A NEW DISCOVERY OF ACTIVITY OF FUSHAN SECTION OF THE TAN-LU FAULT ZONE IN THE LATE QUATERNARY

The east branch fault of Tan-Lu fault zone extends from Fengshan Town of Sihong County on the north shore of the Huaihe River in Jiangsu Province, into Fushan Town of Mingguang City on the south shore of Huaihe River in Anhui Province. The landform changes from Subei plain on the north of Huaihe River to Zhangbaling uplift area on the south of Huaihe River. The terrain rises gradually with larger relief amplitude. The Fushan section of the Tan-Lu fault zone is located in Ziyang to Fushan area of Mingguang City. The fault is shown in the satellite image as a clear linear image, and the fault extends along the east side of a NNE-trending hillock. In this section the Quaternary strata are unevenly distributed, which causes some difficulties in the study of recent fault activity.In recent years, the author has found that the fault of the Fushan section of the Tan-Lu fault zone on the south of the Huaihe River still has a certain control effect on the landform and the Quaternary strata. Based on satellite imagery and geological data, we select the appropriate location in the Fushan section to excavate the Santang trench Tc1 and Fushannan trench Tc2, and clean up the Fushannan profile Pm, which reveals rich phenomena of recent fault activity. Santang trench reveals three faults, and the faulting phenomenon is obvious. One of the faults shows the characteristic of right-lateral strike-slip normal faulting; Fushannan profile reveals one fault, with the same faulting behavior of right-lateral strike-slip normal fault. Comprehensive stratigraphic sample dating results indicate that the fault dislocated the middle Pleistocene strata, late Quaternary strata and early Holocene strata. All our work shows that the fault of Fushan section has intensive activity since late Pleistocene, and the latest active age can reach early Holocene. The latest earthquake occurred at(10.6±0.8)~(7.6±0.5)ka BP. The faults exposed by trenches and profiles show the characteristics of right-lateral strike-slip normal faulting, which reflects the complexity of the tectonic stress field in the area where the fault locates.     

洞庭盆地的第四纪构造活动

依据第四系分统等厚度图,分析了洞庭盆地第四纪构造活动的演变。早更新世及晚更新世表现为盆地东西两侧对边掀斜,沉积中心呈近南北向伸延;中更新世及全新世,迎丰桥-北景港断裂两侧断块反向扭动掀斜,以致盆地西北角和东南角掀升,并形成与此主掀升部位相应的俯伏部位,其伸延方向与主掀升部位的掀斜方向垂直     

郯庐断裂带明光—定远池河镇段的新活动性

郯庐断裂带南段淮河至女山湖段落已被证实具有晚第四纪活动性,为进一步追踪断裂带在女山湖以南的活动情况,选取明光至定远池河镇段落进行遥感解译、地质地貌调查、探槽开挖及年代样品测试等工作。研究发现,该段断裂在卫星影像上显示线性特征较差,发育断裂主要为池河-太湖断裂;断裂新活动主要表现为控制池河河谷的发育及沿明南土山村、池河石塘岳、池河周王等地展布的线性岗状地貌;在上述岗地边缘开挖探槽揭示断裂在该段最新活动方式具挤压逆冲性质,最新活动时代为中更新世,晚更新世以来不活动。上述结果初步表明,该段与其北侧相邻的淮河至女山湖段在第四纪活动性上存在差异,可能为郯庐断裂带在女山湖附近存在分段导致。     

郯庐断裂带安徽明光段紫阳山探槽及其意义

郯庐断裂带安徽省内段落属于该断裂带的南段,断裂构造复杂,总体上断层活动性要弱于断裂带的山东、江苏段。近年来笔者多次在苏皖交界地区开展野外地质地貌调查,发现淮河南北两侧的地形地貌存在较大差异。本研究以淮河以南的郯庐断裂带东支断裂明光段为探查重点,在明光紫阳山北侧跨断层开挖地质探槽。探槽(Tc1)显示断层表现为逆冲、张裂等活动形式,且断层向上延伸错动晚第四纪地层;结合年代样品测试结果,表明该段断层晚第四纪以来有较强的活动,最新活动时代可达晚更新世-全新世早期;探槽揭露的断层表现出多种活动形式,显示了明光段断层活动的多期次性和区域构造应力场的复杂性。     

