恭城-栗木断裂带中的断溶角砾岩——一种新型断层岩

通过对恭城－栗木裂带中断层岩的研究，确立了一种新型断层角砾岩－断溶角砾岩的存在。断溶角砾岩兼具断层角砾岩和岩溶角砾岩的特点，是断裂和岩溶塌陷共同作用的产物。这种角砾岩的角砾分为断层角砾和溶洞崩塌角砾两种，角砾及胶结物中均发育有方解石e双晶等应力作用的产物，它形成于地下5－8km深的脆性变形环境中，并记录了断裂带的多期活动及运动方向和应变型式。对断溶角砾岩的研究有利于恢复恭城－栗木断裂带的形成及其演化历史。断溶角砾岩形成模式的提出揭示了研究区与断裂伴生的地下溶洞的分布形成、发展及灭亡的规律，这对于减少或防止因溶洞塌陷而带来的地质灾害具有重要意义。     

S–C fabrics developed in cataclastic rocks from the Nojima fault zone,Japan and their implications for tectonic history

S–C fabrics similar to those found in mylonites are observed in foliated cataclastic granitic rocks from the Nojima fault zone, southwest Japan. The foliated cataclastic rocks comprise cataclasite, fault breccia, gouge, and crushing-originated pseudotachylyte. The S–C fabrics observed in these cataclastic rocks involve S-surfaces defined by shape preferred orientation of biotite fragments or aggregates of quartz and feldspar fragments, and C-and C′-surfaces defined by microshears and shear bands, respectively, where fine-grained material is concentrated. Striations on the main fault plane are oriented parallel to the cataclasite lineations. A significant microstructural difference between the foliated cataclastic rocks and S–C mylonites is the absence of dynamically recrystallized grains in the foliated cataclasites. The striations, cataclastic lineations, and the S–C fabrics in the cataclastic rocks formed from the late Tertiary to the late Holocene indicate that the Nojima fault zone has moved as a dextral strike-slip fault, with a minor reverse component since it formed. S–C fabrics in cataclastic rocks provide important information on the tectonic history and are reliable kinematic indicators of the shear sense in brittle shear zones or faults.     

Deformation Characters of the Maowen Fault Belt in Longmenshan, Western Sichuan

1. Introduction The Longmenshan orogenic belt is a typical intercontinental orogenic belt (Fig. 1), from NW to SE composed of Paleozoic epimetamorphic rock systems, Protozoic intermediate-acid intrusions and metamorphic rocks (called Pengguan Complex), Upper Triassic sandshales, and Paleozoic glided nappe as well as Jurassic-Tertiary molass formation,. The Maowen fault belt is a boundary fault belt between the Longmenshan orogenic belt and Songpan-Garze fold belt. It starts from Shenx…     

Structural evidence for superposition of transtension on transpression in the Zagros collision zone: Main Recent Fault,Piranshahr area,NW Iran

The Main Recent Fault of the Zagros Orogen is an active major dextral strike-slip fault along the Zagros collision zone, generated by oblique continent–continent collision of the Arabian plate with Iranian micro-continent. Two different fault styles are observed along the Piranshahr fault segment of the Main Recent Fault in NW Iran. The first style is a SW-dipping oblique reverse fault with dextral strike-slip displacement and the second style consists of cross-cutting NE-dipping, oblique normal fault dipping to the NE with the same dextral strike-slip displacement. A fault propagation anticline is generated SW of the oblique reverse fault. An active pull-apart basin has been produced to the NE of the Piranshahr oblique normal fault and is associated with other sub-parallel NE-dipping normal faults cutting the reverse oblique fault. Another cross-cutting set of NE–SW trending normal faults are also exist in the pull-apart area. We conclude that the NE verging major dextral oblique reverse fault initiated as a SW verging thrust system due to dextral transpression tectonic of the Zagros collision zone and later it has been overprinted by the NE-dipping oblique normal fault producing dextral strike-slip displacement reflecting progressive change of transpression into transtension in the collision zone. The active Piranshahr pull-apart basin has been generated due to a releasing damage zone along the NW segment of the Main Recent Fault in this area at an overlap of Piranshahr oblique normal fault segment of the Main Recent Fault and the Serow fault, the continuation of the Main Recent Fault to the N.     

