重力均衡与质量均衡

均衡理论，无论是艾礼模式，还是普拉特模式，都是建立在平面地壳的基础之上，并不考虑重力随高程的变化，这事实上相当于质量的均衡。如果有球面上考察均衡理论，并且考虑重力随高程的变化，则得到的均衡模型为重力的均衡。定量计算表明，质量均衡和重力均衡之间的的差别不可忽略的。这种差别对研究地壳的应力状态意义重大。     

华南陆块均衡重力状态及其地质意义

重力均衡是一普遍的地球物理现象,可为区域深部构造、岩石圈形变、地壳结构以及应力场状态研究提供参考信息,是研究地壳内部结构和划分大地构造单元的重要方法之一。华南陆块是欧亚板块重要组成部分,也是我国矿产资源“大粮仓”,虽然对华南陆块的研究已持续近百年,但在构造、成矿等诸多地质问题上仍存在较大争议。为了解华南陆块均衡程度及其对构造、成矿的影响,本文尝试从均衡重力异常和均衡深度异常两个方面来探索。首先利用卫星布格重力计算得到了均衡剩余重力异常,然后利用高程和壳幔密度差计算了均衡深度异常。结果表明华南陆块大部分区域地壳处于均衡状态,相对正均衡异常主要位于东部沿海地区和武陵山一带,相对负均衡异常反映了秦岭—大别造山带、江南造山带及华南陆块西缘造山活动。地震多沿正、负均衡深度异常的转换带或梯度带发生,认为这些地带通常为深部构造转换部位,应当成为地震活动研究关注的重点区域。均衡剩余重力异常也间接约束了不同类型金属矿床分布,正均衡剩余重力异常区多分布地幔来源金属矿床,而负均衡异常区则多产出壳源相关金属矿床。     

喜马拉雅中东部镜像均衡重力异常的形成研究

青藏高原南缘处于重力不均衡状态,由北向南可依次分为高原近重力均衡区、喜马拉雅山正均衡异常区和山前盆地负均衡异常区,正、负异常呈现壮观的镜像分布。本文选取喜马拉雅中东部的均衡重力异常数据,结合地貌高程、地壳厚度、降雨量、冰川及山前沉积等的分布状况,探讨地貌分异与均衡重力异常分布的相互关系。由上述资料获得3条跨越喜马拉雅山的综合剖面,结果显示喜马拉雅中东部正均衡重力异常的分布与冰川、河流等代表的地表剥蚀作用存在明显的空间耦合关系,而与降雨量无直接联系,山前盆地负均衡重力异常与沉积厚度的分布也存在很好的耦合。利用数值模型计算得到了喜马拉雅地区的均衡调整时间域在1 Ma左右的时间尺度内。通过与地貌响应时间域相对比,以及对地表剥蚀厚度的估计,认为山脉地区的正均衡异常主要由地壳厚度补偿不足引起(侧重Airy假说),而山前盆地的负均衡异常主要由低密度沉积层的分布引起(侧重Pratt假说),由于地貌响应时间快于均衡调整时间,在大约5～2 Ma以来,地壳的均衡调整始终延迟于山脉的持续剥蚀和山前的持续沉积,使得岩石圈朝着"反均衡"方向演变,最终形成了喜马拉雅现今壮观的镜像均衡重力异常分布。     

我国地壳深部构造的区域特征

本文根据平均布格重力异常和已知莫霍界面深度之间的统计关系,确定了全国的地壳厚度变化,并提出中国的地壳深部构造分区;利用重力异常和地表高程的相关关系,分析地壳的均衡状态和均衡机制,从而对地壳结构作出推断;根据均衡条件,利用地震和重力资料计算的地壳质量变化,估计了上地幔平均密度的横向变化情况。     

龙门山晚新生代均衡反弹隆升的定量研究

龙门山位于青藏高原东缘与四川盆地的交接部位,是青藏高原周边山脉中地形梯度变化最大的山脉,其隆升过程和机制一直是国际地学界关注的焦点。晚新生代经过大量的滑坡、泥石流等快速剥蚀作用,龙门山的高程却不断升高。讨论了龙门山构造隆升的3种地球动力学机制,即下地壳通道流机制、地壳挤压缩短变形机制、地壳均衡反弹机制。晚新生代龙门山的隆升与剥蚀引起的均衡反弹作用相关,剥蚀作用使得地壳岩石逐步被移去,剥蚀区重力损失,岩石圈或地壳卸载作用导致山脉顶峰的隆升。结合数字高程模型数据研究表明,巨大地震的长期同震构造变形以及滑坡、泥石流等引起的快速剥蚀所导致的地壳均衡反弹,可能是龙门山晚新生代构造隆升的地球动力学新机制。龙门山地区现今高程受构造作用与剥蚀引起的均衡反弹作用的共同影响,其中剥蚀引起的均衡反弹作用对龙门山隆升的影响贡献率约占30%。     

