雨海哥白尼纪月岭的构造样式与演化过程研究

月岭是月球表面月海中分布最广的一种线性构造。虽然月岭的形貌特点已被广泛认识,但它的演化机制与过程却一直存在争论。月球目前所处的地质历史时期哥白尼纪形成的另一种线性构造叶状陡坎已被发现,改变了之前人类普遍认为月球自31亿年以来再无构造活动的认识,但月岭发育的时代特征还未确定,因此,对月岭成因过程和形成时代的研究是认识月球表面构造形成机制和月球演化过程的关键。基于美国勘测轨道飞行器(LRO)数据,对雨海地区的月岭构造进行解译;利用小型撞击坑直径与形貌相对关系定年法结合月岭与小型撞击坑的交切关系,证明在哥白尼纪月球表面仍然有月岭发育,进一步证实月球表面仍然有构造运动发生。利用哥白尼纪叶状陡坎的成因机制,文中设计了基底收缩作用下的月岭砂箱构造物理模拟实验,并设置不同参数多次反复模拟,将模拟结果的顶面和剖面形态以及构造样式与实际月岭进行了对比分析。模拟结果与实际月岭各项特征基本吻合,得出基底收缩可以作为哥白尼纪月岭的形成机制;此外,通过实验发现在这一机制下月岭是由先形成的叶状陡坎构造发展而来,并在月岭发育后又有新的叶状陡坎形成。通过实验过程的监测以及对实验数据的测算,发现月岭的演化过程经历塑性变形期、叶状陡坎发育期、月岭形成期和月岭成形后的叶状陡坎再发育期4个时期;月岭与叶状陡坎并不是受物质与环境约束完全独立发育的两类线性构造,在哥白尼纪以收缩为动力来源的应力环境下可以互相转化。     

一种新的实测地层剖面绘制方法

当前常采用导线法绘制实测地层剖面,但该法常导致常规导线段在总导线方位上确定的地层边界点不是真实的边界,特别是平移导线段在实测地层剖面图上确定的地形线与岩性线之间产生了比较大的夹角。本文针对导线法绘图的这些缺陷,提出了绘制地层剖面的一个新方法——三维投影法：1）常规导线在总导线方位上确定的地层边界点为真实的地层边界位置,且三维投影法绘制的地层剖面图与总导线方位上的图切剖面一致;2）平移导线只在导线平面图中展现,而不出现于地层剖面图中,消除了地形线与岩性线之间存在夹角和平移导线处理的多解性问题。     

地震在滑坡体上的响应形式研究:以苦地瓜子滑坡为例

地震滑坡分为三大类,即高度破裂或严重高度破裂滑坡、存在分离剪切面的滑坡以及以流相为主的滑坡。在中国西
南地区,根据地震滑坡特点,按其运动方式划分为：推移式滑坡、牵引式滑坡、溜滑性滑坡和崩塌性滑坡四大类。在四川
省茂县苦地瓜子滑坡特征的调查中,发现了一些较为特殊的地质现象,主要包括以下几点：（1） 滑坡上游边界冲沟中湖相
沉积和滑坡体上分布的湖积物表明苦地瓜子滑坡曾经发生过堵江事件,部分为堵江后的堰塞湖区域,在此区域发生河湖相
沉积,其结果是滑坡此部分被湖积物所覆盖,呈现出了与其他几个区覆盖物截然不同的现象;（2） 苦地瓜子滑坡中下部发
现砂土液化现象及规律性排列的裂缝;（3） 踏勘时在滑坡中下部发现直立错坎,错坎两侧土性不同,在颜色和物质组成上
都有较明显不同。错坎左侧为粉土状物质,而右侧以碎石土为主;（4） 在滑坡的中部以及中偏下部位都发现有平行于滑动
方向的裂缝;（5） 现场调查时在坡体中上部发现有充填楔,充填物颗粒较大、磨圆度较好,与地面盖层的颜色、岩性条件
相同。综合各种现象进行分析,室内试验和数据统计,认为茂县苦地瓜子滑坡为地震诱发的滑坡,并且可以从此滑坡中发
现地震滑坡与普通滑坡明显不同,往往在现场留下自重引起的滑坡不好解释的现象,主要有砂土液化迹象、充填楔、地震陡
坎、平行于滑动方向的裂隙;此外地震滑坡还具有等时性和群发性的特点。     