西秦岭北缘北西向断层特征和形成的构造机制及地质意义

西秦岭北缘构造带不仅发育一系列继承性多期活动或新生的近东西向断层,而且新生代地层中还发育与近东西向断层走向不一致且具有独特构造特征的北西向左旋走滑断层。这种北西向左旋走滑断层带不发育断层角砾岩、磨砾岩、碎粉岩、断层泥、摩擦镜面、擦痕线理、断层阶步等脆性断层中常见的构造现象,仅表现为地层旋转和剪切拉断形成的一定宽度的透镜化带,两条断层之间地层产状发生旋转形成了约1 km宽,平面上类似膝折构造几何形态地层扭折带。该北西向断层横切了渐新统—中新统地层,并被上新统砾岩覆盖和第四纪以来的近东西向左旋走滑断层斜切,指示了其形成于渐新世—中新世沉积地层形成之后,上新世砾岩沉积之前,即上新世早期。北西向断层带不发育脆性断层典型构造现象和断层左旋走滑作用在渐新统—中新统沉积地层中形成了类似膝折构造几何形态地层扭折带,说明其变形具有韧脆性过渡和缓慢剪切变形的特征,是西秦岭北缘一种新的断层类型。其形成机制为基底或中下地壳中大型左旋走滑韧性或韧脆性剪切带向上扩展延伸到上部沉积盖层中之结果,也就是说,新生代沉积盖层中这种北西向断层和地层扭折带是下部韧性剪切带的左旋走滑剪切在盖层中被动构造响应。这种基底或中下地壳北西向左旋韧性剪切带可能指示了上新世初期西秦岭北缘构造带深部韧性地壳物质向南东流变蠕动的构造标志,代表深部地壳缩短增厚向地壳韧性物质侧向扩展流动的转换过程。这种特殊的断层类型对理解青藏高原东北缘新生代构造变形体制转换和地壳隆升具有重要的科学意义。     

江西相山地区中,新生低构造演化对富大铀矿形成的制约

江西相山铀矿田是我国目前最大的火山岩型铀矿田,一直是铀矿地质学界的研究热点之一。大量的新资料支持以下的构造演化模型：成矿前的走滑剪切;成矿期的伸展拉张;成矿后的挤压逆冲。这一构造演化体系是形成相山富大铀矿田的有利地质构造背景。     

Structure and Fluid Transportation Performance of Faults in the Changxing-Feixianguan Formation,Xuanhan County,Northeastern Sichuan Basin

On the basis of field observations, microscopic thin-sections and laboratory data analysis of ten faults in Xuanhan County area, northeastern Sichuan Basin, central China, the internal and megascopic structures and tectonite development characteristics are mainly controlled by the geomechanical quality in brittle formation of the Changxing-Feixianguan Formation. The fluid transportation performance difference between the faults formed by different geomechanics or different structural parts of the same fault are controlled by the mcgascopic structure and tectonite development characteristics. For instance, the extension fault structure consists of a tectonite breccia zone and an extension fracture zone. Good fluid transportation performance zones are the extension fracture zone adjacent to the tectonite breccia zone and the breccia zone formed at the early evolutionary stage. The typical compression fault structure consists of a boulder-clay zone or zones of grinding gravel rock, compression foliation, tectonite lens, and dense fracture development. The dense fracture development zone is the best fluid transporting area at a certain scale of the compression fault, and then the lens, grinding gravel rock zone and compression foliation zones are the worst areas for hydrocarbon migration. The typical tensor-shear fault with a certain scale can be divided into boulder-clay or grinding gravel rock zones of the fault, as well as a pinnate fractures zone and a derivative fractures zone. The grinding gravel rock zone is the worst one for fluid transportation. Because of the fracture mesh connectivity and better penetration ability, the pinnate fractures zone provides the dominant pathway for hydrocarbon vertical migration along the tensor-shear fault.     