郯庐断裂带五河-明光段晚更新世活动的地质证据及活动特征

作为中国东部影响最大的走滑断裂,郯庐断裂因其强烈的地震活动性及沿断裂带一系列的大地震而备受学者关注。然而,大部分的调查研究都是针对郯庐断裂山东省境内及渤海湾内部分段落。并且,一般认为淮河以南的段落晚更新世以来不活动,也不具备孕育大震或强震的条件。然而,近期我们针对郯庐断裂的工作对这些认识提出了质疑,这些工作基于高分辨率卫星遥感影像解译和在安徽北部明光市、五河县附近的详细的野外调查。我们的研究认为郯庐断裂在淮河以南的五河-明光段包括四支断裂,并且至少一支在晚更新世以来活动。此段在晚第四纪以来主要以右旋走滑为主。不同于常常在基岩及第四纪沉积物中观察到的断层,在未固结的第四纪粘土中的断层形迹不清,但是能够被微观构造分析所确认。鉴于我们最近的工作和前人研究,我们认为年轻沉积物中的隐形断层更加值得注意,同时我们认为郯庐断裂淮河以南的“平静”段需要更深入的研究。     

华北山地的水系变迁与新构造运动

华北山地的水系在第四纪有过重大变迁。其变过时段主要发生在早更新世早期和晚更新世早期，其次是早全新世和晚全新世。变迁方式主要是河流自下游面上游的溯源侵蚀袭夺，且袭夺点逐渐向下游移动；其次是断陷盆地的阻隔与诱导。变迁方向多是东西向河道袭夺南北向河道，使河流向东改道。目前许多河流仍处在进一步袭夺中，从而可看出，华北山地的水纱变迁严格受新构造运动控制，且以断块差异活动为主，水系变迁方向可能与青藏高原在第四纪强烈隆起和太行山，燕山在第四纪迅速抬升有关。     

近50a淮河流域汛期降水日数和强度的分布与变化特征

选用1961-2010年淮河流域145个地面气象站的观测资料,分析淮河流域汛期(5-9月)降水的时空变化规律.结果表明:淮河流域汛期降水的空间分布不仅受到地理位置和地形的影响,而且与湿度和风速的空间分布具有较好的相关性;在时间变化上,雨日出现频率有下降的趋势,但暴雨日比重和暴雨日平均降水量均有升高的趋势.淮河流域汛期暴雨日出现频率以及各类型雨日的平均降水量均有上升的趋势,强降水时空变化呈现局地性和频发性.     

青岛沧口断裂的地质构造特征与第四纪活动性研究

本文根据青岛市活断层探测与地震危险性评价项目初查阶段第四纪地层分析、遥感影像解译、地球化学探测、地质地貌调查与探槽开挖、浅层地震勘探与钻孔探测、地质年代测定等获得的丰富的第一手资料,对青岛沧口断裂的地质构造特征和第四纪活动性进行了详细分析与综合研究,结果表明:沧口断裂经历多期构造变动,是本区的重要断裂之一,它由多支断层组成,控制了中生代的火山活动、盆地沉积和岩浆侵入以及晚第四纪的盆地沉积、山体隆升和水系发育;第四纪以来,沧口断裂的主要活动发生于中更新世晚期至晚更新世早期,表现出中高角度向南东倾的逆冲活动特点,错断了上更新统底面1—6m,而最新活动时代为晚更新世中期,以走滑活动为主,垂直错距0.2—1.1m。     

