A conjugate strike-slip fault system within the extensional tectonics of Western Turkey

Three main shocks M-1, M-2 and M-3 (17 October 2005 at 05:45 UTC, M _w 5.4; 17 October at 09:46 UTC, M _w 5.8 and 20 October at 21:40 UTC, M _w 5.9) and their associated aftershocks within the Gulf of S i ğac i k, 50 km southwest of Izmir, Turkey were studied in detail. A temporary seismic network deployed during the activity allowed the hypocentre of M-3 and subsequent aftershocks to be determined with high accuracy. A relative relocation technique was used to improve the epicentres of M-1 and M-2. All three main shocks have strike-slip mechanisms which agree with the linear trends of the aftershock locations. Two distinct zones were illuminated by the aftershock locations. The zones contain clear echelon patterns with slightly different orientations from the trend of the aftershock distribution. M-2 and M-3 ruptured along of the eastern rupture zone which aligns N45°E. However the strike direction of M-1 is not clearly identified. The alignment of the two rupture zones intersect at their southern terminus at an angle of 90°. The fault zones form conjugate pair system and static triggering is considered as a probable mechanism for the sequential west to east occurrence of M-1, M-2 and M-3. This earthquake sequence provides seismological evidence for conjugate strike-slip faulting co-existing within a region dominated by north–south extension and well-developed east–west trending normal faults.     

Structural style and deformation mechanism of the southern Dabashan foreland fold-and-thrust belt, central China

The Daba Mountains define the southern margin of the East Qinling orogenic belt, and form the boundary of the Sichuan basin in the north and northeast. The Daba Mountains can be divided into two structural belts by the NW-striking Chengkou fault, namely the northern Dabashan thrust-nappe belt and the southern Dabashan foreland fold-and-thrust belt. The southern Dabashan fold-and-thrust belt is a southwestward extruding thin-skinned thrust wedge, showing obvious belted change in deformation style and deformation intensity along the dip direction, and can be divided further into three sub-belts, i.e. the imbricate thrust sub-belt characterized by imbricate stepped-thrust sheets, the thrust-fold sub-belt characterized by the combination of the equally-developed thrusts and related folds, and the detachment-fold sub-belt characterized by box folds and closed overturned-isoclinal folds on the outcrops. Several kinds of structures have been recognized or inferred, including imbricate thrust system, passive-roof duplex (triangle zone), fault-related folds, back-thrust system and pop-up structure. The NE-SW compressive stress from the Qinling orogenic belt and detachment layers in the covering strata are the two most important determinants of deformation style. After the collision between the North China block and Yangtze block at the end of the Middle Triassic, the northward intracontinental subduction along the southern edge of the Qinling orogenic belt was initiated, which led to the corresponding southward thrusting in the upper crust. The thrusting propagated towards the foreland through the Jurassic and extended to the southernmost part of the southern Daba Mountains around the end of the Early Cretaceous, with thrusting deformation to be preferentially developed along major detachment layers and progressing upwards from the Lower Sinian through the Lower Cambrian and Silurian to Middle-Lower Triassic. Translated from Geotectonica et Metallogenia, 2006, 30(3): 294–304 [译自: 大地构造与成矿学]     

东准噶尔鲍尔羌吉——带热隆伸展构造的厘定

东准噶尔1：25万造山带填图方法研究过程中，在鲍尔羌吉一带发现较为典型的伸展构造，与许志琴等提出的热隆伸展构造有相似之处，其隆升与晚古生代造山后期抬升侵位的花岗岩有关，重熔花岗岩侵位上隆形成“热穹隆”构造，在岩体顶部垂直主应力作用下导致上部地壳伸展减薄，形成以晚古生代花岩为核心的伸展构造。     

辽宁青城子铅锌银金矿田控矿构造与找矿方向

辽宁青城子铅锌银金矿田为一集铅锌银金多个大型矿床于一区的重要成矿集中区。青城子中深构造层次的片麻岩穹隆（或变质核杂岩）构成了该区构造的主体。矿区中由片麻岩穹隆所构成的构造组合控制了矿体的定位、形态以及矿床的规模。青城子片麻岩隆起西南侧的卷曲褶皱翼内北东、北西走向的陡倾斜断裂发育，矿床主要为沿断裂交代充填的脉状铅矿，矿床规模较小；片麻岩隆起滑脱伸展翼多层顺层滑脱断裂带，为后期成矿提供了较大的容矿空间，有利于形成规模较大的矿床。     