Basement deformation: tertiary folding and fracturing of the Variscan Bielsa granite (Axial zone,central Pyrenees)

The Bielsa thrust sheet is a south-verging unit of the Axial zone in the central Pyrenees. The Bielsa thrust sheet consists predominantly of a Variscan granite unconformably overlain by a thin cover of Triassic and Cretaceous deposits. During the Eocene–Oligocene, Pyrenean compression, displacement of the Bielsa thrust sheet generated a large-scale south-verging monocline. Low temperature deformation of the Bielsa thrust sheet resulted in the development of: (1) E–W trending, asymmetric folds in the Triassic cover with amplitudes up to 1.5 km; these folds of the cover are related with normal and reverse faults in the granite and with rigid-body block rotations. (2) Pervasive fracturing within the Bielsa granite is also attributed to Pyrenean deformation and is consistent with a NNE to ENE shortening direction; two main, conjugate fault systems are associated with this direction of shortening, as is a subvertical strike-slip system with shallow-plunging slickenside lineations and a moderately dipping fault system with reverse movement; and (3) in addition, we recognise strike-slip and reverse shear bands, associated with sericitisation and brittle deformation of quartz and feldspar in the granite, that enclose Triassic rocks. Basement deformation within the Bielsa thrust sheet can be related to movement of faults developed to accommodate internal deformation of the hanging wall. Several models are proposed to account for this deformation during the southward displacement of the thrust.     

山西沁水盆地东缘太行大断裂构造变形特征及其成因探讨

太行大断裂是山西沁水盆地与太行山隆起的分界,也是华北克拉通内部重要的构造变形带。通过对断层破碎带、断层相关褶皱及共轭节理的野外详细测量,研究了太行大断裂的构造变形特征,探讨其形成的古构造应力场。研究认为,太行大断裂可能经历了3期构造应力作用:(1)印支期在华南、华北板块碰撞的远程效应作用下表现出近N—S向挤压构造应力场。(2)燕山期表现为E—W向至NWW—SEE向挤压构造应力场。(3)喜马拉雅期由NWW—SEE向挤压转换为NE—SW向挤压(或NW—SE向伸展)。太行大断裂由北至南可分为:(1)北段,由3条呈右阶斜列的大型逆断层组成,基岩出露,以逆冲推覆为主。(2)中段,地表出露斜歪褶皱和逆冲断层组合。(3)南段,发育强烈的挤压破碎带,该带中广泛发育构造角砾岩和构造透镜体,构造挤压带内的构造透镜体陡立,显示近水平方向的挤压。     

Successive Extensional Tectonic Regimes during the Mesozoic as Evidenced by Neptunian Dikes in the Pontide Magmatic Arc,Northeast Turkey

The eastern Pontide magmatic arc extends ～600 km in an E-W direction along the Black Sea coast and was disrupted by a series of fault systems trending NE-SW, NW-SE, E-W, and N-S. These fault systems are responsible for the formation of diachronous extensional basins, rift or pull-apart, in the northern, southern, and axial zones of the eastern Pontides during the Mesozoic. Successive extensional or transtensional tectonic regimes caused the abortive Liassic rift basins and the Albian and Campanian pull-apart basins with deep-spreading troughs in the southern and axial zones. Liassic, Albian, and Campanian neptunian dikes, which indicate extensional tectonic regimes, crop out within the Paleozoic granites near Kale, Gumushane, and the Malm–Lower Cretaceous platform carbonates in Amasya and Gumushane. These neptunian dikes correspond to extensional cracks that are filled and overlain by the fossiliferous red pelagic limestones. Multidirectional Liassic neptunian dikes are consistent with the general trend of the paleofaults (NE-SW, NW-SE, and E-W), and active dextral North Anatolian fault (NAF) and sinistral Northeast Anatolian fault (NEAF) systems. The Albian neptunian dikes in Amasya formed in the synthetic oblique left-lateral normal faults of the main fault zone that runs parallel to the active North Anatolian fault zone (NAFZ).

