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.     

Late Quaternary faulting along the western margin of the Poronaysk Lowland in central Sakhalin, Russia

Sakhalin Island straddles an active plate boundary between the Okhotsk and Eurasian plates. South of Sakhalin, this plate boundary is illuminated by a series of M_w 7–8 earthquakes along the eastern margin of the Sea of Japan. Although this plate boundary is considered to extend onshore along the length of Sakhalin, the location and convergence rate of the plate boundary had been poorly constrained. We mapped north-trending active faults along the western margin of the Poronaysk Lowland in central Sakhalin based on aerial photograph interpretation and field observations. The active faults are located east of and parallel to the Tym–Poronaysk fault, a terrane boundary between Upper Cretaceous and Neogene strata; the active faults appear to have reactivated the terrane boundary at depth in Quaternary time. The total length of the active fault zone on land is about 140 km. Tectonic geomorphic features such as east-facing monoclinal and fault scarps, back-tilted fluvial terraces, and numerous secondary faults suggest that the faults are west-dipping reverse faults. Assuming the most widely developed geomorphic surface in the study area formed during the last glacial maximum at about 20 ka based on similarities of geomorphic features with those in Hokkaido Island, we obtain a vertical component of slip rate of 0.9–1.4 mm/year. Using the fault dip of 30–60°W observed at an outcrop and trench walls, a net slip rate of 1.0–2.8 mm/year is obtained. The upper bound of the estimate is close to a convergence rate across the Tym–Poronaysk fault based on GPS measurements. A trenching study across the fault zone dated the most recent faulting event at 3500–4000 years ago. The net slip associated with this event is estimated at about 4.5 m. Since the last faulting event, a minimum of 3.5 m of strain, close to the strain released during the last event, has accumulated along the central portion of the active strand of the Tym–Poronaysk fault.     

Horizontal motions and the generation of strong earthquakes in the North Sakhalin interiors

The recent geodynamics of Sakhalin Island is best described by the convergence of the Eurasian and North American (Sea of Okhotsk) lithospheric plates, which is manifested in the high seismic activity of the island. In North Sakhalin, the plate boundary is thought to correspond to a system of roughly N-S-trending faults, which belong to the North Sakhalin deep fault, and the Upper-Piltun fault; the latter was ruptured by the 1995 M 7.2 Neftegorsk earthquake. This study first confirmed that the stationary motion of the Sea of Okhotsk plate is retarded on this fault to form with time a series of drag folds and stress field anomalies. The latter are released during the subsequent (in a 400⦒o 1000-year period) strong earthquakes by seismic sliding on the flanks of the Upper Piltun fault. The 2003–2006 GPS observations revealed the free state of this fault zone with relative slip rates of 5–6 mm/yr.     

Tertiary geodynamics of Sakhalin (NW Pacific) from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility fabrics and paleomagnetic data

Sakhalin has been affected by several phases of Cretaceous and Tertiary deformation due to the complex interaction of plates in the northwest Pacific region. A detailed understanding of the strain is important because it will provide constraints on plate-scale processes that control the formation and deformation of marginal sedimentary basins. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) data were obtained from fine-grained mudstones and siltstones from 22 localities in Sakhalin in order to provide information concerning tectonic strain. AMS data reliably record ancient strain tensor orientations before significant deformation of the sediments occurred. Paleomagnetically determined vertical-axis rotations of crustal rocks allow rotation of the fabrics back to their original orientation. Results from southwest Sakhalin indicate a N035°E-directed net tectonic transport from the mid-Paleocene to the early Miocene, which is consistent with the present-day relative motion between the Okhotsk Sea and Eurasian plates. Reconstruction of early–late Miocene AMS fabrics in east Sakhalin indicates a tectonic transport direction of N040°E. In west Sakhalin, the transport direction appears to have remained relatively consistent from the Oligocene to the late Miocene, but it has a different attitude of N080°E. This suggests local deflection of the stress and strain fields, which was probably associated with opening of the northern Tatar Strait. A northward-directed tectonic transport is observed in Miocene sediments in southeast Sakhalin, mid-Eocene sediments in east Sakhalin, and in Late Cretaceous rocks of west and northern Sakhalin, which may be associated with northwestward motion and subduction of the Pacific Plate in the Tertiary period. The boundaries of the separate regions defined by the AMS data are consistent with present-day plate models and, therefore, provide meaningful constraints on the tectonic evolution of Sakhalin.     

