Atlas can be interpreted as resulting from large Cenozoic thrusts, and compared with the Pyrenean Axial Zone, although their pre-Cenozoic histories can differ markedly.     

Kink bands in thrust regime: Examples from Srinagar–Garhwal area,Uttarakhand, India

This paper deciphers the late stress systems involved in the development of kink bands in the perspective of thrust regime. In kink bands, the correlation coefficient for α–β plots is positive near thrusts and negative away from thrusts. The plots show nearly linear relationship near thrusts and non-linear relationship away from thrusts. The rotation was prominent mechanism of kink band formation near thrusts and rotation coupled with shearing, along the kink planes away from thrusts. Along thrusts σ ₁ is horizontal E–W trend and it rotates to horizontal N–S trend away from the thrust. The proposed model establishes that (1) the shearing along kink planes led to angular relationship, β < α and (2) the kink planes of conjugate kinks could be used for paleostress analysis even in those cases where shearing along these planes has occurred.     

Influence of syntectonic sedimentation on thrust geometry. Field examples from the Iberian Chain (Spain) and analogue modelling

Steep thrusts are usually interpreted as oblique-slip thrusts or inverted normal faults. However, recent analogical and numerical models have emphasised the influence of surface mass-transfer phenomena on the structural evolution of compressive systems. This research points to sedimentation and erosion during deformation as an additional explanation for the origin of steeply dipping thrusts. The present study uses both field observations and analogue modelling to attempt to isolate critical parameters of syntectonic sedimentation that might control the geometry of the upper part of thrust systems.A field study of thrust systems bounding two compressive intermountain Tertiary basins of the Iberian Chain is first briefly presented. We describe the surface geometry of thrusts surrounding the Montalbán Basin and the Alto Tajo Syncline at the vicinity of deposits of Oligocene–Early Miocene alluvial fans at the footwall of faults. Field observations suggest that synthrusting sedimentation should influence the structure of thrusts. Indeed, the faults are steeper and splitted at the edge of the syntectonic deposits.Effects of sedimentation rate on footwall of thrusts, and of its change along fault strike are further investigated on two-layer brittle-ductile analogue models submitted to compression and syntectonic sediment supply. Two series of experiments were made corresponding to two end-members of depositional geometries. In the first series, the sedimentation was homogeneously distributed on both sides of the relief developed above the thrust front. In the second series, deposits were localised on a particular area of the footwall of thrust front. In all experiments, the sedimentation rate controls the number and the dip of faults. For low sedimentation rates, a single low-angle thrust develops; whereas for high sedimentation rates, a series of steeper dipping thrust is observed. In experiments with changing sedimentation rate along fault strike, the thrust geometry varies behind the areas with the thickest sediment pile.     

How Alpine or Himalayan are the Central Andes?

 Although non-collisional mountain belts, such as the Andes, and collisional mountain belts, such as the Alps and the Himalayas–Tibet, have been regarded as fundamentally different, the Central Andes share several features with the Himalayas–Tibet. The most important of these are extremely thickened (≥70 km) continental crustal roots supporting high plateaus and mountain fronts characterized by large basement thrusts. The main prerequisite for very thick crustal roots and extreme mountainous topography appears to be large-scale underthrusting of continental crust of normal thickness, irrespective of whether the crustal thrusts are antithetic with respect to subduction as in the Andes, or synthetic with respect to preceding subduction of oceanic lithosphere as in the Himalayas. In both cases sole thrusts near the base of the continental crust nucleated in thermally anomalous zones of the hinterland and then propagated across ramps into shallower detachments located within thick sedimentary or metasedimentary cover rocks. In contrast to the Central Andes and the Himalayas, the Alps are characterized by intracrustal detachment which allowed both the subduction of lower crust and a stacking of relatively thin upper crustal slivers, which make up a narrow mountain chain with a more subdued topography. Received: 10 August 1998 / Accepted: 1 March 1999     

Interaction of surface erosion and sequential thrust progression: Implications on exhumation processes

This paper investigates the evolution of thrust wedges with concomitant surface erosion, and its bearing on the exhumation processes in orogenic belts. We performed sandbox experiments, simulating syn-orogenic erosion on forelandward sloping surfaces (∼4°). Experiments show that the erosion process has a significant control on the progression of frontal thrusts. In case of no-erosion condition, wedges with high basal friction develop frontal thrusts with strongly increasing spacing. In contrast, for the same basal friction the thrusts show uniform spacing as the wedge development involves concomitant surface erosion. On the other hand, the erosion promotes reactivation of hinterland thrusts in wedges with low basal friction. We show that erosion-assisted thrust reactivation is the principal mechanism for exhumation of deeper level materials in orogens. Efficiency of this mechanism is largely controlled by basal friction. The exhumation of deeper level materials is limited, and occurs within a narrow, sub-vertical zone in the extreme hinterland when the basal friction is high (μ_b = 0.46). In contrast, the process is quite effective in wedges with low basal friction (μ_b =0.36), resulting in exhumation along gently dipping foreland-vergent thrusts as well as along thrusts, subsequently rotated into steep attitude. The zone of exhumation also shifts in the foreland direction in the course of horizontal movement. Consequently, deeper level materials cover a large area of the elevated part of the wedge.     

Sandbox Experimental Study on the Influence of Rock Strength and Gravity on Formation of Thrusts

INTRODUCTIONRock deformation is normally explained by tec-tonic stress as rock deformation results fromthe tec-tonic stress field. The classic tools that explainedfracture mechanisms were the Coulomb shear fracturerule and the Anderson mode derived fromit (Zhu,1999) . More and more studies have shown that it isdifficult to explain rock deformation in a large strainrange using only the Coulomb shear fracture rule( Waltham,2002 ; Gutscher et al .,2001 ; Tikoff andWojtal ,1999) . As a ver…     

Fluid migration through thrust faults in the Helvetic nappes (Western Swiss Alps)

The δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values of calcite and organic matter were measured for carbonate mylonites from numerous thrusts in the Helvetic Alps. Carbonate mylonites in most of the thrusts retain essentially unaltered protolith δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values, consistent with there having been little to no advection of isotopically distinct fluid through these faults. Only carbonate mylonites from the basal thrusts of the largest nappes have δ¹⁸O and/or δ¹³C values that differ from those of their protoliths. The zone of isotopic alteration/exchange is confined to c. 10 to 20 meters of these fault contacts. We propose the fluids that migrated through these faults contained variable amounts of organically derived carbon and radiogenic strontium, and were probably derived from dewatering of the sedimentary rocks and prograde metamorphic reactions in the nappes' root zones. Apart from the basal thrusts of the largest nappes that behaved as narrow, laterally extensive conduits for fluids, there is little isotopic evidence that large quantities of fluids passed through most of the carbonate-hosted thrusts in the Helvetic Alps. Received: 25 August 1998 / Accepted: 26 February 1999     

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.