Kinematic interpretation of the Liassic and Albian neptunian dikes suggests N-S extensional stress or northward movement of the Pontides along the conjugate fracture zones parallel to the NAFZ and NEAFZ. This northward movement of the Pontides in Liassic and Albian times requires left-lateral and right-lateral slips along the conjugate NAFZ and Northeast Anatolian fault zones (NEAFZ), respectively, in contrast to the recent active tectonics that have been accommodated by N-S compressional stress. On the other hand, mutual relationships between the neptunian dikes and the associated main fault zone of Campanian age extending in an E-W direction in the Kale area, Gumushane suggest the existence of a main left-lateral transtensional wrench zone. This system might be accommodated by the counterclockwise convergence of the Turkish plate with the Afro-Arabian plate relative to the Eurasian plate, and the southward oblique subduction of Paleotethys beneath the eastern Pontide magmatic arc during the Mesozoic.     

淮北夹沟—桃山集地区推覆构造研究

本区存在大型中生代推覆构造,所有震旦纪—古生代的沉积岩层都卷入了褶皱和断裂,构造推覆发生在较高构造部位,属脆性变形域,以台阶状逆断层和断层相关褶皱为特征。区内存在若干推覆构造,每个岩片均可分为上盘、下盘和滑动层系三部分,共查明8个滑动岩系。是一种发生在早中生代的盖层推覆,无根褶皱,也是徐宿地区最重要的控煤构造。最后对推覆构造的地球动力学机制进行了讨论。     

新疆乌孙山北缘断裂晚第四纪活动及区域构造意义

乌孙山北缘断裂位于新疆伊宁盆地南部,是伊宁盆地与乌孙山的边界断裂,由多条平行或斜列的次级断层组成.断裂呈近东西走向,总体倾向南,山前主断裂主要表现为高角度逆冲,倾角50°~80°,前缘冲断面相对较缓.断裂上盘主要由石炭系-二叠系组成,下盘主要为第四系和侏罗系,断层两盘沉积物的ESR年代表明断裂带多处错断中、上更新统地层.野外地层接触关系和区域构造研究表明,在中更新世末以来,断裂强烈向北逆冲,与伊犁盆地北缘断裂共同控制了盆山地貌格局.伊宁盆地及邻区中更新世末的区域构造运动与青藏高原的共和运动时代相当,这次事件由南北天山向伊犁盆地的对冲挤压引起,动力来源于青藏高原向外扩展生长.      

洛南-栾川断裂带（栾川段）变形特征及形成环境研究

洛南-栾川断裂带是秦岭造山带中一条著名的断裂带,是华北板块与秦岭造山带的地质分界线,其走向近东西,断裂带发育有宽坪岩群和陶湾岩群等岩石,洛南-栾川断裂带的构造作用过程及其演化对这些岩石的变形起了重要作用。因此,分析断裂带岩石的变形特征及其形成条件对于探讨洛南-栾川断裂带的构造环境以及分析古板块汇聚边界变形有重要意义。本文以洛南-栾川断裂带栾川段为主要研究对象,通过室内外变形研究及多种测试分析,认为洛南-栾川断裂带基本走向为290°,倾角为58°～89°,糜棱面理、矿物生长线理和褶皱普遍发育,具有由南向北的俯冲兼有左行平移的运动学特征。断裂带内岩石变形强烈,变形矿物主要为石英、方解石、黑云母和白云母。变形机制：石英以膨凸式和亚颗粒旋转动态重结晶为主,方解石以机械双晶和亚颗粒旋转变形为主,云母变形以应变滑劈理为主。在宽坪岩群北侧和陶湾岩群南侧主要为塑性变形,在陶湾岩群北侧主要为脆性变形。分别对应于洛南-栾川断裂带第2期由南向北的俯冲走滑构造活动和第4期由北向南的脆性逆冲推覆构造活动。通过方解石机械双晶、多硅白云母压力计、黑白云母Ti温度计、斜长角闪温度计等方法分别对洛南-栾川断裂带（栾川段）的形成环境进行了分析,得到矿物变形温度为440℃～509℃, 压力为0.4～1.4 GPa, 差异应力为0.27～0.426 GPa, 即韧性剪切带的形成环境属中温、中压条件。因此,本文认为洛南-栾川断裂带（栾川段）变形环境为中温、中压,相当于地壳浅层的构造变形环境。     