柯树北岩体岩石谱系单位的建立及构造环境分析

柯树北岩体为陆壳改造型（S型）花岗岩，具有结构和成分演化序列，运用岩石结构列序法，将其划分为6个单元，归并为1个超单位，按侵入体空间展布形式，岩体地质学，岩石学，构造地球化学等资料，提出了岩浆侵位是受区域拉张应力控制的认识。     

华南中生代花岗岩型、火山岩型、外接触带型铀矿找矿思路(Ⅱ)

笔者认为,对华南中生代富大铀矿成矿背景的研究要强调壳幔交换的深部作用,强调构造体制变革对成矿的制约,以及两条火山岩带和一个岩浆活动区的成矿地位.构造研究中要引进伸展构造理论,研究盆岭构造、热隆构造及与变质核杂岩构造配套的常见构造型式,研究盆岭耦合特点.成矿模式要考虑岩浆定位部位深浅及形成构造环境差异、地化环境差异,要探索大型、超大型铀矿形成的岩浆定位部位与层圈构造、地壳韧脆性构造转换面、地球化学转换面的耦合条件.     

内蒙古大青山地区中生代中晚期伸展构造

内蒙古大青山地区伸展构造发生于中生代中晚期 ,主要表现为由北西向南东方向多层次、多级别的剥离断层活动 ,形成了马厂沟—白银不浪、脑包沟—德兴奎及二叠系脑包沟组顺层流劈理带三个不同层次的变质核杂岩区。由此得出的结论是 ,大青山中生代山间盆地的形成及大青山的隆起与该期伸展构造作用关系密切[6] 。     

Morphological characteristics of the earthquake surface ruptures on Awaji Island, associated with the 1995 Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake

Abstract The earthquake surface ruptures on the northern side of Awaji Island accompanying the 1995 Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake in Japan consist of three earthquake surface rupture zones called the Nojima, Matsuho, and Kusumoto Earthquake Surface Rupture Zones. The Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is - 18 km long and was formed from Awaji-cho at the northern end of Awaji Island to Ichinomiya-cho. It occurred along the pre-existing Nojima geological fault in the northern segment and as a new fault in the southern segment. The northern segment of the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is composed of some subparallel shear faults showing a right-step en echelon form and many extensional cracks showing a left-step en echelon form. The southern segment consists of some discontinuous surface ruptures which are concentrated in a narrow zone a few tens of meters in width. This surface rupture zone shows a general trend striking north 30°-60° east, and dipping 75°-85° east. The deformational topographies and striations on the fault plane generated during the co-seismic displacement show that the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip fault with some reverse component. Displacements measured at many of the outcrops are generally 100-200 em horizontally and 50-100 em vertically in the northern segment and a few em to 20 em both horizontally and vertically in the southern segment. The largest displacements are 180 em horizontally, 130 em vertically, and 215 em in netslip measured at the Hirabayashi fault scarp. The Matsuho Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone striking north 40°-60° west was also found along the coastline trending northwest-southeast in Awaji-cho for ～1 km at the northern end of Awaji Island. The Kusumoto Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone occurred along the pre-existing Kusumoto geological fault for ～ 1.5 km near the northeastern coastline, generally striking north 35°-60° east, dipping 60°-70° west. From the morphological and geomorphological characteristics, the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone can be divided into four segments which form a right-step en echelon formation. The geological and geomorphological evidence and the aftershock epicenter distributions show clearly that the distributions and geometry of these four segments are controlled by the pre-existing geological structures.     

计算伸展断层底界面深度的作图法简介

本文简介了计算正断层底界滑脱面深度的3种几何作图法。其中,M.W.Kilsdonk(1989)在Davison(1985)方法基础上作出的修正方法,简便且较准确。运用这种方法计算的鲁西地区深层次滑脱面深度与壳内低速层深度吻合。     

伸展地区铲式正断层作用及其大地测量观测

铲式正断层作用是伸展构造区最主要的构造运动形式。本文根据铲式正断层作用的几何学、运动学特征,结合华北平原伸展区大地测量观测成果,探讨伸展区构造形变铲式正断层现今活动的地表形变效应及其动态特征。