Anatomy and sedimentary model of a hooked spit (Sylt,southern North Sea)

A sedimentary model for hooked spit depositional systems based on ground‐penetrating radar and sedimentological data is presented. The recurved main spit of Sylt Island (southern North Sea) is dominated by migrating sand dunes; the investigated hooked spit exhibits a system of foredune ridges, oriented perpendicular to the dunes of the recurved spit. The development of the hooked spit is related closely to the presence of an adjacent tidal inlet, where strong tidal currents and a steep bathymetry prevent a further northward progradation of the main spit and trigger a deflection from northerly‐directed to easterly‐directed net sediment transport. Ground‐penetrating radar data and shallow sediment cores reveal the sedimentary architecture of the hooked spit in high resolution and allow the proposition of a genetic stratigraphic model. It is shown that the growth of the hooked spit is controlled by the interplay of alongshore migrating foreshore beach drifts under fair‐weather conditions and strong erosional events, interpreted as the result of rare severe storms. These storms may excavate scarps in the backshore, which play an important role in the development of foredune ridges. Accelerator mass spectrometry ¹⁴C ages indicate an absolute age of at least 1300 years for the hooked spit, which possibly correlates with strengthened erosion of the main spit. In contrast to the main spit, where the sediment budget is negative nowadays, growth of the hooked spit beach accelerated significantly during the last decades. This effect can probably be attributed to enhanced beach‐nourishments updrift along the main spit and makes the investigated hooked spit a natural laboratory to study the influence of increasing sediment supply into a system developing under the conditions of sea‐level rise. The study shows that the same external forces lead to distinct progradational processes along one barrier‐spit system.     

Geomorphic and cosmogenic nuclide constraints on escarpment evolution in an intraplate setting,Darling Escarpment,Western Australia

The ～900 km long Darling Scarp in Western Australia is one of the most prominent linear topographic features on Earth. Despite the presence of over‐steepened reaches in all westerly flowing streams crossing the scarp, and significant seismic activity within 100 km of the scarp, there is no historical seismicity and no reported evidence for Quaternary tectonic displacements on the underlying Darling Fault. Consequently, it is unclear whether the scarp is a rapidly evolving landform responding to recent tectonic and/or climatic forcing or a more slowly evolving landform. In order to quantify late Quaternary rates of erosion and scarp relief processes, we obtained measurements of the cosmic‐ray produced nuclide beryllium‐10 (¹⁰Be) from outcropping bedrock surfaces along the scarp summit and face, in valley floors, and at stream knickpoints. Erosion rates of bedrock outcrops along the scarp summit surface range from 0·5 to 4·0 m Myr^?1. These are in the same range as erosion rates of 2·1 to 3·6 m Myr^?1 on the scarp face and similar to river incision rates of 2·6 to 11·0 m Myr^?1 from valley floor bedrock straths, indicating that the Darling Scarp is a slowly eroding ‘steady state’ landform, without any significant contemporary relief production over the last several 100 kyr and possibly several million years. Knickpoint retreat rates determined from ¹⁰Be concentrations at the bases of two knickpoints on small streams incised into the scarp are 36 and 46 m Myr^?1. If these erosion rates were sustained over longer timescales, then associated knickpoints may have initiated in the mid‐Tertiary to early Neogene, consistent with early‐mid Tertiary marginal uplift. Ongoing maintenance of stream disequilibrium longitudinal profiles is consistent with slow, regional base level lowering associated with recently proposed continental‐scale tilting, as opposed to differential uplift along discrete faults. Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be analysis provides a useful tool for interpreting the palaeoseismic history of intraplate near‐fault landforms over 10⁵ to 10⁶ years. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Characterization of active fault scarps from LiDAR data: a case study from Central Apennines (Italy)

A high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM, 1 ms spacing) derived from an airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) campaign was used in an attempt to characterize the structural and erosive elements of the geometry of the Pettino fault, a seismogenic normal fault in Central Apennines (Italy). Four 90- to 280 m-long fault scarp segments were selected and the surface between the base and the top of the scarps was analyzed through the statistical analysis of the following DEM-derived parameters: altitude, height of the fault scarp, and distance along strike, slope, and aspect. The results identify slopes of up to 40° in faults lower reaches interpreted as fresh faces, 34° up the faces. The Pettino fault maximum long-term slip rate (0.6–1.1 mm/yr) was estimated from the scarp heights, which are up to 12–19 m in the selected four segments, and the age (ca. 18 ka) of the last glacial erosional phase in the area. The combined analysis of the DEM-derived parameters allows us to (a) define aspects of three-dimensional scarp geometry, (b) decipher its geomorphological significance, and (c) estimate the long-term slip rate.     