南大巴山前陆冲断带中带构造样式及变形机制

南大巴山前陆冲断带自北向南发育了根带、中带和锋带三条构造带。通过对处于中带的木瓜口-明月乡、城口-龙田乡两段剖面地质考察,结果表明该剖面叠瓦断层带经历了七期运动:三期NE-SW向的前展式逆冲运动,一期SE-NW右旋剪切运动,一期EW逆冲右旋运动,一期NE-SW向的左旋走滑运动及NE-SW向的正断运动,同时受到NW-SE的右旋剪切作用。结合前人年代学研究结果,初步探讨了剖面的变形机制,研究结果对南大巴山前陆褶断带的构造格架、矿产形成及油气分布远景研究均有一定的指导作用。     

沉积盆地构造变形序列Ⅰ:秦岭晚古生代拉分盆地的构造组合与金-铜铅锌多金属矿集区构造

研究秦岭晚古生代拉分盆地构造变形序列、构造样式、构造组合与卡林型类卡林型金矿床、SEDEX型银铜铅锌重晶石菱铁矿矿床富集成矿之间关系,对提升秦岭金属矿集区构造与金属大规模富集成矿规律的认识,具有重要意义。陕西柞山和凤太晚古生代拉分盆地是卡林型类卡林型金矿矿集区和SEDEX型银铜铅锌矿集区,采用构造岩相学研究新方法,对晚古生代拉分盆地的构造变形序列、构造样式和构造组合、构造变形型相及与金铜铅锌矿床改造叠加成矿作用进行研究。认为秦岭晚古生代陆缘拉分盆地的构造变形序列和构造组合为：(1)在石炭纪—中三叠世陆陆斜向俯冲消减体制下盆地反转期,构造热事件和构造岩相学组合类型包括石炭纪—二叠纪构造热事件、顺层走滑伸展变形与深源碱性热流体叠加事件,形成了泥盆系中顺层剪切变形［DS1(DS0∥S1)］、Na-K-Cl-F型热流体渗滤交代岩相［DS1ahS1∥S0+S1#S0］、碱性热流体叠加构造岩相［DS1(FBD3j+D3x)］和热液叠加角砾岩构造系统［DS1c(AbD3)］,为中深构造层次(20.4~25.97 km)韧性变形域下形成的变形构造型相。形成了柞山地区穆家庄铜矿床和桐木沟铅锌矿床,热液角砾岩构造系统以柞山万丈沟—二台子金铜矿床和凤太双王—青岩沟金矿床为代表。(2)在印支期陆陆全面碰撞挤压体制下,在晚古生代陆缘拉分盆地内部,盆内变形构造组合和构造岩浆热事件为冲断褶皱带+W-M型复式褶皱压扭性断裂带+切层脆韧性剪切变形(DS2)+隐伏岩浆侵入构造系统,它们为中构造层次(11~17 km)脆韧性变形域下形成的变形构造型相。