地壳均衡与海平面变化

提要:在全球海面变化的近期研究中，无论是均衡模式、还是重力模式，写考虑到冰川均衡作用和水力均衡作用。本文认为，绝对均衡表示地壳均街的最终结果，相对均衡表示地壳均衡中一系列中间过程。这两种均衡之间的差别，往往被人们所忽视。
    定量计算的结果表明，冰盖的吸引不仅使周围的海面升高，而且使内核在外核中产生定向运动。由于参加相对均衡的大陆壳数量不同、宕石圈的强度不同，陆壳与陆充、陆克与洋壳之间将产生不同幅度的垂直运动。这为解释全球海面变化不一致性提供了另一个新思路。
        

均衡重力异常计算方法

本文提出了采用埃利均衡补偿模式计算5ˊ×5ˊ平均均衡重力异常的一种方认。计算是使用5ˊ×5ˊ平均高程值,将A～O带分为近、中、远三个区:近区用1ˊ40〞×1ˊ40〞的柱体,中区用5ˊ×5ˊ的柱体,远区用15ˊ×15ˊ的柱体,分别采用矩形柱体、质线和质点的正演公式计算地形一均衡校正值。从华南某地区的均衡重力异常图可以看出,根据均衡重力异常可以消除由地壳厚度变化而产生的区域场,突出局部异常场。     

龙门山均衡重力异常及其对青藏高原东缘山脉地壳隆升的约束

青藏高原东缘处于不均衡状态，自西而东可分为青藏高原弱负均衡重力异常区、龙门山正均衡重力异常区和四川盆地负均衡重力异常区，表明该区的不均衡状态并未导致Airy均衡运动的产生，即龙门山没有均衡下降，而处于不断的隆升状态，显示该地区反均衡运动的构造抬升是导致龙门山隆升的主因。本次采用似三度体重力异常计算方法对该区的正均衡重力异常进行模拟和反演，研究了大尺度地貌分异与均衡重力异常分区之间的相互关系，结果表明，龙门山的下地壳顶面抬升了11．2～12．6km，造成了龙门山的正均衡异常，揭示了构造抬升和剥蚀作用在相似的时间尺度上和空间尺度上控制着龙门山地貌的形成，龙门山的表面隆升是构造隆升和剥蚀作用相叠加的产物。     

重力异常与青藏高原地壳构造

1987年在青海格尔木—西藏亚东地区开展了1:50万重力路线扑点工作。在总长度1620km内,布设201个测站。利用上述资料计算了研究区的莫霍面深度及均衡异常(普拉特模式),分析了地壳与上地幔内的均衡信息。利用布格异常形态与测点高程的相关统计,在工区内划分了9个地体及13条较大的断裂。     

重力均衡异常与湖南原生金刚石矿床预测

已有的研制表明,重力均衡异常既反映了地壳深处（软流层）的构造活动,又反映其活动的近期性。因此,在湖南原生金刚石矿床的预测时空域中,应注意沅水流域年青金刚石载体的勘查。     

地壳均衡假说与湘西北地壳均衡失调探讨

由湖南省1:100万10′×15′平均均衡重力异常图知,湘西北地区呈重力高;除此以外的广大地区,当消除花岗岩对应的局部重力低外,均衡异常基本呈零值特征。笔者认为这是湖南全省的地壳均衡失调区,并从5个方面对该问题进行了分析。     

实验均衡二十年

回顾了利用响应函数技米研究地球均街己取得的主要成果并提出了研究中值得注意的一些问题。
        

地球物理学及大地构造学中关于地壳均衡的新模型(英文)

讨论了一些有关地壳均衡概念的模型。业已证明 ,这些模型既不能用以正确评估地球的平衡状态 ,也不能用以解释构造成因。介绍一种新的地壳均衡模型 ,它与地球的某一种旋转方式相适应。地球体与球的偏差 ,被用来作为地球平衡的判据。地球被认为是在偏差趋近于零的那些点上得到平衡的。地球体与球体之间标志的差异 ,是由地球外壳中地质作用的方向所确定的。所提出的是大地地壳均衡模型 ,是地壳中构造形成新旋转假说的基础。     

Late Holocene vertical land motion and relative sea‐level changes: lessons from the British Isles

Vertical land motion caused by continuing glacial isostatic adjustment is one of several important components of sea‐level change and is not limited just to previously glaciated regions. A national‐scale analysis for the British Isles shows an ellipse of present‐day relative uplift (relative sea‐level fall), ～1.2 mm a^?1, broadly centred on the deglaciated mountains of Scotland. The pattern of three foci of relative subsidence, ～1 mm a^?1, results from the additional interactions of the deglacial meltwater load on the Atlantic basin and the continental shelf, and the signal due to far‐field ice sheets. At a local scale, sediment compaction can more than double the rate of relative land subsidence. Relative land‐level change (the negative of relative sea‐level change) is not the same as vertical land motion. There is a spatial pattern in the difference between relative land‐level change and vertical land motion, with differences at present of approximately ?0.1 to ?0.3 mm a^?1 around the British Isles and +2.5 to ?1.5 mm a^?1 globally. For the wider scientific and user community, whether or not the differences are considered significant will depend upon the location, time frame and spatial scale of the study that uses such information. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Some remarks on high-temperature—low-pressure metamorphism in convergent orogens