越南红河断裂活动性研究

通过中越两国对越南红河断裂带开展的联合野外考察,获取了地震、地质、地貌和年代学等反映该断裂最新活动的相关证据。综合研究表明,越南红河断裂带第四纪以来的右旋走滑活动延续和保持了在中国境内自北向南逐渐减弱的总体趋势。其第四纪主要活动时代为中更新世中晚期,且总体活动水平明显低于中国云南境内部分,特别是自晚更新世以来越南红河断裂带的活动已表现得十分微弱。结合断裂现今地震活动和区域GPS大地形变特征分析认为,自晚第四纪以来,来自青藏高原的"侧向挤出"动力作用对红河断裂右旋走滑活动在时间、空间和强度等方面的影响可能非常有限。文中还探讨了造成这一有限影响可能的大地构造和深部构造原因     

基于钻探的芦花台隐伏断层晚第四纪活动特征

The Luhuatai fault is one of the important buried tectonics in the Yinchuan basin. Based on the results of shallow seismic exploration, we conducted composite drilling section exploration and dating of the samples from boreholes. Some useful data was obtained, such as the depth of the upper breaking point, the latest activity age, displacement in the late Quaternary, and slip rates, etc. This study shows that the activity is different between the north and south segment along the Luhuatai fault. The north segment is a Holocene fault, while the south segment is a late mid-Pleistocene fault. From north to south along the north segment of Luhuatai fault, the activity has been enhanced, and the faulting is stronger in late Pleistocene than Holocene.     

Quaternary integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

Quaternary strata in China mainly comprise continental deposits in a variety of depositional settings. The continental Quaternary in temperate northern China consists mainly of eolian and fluvio-lacustrine deposits; that in subtropical southern China, mainly of vermiculated red soils, cave/fissure deposits, and fluvio-lacustrine deposits; and that in the alpine Tibetan Plateau, mainly of fluvio-lacustrine and piedmont deposits. The marine Quaternary in China consists of detrital deposits and biogenic reef deposits. The integration of biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, climatostratigraphy and an astronomically calibrated chronology has led to the establishment of high-precision climatochronostratigraphic timescales for the detrital marine Quaternary in the South China Sea and the loess-paleosol sequence in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Extremely high-precision230 Th dating has provided a high-precision absolute age model for cave stalagmites over the past 640000 years as well as highresolution oxygen isotope records representing orbital-to suborbital-scale climate changes. By combining magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, robust chronostratigraphic frameworks for non-eolian continental Quaternary deposits on the scale of Quaternary geomagnetic polarities have been established. The continental Pleistocene Series consists, from oldest to youngest,of the Nihewanian Stage of the Lower Pleistocene, the Zhoukoudianian Stage of the Middle Pleistocene, and the Salawusuan Stage of the Upper Pleistocene. Stages of the continental Holocene Series have not yet been established. This review summarizes recent developments in the Quaternary chronostratigraphy of representative Quaternary strata and associated faunas, and then proposes an integrative chronostratigraphic framework and a stratigraphic correlation scheme for Quaternary continental strata in China. In the near-future, it is hoped to establish not only a Chinese continental Quaternary climatochronostratigraphic chart on the scale of glacial-interglacial cycles but also a Quaternary integrative chronostratigraphic chart including both continental and marine strata in China.     

Monazite age spectra in the Late Cenozoic strata of the Changjiang delta and its implication on the Changjiang run-through time

Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, inversion of eastern and western geomorphology, eastward flowing of large rivers, and run-through of the Changjiang River exert great influence on sedimentation and environ-mental variations in the East China Sea. Provenance discrimination of Tibetan-Plateau-originated sediments in the river-mouth areas and marginal seas is key to figure out these issues.In the past, most studies of the run-through time of the Changjiang and the Yellow rivers focused on geomo…     

广西苍梧贺街-夏郢断裂遥感影像和小震分布

采用遥感影像解译、小震精定位等方法,结合野外地震地质调查,分析了贺街-夏郢断裂附近的遥感影像特征和小震分布特征,并据此将贺街-夏郢断裂从南到北分为南段(夏郢镇毓秀-石桥镇新塘)、中段(石桥镇新塘-步头镇白石口)、北段(步头镇白石口以北).结果显示,贺街-夏郢断裂中段卫星影像上线性特征明显,控制石桥-沙头盆地的发育,局部...     