在柞山晚古生代陆缘拉分断陷盆地南北两侧边界同生断裂带,转变为南向厚皮型逆冲推覆构造系统,夏家店造山型金矿床受山阳—凤镇断裂带的镇安—板岩镇次级断裂和厚皮型冲断褶皱带控制,金矿体定位于切层和顺层脆韧性剪切带中。凤太晚古生代陆缘拉分盆地南北两侧边界同生断裂带,转变为对冲式厚皮型逆冲推覆构造系统,八卦庙—柴玛沟—丝毛岭金矿带受印支期反冲构造、冲起构造与隐伏岩浆侵入构造系在时间空间物质上多重耦合控制,金矿体定位于切层脆韧性剪切带中。W-M型复式褶皱压扭性断裂带对SEDEX型铜铅锌矿床改造富集成矿控制显著,受W-M型复式褶皱压扭性断裂带和次级横跨叠加褶皱控制,SEDEX型银铜铅锌重晶石菱铁矿矿床发生了改造富集成矿。(3)燕山期陆内造山期的构造组合为白垩纪陆内断陷成盆+岩浆侵入构造系统+接触热变质相带+脆性断裂节理裂隙变形(DS3),为浅构造层次(0.0~5.0 km)变形域中形成的变形构造型相,在柞山地区具有寻找斑岩型铜金银钼矿和夕卡岩型铁铜金矿的潜力。卡林型金矿矿集区发育印支期和燕山期冲断褶皱带、断裂+褶皱构造、节理裂隙带和低温热液角砾岩化(碧玉质化角砾岩、铁白云石化热液角砾岩、菱铁矿化热液角砾岩等),为脆性构造变形域中形成的变形构造型相。(4)喜山期以陆内走滑断裂和宽缓褶皱等脆性构造变形为主。在金银铜铅锌矿集区构造和变形构造型相与金银铜铅锌富集成矿关系上,受山阳—礼县岩石圈断裂带(山阳—凤镇断裂带、观音峡—修石崖断裂带)控制,泥盆纪盆内同生构造组合为同生断裂带+三级构造热水沉积盆地+热水沉积岩相系,它们为控制SEDEX型银铜铅锌重晶石菱铁矿矿床的主要同生构造型相。石炭纪—白垩纪深源碱性热流体隐爆作用和异时同位叠加成岩作用,形成了铁白云石钠长角砾岩钠长铁白云石角砾岩相系,它们组成了热液角砾岩构造系统。铜金银镍钴成矿系统深部结构以万丈沟岩浆热液脉带型铜金银镍钴矿和二台子热液角砾岩型铜金矿为代表,向上为双王热液角砾岩型金矿床和八卦庙式金矿床,其顶部和外围为类卡林型卡林型金矿床。     

柴达木盆地北缘赛什腾-锡铁山左行逆冲断裂及地质意义

本文在对赛什腾-锡铁山斜冲断裂构造重点地段详细构造解析的基础上,结合沉积、地球物理资料对该斜冲断裂构造的几何学、运动学及时代进行了研究,探讨了断裂形成与区域地质背景的关系,提出柴达木盆地北缘的赛什腾、绿梁山、锡铁山是向南斜向逆覆于新第三纪沉积岩之上的无根推覆体,并认为该断裂的形成与喜马拉雅造山带陆内俯冲远程效应相关。      