汶川Ms8.0地震平原区地表破裂的初步调查

2008年5月12日四川省汶川发生MS 8.0级地震,造成龙门山断裂带映秀－北川断裂长达240km和灌县－江油断裂72km的地表破裂。同时在龙门山山前的成都平原内出现了地表弯曲变形、地裂缝、河流跌水以及具有条带状分布的喷砂冒水点和建筑物破坏加剧的现象。为此,对这一地区进行了进一步的调查工作。调查采取以寻访形式为主,结合使用高精度3D扫描仪进行地形测量和探槽开挖。通过调查,发现平原区的隐伏断裂在汶川MS8.0地震中发生了错动,断层破裂面在地表未见有出露,而是在近地表形成弯曲变形。什邡市师古镇和隐丰镇之间存在两条地震灾害异常带,北北东向灾害异常带长约7km; 北北西向灾害异常带长约5km。通过探槽开挖和地形测量得到的汶川MS8.0级地震在平原区形成的垂直位移为20cm。     

金沙江断裂带新活动和巴塘6.5级地震震中的确定

作者通过对区域地质调查资料的分析研究和实地考察,对金沙江断裂带的展布范围进行了划分,认为金沙江断裂带是川西规模巨大的断裂带,从地震活动、断裂地貌特征、水系扭曲、第四纪地层形变和温泉沿断裂分布等表明它是一个活动断裂带。通过对历史地震实地访问调查,获得了1923年巴塘6.5级地震的震害情况,并发现了这次地震在地表所产生的地裂缝,从而确定了这次地震的宏观震中位置,探讨了地震与断裂的关系。无疑对金沙江断裂带活动性的认识、地震预报和地震烈度区划工作具有现实意义。     

用地震断层陡坎的形态方程确定古地震事件的年代

通过对地震断层陡坎演为过程的分析，应用均匀物质扩散理论建立地震断层陡坎的形态方程，推断古地震断层陡坎的年龄，从而确定古地震事件的期次及年代。用该方法对二台活断层古地震断层陡坎进行计算，所得结果与用其它方法确定的古地震事件的期次及年代对应较好。     

Newly found Tunglo Active Fault System in the fold and thrust belt in northwestern Taiwan deduced from deformed terraces and its tectonic significance

We found active faults in the fold and thrust belt between Tunglo town and the Tachia River in northwestern Taiwan. The surface rupture occurred in 1999 and 1935 nearby the study area, but no historical surface rupture is recorded in this area, suggesting that the seismic energy has been accumulated during the recent time. Deformed fluvial terraces aid in understanding late Quaternary tectonics in this tectonically active area. This area contains newly identified faults that we group as the Tunglo Fault System, which formed after the area's oldest fluvial terrace and appears at least 16 km long in roughly N–S orientation. Its progressive deformations are all recorded in associated terraces developed during the middle to late Quaternary. In the north, the system consists of two subparallel active faults, the Tunglo Fault and Tunglo East Fault, striking N–S and facing each other from opposite sides of the northward flowing Hsihu River, whose course may be controlled by interactions of above-mentioned two active faults. The northern part of the Tunglo Fault, to the west of the river, is a reverse fault with upthrown side on the west; conversely the Tunglo East Fault, to the east, is also a reverse fault, but with upthrown side on the east. Both faults are marked by a flexural scarp or eastward tilting of fluvial terraces. Considering a Quaternary syncline lies subparallel to the east of this fault system, the Tunglo Fault might be originated as a bending moment fault and the Tunglo East Fault as a flexural slip fault. However, they have developed as obvious reverse faults, which have progressive deformation under E–W compressive stress field of Taiwan. Farther south, a west-facing high scarp, the Tunglo South Fault, strikes NNE–SSW, oblique to the region's E–W direction of compression. Probably due to the strain partitioning, the Tunglo South Fault generates en echelon, elongated ridges and swales to accommodate right-lateral strike–slip displacement. Other structures in the area include eastward-striking portion of the Sanyi Fault, which has no evidence for late Quaternary surface rupture on this fault; perhaps slip on this part of Sanyi Fault ceased when the Tunglo Fault System became active.