Introductory perspective on the COREF Project

Abstract Coral reefs are tropic to subtropic, coastal ecosystems comprising very diverse organisms. Late Quaternary reef deposits are fossil archives of environmental, tectonic and eustatic variations that can be used to reconstruct the paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic history of the tropic surface oceans. Reefs located at the latitudinal limits of coral‐reef ecosystems (i.e. those at coral‐reef fronts) are particularly sensitive to environmental changes – especially those associated with glacial–interglacial changes in climate and sealevel. We propose a land and ocean scientific drilling campaign in the Ryukyu Islands (the Ryukyus) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to investigate the dynamic response of the corals and coral‐reef ecosystems in this region to Late Quaternary climate and sealevel change. Such a drilling campaign, which we call the COREF (coral‐reef front) Project, will allow the following three major questions to be evaluated: (i) What are the nature, magnitude and driving mechanisms of coral‐reef front migration in the Ryukyus? (ii) What is the ecosystem response of coral reefs in the Ryukyus to Quaternary climate changes? (iii) What is the role of coral reefs in the global carbon cycle? Subsidiary objectives include (i) the timing of coral‐reef initiation in the Ryukyus and its causes; (ii) the position of the Kuroshio current during glacial periods and its effects on coral‐reef formation; and (iii) early carbonate diagenetic responses as a function of compounded variations in climate, eustacy and depositional mineralogies (subtropic aragonitic to warm‐temperate calcitic). The geographic, climatic and oceanographic settings of the Ryukyu Islands provide an ideal natural laboratory to address each of these research questions.     

山东半岛东北部新发现近EW向活断层

山东半岛东北部地区晚第四纪的构造活动以整体性抬升为主,内部的断裂活动相对较弱,晚更新世以来的断裂活动仅分布在局部地区,新发现的东殿后断裂是其中的1条。断裂总体走向近EW,全长约20km,地貌上表现为由3条河流上游组成的谷地。断裂错断的最新地层的热释光年龄为84～75kaBP,上覆坡积角砾层的热释光年龄为64kaBP,断裂发育的松软断层泥的热释光年龄为82kaBP。断裂的剖面特征和断盖地层的年龄表明,东殿后断裂的最新活动时代是晚更新世早中期,垂直活动速率不<016mm/a,晚更新世晚期以来停止活动;断裂的最大潜在地震为6级     

EVIDENCE OF HOLOCENE ACTIVITY DISCOVERED IN ANHUI ZIYANGSHAN SEGMENT OF TANLU FAULT ZONE

Anqiu-Juxian Fault(F₅) is the latest active fault in the eastern graben of the middle segment of the Tanlu fault zone. In recent years, the research results of F₅ in Jiangsu Province are abundant, and it is found that Holocene activity is prevalent in different segments, and the movement pattern is dominated by dextral strike-slip and squeezing thrust. The Anhui segment and the Jiangsu segment of the Tan-Lu fault zone are bounded by the Huaihe River. Previous studies have not discussed the extension and activity of F₅ in the south of the Huaihe River in Anhui Province. This paper chooses the Ziyangshan segment of Tanlu fault zone in the south of the Huaihe River as the breakthrough point, which is consistent with the linear image feature of extension of F₅ in Jiangsu Province. Through the remote sensing image interpretation, geological and geomorphological investigation and trench excavation, we initially get the following understanding:(1)The linear structural features of the Ziyang segment are clear, and the fault is developed on the gentle slope of the Mesozoic red sandstone uplift along the Fushan-Ziyangshan, which is the southern extension of the Anqiu-Juxian Fault(F₅); (2)The excavation of the Zhuliu trench reveals that the late Pleistocene clastic layers are interrupted, and the late late Pleistocene to early Holocene black clay layers are filled along the fault to form black fault strips and black soil-filled wedges, indicating that the latest active age of the fault is early Holocene; (3)The excavation of Zhuliu trench reveals that there are at least 3 paleo-earthquake events since the Quaternary, the first paleo-seismic event is dated to the early and middle Quaternary, and the 2nd paleo-seismic event is 20.10~13.46ka BP, the age of the third paleo-seismic event is(10.15±0.05)~(8.16±0.05)ka BP. These results complement our understanding of the late Quaternary activity in the Anhui segment of the Tanlu fault zone, providing basic data for earthquake monitoring and seismic damage prevention in Anhui Province.     