东营凹陷中央背斜隆起带形成机制分析

重建了东营凹陷构造演化过程 ,提出在盆地古近纪同裂陷期充填序列中 ,沙三段底界面S6′界面具有构造变格意义 ,过该界面盆地的构造应力场发生了由近南北向拉伸到NW—SE向拉伸的转换。在此基础上重新解析了盆地中央背斜隆起带 ,并指出中央背斜带是一个复合的构造系统。其东段的辛镇背斜的性质为受控于陈南铲式断层的大型伸展断弯褶皱 ,主要的活动期为Ek—Es下3 时期 ;而其西段为东营—梁家楼—现河弧形生长滑脱断裂系统的组成部分 ,主要形成于Es上3 —Es2 沉积时期。上述认识对于中央背斜隆起带油气勘探具有重要的意义。     

青藏高原东北缘4个强震重点监视区库仑破裂应力的近百年变化和危险性分析

针对青藏高原东北缘地区前人基于多学科研究资料圈定的4个未来强震重点监视区,构建了顾及到中下地壳黏弹性弛豫效应的区域岩石圈模型;考虑1920-2010年期间发生在本区域及其周边的18次Ｍ_s≥７级强震在这一区域的黏弹性静态库仑破裂应力变化,和长期构造背景加载下的应力积累情况,定量分析了每个重点监视区近百年来的库仑破裂应力变化,并在此基础上初步分析了各重点监视区的未来发震危险性程度。结果表明：西秦岭断裂带监视区和六盘山断裂带监视区均处于长期构造背景场和历史地震影响共同加载应力的状况;而海原断裂带监视区和东昆仑断裂带监视区,如果不考虑长期构造背景的应力加载,则处于地震影响的卸载状况。考虑到这4个重点监视区的大震平均复发周期及上次大震事件的离逝时间,认为西秦岭断裂带监视区的未来强震危险性程度最高,海原断裂带次之,然后是东昆仑断裂带和六盘山断裂带。     

Structure and peculiarities of the seismic regime in the source zone of the Takoe earthquake on September 1, 2001 (M W 5.2)

The Takoe earthquake (M _W 5.2) occurred between two en-echelon segments of the active Aprelovskii fault on September 1, 2001, and was accompanied by an earthquake swarm, which was successfully recorded by a local network of digital seismic stations located on the southern part of Sakhalin Island. Modern methods were applied to relocate the parameters of the sources for the earthquake swarm event and significantly specify their spatial distribution and relations to the structural-geological features of the complex system of interacting faults. New data on the correlation between the source mechanism and the modern geodynamic setting in the southern part of Sakhalin were obtained.     

福建漳州盆地活动断裂研究

本文从形态学和运动学的角度,确定并系统地研究了二十条主要活动断裂。北西向断裂以正-左行走滑型为主,北东向断裂以右行走滑-逆断层为主,两组断裂构成活动断裂网络。用 C¹⁴年龄数据计算得到了最近5990—1870年以来,各取样点地壳平均升降速率的变化范围是+3.53mm/a 至-0.65mm/a。用布仑法求得的九龙江活动断裂现代平均滑动速率是1.7mm/a。更新世至现代构造应力场的最大主压应力是以缓倾角、走向为 NW290°左右为特征的。350m 深处最大主压应力是700—760bar。两组断裂交汇形成的高渗透率带,对形成对流型中、低温热水型热田是十分有利的。此外,对该区的地震活动性亦进行了讨论。     

2017年四川九寨沟Ms7.0地震InSAR同震形变场及发震构造探讨

2017年8月8日四川省九寨沟县发生M_s7.0级地震,构造部位处于青藏高原东缘的巴颜喀拉地块东北角,震中位置是岷江断裂、塔藏断裂、虎牙断裂和雪山梁子断裂围闭的空震区。哪条断裂发震,如何界定其与周边活动断裂的关系,与青藏高原东缘近年来发生的大地震是否有成因联系等问题对于理解该区域现今构造活动模式、预判地震发展趋势和部署地震地质灾害防控等工作具有重要意义。利用地震前后两期Sentinel-1合成孔径雷达数据对地表同震形变场进行了InSAR测量,获取了极震区约2000 km²范围内的雷达视线向变形（-13~28 cm）和运动方向,呈现为主动盘单侧走滑兼逆冲的变形模式,结合震源机制、断裂展布、构造背景和近年地震迁移的分析,揭示了控震构造是巴颜喀拉地块北缘边界断裂弧形旋转体系的尾端构造,发震断层是该断裂系中塔藏断裂的南段,并有与虎牙断裂贯通的趋势,因此,应重视本次地震与虎牙断裂之间的空震区未来的强震危险性问题;从区域上看,此次九寨沟地震可能与汶川地震具有一定的时空成因联系,因在巴颜喀拉地块南北边界断裂破裂基本贯通的条件下,2008年汶川地震诱发的东缘中部锁固破裂导致块体加速向东挤出,2013年鲁甸地震又释放了东缘南段挤压构造应力,从而进一步加剧了东北角的应力集中,促使九寨沟地震的发生。     

