天山北麓河流阶地序列及形成年代

天山北麓河流阶地序列及其年代一直是悬而未决的问题。根据详细的野外工作, 确定天山北麓发育7 级河流阶地, 其中T₇、T₆、T₅ 及T₂ 等主要阶地为河流切割先期冲积扇而形 成, 与4 级阶地对应的4 期冲积扇分别为F₁、F₂、F₃ 与F₄。由于天山北麓构造隆升向盆地方 向迁移, 冲积扇呈串珠状发育, 背斜带间发育的冲积扇平面形态则由于南北背斜的限制而变 得不规则。基于黄土-古土壤序列对比分析、ESR 与OSL 测年以及前人研究成果, 确定天山 北麓河流下切形成T₇、T₆、T₅ 及T₂ 等阶地的时间分别为约0.54 Ma BP、0.3~0.2 Ma BP、 28~8 ka BP 和全新世早期。阶地年代表明, 天山北麓3 级主要阶地T₇、T₆、T₅ 及对应冲积扇 发育与天山更新世3 个冰期间冰期旋回基本对应。     

Origin of ground fissures in the Shanxi Graben System, Northern China

Since the 1950s, hundreds of ground fissures have occurred in the Shanxi Graben System in Northern China. The fissures and related subsidence and differential settlement have caused and are causing substantial damage to homes, agricultural land, roads, canals, and other infrastructure. Although generally similar in appearance, the fissures have different origins. (1) Some fissures coincide with northeast-trending faults. Trenching shows that the fissures extend into the near-surface faults, increasing vertical offset clay beds and other stratigraphic markers at depth, and therefore are probably the surface expression of fault movements. (2) Some fissures are demonstrably related to accelerated groundwater withdrawal. This is particularly apparent in Xi'an City where groundwater levels have declined by about 15 m within 4 years. (3) Other fissures owe their origin to the well-known process of ‘soil collapse’. This is particularly common in the silty loessial sediments that occur within most of the valleys that comprise the Shanxi Graben System.     

新疆独山子的冲沟发育与断层新活动

独山子背斜是天山北麓三排褶皱带中西北端的背斜,其北翼发育一条逆冲断层。断层的活动在奎屯河阶地和冲积扇上形成了高度小于20 m的断层陡坎。陡坎上游冲积物中发育多条冲沟,冲沟根据长度可分为7 组。探槽揭示了独山子背斜北翼断层最新的两次活动,其中较早的断层活动时间为3110±40 a BP。根据这次断层活动触发的冲沟的平均长度得到冲沟溯源侵蚀的速率为38 mm/a。由该溯源侵蚀速率,计算出每组冲沟发育的时间,分别约为1170 aBP,3110 a BP,7200 a BP,12570 a BP,14990 a BP,30570 a BP,37750 a BP,可能代表断层多次活动的时间。断层最新一次活动的时间与本文探槽研究限定时间段相符,其他最近的三次活动时间与前人探槽研究的结果相符。说明在特定条件下,用断层上升盘冲沟平均溯源侵蚀速率推算断层活动时间是可行的。     

Responses of landform development to tectonic movements and climate change during Quaternary in Fenhe drainage basin

Tectonic movements and climate changes are two main controllers on the development of landform. In order to reconstruct the history of the evolution of the landform in the Fenhe drainage basin during middle-late Quaternary comprehensively, this paper has provided a variety of geomorphological and geologic evidences to discuss how tectonic movements and climate changes worked together to influence the landform processes. According to the features of the lacustrine and alluvial terraces in this drainage basin, it is deduced that it was the three tectonic uplifts that resulted in the three great lake-regressions with an extent of about 40-60 m and the formation of the three lacustrine terraces. The times when the tectonic uplifts took place are 0.76 MaBP, 0.55 MaBP and 0.13 MaBP respectively, synchronous with the formation of paleosol units S8, S5 and S1 respectively. During the intervals between two tectonic uplifts when tectonic movement was very weak, climate changes played a major role in the evolution of the paleolakes and caused frequent fluctuations of lake levels. The changes of the features of lacustrine sediment in the grabens show the extent of such fluctuations of lake level is about 2-3 m.     

New Advances in Planation Surface Research

The planation surface occupies a large area and its formation spans a long-time scale. It is an important content and basic theoretical problem in geomorphology research. In this article, the basic concepts, related theories and development history of the three main types of planation surfaces, i.e. peneplain, pediment, and etchplain, were briefly reviewed. Then, based on the relationship between planation surface and strata, the chronological study of overlying and underlying strata, and some comprehensive chronological methods were briefly introduced. The respective and combined influence of tectonic movement and climate change on the development, final formation and disintegration of planation surface were deeply analyzed. Finally, the progress of planation surface research in China, especially in North China was elaborated, and the research on the evolution process of the Tangxian surface in the northern Zhongtiao Shan in the southern Shanxi Graben System was introduced in detail.