Structural analysis of a transform fault-rift zone junction in North Iceland

On the north coast of Iceland, the rift zone in North Iceland is shifted about 120 km to the west where it meets with, and joins, the mid-ocean Kolbeinsey ridge. This shift occurs along the Tjörnes fracture zone, an 80-km-wide zone of high seismicity, which is an oblique (non-perpendicular) transform fault. There are two main seismic lineaments within the Tjörnes fracture zone, one of which continues on land as a 25-km-long WNW-trending strike-slip fault. This fault, referred to as the Husavik fault, meets with, and joins, north-trending normal faults of the Theistareykir fissure swarm in the axial rift zone. The most clear-cut of these junctions occurs in a basaltic pahoehoe lava flow, of Holocene age, where the Husavik fault joins a large normal fault called Gudfinnugja. At this junction, the Husavik fault strikes N55°W, whereas Gudfinnugja strikes N5°E, so that they meet at an angle of 60°. The direction of the spreading vector in North Iceland is about N73°W, which is neither parallel with the strike of the Husavik fault nor perpendicular to the strike of the Gudfinnugja fault. During rifting episodes there is thus a slight opening on the Husavik fault as well as a considerable dextral strike-slip movement along the Gudfinnugja fault. Consequently, in the Holocene lava flow, there are tension fractures, collapse structures and pressure ridges along the Husavik fault, and pressure ridges and dextral pull-apart structures subparallel with the Gudfinnugja fault. The 60° angle between the Husavik strike-slip fault and the Gudfinnugja normal fault is the same as the angle between the Tjörnes fracture zone transform fault and the adjacent axial rift zones of North Iceland and the Kolbeinsey ridge. The junction between the faults of Husavik and Gudfinnugja may thus be viewed as a smaller-scale analogy to the junction between this transform fault and the nearby ridge segments. Using the results of photoelastic and finite-element studies, a model is provided for the tectonic development of these junctions. The model is based on an analogy between two offset cuts (mode I fractures) loaded in tension and segments of the axial rift zones (or parts thereof in the case of the Husavik fault). The results indicate that the Tjörnes fracture zone in general and the Husavik fault in particular, developed along zones of maximum shear stress. Furthermore, the model suggests that, as the ridge-segments propagate towards a zero-underlapping configuration, the angle between them and the associated major strike-slip faults gradually increases. This conclusion is supported by the trends of the main seismic lineaments of the Tjörnes fracture zone.     

Structural controls on carbonate-hosted Pb–Zn mineralization in the Dongmozhazhua deposit,central Tibet

Fault zones control the locations of many ore deposits, but the ore-forming processes in such fault zones are poorly understood. We have studied the deformation and ore textures associated with fault zones that controlled the lead–zinc mineralization of the Dongmozhazhua deposit, central Tibet, ∼100 km southwest of Yushu City. Geological mapping shows that the structural framework of the Dongmozhazhua area is defined by NW–SE-trending reverse faults and superposed folds that indicate at least two stages of deformation. The first stage is characterized by tight nearly E–W-striking folds that formed during the closure of the Jinshajiang Paleo-Tethyan Ocean in the Triassic. The second stage of deformation produced NW–SE-trending reverse faults and related structures of the Fenghuoshan–Nangqian fold-and-thrust belt associated with India–Asia collision in the late Eocene to Oligocene. Scanline surveys along the ore-controlling fault zones show an internal structure that comprises a damage zone, a breccia zone with clasts that have become rounded, and a breccia zone with lenticular clasts, and this complex architecture was formed during at least two compressional substages of deformation. The Pb–Zn mineralization in the Dongmozhazhua area occurs exclusively close to NW–SE-trending reverse fault zones. Microtextural observations reveal that mineralization occurred as veinlets and disseminated blebs in limestone clasts, and as continuous bands and cements in fractured rocks. Cataclastic sulfide grains also can be seen in the matrix of some fault zones. The types of mineralization differ with structural position. The fillings of the ore-bearing veinlets typify the products of hydraulic fracture and both types of mineralization took place concurrently with regional contraction. We consider, therefore, that the ore-bearing fluids in the Dongmozhazhua deposit were concentrated in fault zones during regional compression and that the ore minerals were precipitated during hydraulic fracturing of host rocks. Subsequent fault activity pulverized some pre-existing sulfide material into cataclastic grains in the matrix of a tectonic breccia that developed in the same faults.     