西秦岭北缘断裂带漳县—车厂断层的结构及构造演化

西秦岭北缘断裂带是青藏高原东北缘主要构造边界断裂带之一, 其构造变形历史和运动学特征研究可以为西秦岭中新生代构造过程和印度—亚洲板块碰撞动力学的远程构造响应提供约束。漳县—车厂断层是西秦岭北缘断裂带的重要组成部分, 通过对工程开挖所揭露的断层带内丰富构造现象的观测与分析, 至少可以辨别出3期性质、规模、运动学特征各异的构造变形事件。第一期为向北北东陡倾的伸展正断层作用; 第二期为向南南西倾的由南向北的逆冲断层作用; 第三期为沿近直立断面左旋走滑作用。尽管每期变形的时代尚缺乏构造物质测年的约束, 但根据其与白垩系、新近系的空间关系以及已有第四纪以来沿断层地貌位错和相关沉积物测年以及地震活动历史研究对断层左旋走滑作用的时代约束, 认为第一期伸展正断层作用起始于早白垩纪, 可能持续到渐新世; 第二期向北逆冲断层作用起始于渐新世初, 可能持续到早第四纪; 第三期左旋走滑断层作用起始于晚第四纪, 持续至今。漳县—车厂断层是一条典型的多期变形的脆性断层, 其变形特征与历史, 如果代表了西秦岭北缘断裂带特征与构造变形过程, 那么现今西秦岭北缘断裂带仅是起始于早白垩纪、新生的脆性断裂带, 并非是印支主造山期大规模韧性逆冲推覆作用的边界断层。     

基于干涉雷达的玉树地震断裂运动模式与地震迁移趋势分析

2010年4月14日青海省玉树县发生M_s7.1级地震。利用地震前后2期ALOS雷达数据进行了地表同震形变场InSAR解译研究,获取了高质量的干涉图像,并解算出定量变形场。进而根据干涉计算的变形方向、变形范围、变形量和变形梯度,参考该区的构造背景和走滑断裂的力学机理对本次地震构造活动进行了分析并得出如下结论：1）玉树地震引发了地表NWW走向、由5段构成的“S”形走滑断裂,总体为左阶排列,走滑量从10.2 cm到133.2 cm不等,走滑极值可达195 cm,其中在结古镇和隆宝镇附近的两段出现较明显的地表破裂;2）断裂两侧的雷达视线向运动方向和运动量的差异预示发震断裂以左旋走滑运动为主,SW盘为主动盘;3）宏观震中可以定位于玉树县城西北约16 km的地表陡变带附近;4）发震断裂地表行迹、变形量和地表破裂幅度预示余震将主要沿发震断裂向NW迁移;5）根据青藏高原东部地块的分区,本次地震属于羌塘地块活动的结果,与巴颜喀拉地块活动引发的汶川地震不存在直接的关联。     

Seismotectonics of the 2008 and 2009 Qaidam Earthquakes and its Implication for Regional Tectonics

Three magnitude >6 earthquakes struck Qaidam, Qinghai province, China, in November 10th 2008, August 28th and 31st 2009 respectively. The Zongwulongshan fault has often been designated as the active seismogenic structure, although it is at odd with the data. Our continuous GPS station (CGPS), the Xiao Qaidam station, located in the north of the Qaidam basin, is less than 30 km to the southwest of the 2008 earthquake. This CGPS station recorded the near field co-seismic deformation. Here we analyzed the co-seismic dislocation based on the GPS time series and the rupture processes from focal mechanism for the three earthquakes. The aftershocks were relocated to constrain the spatial characteristics of the 2008 and 2009 Qaidam earthquakes. Field geological and geomorphological investigation and interpretation of satellite images show that the Xitieshan fault and Zongwulongshan fault were activated as left lateral thrust during the late Quaternary. Evidence of folding can also be identified. Integrated analyses based on our data and the regional tectonic environment show that the Xitieshan fault is the fault responsible for the 2008 Qaidam earthquake, which is a low dip angle thrust with left lateral strike slip. The Zongwulongshan fault is the seismogenic fault of the 2009 earthquakes, which is a south dipping back thrust of the northern marginal thrust system of the Qaidam basin. Folding takes a significant part of the deformation in the northern marginal thrust system of the Qaidam basin, dominating the contemporary structure style of the northern margin of the Qaidam basin and Qilianshan tectonic system. In this region, this fault and fold system dominates the earthquake activities with frequent small magnitude earthquakes.     

