新马德里地震带的岩石圈强度与板内形变

提出一个简单的假说来解释为什么在相对稳定的板块内部地区会存在高地震活动区与高构造形变区．首先,对于大多数板内地区而言,特别是大陆地盾地区与老的海洋盆地,下地壳与上地幔的温度相当低,那里的岩石相对坚硬在这些地区不可能发生明显的岩石圈变形,因为岩石图累积强度大大超过板块驱动力．相反,如果下地壳与上地幔温度相对较高,板块驱动力则主要由上地壳承受,因为下地壳与上地幔相对软弱在这种地区,由于岩石圈累积强度与板块驱动力大小相当,构造形变相对较快．本文将这种假说应用在位于美国中部的新马德里地震带与周围地区．地震带内部热流密度值约为60mw／m2,略高于本区背景热流密度值45mW／m2．计算得到的地温梯度与实验室结果所揭示的延性流动定律表明,在地震带内下地壳与上地幔相当软弱,板内应力主要由上地壳传递．那里的形变速率相对较高．与此相反,在周围地区热流值相对较低,岩石四累积强度大大超过板块驱动力,构造应力由地壳与上地幔共同承受热流值的大小和下地壳上地幔的受力状态是决定地震活动性在地震带内与周围地区强烈对比的主要因素．     

应变率和含水率对冻土破坏应变能密度影响特性试验研究

在-2.0℃和-5.0℃情况下, 通过一系列不同应变率和含水率条件下的冻结砂土的单轴压缩试验, 分析了应变率和含水率对冻土破坏应变能密度的影响特性。试验结果表明:在较小含水率条件下, 随着应变率的增大, 破坏应变能密度非线性增大, 但当应变率增大到210-3s-1之后, 应变率的改变不再对破坏应变能密度产生大的影响, 并且含水率的增大使破应变能密度随着应变率的增大有了减小的趋势, 破坏应变能密度先随着含水率的增大而急剧增大到最大值, 然后含水率的继续增大使破坏应变能密度急剧减小到最小值, 再随着含水率的进一步增大, 破坏应变能密度变化幅度很小, 基本稳定在0.05MPa, 破坏应变能密度变化的力学机制与强度变化的力学机制并不完全相同。     

Pore pressure generation in silty sands during cyclic loading

Recent developments in studies of soil response to earthquake loadings have made it possible to incorporate the rates of pore water pressure build-up in soils in to nonlinear response analyses of the grounds. Such pore pressure changes help in computing the changes in stress-strain behaviour of soils in the deposit progressively as the earthquake progresses. The rate and magnitude of pore pressure generation in soils during seismic loading will have important effects on the shear strength, stability, and settlement characteristics of a soil mass, even if the soil does not liquefy. The results in terms of pore pressure response in soils from a series of experimental investigations using strain-controlled cyclic triaxial tests on soils samples collected from liquefied sites are presented in this paper. The effect of relative density, amplitude of cyclic shear strain, number of loading cycles, confining pressure and frequency of cyclic loading on the pore pressure build-up are studied. Analytical expressions are proposed using regression analysis to define mean relationships between normalized pore water pressure and normalized cycles for the prediction of pore water pressure build-up in silty sands. Also, the pore water pressure build-up in soils is independent of frequency of loading.     

初论韧性断裂构造形成时限的研究方法

韧性断裂构造形成时限的研究自提出以来得到了一定程度的发展,目前的研究方法主要有反应速率法、扩散速率法和应变速率法3种。最近的研究表明,对同一韧性剪切带,应变速率法和有限应变测量法所得构造形成时限均以104a为数量级,并且均随着糜棱岩化程度的增加而逐渐减小;不同韧性剪切带的构造形成时限也均以104a为数量级,其差异是由构造动力学条件不同引起的。利用应变速率法所得构造形成时限具有较好的内部一致性,这在一定程度上表明利用应变速率法测定构造形成时限是可行的。在超薄片厚度、不活动组份、糜棱岩化温度和最适用古应力计等的确定上目前仍存在争议。文中还对体积因子和糜棱岩化程度等对求算构造形成时限的影响以及构造形成时限的发展方向进行了深入讨论。构造形成时限研究整体来说仍处于探索阶段,目前只能达到半定量的程度,有待进一步的深入细致的工作,同时也有待于显微构造地质学、构造岩石学等相关学科的进一步发展。     

Relation between electrical resistivity and earthquake generation in the crust of West Anatolia, Turkey

In this paper, we present a relation between the earthquake occurrence and electric resistivity structures in the crust, in West Anatolia and the Thrace region of Turkey. The relationship between magnetotelluric georesistivity models and crustal earthquakes in West Anatolia, during a period from 1900 to 2000, is investigated. It is found that most of the large crustal earthquakes occurred in and around the areas of the highest electrical resistivity in the upper crust, although rare small magnitude earthquakes are observed in some parts of the conductive lower crust in West Anatolian extensional terrain. The high-resistivity zones may represent rocks that are probably mechanically strong enough to permit sufficient stress to accumulate for earthquakes to occur in western Anatolia and the Thrace region. However, some recent studies state that the generation of a large earthquake is not only a pure mechanical process, but is closely related to fluid existence. We also reviewed recent world-wide researches including results from the Anatolian data for the first time and discussed all general findings in combination. Our findings show that the boundary between the resistive upper crust and the conductive lower crust correlates well with the cutout depth of the seismicity in West Anatolia and Thrace. This boundary is also attributed to the fluid bearing brittle–ductile transition zone in world literature. Fluid migration from the conductive lower crust to the resistive upper crust may contribute the seismicity in resistive zones. Alternatively, the upper–lower crust boundary may act as a stress concentrator and fluids may help to release strain energy in brittle parts of lower crust, by small magnitude earthquakes, whereas they may help in focusing strain in mechanically strong and electrically resistive zones for large earthquakes to occur.     

