Normal Faulting Type Earthquake Activities in the Tibetan Plateau and Its Tectonic Implication

Abstract: This paper analyzes various earthquake fault types, mechanism solutions, stress field as well as other geophysical data to study the crust movement in the Tibetan plateau and its tectonic implications. The results show that a lot of normal faulting type earthquakes concentrate in the central Tibetan plateau. Many of them are nearly perfect normal fault events. The strikes of the fault planes of the normal faulting earthquakes are almost in the N-S direction based on the analyses of the equal area projection diagrams of fault plane solutions. It implies that the dislocation slip vectors of the normal faulting type events have quite great components in the E-W direction. The extension is probably an eastward extensional motion, mainly a tectonic active regime in the altitudes of the plateau. The tensional stress in the E-W or WNW-ESE direction predominates the earthquake occurrence in the normal event region of the central plateau. A number of thrust fault and strike-slip fault type earthquakes with strong compressive stress nearly in the NNE-SSW direction occurred on the edges of the plateau. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau is attributable to the eastward movement of materials in the upper mantle based on seismo-tomographic results. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau may be related to the eastward extrusion of hotter mantle materials beneath the east boundary of the plateau. The northward motion of the Tibetan plateau shortened in the N-S direction probably encounters strong obstructions at the western and northern margins. Extensional motions from the relaxation of the topography and/or gravitational collapse in the altitudes of the plateau occur hardly in the N-S direction. The obstruction for the plateau to move eastward is rather weak.     

Early Mesozoic Basin-Mountain Coupling Mechanism and Basin Geodynamics of East China

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Case Study on the Impact of the Vortex in the Easterlies in the Tropical Upper Troposphere on the Western Pacific Subtropical Anticyclone

By employing the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data （1000-10 hPa, 2.5°×2.5°）, the impact of the vortex in the easterlies （EV） over the tropical upper troposphere on the zonal movement of the western Pacific subtropical anticyclone （WPSA） during 19-25 June 2003 is analyzed in this paper. It is shown that the EV can extend from middle troposphere to the height of 50 hPa, reaching a maximum at 200 hPa. The vertical thermal distribution appears to be ＂warmer in the upper layer and colder in the lower layer＂. The WPSA retreats eastward abnormally when the EV and the vortex in the westerlies （WV） encounter around the same longitude while they move toward each other. It is also shown that the vorticity variation extends from the troposphere to the height of 50 hPa, with the most prominent change occurring at 200 hPa by the diagnostic analyses of the vertical vorticity equation. The WPSA appears to retreat abnormally eastward while the negative/positive vorticity change becomes stronger near the east/west side of the EV, and the areas with positive vorticity tendency both in the EV and WV join together into one belt along 130°E during the process of the EV and the WV moving toward each other. In the vorticity equation, the positive contribution caused by the horizontal advection term is the maximum, and the minimum is caused by theβ effect. It is also found that enhanced horizontal vorticity advection andβ effect, as well as the ＂barotropic development＂ resulted from the in-phase superposition of the southerly and the northerly winds in the easterlies and westerlies near 130~E, are in agreement with the WPSA eastward retreat.     

1998年夏季青藏高原上东移MCS环境场特征的聚类分析

在对夏季青藏高原上中尺度对流系统(MCS)进行自动追踪的基础上,利用环境物理量场数值格点预报资料(HLAFS),运用空间聚类中的CLARANS法对东移出高原的MCS环境场进行了挖掘和分析,获得了在青藏高原地区大气低层MCS热力场(温度场、湿度场和水汽通量散度场)和动力场(涡度场、散度场和垂直速度场)的空间分布特征,从而揭示了有利于MCS形成、发展和东移出高原的动力和热力学条件。MCS环境场中的散度场、垂直速度场以及水汽通量散度场空间分布特征的变化是MCS发展、演变的重要影响因素,这为夏季青藏高原上MCS发生、发展的动力及热力学机制的研究,以及高原上MCS移动路径的预测提供了一种全新而有效的方法。     

夏季青藏高原低涡研究进展述评

高原低涡是造成我国暴雨的重要天气系统之一。本文在简要介绍第一次青藏高原科学试验及以前研究工作的基础上,重点介绍了第二次青藏高原科学试验及近年来的一些主要研究成果,包括高原低涡的活动特征、高原低涡发展东移的机理、高原低涡发展东移的大尺度条件及高原低涡的结构特征等。并指出了目前高原低涡研究的局限性和待改进的方向。     