Mechanisms of thrust faulting in the gran sasso chain, central apennines, italy

The Gran Sasso chain in Central Italy is made up of an imbricate stack of eight thrust sheets, which were emplaced over the Upper Miocene—Lower Pliocene Laga Flysch. The thrust sheets are numbered from 1 to 8 in order of their decreasing elevation in the tectonic stack, and their basal thrusts are numbered from T₁ to T₈, accordingly. On the basis of their different deformation features, the major thrust faults fall into three groups: (1) thrust faults marked by thick belts of incoherent gouges and breccia zones (T₁, T₂, T₃); (2) thrust faults characterized by a sharp plane which truncates folds that had developed in the footwall rocks (T₅, T₆); and (3) thrust faults truncating folds developed in both the hangingwall and footwall units, and bordered by foliated fault rocks (T₇). The deformation features observed for the different faults seem to vary because of two combined factors: (1) lithologic changes in the footwall and hangingwall units separated by the thrust faults; and (2) increasing amounts of deformation in the deepest portions of the imbricate stack. The upper thrust sheets (from 1 to 6) are characterized by massive calcareous and dolomitic rocks, they maintain a homoclinal setting and are truncated up-section by the cataclastic thrust faults. The lowermost thrust sheets (7 and 8) are characterized by a multilayer with competence contrasts, which undergoes shear-induced folding prior to the final emplacement of the thrust sheets. Bedding and axial planes of folds rotate progressively towards the T₅, T₆, T₇ and T₈ thrust boundaries, and are subsequently truncated by propagation of the brittle thrust faults. The maximum deformation is observed along the T₇ thrust fault, consistent with horizontal displacement that increases progressively from the uppermost to the lowermost thrust sheet in the tectonic stack. The axial planes of the folds developed in the hangingwall and footwall units are parallel to the T₇ thrust fault, and foliated fault rocks have developed. Field data and petrographic analysis indicate that cleavage fabrics in the fault rocks form by a combination of cataclasis, cataclastic flow and pressure-solution slip, associated with pervasive shearing along subtly distributed slip zones parallel to the T₇ thrust fault. The development of such fabrics at upper crustal levels creates easy-slip conditions in progressively thinner domains, which are regions of localized flow during the thrust sheet emplacement.     

Structural geochemistry of gold mineralization in the Linglong-Jiaojia district, Shandong Province, China

The Linglong-Jiaojia district is one of the most important regions containing gold deposits in China. These gold deposits can be divided into: a) the pyrite-gold-quartz vein type (Linglong type), which is controlled by brittle-ductile to ductile deformation structures, and b) the alteration-zone type (Jiaojia type), characterized by small veinlets, or the disseminated type recognized in brittle shear zones. Lode gold deposits in the Jiaojia area occur in NE brittle fracture zones, formed in a dominantly simple shear deformation regime, mainly in thrust attitude with a minor sinistral strike slip component. In the Linglong area, the lode gold deposits are located at the intersection of three types of structures: NNE and NE brittle-ductile fault zones and the ENE ductile reverse shear zone in the south of the area. The structural characteristics of these brittle shear zones are consistent with a tectonic NNW-SSE principal stress field orientation. Similar stresses explain the ENE Qixia fold axes, the Potouqing and several other ENE reverse ductile shear zones elsewhere in the region, the Tancheng-Lujiang fault zone and its subsidiaries in the vicinity of the Linglong-Jiaojia district, as well as the southern ENE suture zone north of Qingdao. Therefore these structural systems occurred as part of different major tectonic events under NNW-SSE compression principal stress fields in the area. Gold deposits are hosted in smaller-scale structures within the brittle fault zones and brittle-ductile shear zones. Although ore bodies and, on a smaller scale, quartz ore veins often seem to be randomly oriented, it is possible to explain their distribution and orientation in terms of the simple shear deformation process under which they were developed. The progressive simple shear failure is characterized by various fracture modes (tension and shear) that intervene in sequence. The tension and shear fractures are influenced by the stress level (depth of burial beneath the paleosurface) in their structural behavior, show variable dilatancy (void openings) and extend on all scales. By making use of these characteristics, a progressive failure analysis can be applied to predicting the shape and extent of ore bodies as well as the styles of mineralization at any given location.