Active tectonics of the Alpine—Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions

Summary. New fault plane solutions, Landsat photographs, and seismic refraction records show that rapid extension is now taking place in the northern and eastern parts of the Aegean sea region. The southern part of the Aegean has also been deformed by normal faulting but is now relatively inactive. In northwestern Greece and Albania there is a band of thrusting near the western coasts adjacent to a band of normal faulting further east. The pre-Miocene geology of the islands in the Aegean closely resembles that of Greece and Turkey, yet seismic refraction shows that the crust is now only about 30 km thick beneath the southern part of the sea, compared with nearly 50 km beneath Greece and western Turkey. These observations suggest that the Aegean has been stretched by a factor of two since the Miocene. This stretching can account for the high heat flow. The sinking slab produced by subduction along the Hellenic Arc may maintain the motions, though the geometry and widespread nature of the normal faulting is not easily explained. The motions in northwestern Greece and Albania cannot be driven in the same way because no slab exists in the area. They may be maintained by blobs of cold mantle detaching from the lower half of the lithosphere, produced by a thermal instability when the lithosphere is thickened by thrusting. Hence generation and destruction of the lower part of the lithosphere may occur beneath deforming continental crust without the production of any oceanic crust.     

Surface wave tomography of the Barents Sea and surrounding regions

The goal of this study is to refine knowledge of the structure and tectonic history of the European Arctic using the combination of all available seismological surface wave data, including historical data that were not used before for this purpose. We demonstrate how the improved data coverage leads to better depth and spatial resolution of the seismological model and discovery of intriguing features of upper-mantle structure. To improve the surface wave data set in the European Arctic, we extensively searched for broad-band data from stations in the area from the beginning of the 1970s until 2005. We were able to retrieve surface wave observations from regional data archives in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Russia in addition to data from the data centres of IRIS and GEOFON. Rayleigh and Love wave group velocity measurements between 10 and 150 s period were combined with existing data provided by the University of Colorado at Boulder. This new data set was inverted for maps showing the 2-D group-velocity distribution of Love and Rayleigh waves for specific periods. Using Monte Carlo inversion, we constructed a new 3-D shear velocity model of the crust and upper mantle beneath the European Arctic which provides higher resolution and accuracy than previous models. A new crustal model of the Barents Sea and surrounding areas, published recently by a collaboration between the University of Oslo, NORSAR and the USGS, constrains the 3-D inversion of the surface wave data in the shallow lithosphere. The new 3-D model, BARMOD, reveals substantial variations in shear wave speeds in the upper mantle across the region with a nominal resolution of 1°× 1°. Of particular note are clarified images of the mantle expression of the continent-ocean transition in the Norwegian Sea and a deep, high wave speed lithospheric root beneath the Eastern Barents Sea, which presumably is the remnant of several Palaeozoic collisions.     

Structure of the Central North Aegean Trough: an active strike-slip deformation zone

Detailed interpretation of marine seismic data shows the presence of an extending, active, dextral strike-slip fault zone at the south edge of the Mount Athos Peninsula. The zone is over 100 km long and has both transtensional and transpressive features observable on the seismic lines. We suggest that dextral strike-slip displacement along the zone is on the order of 5–7 km. The structure and fault patterns of Recent deformation in the Central North Aegean Trough is typical of strike-slip tectonism.     

环中国南海周边国家及地区地缘经贸关系动态演化探析

基于1996~2016年联合国商品贸易数据库进出口贸易额,采用社会网络分析法和位序变动指数法,对环中国南海周边国家及地区的经贸网络关系展开时空演化的实证研究。结果表明：1）环中国南海周边国家及地区的整体经贸网络格局演化呈日益紧密的趋势,形成了以中国大陆和中国香港为核心,泰国、马来西亚、新加坡和印度尼西亚为次核心,澳门、越南、柬埔寨、文莱和菲律宾为边缘地带的相对稳定的网络结构特征;2）在整个网络的动态发展过程中,网络影响力高的中国大陆和中国香港、网络影响力低的文莱、柬埔寨和中国澳门在进出口网络中都具有很大程度的网络结构对等性,其他国家和地区的结构数值动态波动,在进、出口网络中扮演的角色差异明显,且不断产生新的结构对等性配对;3）自1996年以来环中国南海周边国家及地区的经贸互动规模和经贸总量持续增长,但中国大陆的进出口贸易重心已由中国香港和新加坡逐渐转向以越南、泰国和马来西亚等国为代表的新兴市场国家。地缘经贸关系整体空间呈现出以中国大陆和中国香港为中心,核心、次核心及边缘地带内部力量动态演化的网络结构,且中国大陆在进出口方面都显示出对其他国家和地区极其重要的影响力。     

