Progress in the Study of Deep Profiles of Tibet and the Himalayas (INDEPTH)

This paper introduces 8 major discoveries and new understandings with regard to the deep structure and tectonics of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau obtained in Project INDEPTH, They are mainly as follows. (1) The upper crust, lower crust and mantle lithosphere beneath the blocks of the plateau form a "sandwich" structure with a relatively rigid-brittle upper crust, a visco-plastic lower crust and a relatively rigid-ductile mantle lithosphere. This structure is completely different from that of monotonous, cold and more rigid oceanic plates. (2) In the process of north-directed collision-compression of the Indian subcontinent, the upper crust was attached to the foreland in the form of a gigantic foreland accretionary wedge. The interior of the accretionary wedge thickened in such tectonic manners as large-scale thrusting, backthrusting and folding, and magmatic masses and partially molten masses participated in the crustal thickening. Between the upper crust and lower crust lies a large detachment (e.g     

大陆逃逸构造研究现状

大陆逃逸构造是陆内构造变形主要方式之一,系统总结分析逃逸构造形成机制,对建立大陆构造模式、认识大陆构造变形机理具有重要意义。基于目前发现的大陆逃逸构造,总结并提出了其力学机制、构造模型以及研究方法。大陆逃逸构造是板块碰撞后期在共轭的"Ⅴ"字形构造控制下发展而来的重要构造形式,协调了构造应力机制的转变。在力学机制方面,逃逸构造"Ⅴ"字型断裂带符合PGS模型（paired general-shear model）和先存构造活动性准则,该准则是基于库伦—摩尔准则和摩擦滑动律的扩展;构造模型方面,侧向逃逸和斜向挤出模式是逃逸构造的基本模型;研究方法方面,构造解析仍然是建立逃逸构造的基本方法,利用构造模拟进一步再现其变形过程与动力学机制是其必要的研究方法。      

Evolution of the Australian lithosphere

The evolution of the Australian plate can be interpreted in a plate‐tectonic paradigm in which lithospheric growth occurred via vertical and horizontal accretion. The lithospheric roots of Archaean lithosphere developed contemporaneously with the overlying crust. Vertical accretion of the Archaean lithosphere is probably related to the arrival of large plumes, although horizontal lithospheric accretion was also important to crustal growth. The Proterozoic was an era of major crustal growth in which the components of the North Australian, West Australian and South Australian cratons were formed and amalgamated during a series of accretionary events and continent‐continent collisions, interspersed with periods of lithospheric extension. During Phanerozoic accretionary tectonism, approximately 30% of the Australian crust was added to the eastern margin of the continent in a predominantly supra‐subduction environment. Widespread plume‐driven rifting during the breakup of Gondwana may have contributed to the destruction of Archaean lithospheric roots (as a result of lithospheric stretching). However, lithospheric growth occurred at the same time due to mafic underplating along the eastern margin of the plate. Northward drift of Australia during the Tertiary led to the development of a complex accretionary margin at the leading edge of the plate (Papua New Guinea).     

Transmission fluctuations across an array and heterogeneities in the crust and upper mantle

Adopting the spectral approach, we derive the formulation of angular coherence and transverse coherence of transmission fluctuations. Our derivation and results provide new insight on transmission fluctuation analysis. A review of research work on fluctuation analysis using observations at large seismic arrays such as LASA and NORSAR-follows. We point out that the model of a single-layer Gaussian medium cannot explain the angular coherence of NORSAR data and a more general model of a non-Gaussian, multi-scale, vertically inhomogeneous random media is needed. The model of a two-layer power-law medium proposed by Flatté and Wu is among the simplest of such models.     

岩石层流变学的研究现状及存在问题

岩石层的流变学是一门综合性的学科，它不仅包括高温高压岩力学实验，而且还包括岩石圈的地质构造，物质组成和温度场特性的研究，70年代以来岩石力学实验和地质热研究的成果推动了岩石层流变学的发展，目前，人们应用已有的实验结果建立了岩石层流变学的剖面，并以此为基础讨论了许多大地构造现象，但是，人们对流变机制的转换，水对岩石层流变性的影响等问题尚不清楚，因此，为了深入的了解岩石层流变性质在岩石层运动学和动力学中的应用，必须开展岩石层流变机制的理论和实验研究，以便建立流变性质的三维分布，本文主要分析了岩石层的流变性质随深度变化的研究结果及其在实际中的应用，讨论了确定岩石层粘度或流变强度的主要因素并对岩石层的流变学研究方向提供了一些看法。