腾冲火山多地球物理参数模型

腾冲火山区是中国最年轻的板内火山之一,岩浆活动频繁以及高温地热异常使其受到广泛关注.以往的地球物理探测结果显示腾冲火山区下方存在地壳岩浆囊,但其深部几何形态和分布一直存在争议.本文基于腾冲火山地区的大地电磁测深结果,并结合相关地质与地球物理资料,提出腾冲火山岩石圈尺度的多地球物理参数模型.我们的模型显示在腾冲火山区中下地壳内存在三个岩浆囊;腾冲火山区岩石圈上地幔可能存在岩浆囊,但需要长周期大地电磁测深数据进一步的验证.

     

Electrical Structure of the Crust Beneath the Ordos Block

The Ordos block is a stable tectonic unit since the Cenozoic. Whether low-resistivity layers exist in the middle and lower crust of this kind block is an open question. This work attempts to reveal the entire crustal structure of the block based on interpretation of magnetotelluric data collected along the profile across this region. The result shows that a layered structure characterizes the crust of the Ordos block, with a low-resistivity layer at depth of about 20km, presumably associated with fluids there. In contrast, in the areas of active tectonics on the east and west of the block, there are no such layered electric structures in the crust, and the low-resistivity zones may be related to the decollement zones (or ductile shear zones) in the crust. The difference in electric structure of crust between the Ordos Block and neighboring areas is of significance to analyze the movement and deformation of varied blocks in the continent.     

利用接收函数和大地电磁数据联合反演南迦巴瓦构造结中部地区壳幔结构

利用2010年布设在西藏南迦巴瓦构造结的郎嘎、崩嘎、直白和拉格四个宽频地震台所观测到的近5个月的地震记录,采用时间域迭代反褶积技术处理得到接收函数,通过筛选多条相近震中距和反方位角的高质量接收函数求取其叠加平均.对大地电磁数据做Rhoplus分析处理得到视电阻率和相位曲线.利用单台接收函数和相同位置的大地电磁视电阻率和相位联合反演地下一维壳幔结构.联合反演采用遗传算法,并通过权衡图分析大地电磁和地震数据的兼容性.理论值和实测值的对比显示两种数据能同时得到较好拟合.联合反演结果表明:(1)中上地壳为9 km至14 km厚的高阻高速层覆盖于低阻低速层之上的结构,中地壳低阻低速层可能与深部流体和局部熔融共同作用有关.(2)下地壳存在最厚达20 km的高导的壳幔过渡层,波速在4 km/s左右;上地幔约130 km至150 km以下存在软流圈.(3)上地壳的高阻高速层解释为多雄拉组混合岩化角闪岩相变质岩,而直白台所显示的低阻低速层与高压麻粒岩的少量部分熔融有关,可能源于壳幔过渡带镁铁质岩石的相变或更深处幔源岩浆底侵作用的产物.     

阿尔金走滑断裂带昌马段的电性结构样式及构造意义

阿尔金断裂带东段走滑速率沿断裂走向方向存在明显的流失现象,有关阿尔金断裂带的影响范围及走滑速率变化的机制需要有更多的深部结构证据来提供支撑.本文以阿尔金断裂带昌马段为窗口,获取了4条横穿阿尔金断裂带及相邻地区的大地电磁测深剖面.二维电性剖面显示在阿尔金断裂带北侧中上地壳以连续的高阻体为主,而南侧祁连山内部的深部电性结构在横向上有较为复杂的变化.这一点与区域构造背景相对应,即北侧的塔里木盆地东缘依然具有较好的整体性,南侧的祁连山是青藏高原北缘生长的最前端,变形强烈.在断裂带的结构特征上,阿尔金断裂带沿走向方向的切割深度在昌马盆地西侧发生了显著的降低,与阿尔金断裂带相对应的电性边界在这里向南偏移了约15 km,对应F18断裂,并与昌马盆地相接.祁连山北部的断裂带,包括昌马断裂、旱峡—大黄沟断裂总体呈现出低角度南倾的样式,切过高阻异常体的顶部.虽然昌马盆地可以起到连接断裂带的阶区的作用,将部分阿尔金断裂的走滑分量转移到盆地南侧的昌马断裂上,但是昌马断裂的走滑速率从西向东是增加的,东侧的走滑速率甚至大于阿尔金断裂沿走向方向的流失分量.我们认为在青藏高原北部主要断裂带的活动还是受印度—欧亚板块碰撞引起的远程挤压效应的影响,包括阿尔金断裂以及祁连山内部系列断层都处于斜向挤压应力环境.在这种基本构造模式下,阿尔金断裂、断裂F18、昌马盆地、昌马断裂构成了一个局部的走滑速率分解-转换-吸收体系,对局部应力状态产生影响.     

大地电磁法三维快速松弛反演

实现大地电磁法快速三维反演的关键在于找到快速计算灵敏度矩阵的方案. 本文在对大地电磁三维张量阻抗表达式进行深入分析的基础上，获得了三维快速松弛反演算法的灵敏度函数表达式，解决了三维快速松弛反演的核心问题；为了减小反演解的多解性，针对三维问题定义了最小构造函数，实现了求最小构造的三维快速松弛反演算法. 对二维棱柱体、三维棱柱体理论模型的大地电磁合成数据进行了反演试算，反演结果与理论模型相吻合. 对日本Kayabe地区实测资料进行了XY模式反演，反演得到的地电模型较好地反映了地热资源的分布. 反演试算结果表明大地电磁三维快速松弛反演具有计算速度快、结果稳定可靠等特点；使三维快速松弛反演在普通微机上得以实现.     