构造和气候共同控制下的藏南热隆盆地中更新世以来的演化

热隆盆地是亚东－谷露裂谷系南部, 由宁金抗沙西麓断裂控制的断陷盆地, 根据野外地质调查、 遥感(RS)和数字高程模型(DEM)分析, 盆地内发育有三期洪积扇, 形成时代分别在中更新世中期(第一期)、 中更新世中期至晚更新世早期(第二期)、 晚更新世晚期(第三期)。 这三期洪积扇的发育分别对应于间冰期和间冰阶的高温大降水时期, 表明在第四纪以来, 由于间冰期与间冰阶期的到来, 温度升高, 降雨量增加, 地表径流作用增强, 先成洪积扇被破坏, 新洪积扇形成。 盆地内自中更新世中晚期以来剥蚀程度自北向南减弱, 表明在整体抬升的背景下, 由于宁金抗沙西麓断裂的活动, 使得盆地北部基岩抬升速率大于南部, 形成自北向南的掀斜。     

郯庐断裂带中段安丘—莒县断裂淮河—女山湖段几何展布

郯庐断裂带中段最新活动的安丘—莒县断裂(命名为F5断裂)为中国东部地区重要的地震活动断裂。已有研究表明,F5断裂向南已延伸进入安徽境内的淮河—女山湖之间,但该段的具体几何展布还存在以下问题未解决：一是F5断裂以东的紫阳山东侧断裂是否属于F5断裂分支;二是F5断裂向南是否延伸至女山湖北岸。为解决以上问题,本次工作基于遥感解译、地质地貌调查、探槽开挖及断错地层年代样品测试等方法,对紫阳山东侧断裂及女山湖北岸一带断裂开展了研究。结果表明,紫阳山东侧断裂发育时代较老,在早、中更新世发生过强烈逆冲挤压运动,晚第四纪以来不活动,该断裂不属于F5断裂分支;郯庐断裂带在女山湖北岸上詹村一带断错了晚更新世地层,该处断裂为F5断裂向南的延伸部分;F5断裂已完全贯穿于淮河—女山湖之间,断层迹线单一、连续,段落总长度约20 km。文中还讨论了F5断裂向南应该终止于女山湖至明光市一带,断裂终止受区域古老构造格局控制,表明该断裂既有新生性又有继承性。     

四川龙泉山断裂带及其活动性与潜在地震危险性讨论

龙泉山构造带是四川盆地内川西强烈断陷区和川中稳定隆起区之间的一条区域性断裂.2008年汶川地震后该断裂带未来的强震潜势备受关注.本文对该断裂带的展布、晚第四纪活动性、深部构造形成机制以及断裂带未来的地震危险潜势进行了讨论.断裂带北段位于德阳东侧龙泉山脉西缘;龙泉山脉中段的山体两翼存在断裂;断裂带的南段以向西倾斜的断裂为主.这些断裂在晚更新世以来曾有活动,前人阶地调查显现该断裂带全新世存在活动.考虑到该断裂带未来的地震潜势评估,值得对该断裂带的活动性及断裂带深部构造和运动方式开展进一步的调查.     

Extreme flood events and climate change around 3500 aBP in the Central Plains of China

The occurrence of prehistoric extreme flood events has been the common interest of geologists, geographers and archaeologists. It is recognized that from 5000 aBP to 3000 aBP was a period of extreme floods frequently occurring around the world. For in-stance, flood events have been found in North Amer-ica, rapid sea level rise has been found in both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and flooded ancient cities have been found in a number of coast areas[1—6]. In China, records of pre…