欧亚大陆北部盆地发育历史——来自东西向跨洲剖面的证据

板块演化控制了盆地的形成与演化,盆地的性质和地质特征由其所处的板块构造单元决定.本文从大地构造背景角度出发,沿北纬60°±5°绘制了欧亚大陆东西向跨洲剖面,西起北海内伊湖—阿兰盆地,东至北鄂霍茨克盆地,全长为11000km.剖面将构造单元划分为不同级别(超大陆与构造域—板块与造山带—陆块与构造带—盆地与拱起),进而将构...     

塔里木盆地巴楚隆起的三维地质结构及成因机制

塔里木盆地为中国西部大型克拉通盆地,巴楚隆起是塔里木盆地内部中央隆起带西部的一个重要构造单元,其所发育的边界断裂严格限制了巴楚隆起的范围,边界断裂的发育使得巴楚隆起的形成表现为一个复杂过程,探讨其形成过程及机制可为研究克拉通内变形特征及机制提供依据。文中借助于钻井及地震解释资料,刻画了巴楚隆起所发育的断裂特征及地质结构,并建立了其三维地质结构模型,结合大地构造背景及演化特征剖析了巴楚隆起的形成机制。通过研究,巴楚隆起在纵向上可识别出7个主要不整合面,并以此为界面,结合演化特征,将巴楚隆起自下而上划分为7个构造层;结合断裂带展布特征及地层构造形态,将巴楚隆起在平面上划分为西部断垒带、阿恰-吐木休克断裂带、海米罗斯-玛扎塔格断裂带、东部向斜带等4个次级构造单元;通过研究,巴楚隆起初始形成于晚奥陶世末期,晚二叠世末期强烈隆升,新近纪早期进一步隆升,上新世至第四纪时仍遭受挤压改造形成现今面貌,其形成演化主要受到边界断裂影响。     

柴达木盆地东北部新近纪构造旋转及其意义

青藏高原东北缘构造变形的研究是认识高原隆起过程、机制和印度—欧亚板块碰撞远程效应的重要途径。柴达木盆地是印度－欧亚板块碰撞后南北向挤压应力为动力背景的高原东北部内陆盆地,沉积物主要来自于周边山地,完整的保存了新生代以来高原隆升的详细记录。通过柴达木盆地东北部瑙格剖面精细古地磁及构造旋转研究发现,20.1～15.1Ma以及15.1～8.2Ma柴达木盆地分别发生了9.7°±7.4°和6.4°±4.4°的顺时针旋转,约8.2Ma后,柴达木盆地东北部瑙格地区发生了16°±7.5°的逆时针快速旋转。通过分析认为,前两次的顺时针构造旋转事件可能与阿尔金断裂的左旋走滑有关。而约82Ma以来的逆时针旋转事件属于柴达木盆地东北部瑙格地区的局部旋转,可能与温泉断裂的右旋走滑有关,说明青藏高原东北部在昆仑山、阿尔金山和祁连山三条巨型断裂系左旋相对运动的宏观控制下形成的NNW向温泉右旋走滑断裂开始走滑的年代为约8Ma。     

青藏高原东北缘海原-六盘山断裂带现今地壳应力环境的数值分析

海原-六盘山断裂是青藏高原东北缘的大型边界断裂带,是中国大陆典型的地震危险区。地壳构造加载特征的定量研究有助于分析区域孕震环境,参考青藏高原东北缘GPS形变和岩石圈精细结构等资料,本文建立海原-六盘山断裂带周缘的三维岩石圈分层模型,分析现今构造加载作用下区域地壳形变和应力演化特征。数值计算结果显示:青藏高原东北缘现今处于以北东-南西向的水平挤压为主导和北西-南东向的水平引张的变形特征。青藏高原东北缘中-下地壳流变性质影响上覆脆性地壳应力环境,中地壳较低粘滞系数对应的模型地壳应力计算值与研究区实际地壳应力场相近。海原断裂中-西段构造加载作用显著,具有相对较高的库仑应力积累和最大剪应力分布;而六盘山断裂周缘地壳应力和最大剪应力小于海原断裂带。构造应力积累的空间分布差异说明六盘山断裂具有较弱的构造孕震环境,而研究区走滑型断裂的孕震加载作用显著。尽管六盘山处于较低的应力状态,但仍不能轻易忽视其长期存在的强震空区所暗示的发震潜力。     