Determination of fabric and strain ellipsoids from measured sectional ellipses—implementation and applications

Geologists examine fabrics to constrain models of formation or of deformation of rocks, and it is often convenient to summarise the results by a fabric ellipsoid. As fabric data are commonly collected on planar sections through the rock, estimating a fabric ellipsoid from sectional ellipses, often with arbitrary orientations, is an important task. An algebraic method to calculate such an ellipsoid, presented in an earlier paper, has been implemented with the program ellipsoid. It is used here on examples that illustrate questions and issues that arise when collecting, selecting and processing sectional fabric data, and when assessing the results. The quality of fit of the ellipsoid to the data is assessed in all cases. Examples include a case in which the average sizes of markers on individual sections can be used in the determination of the ellipsoid, and other cases in which such sizes are not useful; a case in which sectional ellipses are not obtained from closed markers; and a case in which data scatter and insufficient coverage of section orientations lead to a hyperboloid instead of an ellipsoid.     

屯1井差应变分析法地应力测量

介绍了差应变分析法(DSA)原地应力测量技术原理,并采用此法对河南省洛阳—伊川盆地屯1井岩样进行了测试,结果显示该井1153.4～1167.8 m处最大水平主应力为北西向(141°—157°),与钻孔崩落椭圆长轴方位统计得到的最大水平主应力方向一致;最大水平应力数值小于铅直应力,属于正断层应力状态;主应力随深度线性增大。对该区域注采井网布局给出了建议,即本区注采井网布设应避免与141°—157°方向平行。     

Seismic strain rates and distributed continental deformation in the northern Andes and three-dimensional seismotectonics of northwestern South America

Remote sensing and field studies of several extensional basins along the northern margin of the Gulf of Aden in Yemen show that Oligocene–Miocene syn-rift extension trends N20°E on average, in agreement with the E–W to N120°E strike of main rift-related normal faults, but oblique to the main trend of the Gulf (N70°E). These faults show a systematic reactivation under a 160°E extensional stress that we interpret also as syn-rift. The occurrence of these two successive phases of extension over more than 1000 km along the continental margin suggests a common origin linked to the rifting process. After discussing other possible mechanisms such as a change in plate motion, far-field effects of Arabia–Eurasia collision, and stress rotations in transfer zones, we present a working hypothesis that relates the 160°E extension to the westward propagation since about 20 Ma of the N70°E-trending, obliquely spreading, Gulf of Aden oceanic rift. The late 160°E extension, perpendicular to the direction of rift propagation, could result from crack-induced extension associated with the strain localization that characterises the rift-to-drift transition.     

Kinematics-Based Mathematical Model for Deforming Thrust Wedges

Given the wealth of data concerning the kinematics of deforming fold-thrust belts (FTBs), first-order generalizations about how the major strain components vary within a deforming thrust wedges are considered. These generally observed strain patterns are used to constrain a general, kinematics-based, FTB-wedge model. We considered five strain components within a deforming thrust sheet: (1) thrust-parallel simple shear, (2) horizontal contractional strain, (3) thrust-normal reaction strain, (4) gravitational strain, and (5) a lateral confining boundary condition. After making assumptions about how these strain components vary within a model FTB-wedge, the incremental deformation matrix can be calculated for any given point within the deforming wedge. Thus, the material path of a given marker can be determined and an initially spherical marker’s strain path can be calculated as it moves through the deforming wedge. Furthermore, by illustrating various kinematic parameters of many initially spherical markers (for example, Flinn’s k-value, incremental octahedral shear strain, transport-perpendicular stretch), we have assembled representations of the kinematic properties of the entire model wedge. By including a flat-ramp-flat fault surface geometry for the model wedge, we are able to examine the kinematic effects of this relatively common structural geometry. Within the fault ramp segment there are greater incremental strain magnitudes, out-of-the-plane motion, and flattening strains. Additionally, data from this model suggests that gravitational strains potentially have a significant effect on the strain distribution within a deforming thrust wedge. M. Mookerjee is formerly Matthew Strine.     

用应变积累释放模型浅析山西地区地震活动特点

通过对山西地区历史地震地震活动性和应变能积累释放过程进行分析,得出,山西地区现在正处在应变能释放阶段,这一阶段可能持续80 a~90 a左右,在此期间将会发生5级~6级左右的地震;通过对现代3.0级地震两方面的分析得出,山西地区现在正处在能量主要积累阶段,估计在未来2 a~3 a之内,有发生4级以上地震的可能。