Abrupt uplift of Tibetan Plateau a t the end of early Pleistocene and Australasian impact event

The latest sharp uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent mountains occurred at the end of the early Pleistocene. The uplift of the Plateau resulted from Late Mesozoic－Cenozoic comp ressional structure due to the subduction of the Indian Plate beneath the Asian continent. This event definitively effected the formation of basin-mountain relief, Cenozoic basin deformation, large scale aridity and desertification of western China. The Australasian meteorites impact event happened ca. 0.8 Ma ago, located in the triangle area of the Indian Ocean ridge (20°S/67°E) . The impact may have resulted in an acceleration of speeding of the Indian Ocean ridge pushing the Indian Plate to subduct rapidly northward. Thus, the impact event can give reasonable explanation for the dynamic background of the latest rapid uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the continental deformation of western China and even of the Middle Asia.     

Late Holocene vertical land motion and relative sea‐level changes: lessons from the British Isles

Vertical land motion caused by continuing glacial isostatic adjustment is one of several important components of sea‐level change and is not limited just to previously glaciated regions. A national‐scale analysis for the British Isles shows an ellipse of present‐day relative uplift (relative sea‐level fall), ～1.2 mm a^?1, broadly centred on the deglaciated mountains of Scotland. The pattern of three foci of relative subsidence, ～1 mm a^?1, results from the additional interactions of the deglacial meltwater load on the Atlantic basin and the continental shelf, and the signal due to far‐field ice sheets. At a local scale, sediment compaction can more than double the rate of relative land subsidence. Relative land‐level change (the negative of relative sea‐level change) is not the same as vertical land motion. There is a spatial pattern in the difference between relative land‐level change and vertical land motion, with differences at present of approximately ?0.1 to ?0.3 mm a^?1 around the British Isles and +2.5 to ?1.5 mm a^?1 globally. For the wider scientific and user community, whether or not the differences are considered significant will depend upon the location, time frame and spatial scale of the study that uses such information. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

岩石圈深层扩张与青藏高原隆升——岩石圈深层扩张模式初论

在综述有关青藏高原隆升的各种观点和模式后,依据青藏高原新生代变形和岩石圈组构特征,提出了高原隆升的新的动力学模式——岩石圈深层扩张模式。其基本观点是强调由于印度板块向欧亚板块的强烈俯冲造成岩石圈组构和变形的不均一性及岩石圈中存在的碰撞→收缩(重力不均衡)→伸展(均衡调整)的正向转变和由伸展→收缩的逆向转变的反复交替。据此将青藏高原的造山带划分为三种成因类型:喜马拉雅型、冈底斯型和昆仑型。     

中国东部中生代产铀火山岩的基本特征

产铀火山岩与非产铀火山岩存在岩石、岩石化学成分、微量元素及稀土元素的特征性差异;中国东部产铀火山洼地均形成于幔隆翼部重力高梯度带基底隆起构造环境,而火山洼地中铀的晚期主成矿作用,则以白垩纪拉张环境下贯入的中基性岩脉为先导,随后与之同步进行。     

岷山隆起的构造地貌学研究

岷山隆起为一第四纪强烈抬升区，构成川西高原的西界。岷山隆起的东、西边界分别受岷江断裂与虎牙断裂的控制，为地震活动带，南部向龙门山构造带过渡。岷江断裂北段的第四纪活动始于距今２Ｍａ以前，为一逆走滑断层，观测到的左旋位移量为２．４ｋｍ，左旋滑动速率为１ｍｍ／ａ。岷江断裂控制了沿隆起西界分布的地震活动，包括１９３３年叠溪和１９６０年漳腊地震     

大陆造山带中的隆－滑构造──一种前造山期伸展构造形式

大陆造山带中局部隆起－分层滑脱构造系（简称隆－滑构造）是对造山带的深入研究后提出的一种新的构造形式。它是在前造山期伸展构造作用体制下形成的，其结构由内核、外壳及接合面三部分组成。由于它与后造山期形成的变质核杂岩构造有着形貌相似的特点，因而很容易误将其归属为变质核杂岩构造。由于隆－滑构造有其特定的形成时间和独特的组合样式及构造特征，在造山带构造变形演化序列中应占有重要的地位，因而，这类构造的识别和确立对造山带研究有重要意义。由于隆－滑构造形成后又受到造山期收缩作用的挤压改造，它的原始形象已不甚明确，但一般常可以在复背斜构造中首先发现前造山期隆－滑构造的存在。由于隆－滑构造的特殊性，它对于造山带的构造学、地层学、变质作用以及成矿作用等的研究都很有意义。     

Modelling of mantle postglacial relaxation in axisymmetric geometry with a composite rheology and a glacial load interpolated by adjusted spherical harmonics analysis

Although studies on glacial isostatic adjustment usually assume a purely linear rheology, we have previously shown that mantle relaxation after the melting of Laurentide ice sheet is better described by a composite rheology including a non-linear term. This modelling is, however, based on axially symmetric geometry and glacial forcing derived from ICE-3G and suffers from a certain amount of arbitrariness in the definition of the ice load. In this work we apply adjusted spherical harmonics analysis to interpolate the ice thicknesses of ICE-3G and ICE-1 glaciological models. This filters out the non-axisymmetric components of the ice load by considering only the zonal terms in the spherical harmonics expansion. The resulting load function is used in finite-element simulation of postglacial rebound to compare composite versus purely linear rheology. Our results confirm that composite rheology can explain relative sea level (RSL) data in North America significantly better than a purely linear rheology. The performance of composite rheology suggests that in future investigations, it may be better to use this more physically realistic creep law for modelling mantle deformation induced by glacial forcing.     

吐哈盆地十红滩铀矿床地质特征及控矿因素分析

叙述了吐哈盆地地质概况；十红滩铀矿区找矿目的层地质和砂体特征；重点对层间氧化带的纵横展布规律、地球化学分带性及前锋与铀矿化的关系作了阐述；对十红滩铀矿床南、北矿带的空间分布、形态、规模、物质成分、铀存在形式及南、北矿带差异做了研究。通过分析，最后得出十红滩铀矿床控矿因素是层间氧化带、鼻状隆起（南矿带）和北西向断裂构造（北矿带）、同时说明了局部铀矿化产出的决定因素。     

西藏羌塘中央隆起区物质组成与构造演化

对羌塘中央隆起区的物质成分及构造演化规律的认识 ,涉及到青藏高原特提斯演化、羌塘盆地的形成发展及高原的隆升过程。对羌塘中央隆起区构造演化在认识上目前有较大分歧 ,主要有两种观点 :1)认为扎布 (察布 )—查桑地区发育裂谷 ,没有发育成特提斯洋盆 ;2 )龙木错—双湖 (—澜沧江 )古特提斯缝合带 ,代表古特提斯洋的闭合遗迹之一。基于对羌塘中央隆起区物质成分及属性 ,以及同位素年代学研究 ,将羌塘中央隆起中泥盆世—早白垩世的构造发展历史划分了六个阶段 ,即D2 —C11初始裂谷阶段 ;C21—C2 裂谷阶段 ;P1海底扩张—大洋化阶段 ;P2 —T2 板块汇聚—消减阶段 ;T3 —J1板块碰撞阶段 ;J2 —K1碰撞—整体抬升阶段。羌塘中央隆起构造演化经历了一个完整的威尔逊旋回