Magnetotelluric images of the crust and mantle in the southwestern Taurides, Turkey

Inversion of the magnetotelluric data across the southwestern Taurides reveals two subzones of crust with varying thicknesses: conductive lower crust (<75 Ω m), overlain by resistive (>350 Ω m) upper crust, with four resistive cores (>2000 Ω m) separated by three relatively conductive vertical zones. The first and second vertical zones coincide with surface faults interpreted in Anatolia, such as Fethiye Burdur Fault Zone. The third one is the most conductive and lies in continuity with the Strabo Fault Zone in the Mediterranean Sea. A hypocentral cross section of earthquakes along the profile shows more dense seismic activity in the second resistive core where the conductive crust is not present beneath it. The depth of the crust/upper mantle boundary varies between 30 and 50 km and has an undulating character. The resistivity of the upper mantle reaches 500–1000 Ω m.     

Area selection for diamond exploration using deep-probing electromagnetic surveying

Previously proposed methods of area selection for diamond-prospective regions have predominantly relied on till geochemistry, airborne geophysics, and/or an appraisal of tectonic setting. Herein we suggest that a novel, deep-probing geophysical technique—electromagnetic studies using the natural-source magnetotelluric (MT) method—can contribute to such an activity. Essentially, diamondiferous regions must have (1) old lithosphere, (2) thick lithosphere, and (3) lithosphere that contains high concentrations of carbon. Deep-probing MT studies are able to address all three of these. The second and the third of these can be accomplished independently using MT, but for the first the geometries produced from modelling the MT observations must be interpreted with appropriate interaction with geologists, geochemists and other geophysicists. Examples are given from the Slave and Superior cratons in North America, with a brief mention of an area of the Rae craton, and general speculations about possible diamondiferous regions.     

Electrical structures of the source area of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: Spatial correlation between crustal conductors and aftershocks

Wide-band magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected on an east–west profile, approximately perpendicular to the local strike of the Chelungpu thrust, through the hypocentral area of the Chi-Chi earthquake for imaging the seismogenic structure. MT data were then inverted for two-dimensional resistivity models plus best-fitting static shift parameters using a nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm that minimizes the sum of the normalized data misfits and the smoothness of the model. As shown in the inverted 2D resistivity models presented in this paper, an electrical conductor beside the hypocenter of the Chi-Chi earthquake indicates that deep-crustal fluids may participate in the rupture process of the Chi-Chi earthquake. A striking spatial correlation between the crustal conductor and occurrence of aftershocks beneath the Chelungpu fault suggests a postseismic pore pressure adjustment ongoing after the mainshock. Additionally, the hypocenter exhibits an electrical resistive zone, consistent very well with a predicted compact zone from a crustal deformation and transient fluid flow modeling.     

Proterozoic tectonothermal processes imaged with magnetotellurics and seismic reflection in southern Australia

Over the last two decades,co-located seismic and magnetotelluric(MT) profiles provided fundamental geophysical data sets to image the Australian crust.Despite their complimentary nature,the data are processed and often interpreted separately without common processes in mind.We here qualitatively compare 2 D resistivity inversion models derived from MT and seismic reflection profiles across a region of Archean-Proterozoic Australia to address the causes of variations in seismic response and anomalous conductivity in the crust.We find that there exists a spatial association between regions of low reflectivity in seismic sections and low resistivity in co-located2 D MT modelled sections.These relationships elucidate possible signatures of past magmatic and fluid-related events.Depending on their diffuse or discrete character,we hypothesize these signatures signify fossil melting of the crust due to mafic underplating,magma movement or hydrothermal fluid flow through the crust.The approach discussed herein is a process-oriented approach to interpretation of geophysical images and a significant extension to traditional geophysical methods which are primarily sensitive to a singular bulk rock property or state.     

Implications for the lithospheric structure of Cambay rift zone,western India:Inferences from a magnetotelluric study

Broad-band and long-period magnetotelluric(MT) data were acquired along an east-west trending traverse of nearly 200 km across the Kachchh,Cambay rift basins,and Aravalli-Delhi fold belt(ADFB),western India.The regional strike analysis of MT data indicated an approximate N59°E geoelectric strike direction under the traverse and it is in fair agreement with the predominant geological strike in the study area.The decomposed transverse electric(TE)-and transverse magnetic(TM)-data modes were inverted using a nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm to image the electrical lithospheric structure across the Cambay rift basin and its surrounding regions.These studies show a thick(～1-5 km) layer of conductive Tertiary-Mesozoic sediments beneath the Kachchh and Cambay rift basins.The resistive blocks indicate presence of basic/ultrabasic volcanic intrusives,depleted mantle lithosphere,and different Precambrian structural units.The crustal conductor delineated within the ADFB indicates the presence of fluids within the fault zones,sulfide mineralization within polyphase metamorphic rocks,and/or Aravalli-Delhi sediments/metasediments.The observed conductive anomalies beneath the Cambay rift basin indicate the presence of basaltic underplating,volatile(CO_2,H_2 O) enriched melts and channelization of melt fractions/fluids into crustal depths that occurred due to plume-lithosphere interactions.The variations in electrical resistivity observed across the profile indicate that the impact of Reunion plume on lithospheric structures of the Cambay rift basin is more dominant at western continental margin of India(WCMI) and thus support the hypothesis proposed by Campbell Griffiths about the plume-lithosphere interactions.