Travel times of Pn -waves in the Aegean and surrounding area

Summary. Based on accurately located 23 very shallow earthquakes ( h = 1–14 km) in northern and central Greece by portable networks of seismic stations and by the joint epicentre method, the travel times of the P_n -waves from the foci of these earthquakes to the sites of 54 permanent stations in the Balkan region have been determined. The travel times of P_n -waves in the central and eastern part of the area (eastern Greece, south-eastern Yugoslavia, the Aegean Sea, Bulgaria, southern Romania, western Turkey) fit a straight line very well with the P_n velocity equal to 7.9 ± 0.1 km s^-1. On the contrary, the travel times of P_n -waves to stations in the western part of the area (Albania, western Greece) do not fit this curve because the P_n -waves travelling to these stations are delayed by more than 1 s due to the thicker crust under the Dinarides–Hellenides mountain range. Time delays for P_n -waves have been calculated for each permanent station in the Balkan area with respect to the mean travel-time curve of these waves in the central and eastern part of the area. Corrections of the travel times for these delays contribute very much to the improvement of the accuracy in the location of the shallow earthquakes in the Aegean and surrounding area.     

域外国家与南海周边地缘经济联系强度演化与态势评估

随着全球经济重心逐渐向亚太地区转移以及区域地缘经济联系日趋紧密,南海战略地位日益凸显,南海周边已成为全球重要战略区域和亚洲最重要的国际地缘问题区域。运用社会网络分析法、修正引力模型等方法,从贸易、投资、旅游等视角切入探究域外国家与南海周边区域的地缘经济联系演变及态势。结果表明：① 2005—2019年域外国家与南海周边区域的贸易联系日益紧密但贸易合作的非均衡化现象较为突出,域内出口贸易网络呈现以中国为核心,老挝、文莱和柬埔寨为边缘地带的相对稳定网络结构特征。② 域外国家对南海周边区域的投资规模显著提升但投资规模的两极化差异态势较为明显,投资区位呈现由高度集中向渐进式扩散转变态势。③ 域外国家入境旅游流持续增长,旅游网络由中国为单一核心演变为中国和泰国为双核心的网络结构,旅游目的地日趋多元化。④ 域外国家与南海周边区域地缘经济联系强度有所降低,但与东盟9国地缘经济联系强度整体上升;虽然以美日为代表的域外国家逐渐减弱与中国的地缘经济联系,但地缘经济联系网络整体仍然呈现以中国为核心,以泰国和新加坡为次核心的网络结构。     

数字高程模型在活动断层位置及地表变形变位特征提取研究中的应用

活动断层的位置分布及其地表变形变位特征的准确识别是研究和评价活动断层的基础,国内外学者利用数字高程模型(DEM)对断层提取进行了大量研究。本文基于DEM的活动断层位置的提取方法进行综述,总结了DEM提取断层位置的地貌形态特征分析、图像处理以及综合处理提取方法,突出介绍了高分辨率DEM在详细的断层位置分布提取中的优势,DEM在断层地表变形变位及其特征参数提取研究中的最新应用进展。随着高分辨率DEM的快速发展,DEM及其空间分析技术已成为一种常见的地学研究方法,将其与野外调查、遥感、测年等技术结合进行综合分析,能够促进对活动断层的深入研究,并成为断层定量化研究强有力的技术手段。     

Local and regional components of western Aegean deformation extracted from 100 years of geodetic displacement measurements

Our objectives are as follows. First, we wish to develop a methodology to recover the long-term component of deformation from any set of distributed, time-averaged geodetic strain measurements that were subject to seismic disturbance, given a catalogue of local seismicity that occurred during the measurement period. Second, using seismic and geodetic data sets that span approximately 100 years, we apply this technique in the western Aegean to assess the role of local seismicity in regional deformation. The methodology is developed using a model for crustal deformation constructed from a long-term, smooth regional strain field combined with instantaneous, local perturbations from upper-crustal earthquakes approximated by static elastic dislocations. By inverting geodetic displacements for the smooth field while simultaneously floating influential but uncertain earthquake source parameters, an estimate of the regional component of deformation that is approximately independent of the seismicity can be made. In the western Aegean we find that the horizontal component of regional deformation can be described with minor inaccuracy by a quadratic relative displacement field. The principal horizontal extensional axes calculated from the regionally smooth displacement field agree in orientation with the T-axes of earthquakes in the region. These observations indicate that the instantaneous elastic strain of the 10 km thick seismogenic layer is driven by a stress field that is smooth on the scale of the geodetic network as a whole, 200-300 km.     

Study of the MSA, nssSO 2- 4 concentration and MSA to nssSO 2- 4 ratio in the snow/ice and atmospheric aerosols of the regions surrounding the Weddell Sea

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