Palaeoseismic Events in Karst Terrains along the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The study of the palaoseismic events in the karst terrains of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is a very important up-to-date problem. The investigated region is one of the highest-energy regions in Bulgaria with established and recorded catastrophic historic and contemporary earthquakes. The terrain is subjected to the influence not only of its own earthquake foci but also of those in Romania and Russia. The palaeoearthquakes that caused considerable disturbances in the karst terrains along the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast have left significant traces. They caused disturbances in the environment and the relief (rearrangement of the surface and ground water karst basins, partially or entirely collapsed caves, deformed caves, oil, gas and salt intrusions and gravitationally formed caves). The ecological consequences in historic and contemporary aspects were catastrophic. The palaeoseismic dislocations were formed as a result of global, regional and local geodynamic events related with the destruction     

Gravity changes and surface deformations due to faults with different geometry

IntroductionNowadaystheprecisionofgravitymeasurementisupto10xlo--8InjsZ(Okubo,1992),theprecisionofaltimetryisoftheorderofmm,andtheprecisionofrelativemeasurementinhorizontaldirectionusingGPStechniquesreaches(0.01--0.001)x10ed(Liu,etal,1998).Thegravitychangesinducedbyalargeearthquake(e.g.,Tangshanearthquakeof1976)canbetensorevenhundredsof10--8m/s',andthemaximumdisplacementinhorizontalandverticaldirectioncreatedbyitalwaysexceedI.0m(Chen,etal,1979,1980,Zhang,etal,1981).Therefore,structuresrela…     

Development of quartz ribbons in quartzofeldspathic granulites

In high-grade (granulite facies) quartzofeldspathic rocks the progressive development of a fabric records contrasting deformation behaviour of quartz and feldspar. Feldspar has undergone deformation mainly by recrystallization-accommodated dislocation creep and produced smaller recrystallized grains progressively in the course of deformation. Quartz has not deformed solely by dislocation creep but also by a diffusion-controlled mechanism. Dislocation climb is important in the dislocation creep of quartz. In contrast to feldspar, quartz grains have not recrystallized into smaller grains at any stage of deformation. Rather, they have transformed initially to short monocrystalline ribbons and ultimately to long polycrystalline ribbons. This textural change of quartz is a continuous process and has taken place in the course of bulk textural change of the rocks during the deformation.