Arc–arc collision in the Izu collision zone, central Japan, deduced from the Ashigara Basin and adjacent Tanzawa Mountains

The Pleistocene Ashigara Basin and adjacent Tanzawa Mountains, Izu collision zone, central Japan, are examined to better understand the development of an arc–arc orogeny, where the Izu–Bonin – Mariana (IBM) arc collides with the Honshu Arc. Three tectonic phases were identified based on the geohistory of the Ashigara Basin and the denudation history of the Tanzawa Mountains. In phase I, the IBM arc collided with the Honshu Arc along the Kannawa Fault. The Ashigara Basin formed as a trench basin, filled mainly by thin-bedded turbidites derived from the Tanzawa Mountains together with pyroclastics. The Ashigara Basin subsided at a rate of 1.7 mm/year, and the denudation rate of the Tanzawa Mountains was 1.1 mm/year. The onset of Ashigara Basin Formation is likely to be older than 2.2 Ma, interpreted as the onset of collision along the Kannawa Fault. Significant tectonic disruption due to the arc–arc collision took place in phase II, ranging from 1.1 to 0.7 Ma in age. The Ashigara Basin subsided abruptly (4.6 mm/year) and the accumulation rate increased to approximately 10 times that of phase I. Simultaneously, the Tanzawa Mountains were abruptly uplifted. A tremendous volume of coarse-grained detritus was provided from the Tanzawa Mountains and deposited in the Ashigara Basin as a slope-type fan delta. In phase III, 0.7–0.5 Ma, the entire Ashigara Basin was uplifted at a rate of 3.6 mm/year. This uplift was most likely caused by isostatic rebound resulting from stacking of IBM arc crust along the Kannawa Fault which is not active as the decollement fault by this time. The evolution of the Ashigara Basin and adjacent Tanzawa Mountains shows a series of the development of the arc–arc collision; from the subduction of the IBM arc beneath the Honshu Arc to the accretion of IBM arc crust onto Honshu. Arc–arc collision is not the collision between the hard crusts (massif) like a continent–continent collision, but crustal stacking of the subducting IBM arc beneath the Honshu Arc intercalated with very thick trench fill deposits.     

北淮阳盆岭带的构造演化与铀成矿

北淮阳盆岭构造带是大别造山带的重要组成部分。佛子岭岩群代表了早古生代扬子地块北缘大别古岛弧弧前海盆的火山沉积建造,在加里东运动陆块对接过程中变形变质。石炭系梅山群具磨拉石建造特征。在华力西印支期陆内俯冲褶皱带的基础上,燕山期沿桐柏桐城断裂伸展北移,近东西向断陷盆地发育,形成盆岭构造景观。南侧大别山强烈隆升,铸就了现今大别山变质核杂岩构造格局。中生代岩浆活动是区内重要铀源,具有成矿潜力的地质体是响洪甸正长岩体和北带粗面质火山碎屑岩     

新疆准噶尔盆地南缘拉张伸展动力学环境的探讨

准噶尔盆地南缘在中生代、甚至新生代很长一段时间处于拉张伸展环境。至新生代晚期才转换成挤压环境。本文从六个方面对拉张伸展动力学环境进行了探讨,指出了准噶尔盆地南缘伸展构造与后期反转构造的研究对这一地区油气运移规律的探讨具有重要意义。结合生油岩系的生油高峰期分析,中生代的伸展构造与二叠纪、侏罗纪生油岩系的生油高峰是配套的,它们形成的断块,同沉积背斜等对捕获早期油气起着决定性作用。     

一种现代不对称波痕的成因特征及类比分析——以民和盆地红古城地区下白垩统第8岩组为例

本文以黄河边上现代不对称波痕的形成为例,结合民和盆地下白垩统第８岩组沉积环境进行类比分析,一改过去传统的“浅水”认识,而把它定为三角洲平原相沉积。因而不对称波痕不能作为某一种沉积环境,它可以广泛生成于不同的环境。因此应更多强调综合分析、类比分析、层序基本单元和体系域分析,使盆地岩石地层单位的古环境解释建立在可靠的理性基础上。     

基准面变化与层序地层——以塔里木盆地陆相地层为例

以海平面变化 为基出的层序地层学理论在研制陆相盆地中遇到了困难,地层基准面变化 在解释地层层序成因和地层层序发挥了重要作用。     

黄县早第三纪断陷盆地充填特征及层序划分

黄县早第三纪断陷盆地充填沉积序列共划分出三个层序（三级层序）,层序Ⅰ不完整,层序Ⅱ和层序Ⅲ皆由低位体系域、扩张体系域和萎缩体系域三个基本单位构成。层序界面主要有区域构造运动界面和盆地构造应力转换面体系域转换界面两种类型。聚煤作用、油气聚集主要发生在盆地低水位至扩张期,低水位和扩张体系域含有主要的煤层和油气母岩（生油岩）。     