Composition of the rocks of the Kotikovo Group and the main stages in the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene evolution of the Terpeniya Peninsula,Sakhalin Island

This paper reports and discusses the composition of the rocks of the Kotikovo Group (the Uchir, Zaslonovskaya, Turovskay, and Ol’don formations) of the Terpeniya Peninsula (East Sakhalin). It is suggested that the Cenozoic deposits unconformably overlay the Maastrichtian-Danian rocks with basal conglomerates at the base. Two main stages were distinguished in the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene evolution of this area on the basis of our study. The first stage was responsible for the formation of the Maastrichtian-Danian volcaniclastic and volcanogenic-sedimentary rocks of the Uchir Group, while the second stage produced the Paleocene-Eocene sedimentary rocks of the Zaslonovskaya, Turovskaya, and Ol’don formations. The end of the first stage (at the boundary of the Uchir and Zaslonovskaya formations) was marked by a change in the tectonic regime. This was expressed in the weakening of the volcanic activity, the uplift of the territory, and the exposure of new provenances to erosion. During the second, Early Paleogene stage, the area of the East Sakhalin Mountains, the Terpeniya Peninsula, and the submarine Terpeniya Ridge represented a shallow-water marine sedimentary basin representing the western flank of the Cenozoic Pogranichnyi Basin. The formation of the anticlinal East Sakhalin Mountains-Terpeniya Peninsula-submarine Terpeniya Ridge structure occurred during the Late Cenozoic period of the East Sakhalin evolution.     

襄樊——广济断裂西段三里岗——三阳构造混杂岩带构造变形与演化

襄樊——广济断裂西段的三里岗——三阳地区出露有构造混杂岩,以含蛇绿岩残块为特征,经历了复杂的构造变形和演化过程。不同区段的构造解析与对比表明,中生代以来该构造混杂岩带主要遭受了4期变形构造的叠加改造:1)高温塑性变形(D₁),表现为蛇绿岩残块内部具网状强应变带和透镜状弱应变域相互交织的构造变形样式,强应变带形成以镁铁质糜棱岩为特征的高温韧性剪切带,显示深层次构造变形特征;2)逆冲推覆变形(D₂),构造混杂岩带发育叠瓦状逆冲推覆构造和双冲构造,南界韧性剪切带是构造混杂岩带整体运移的主推覆面,发育长英质糜棱岩,形成于中等构造层次,岩石中发育镁铁质糜棱岩糜棱面理的褶皱构造,显示陆内逆冲推覆对先期高温塑性变形构造的叠加改造;3)韧脆性右行平移剪切(D₃),形成构造混杂岩带内部浅层次构造变形,构造混杂岩带南侧的花山群钙质片岩揉皱变形,形成枢纽近直立的不对称褶皱,指示右行平移剪切变形;4)伸展正断层(D₄),主要发育于构造混杂岩带北侧,呈NW——SE向展布,控制晚白垩世断陷盆地的形成与沉积充填。     

试论西藏地震带及地震烈度的区域划分

西藏活动构造的活动与地震十分强烈和明显。活动构造类型主要有西藏活动构造系、喜马拉雅边界翘起带和冈底斯断块翘起带。地震活动主要受西藏活动构造带控制,其次受喜马拉雅边界翘起带和冈底斯断块翘起带所制约。目前划分的地震带有13条,基本与活动构造带中的断陷带、边界翘起带和断块翘起带的头部一致。地震烈度分布的最基本单元主要为活动构造带中的断陷带,其次是喜马拉雅边界翘起带和冈底斯断块翘起带的头部。区划的结果最高烈度为11度区,最低烈度为6度区。     

塔藏构造混杂岩带特征

运用大陆造山带构造岩片填图方法，首次对九寨沟塔藏构造带进行了系统研究。认为塔藏构造带为-构造混杂岩带。其南北边界断裂清楚，北界为牙扎沟断裂，呈北西-南东向展布；南界为荷叶断裂，也呈北西-南东向展布，边界断裂内部为塔藏构造混杂岩带，呈北西-南东向延伸长16-24km，宽7-8km，由上古生界与三叠系的多个大小不同，形态各异的构造岩片（或岩块）混杂堆积组成，与塔藏岩组砂板岩呈断层接触，总体表现为块体之间无序，块内有序，微观变形特征清楚，三维有限应变测量显示为北东-南西向，近南北向两个方向压缩，结合测区构造地质环境分析有4期变形。