Decomposition and Evolution of Intracontinental Strike-Slip Faults in Eastern Tibetan Plateau

Little attention had been paid to the intracontinental strike-slip faults of the Tibetan Plateau. Since the discovery of the Longriba fault using re-measured GPS data in 2003, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to this neglected fault. The local relief and transverse swath profile show that the Longriba fault is the boundary line that separates the high and flat tomography of the Tibet plateau from the high and precipitous tomography of Orogen. In addition, GPS data shows that the Longriba fault is the boundary line where the migratory direction of the Bayan Har block changed from eastward to southeastward. The GPS data shows that the Longriba fault is the boundary fault of the sub-blocks of the eastern Bayan Har block. We built three-dimensional models containing the Longriba fault and the middle segment of the Longmenshan fault, across the Bayan Har block and the Sichuan Basin. A nonlinear finite element method was used to simulate the fault behavior and the block deformation of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. The results show that the low resistivity and low velocity layer acts as a detachment layer, which causes the overlying blocks to move southeastward. The detachment layer also controls the vertical and horizontal deformation of the rigid Bayan Har block and leads to accumulation strain on the edge of the layer where the Longmenshan thrust is located. After a sufficient amount of strain has been accumulated on the Longmenshan fault, a large earthquake occurs, such as the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The strike slip activity of the Longriba fault, which is above the low resistivity and low velocity layer, partitions the lateral displacements of the Bayan Har block and adjusts the direction of motion of the Bayan Har block, from the eastward moving Ahba sub-block in the west to southeastward moving Longmenshan sub-block in the east.     

巴颜喀拉山东段花岗岩锆石SHRIMP定年及其地球化学特征

巴颜喀拉山东段花岗岩直接侵入到已发生褶皱的三叠纪地层中,并被侏罗系年宝组不整合覆盖,其锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄为218～197 Ma.岩石类型主要为花岗闪长岩、二长花岗岩和正长花岗岩,岩石具似斑状结构或斑状结构,富铝高钾,富黑云母,含石榴子石和电气石等富铝矿物及暗色微细粒闪长质包体的发育为特征,铝饱和指数A/CNK=1.00～1.22,属巴尔巴林划分的CPG型花岗岩类.形成于巴颜喀拉山造山带陆内碰撞造山阶段的晚期.     

青藏高原北部巴颜喀拉山群火山岩锆石U-Pb年龄及其地质意义

应用激光烧蚀多接收器电感耦合等离子体质谱仪(LA-ICP-MS)方法,对青藏高原北部卡巴纽尔多地区巴颜喀拉山群碎屑岩系中酸性火山岩夹层岩样进行了锆石U-Pb年龄测定。结果表明,安山质凝灰熔岩(样品B4989-6)年龄加权平均值为(208.1±0.8)Ma,英安岩(样品B4989-3、B4983-1)年龄加权平均值分别为(206.1±1.2)Ma、(208.2±1.3)Ma,石英粗安岩(样品B4978-1)年龄加权平均值为(207.5±1.1)Ma,流纹岩(样品B4965-1)年龄加权平均值为(203.8±1.9)Ma,英安岩(样品B4959-2)年龄加权平均值为(205.1±1.8)Ma,说明该地区巴颜喀拉山群形成于晚三叠世晚期(瑞替期),而非前人认为的早-中三叠世。该套火山(碎屑)岩的测年结果为巴颜喀拉山群三叠纪复理石岩石地层单元的划分和对比提供了新证据。     

巴颜喀拉块体东缘形变及九寨沟地震孕震环境数值分析

2017年8月8日四川发生九寨沟M7.0地震,是继2008年汶川M8.0地震后发生在巴颜喀拉块体东部的又一强震.现今GPS速度观测数据显示,2008年汶川地震前后的1999-2007年和2011-2016年两个时间段内巴颜喀拉块体东部地表速度场存在明显的差异.本文以实际GPS速度观测资料为约束,构建三维有限元地球动力学模型,分别计算分析了两个时段内震源区及周边现今地壳形变、弹性应变能和应力积累特征,进一步探讨汶川地震的发生对九寨沟地区变形及应力的影响.数值模拟结果显示,汶川地震之后(2011-2016年)巴颜喀拉块体东部的地壳形变、弹性应变能积累及应力积累速率均明显大于震前,增加量值达1.5-3倍;九寨沟地震发震断裂上库仑应力增长率在1999-2007年约为0.7 kPa·a~(-1),2011-2016年间增至1.2 kPa·a~(-1).上述结果表明,现今巴颜喀拉块体东部地壳应力积累过程有利于左旋走滑型九寨沟地震的发生,汶川地震的发生调整了区域应力状态,加速了九寨沟地震的孕育过程.     

东昆仑断裂东段下热尔断裂活动特征初步研究

下热尔断裂位于巴颜喀拉块体东北边界变形带即东昆仑断裂带东段与迭部-白龙江断裂2条剪切断裂之间挤压变形带内,在空间上属于“玛曲空段”范围.经野外考察及遥感资料验证,确定下热尔断裂走向为310°,长度约为20km,运动学特征表现为左旋走滑为主兼少量倾滑分量,沿断裂发育大量断错地貌,水平位移主要分布在3.5～5m,而未发现垂向断错地貌;垂直断裂走向开挖2处探槽,揭示断层切穿晚第四纪地层,被地表沼泽相泥炭层覆盖,结合相关地层年龄资料,初步得出平均水平滑动速率约为6.3mm/a.该断裂在几何学与运动学方面与东昆仑断裂带具有较好的一致性,推测两者之间存在一定相关性,属于东昆仑断裂带走滑断裂体系内的一条次级断裂或过渡性断裂.     