Many high-temperature–low-pressure (high- T –low- P ) metamorphic terranes show evidence for peak mineral growth during crustal thickening strain increments at pressures near the maximum attained during the heating–cooling cycle. Such terranes are not readily explained as the conductive response to crustal thickening since the resulting Moho temperatures would greatly exceed the crustal liquidus and because heating due to conductive equilibration on length scales appropriate to lithospheric-scale strains must greatly outlast the deformation. Consequently, high- T –low- P metamorphism may be generated during crustal thickening only when significant heat is advected within the crust, as for example may occur during the segregation of granitic melts. We show that without the addition of asthenospheric melts and at strain rates appropriate to continental deformation the conditions required for significant lower crustal melting during deformation are only likely to be attained if heat flow into the lower crust during crustal thickening is increased substantially, for example, by removing the mantle part of the lithosphere. A simple parameterization of lithospheric deformation involving the vertical strain on the scale of the crust, _c, and the lithosphere, ₁ respectively, allows the potential energy of the evolving orogen to be readily evaluated. Using this parameterization we show that an important isostatic consequence of the deformation geometries capable of generating such high- T –low- P metamorphism during crustal thickening (with _c1) is an imposed upper limit to crustal thicknesses which is much lower than for homogeneous deformations (f_c= f₁) for the same initial lithospheric configuration.     

青藏高原第四纪大陆冰盖对高原隆升的影响

本文依据在青藏高原存在第四纪大陆冰盖的基础上,给定了3个不同厚度的冰盖,应用弹性板模式模拟计算了大陆冰盖消融前后的地壳均衡过程。计算结果表明,由大陆冰盖消融可能引起的高原隆升最大不超过700m。因此,就整个高原的隆升幅度来说可忽略其影响。但由于冰川消融前后高原负荷发生了变化,导致了隆升速度的相应变化,因而引起地表侵蚀强弱程度的不同及其它一些地质现象是不能忽视的。     

Connectivity between the western and eastern limbs of the Bushveld Complex

The mafic layered rocks of the Bushveld Complex are 6–8 km thick and crop out over an area of 65,000 km². Previous interpretations of the Bouguer gravity anomalies suggested that the intrusion consisted of two totally separate bodies. However, the mafic sequences in these arcuate western and eastern limbs are remarkably similar, with at least six petrologically distinctive layers and sequences being recognisable in both limbs. Such similarity of sequences in two totally discrete bodies 200–300 km apart is petrologically implausible, and it is suggested that they formed within a single lopolithic intrusion.

All previous Bouguer gravity models failed to consider the isostatic response of the crust to emplacement of this huge mass of mafic magma. Isostatic adjustment as a result of this intrusion would have caused the base of the crust to be depressed by as much as 6 km. With this revised whole crustal model, it becomes possible to construct a gravity model, consistent with observed data, which includes a 6 km-thick sequence of mafic rocks connecting the western and eastern limbs of the Bushveld Complex. The exact depth at which the mafic rocks of the Bushveld Complex lie in the centre of the structure cannot be constrained by the gravity data.

Such a first-order model is an approximation, because there have been subsequent deformation and structural readjustments in the crust, some of them probably related to the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex. Specifically, the observed geometry of the rocks around the Crocodile River, Dennilton, Marble Hall and Malope Domes suggests that major upwarping of the crust occurred on a variety of scales, triggered by emplacement of the Bushveld Complex.     

Late Holocene relative sea level rise and the Neoglacial history of the Greenland ice sheet

In West Greenland, early and mid Holocene relative sea level (RSL) fall was replaced by late Holocene RSL rise during the Neoglacial, after 4–3 cal. ka BP (thousand calibrated years before present). Here we present the results of an isolation basin RSL study completed near to the coastal town of Sisimiut, in central West Greenland. RSL fell from 14 m above sea level at 5.7 cal. ka BP to reach a lowstand of ?4.0 m at 2.3–1.2 cal. ka BP, before rising by an equivalent amount to present. Differences in the timing and magnitude of the RSL lowstand between this and other sites in West and South Greenland record the varied interplay of local and non‐Greenland RSL processes, notably the reloading of the Earth's crust caused by a Neoglacial expansion of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and the subsidence associated with the collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet forebulge. This means that the timing of the sea level lowstand cannot be used to infer directly when the GIS advanced during the Neoglacial. The rise in Late Holocene RSL is contrary to recently reported bedrock uplift in the Sisimiut area, based on repeat GPS surveys. This indicates that a belt of peripheral subsidence around the current ice sheet margin was more extensive in the late Holocene, and that there has been a switch from subsidence to uplift at some point in the last thousand years or so. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.