叠加于弧后前陆盆地挠曲沉降之上的另一类沉降——动力沉降

弧后前陆盆地挠曲沉降包括逆冲负载沉降和盆地沉积物负载沉降。叠加于挠曲沉降之上还存在另一类沉降,即动力沉降。动力沉降是动力地形的一种,即动力地形低。动力地形一般认为具有两种成因,一种为与超大陆集聚和分散有关的动力地形,另一种为与大洋板片俯冲有关的动力地形。由大洋板块俯冲产生的动力沉降往往分布于弧后前陆盆地区,其幅度、波长与板块俯冲角度、俯冲速率、俯冲板块在地幔中通过的位置和俯冲岩石圈的热年代密切相关。将通过弧后前陆盆地沉积地层的去压实得到的总沉降减去盆地模拟获得的逆冲带负载和盆地沉积物负载沉降可以得到剩余沉降,即动力沉降。从地层资料中定量分离出动力沉降为改进和限制长期以来悬而未决的由洋壳俯冲导致的地幔-粘性流动构造模型提供理论基础和实际资料。     

Mining subsidence engineering

If large, continuous cavities are created underground, as for example in coal mining, the layers of rock over the deposit generally break and subside. The subsidence can be reduced in amount and severity by filling in, or “stowing,” the mine cavity with waste material. In the course of subsiding, the land surface deforms into a generally flat, plate-shaped trough, the edge of which travels ahead of the mine working. The effects of mining may simultaneously cause a structure to subside, tilt, bend, and be extended or compressed, with extension and compression sometimes alternating. Areas turned into swamp or placed permanently under groundwater have to be kept drained.     

Dynamic subsidence of Eastern Australia during the Cretaceous

During the Early Cretaceous Australia's eastward passage over sinking subducted slabs induced widespread dynamic subsidence and formation of a large epeiric sea in the eastern interior. Despite evidence for convergence between Australia and the paleo-Pacific, the subduction zone location has been poorly constrained. Using coupled plate tectonic–mantle convection models, we test two end-member scenarios, one with subduction directly east of Australia's reconstructed continental margin, and a second with subduction translated ~ 1000 km east, implying the existence of a back-arc basin. Our models incorporate a rheological model for the mantle and lithosphere, plate motions since 140 Ma and evolving plate boundaries. While mantle rheology affects the magnitude of surface vertical motions, timing of uplift and subsidence depends on plate boundary geometries and kinematics. Computations with a proximal subduction zone result in accelerated basin subsidence occurring 20 Myr too early compared with tectonic subsidence calculated from well data. This timing offset is reconciled when subduction is shifted eastward. Comparisons between seismic tomography and model temperature cross-sections, and an absence of subduction zone volcanism in eastern Australia in the Early Cretaceous provide support for the back-arc basin scenario.     

天津地区构造沉降及控沉远景问题

使用第四纪地质、统计地貌学和历史水准点调查等手段,研究了天津地区的构造沉降背景,讨论了控制地面沉降远景目标问题。研究工作使用天津地区第一海相层底板埋深、全新统地层钻孔、深层基岩标和历史水准点等一系列资料,获得天津市和邻近地区构造沉降的平均速率为1.7mm a左右。研究还发现了基底构造沉降背景具有这样一些规律:(1)从西部到东部沿海,区内沉降有逐渐增加的趋势。(2)沿海河发育了一条北西方向的构造沉降异常带。(3)以海河为界,沉降分布的方向不同,北部为北西西向,南部为北东方向,整体活动规律反映了活动断裂和基底构造的控制作用。     

Land subsidence in China

Land subsidence in China occurs in different regions. It is primarily caused by excessive groundwater withdrawal. Other reasons for the subsidence include the oil, warm groundwater withdrawal and the neotectonic movement. The common characteristics of land subsidence in China are slow, accumulative, irreversible, and other unique properties. The range of subsidence still keeps extending and the accumulative subsidence increasing though some measures taken. Adjustment of the aquifer exploitation practice is a subsidiary way to control land subsidence, but it cannot solve this problem completely. In a specfic way of groundwater changing, the contribution of a certain soil layer to the total subsidence depends on its compressibility and thickness. Besides the elasticity, both cohesive soil layers (aquitards) and sand layers (aquifers) are observed to be plastic and creep when the groundwater level fluctuates in a specific way, which often leads to subsidence delay.     

阜阳市地面沉降趋势预测

阜阳市地面沉降是典型的因抽汲松散岩层地下水引起水位(压)下降而造成的地面沉降。本文采用固结理论、回归分析、灰色理论等三种方法建立地面沉降预测模型,旨在探讨在未建基岩标、分层标的城市如何定量研究地面沉降,同时对该市地面沉降的发展趋势进行预测,提出控制地面沉降的措施。     

Monitoring the effects of longwall mine-induced subsidence on vineyards

This paper reports on the design and implementation of a program to monitor the surface effects of longwall mining-induced subsidence on wine grape yields within vineyards of Australia’s Hunter Valley. Implemented in 2003, this five-year project incorporated a multi-scale, multi-temporal, sliding window monitoring design synchronised with progression of longwall panels. On the vineyard-block scale, individual vine panels were sampled for grape yield. On the regional scale measures of vine photosynthetically active biomass were obtained from remotely sensed, Quickbird satellite imagery. All data were analysed in conjunction with three identified subsidence “zones”: minimum subsidence associated with chain-pillars, maximum subsidence associated with the longwall, and a zone corresponding to the transition between them. Visual observations conducted throughout the campaign confirmed the occurrence of isolated localised surface cracking, particularly in areas of maximum soil tension. However, both vineyard and block-scale data indicated no obvious, systematic mining-induced viticultural effects in the study site investigated during the study period. Rather, observed trends in vine yields were better explained by vine biophysical responses to climatic factors.     