Crustal structure of northeastern Tibet inferred from receiver function analysis

Sponsored by National Science & Technology Committee, the cooperation between China Academy of Geoscience and Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, University Joseph, France conducted a lithospherical experiment using 40 Minititan 3-component and 13 CEIS 1-component seismometers along the road from Gonghe to Yushu in Qinghai Province during 5 months after June, 1998. The interested area is on the north of Bangong- Nujiang fault, the east of Qaidam basin, the south of Center Qilian fault and the west of Longmenshan fault. And the profile across most tectonic parts of Eastern Tibet such as Southern Qilian, Eastern Kunlun fault, Bayan Har terrane, Jinshajiang suture (Figure 1), which is the first seismological profile across Eastern Tibet (Qinghai-Tibet) and will be beneficial on the comparison with the results of its center parts, especially on the understanding of the effect of the thousands-kilometer-faraway collision between Eurasia Plate and Indian Plate on the uplifting of south and north part of Eastern Kunlun fault, and on the thickening of crust and the feature of deep structure of Qilian mountain on the north of Tibet Plateau.     

Middle Permian palaeobiogeography study in East Kunlun,A’nyêmaqên and Bayan Har

Three regions can easily be identified in the study area according to the Middle Permian palaeobiogeographic distribution of biota, they are the southern slope of East Kunlun, A'nyêmaqên and Bayan Har. Biotic constitution and ecology in the southern slope of East Kunlun and Bayan Har are very similar. Both the diversity and abundance of organisms in these two areas are very high and reefs are widely developed. However, biotic diversity and abundance in A'nyêmaqên which is between the above two areas are obviously low. Differentiation of palaeobiogeographic distribution in these areas should be due to the baring of A'nyêmaqên ocean in the time of Middle Permian. Middle Permian radiolarian chert and thick abyssal red ooze are widely spread in A'nyêmaqên, implying that the A'nyêmaqên ocean had a great scale in size. Vast scale of deep ocean basin became an impassable gulf for some of the benthos, and as a result, only part of the organisms could have the chance to get to the isolated islands situated in ocean basin. Small living space and hard conditions in the islands further limited the abundance and diversity of biota. Tectonic background reflected by the geochemical study of basalt in the three areas is coupling well enough with the palaeobiogeographic division.     

川西藏东板块构造体系及特提斯地质演化

川西藏东可划分为巴颜喀拉、羌塘和拉萨3个板块构造体系。每个体系由结合带、岛弧褶皱带、弧后盆地褶皱带和盆后隆起组成。它们是在晚二叠世冈瓦纳古陆和劳亚古陆沿巴塘拼合带碰撞拼合的基础上，自ＮＥ而ＳＷ经历了三叠纪巴颜喀拉板块构造体系的形成、株罗纪羌塘板块构造体系的形成和白垩纪拉萨板块构造体系的形成以及新生代以来陆－陆碰撞造山和高原隆升而逐渐形成的。     

巴颜喀拉块体东北缘GPS应变率空间分布特征及其与2017年九寨沟MS7.0地震的关系

巴颜喀拉块体东北缘是构造变形和地震活动较强的区域, 2017年九寨沟M_S7.0地震就发生在该区域内。 利用多尺度球面小波方法解算GPS应变率场, 分析巴颜喀拉块体东北缘2009年至2017年的应变率场分布特征, 该方法的优点是可以将GPS应变率场按照不同的空间尺度进行小波分解, 给出不同空间尺度的应变率场。 结果表明在2017年九寨沟地震之前, 震中附近应变积累显著, 虎牙断裂北延断裂的左旋走滑速率为3.0 mm/a, 拉张速率为3.1 mm/a, 表明该条断裂以左旋走滑为主兼有拉张特征, 与九寨沟地震的震源机制解一致。 除九寨沟震中附近外, 在岷县与漳县交界处、 理县和汶川、 青川等地区主应变率、 面应变率、 最大剪应变率也较大, 这可能与2013岷县漳县(M_S6.6)、 2008年汶川(M_S8.0)、 2014年理县(M_S4.8)以及2014青川县(M_S4.8)地震有关。     

重力与地形数据揭示的巴颜喀拉块体东缘垂向构造应力场

利用基于消去-恢复原理的最小二乘配置方法,对2009-2013年相对重力/GPS联合观测数据与EGM2008模型数据进行融合,更新了巴颜喀拉块体东缘地区的自由空气与布格重力异常场.基于该布格重力异常数据,以CRUST1.0地壳密度模型为初始条件,使用二维多边形棱柱体正演与非线性最小二乘反演方法,获取了巴颜喀拉块体东缘地壳分层密度结构.基于地壳不可压缩和均衡调整原理提出了计算垂向构造应力新方法,并结合上述地壳分层密度结构和地形数据计算了巴颜喀拉块体东缘垂向构造应力分布.结果表明,龙门山断裂带中南段蓄积了较高的正向构造应力(约40 MPa),马尔康周边地区蓄积了较高的负向构造应力(约—30 MPa).对研究区域1970年以来5级(Ms)以上地震进行统计发现,地震多发生在垂向构造应力梯度带上,垂向构造应力为正的地区易触发浅源地震,为负的地区易触发深源地震.在地壳横向变形强烈的区域,垂向构造应力与地震深度的对应关系减弱.