汶川地震断裂带科学钻探1号井(WFSD-1)非弹性应变恢复法(ASR法)三维地应力测试与"5.12"汶川地震的形成机制

汶川地震断裂带科学钻探1号井(WFSD-1)的ASR三维地应力测试结果表明,龙门山前陆逆冲带与其下伏的龙门山前陆盆地和上覆的松潘-甘孜地块的构造及地应力状态存在有重大差异。从整体上看,在汶川地震中,龙门山前陆逆冲带表现为在强烈的区域性挤压背景下,深部物质沿壳内拆离层自SW向NE方向的"层状"流动,在地壳上部转化为沿映秀-北川断裂(YBF)的快速垂向挤出,而其西侧的松潘-甘孜地块作自SE往NW方向的重力滑覆,东侧的龙门山前陆盆地则表现为自NE往SW方向的走滑或右行旋转。晚新生代以来,扬子地块相对于青藏高原东缘的龙门山造山带并无明显的或大尺度的陆内俯冲作用发生。龙门山前陆逆冲带深部高温低粘度物质垂直向上的、快速的流动和挤出,直接导致了"5.12"汶川地震的发生,而松潘-甘孜地块E向扩展导致龙门山前陆带的强烈挤压和陆壳增厚及深部应力和地震能量的积聚则是诱导深部位移场发生突变和物质快速垂向挤出的主因,E向扩展是深部地震能量积聚和快速垂向挤出作用的必要条件,而非地震发生的直接原因。ASR地应力测试得出的主压应力方向完全平行于GPS同震速度场的位移方向,似乎表明ASR测试获得的原地应力场或许真实地反映了或最接近于地震过程中的构造应力状态。     

中上扬子地区构造变形带成因机制及有利油气勘探区域预测

中上扬子地区构造变形带的形成,与扬子、华夏板块的碰撞有关,其内部岩层中4个滑脱层的存在为本构造带的形成提供了物质基础;在其形成过程中,隔挡式褶皱首先形成,然后逐步完成向隔槽式褶皱的转变,并最终在造山带根部形成基底挤出式变形带。受构造带控制,各变形区的油气勘探应有所差别：隔挡式褶皱带内次级背斜、具备较好盖层的隔槽式褶皱带及逆冲推覆体之下具有较好石油地质条件地区成为有利勘探靶区。     

Parametric studies on confinement of radionuclides in the excavated damaged zone due to bentonite type and temperature change

A parametric study is presented in this paper in order to examine the potential of the extruding bentonite into a fracture in the EDZ to confine radionuclides. Radionuclide migration of cesium and neptunium were studied at elevated temperatures and for a sodium- and calcium-type bentonite. Parameter values were obtained based on empirical studies for hydraulic conductivity, molecular diffusion, and sorption. Results indicate extrusion speed is affected by temperature changes. Elevated temperatures also affect radionuclide migration. For Cs, migration is enhanced due to decreasing sorption, while Np migration is inhibited due to increasing sorption. The potential to confine radionuclides is favorable, and the choice of bentonite does not seem to affect radionuclide confinement in the extruding region.     

HDD挤压式扩孔钻头拉力-扭矩模型建立及验证

在水平定向钻进中,作用在钻头上拉力和扭矩是设计钻进和施工的重要依据。通过对挤压式钻头的力学分析,提出了挤压式钻头的拉力－扭矩模型并较全面地分析了影响模型结果的因素。还结合现场施工数据对模型进行实践验证,结果与现场数据较为吻合。因此,该模型对挤压式钻头水平定向钻进施工设计优化起到了很重要的指导作用。     

Late Quaternary sinistral slip rate along the Altyn Tagh fault and its structural transformation model

The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a major boundaryfault on the northern margin of the Qinghai-TibetanPlateau and is also the longest sinistral strike-slip faultat a lithospheric scale in the Eurasian Plate. Its exis-tence has directly affected regional features of neotec-tonics, topography, geomorphology, Quaternary geol-ogy, recent crustal deformation, seismicity, climatechange and ecological environment for fauna and florain China[1—6]. The sinistral slip on the ATF and activethrusting-fo…