Mechanism of continental crust subsidence in the Alpine Belt

Formation of deep basins on continental crust in fold belts is often explained by stretching. This mechanism inevitably produces large deformations in the upper crust. No deformations typical of significant stretching were revealed in the predominant part of deep basins on continental crust in the Alpine Belt. This means that these basins were not produced by stretching. Most basins were formed during a short period of time of a few million years. The short duration of the subsidences eliminates thermal relaxation as the mechanism. The space and time relationships between the subsidence and orogeny and the profile of the basin floor exclude thrust loading as a cause of formation for practically all large basins. Gabbro to eclogite transformation is suggested as a mechanism of rapid subsidence. This occurs under the upwelling of hydrous asthenosphere at moderate temperature to the base of the crust. Eclogite sinking into the mantle results in a strong attenuation of the crust and lithosphere, which permits intense subsequent folding. The major part of deep basins in continental crust that formed by rapid subsidence was intensely shortened in the Alpine Belt. Significant crustal shortening did not spread over the cratonic lithosphere.     

A case study of the surface subsidence of the Polesine area

The Polesine, a region in the northeast of Italy, has experienced considerable surface subsidence due to the withdrawal of water and gas from the underlying reservoir sediments. These settlements have been well documented and form the basis of a comparison study with a finite element consolidation model. It is shown that the model is capable of simulating the field behaviour during production and also after the closure of the wells.     

D-InSAR技术在地面沉降监测中的应用

重复轨道差分干涉测量(D-InSAR)技术在监测地表形变方面得到了深入的研究和广泛的应用。本研究将时间序列分析方法引入到差分干涉测量技术中,并和永久散射体技术相结合,提出一种基于PS点的差分干涉时间序列分析方法。该方法以干涉图上两个较近PS点的相位差为研究对象,能够消除大气相位延迟对差分干涉处理的影响。并将该方法应用在天津地面沉降监测实验中,获得了天津地区地面沉降数据和沉降分布图,取得了比较满意的结果。     

Sinkhole subsidence due to mining

This paper reviews the modes of formation of sinkhole subsidence associated with mining activities, drawing on examples in India. Sinkhole (pot-hole) subsidence is an abrupt local depression at the surface which can be hazardous to life and property due to its tendency to occur without warning. Shallow extraction, weak overburden and geological discontinuities are the main factors which cause them. Sinkholes occur due to the failure of a mine roof which migrates through the overlying strata until the failure zone intercepts the unconsolidated overburden. Alternatively they may occur by the creation of cavities in the overburden following the inflow of sand and soil from the overlying weathered and friable strata through faults. Overburden cavities eventually cave in and sinkholes appear at the surface. Sinkholing phenomena can be controlled to some extent by proper design of mining supports and construction of walls to create a barrier around an area prone to sinkholes in bord and pillar workings. Backfilling and grouting can be used to stabilize abandoned underground workings.     

含粘粒量黄土抗震陷性能的试验研究

对甘肃含粘粒黄土粘粒含量不同的原状土样进行了室内动三轴试验、激光粒度分析试验、化学分析和电镜扫描试验,对比分析试验结果后得出,粘粒含量不同,可引起黄土动力稳定性的变化;动剪应力强度与粘粒含量并非呈单调增加关系,而呈抛物线型;含粘粒的黄土,在同一固结比时,抗震陷性能最低点在粘粒含量16%~17%之间。     

浅谈高层建筑物沉降观测

分析了引起高层建筑物沉降的因素，包括与建筑物本身相联系的原因和自然条件引起的变化，论述了沉降观测过程中基准点、观测点的布设，观测方法及周期。     

Prediction of cavern configurations from subsidence data

An analytical method has been developed to predict the location, depth and size of caverns created at the interface between salt and overlying formations. A governing hyperbolic equation is used in a statistical analysis of the ground survey data to determine the cavern location, maximum subsidence, maximum surface slope and surface curvature under the sub-critical and critical conditions. The regression produces a set of subsidence components and a representative profile of the surface subsidence under sub-critical and critical conditions. Finite difference analyses using FLAC code correlate the subsidence components with the cavern size and depth under a variety of strengths and deformation moduli of the overburden. Empirical equations correlate the subsidence components with the cavern configurations and overburden properties. For the super-critical condition, a discrete element method (using UDEC code) is used to demonstrate the uncertainties of the ground movement and sinkhole development resulting from the complexity of the post-failure deformation and joint movements in the overburden.     

太原市地面沉降的计算与预测

为分析太原市地面沉降,对太原市区进行了地质模型概化,建立了太原市区大规模开采地下水引起地面沉降的数值计算模型,同时对研究区内的地面沉降进行了预测。分析结果表明,太原市地面沉降主要是由于集中开采深层承压含水层引起的。      

Analysis of subsidence caused by underground mining

Summary Some aspects of subsidence caused by longwall coal mining are analysed using the finite element method. Results of the analysis are compared with a true mine panel, where measurements on subsidence were available. Rock deformations in the overburden were modelled by using an elasto-plastic constitutive model. The study indicates that the shape of the subsidence profile can be predicted reasonably well by using nonlinear finite element analysis.