十万大山地区构造演化和含油气评价

十万大山盆地地构造演化过程为：在华夏被动大陆边缘发育的弧间洋盆基础上,经东吴、印支和燕山期碰撞造山运动,形成晚古生代－中生代前陆盆地,又经过短暂的弧后陆内裂谷阶段,形成了喜马拉雅期右列张扭性盆地。共原型盆地经历了镀嵌、交错、披盖、再镶、交错、披盖、再镶嵌等四个叠置过程。其构造发展由正反转向负反转变化,以多次构造运动叠加后保留的基底部分卷入的冲断－推覆构造形成占主导,并发育典型的楔状前陆盆地、斜坡带     

遗迹化石与潮控滨线海泛面的识别及准层序相组合──以塔里木盆地下志留统塔塔埃尔塔格组为例

塔里木盆地下志留统塔塔埃尔塔格组主要由潮坪沉积组成。根据遗迹化石与沉积特征,固底控制的遗迹化石Ｇｙｒｏｌｉｔｈｅｓ常常与沉积性不连续面（海泛面）有关,潮控滨线中的准层序由三类岩相组成,其中含砾砂岩相（相Ａ）为潮道沉积,未见遗迹化石;含交错层理细砂岩相（相Ｂ）为砂坪沉积,仅见少量的遗迹化石Ｓｋｏｌｉｔｈｏｓ;强生物扰动粉砂岩、泥岩相（相Ｃ）为砂、泥混合坪沉积,发育有丰富的遗迹化石,代表Ｓｋｏｌｉｔｈｏｓ－Ｃｒｕｚｉａｎａ混合遗迹相。     

中亚干旱区的荒漠化与土地利用

笔者在实地考察、航片和卫星影像判读的基础上,参考国际上最新研究成果,以咸海盆地和古丝绸之路沿线地区为例,分析探讨了中亚干旱区荒漠化发生的过程、机制及其对自然和人文环境系统的影响和危害。由于大量从阿姆河和锡尔河引水扩大灌溉、浪费水源及单一农作物种植,使1960年时还为世界第四大湖的威海水面和蓄水大减,在干枯了的湖底和周围耕地上荒漠化快速发展,造成自然环境系统的严重退化和社会经济的巨大损失。虽然在我国丝绸之路沿线地区自古以来就有荒漠化现象,但荒漠化的规模在近40年来发生了根本性变化。塔里木河下游和克里雅河下游及玛纳斯河下游的湖泊干枯,植被退化甚至消失,不少野生动物灭绝。     

THE PALEOSEISMIC SURFACE RUPTURE AT SOUTH OF CENTRAL ALTYN TAGH FAULT AND ITS TECTONIC IMPLICATION

In this study, we described a 14km-long paleoearthquakes surface rupture across the salt flats of western Qaidam Basin, 10km south of the Xorkol segment of the central Altyn Tagh Fault, with satellite images interpretation and field investigation methods. The surface rupture strikes on average about N80°E sub-parallel to the main Altyn Tagh Fault, but is composed of several stepping segments with markedly different strike ranging from 68°N~87°E. The surface rupture is marked by pressure ridges, sub-fault strands, tension-gashes, pull-apart and faulted basins, likely caused by left-lateral strike-slip faulting. More than 30 pressure ridges can be distinguished with various rectangular, elliptical or elongated shapes. Most long axis of the ridges are oblique(90°N~140°E)to, but a few are nearly parallel to the surface rupture strike. The ridge sizes vary also, with heights from 1 to 15m, widths from several to 60m, and lengths from 10 to 100m. The overall size of these pressure ridges is similar to those found along the Altyn Tagh Fault, for instance, south of Pingding Shan or across Xorkol. Right-stepping 0.5~1m-deep gashes or sub-faults, with lengths from a few meters to several hundred meters, are distributed obliquely between ridges at an angle reaching 30°. The sub-faults are characterized with SE or NW facing 0.5~1m-high scarps. Several pull-apart and faulted basins are bounded by faults along the eastern part of the surface rupture. One large pull-apart basins are 6~7m deep and 400m wide. A faulted basin, 80m wide, 500m long and 3m deep, is bounded by 2 left-stepping left-lateral faults and 4 right-stepping normal faults. Two to three m-wide gashes are often seen on pressure ridges, and some ridges are left-laterally faulted and cut into several parts, probably owing to the occurrence of repetitive earthquakes. The OSL dating indicates that the most recent rupture might occur during Holocene.
Southwestwards the rupture trace disappears a few hundred meters north of a south dipping thrust scarp bounding uplifted and folded Plio-Quaternary sediments to the south. Thrust scarps can be followed southwestward for another 12km and suggest a connection with the south Pingding Shan Fault, a left-lateral splay of the main Altyn Tagh Fault. To the northeast the rupture trace progressively veers to the east and is seen cross-cutting the bajada south of Datonggou Nanshan and merging with active thrusts clearly outlined by south facing cumulative scarps across the fans. The geometry of this strike-slip fault trace and the clear young seismic geomorphology typifies the present and tectonically active link between left-lateral strike-slip faulting and thrusting along the eastern termination of the Altyn Tagh Fault, a process responsible for the growth of the Tibetan plateau at its northeastern margin. The discrete relation between thrusting and strike-slip faulting suggests discontinuous transfer of strain from strike-slip faulting to thrusting and thus stepwise northeastward slip-rate decrease along the Altyn Tagh Fault after each strike-slip/thrust junction.