Intersection patterns of normal faults in the Lufeng Sag of Pearl River Mouth Basin,China: Insights from 4D physical simulations

Interpretation of seismic data from the Lufeng Sag of the Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB) in the northern part of South China Sea shows that different intersection patterns developed in the cover units above basement normal faults. A series of analogue models are used to investigate the intersection patterns and deformation in the sedimentary cover sequences above a basement horst bounded by two non-parallel faults. Modelling results show that during their upward propagation, the basement faults may intersect within the cover sequences and form a graben above the basement horst. Length and width of the graben increase with cover thickness. The strike and dip intersection points are controlled directly by the thickness of the cover sequences, dip and strike of the basement faults, and width of the basement horst. The intersection point migrates along the axis of the graben toward the wide end of the basement horst, when the cover sequence thickens. In contrast, it migrates toward the narrow end of the basement horst, where both fault dip and angle of strike difference increase. The intersection point moves upward with increasing width of the basement horst crest. Model profiles also indicate that in the presence of a ductile layer between the cover and basement such intersection patterns do not form. Interpretation of seismic data and model results show that the intersection pattern developed in the Lufeng Sag is a result of propagation of basement faults into cover units during different extension stages of the basin. Results of this study can be applied to many other sedimentary basins where such fault intersection patterns are likely to form when non-parallel conjugate basement faults are active during sedimentation.     

长江经济带人口城镇化空间格局及驱动力分析

针对驱动力对人口城镇化的空间变异特征分析不足的问题,该文以长江经济带市域为基本单元,借助社会经济数据,引入自然环境数据,建立了经济、社会、环境和土地因子的测度指标体系。运用探索性空间数据分析和地理加权回归模型,定量分析人口城镇化的空间格局、动力因子以及空间分异性。结果表明:人口城镇化水平区域间差异显著,呈现明显的空间集聚性,形成了"圈层集中-东西对立-中心联动-梯度明显"的分布格局。动力因子对各地区人口城镇化的影响呈现明显的空间异质性,环境因子和经济因子是长江经济带人口城镇化发展的主要影响因素,动力因子的影响程度和变化趋势能够客观的反映出区域经济发展、环境状况、社会发展和土地现状对城镇化发展在空间上的影响。     

Inferring trip purposes and uncovering travel patterns from taxi trajectory data

Global positioning system-enabled vehicles provide an efficient way to obtain large quantities of movement data for individuals. However, the raw data usually lack activity information, which is highly valuable for a range of applications and services. This study provides a novel and practical framework for inferring the trip purposes of taxi passengers such that the semantics of taxi trajectory data can be enriched. The probability of points of interest to be visited is modeled by Bayes’ rules, which take both spatial and temporal constraints into consideration. Combining this approach with Monte Carlo simulations, we conduct a study on Shanghai taxi trajectory data. Our results closely approximate the residents’ travel survey data in Shanghai. Furthermore, we reveal the spatiotemporal characteristics of nine daily activity types based on inference results, including their temporal regularities, spatial dynamics, and distributions of trip lengths and directions. In the era of big data, we encounter the dilemma of “trajectory data rich but activity information poor” when investigating human movements from various data sources. This study presents a promising step toward mining abundant activity information from individuals’ trajectories.     

Constraining paleo PGA values by numerical analysis of overturned columns

The estimated peak ground acceleration (PGA) for a specific region cannot always be determined reliably from compilation and statistical analyses of instrumental data acquired because of the relatively short time window available for such an approach, typically up to 100 years of instrumentation. We propose a complimentary approach for estimating PGA in a specific region, through back analysis of seismically driven column collapse in historic monuments, using the numerical discrete element discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method. Preliminary threshold ‘paleo PGA’ values thus obtained constrain the lower bound of PGA estimates using information from a much broader time window, in the case study presented here of approximately 1200 years. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

沂沭断裂带及邻区双差层析成像

利用双差层析成像方法,选取2008-10～2017-12山东及周边区域182个地震台站记录的1190个近震观测资料,对沂沭断裂带及邻区的震源位置和三维速度结构进行联合反演.结果表明,沂沭断裂带内部介质速度结构具有明显的不均匀性,并呈现分段特性;在郯城和莒县中上地壳内存在明显的低速结构;胶南地块总体速度低于鲁西地块;鲁西...     

宁夏北部地区土地覆盖模式及其发展潜力

With the objectives to acquire the fundamental data of the territorial resource,understand the impacts of human activities on the lan use and cover patterns and evaluate the potential of the future exploitation,and intensive land cover classification with and accuracy of 93?has been completed for North Ningxia by remote sensin technique based on the adoption of a combination method composed of texture training,maximum likelihood classification and post-processing such as re-allocation and aggregation.This classification result was incorporated with the contemporaneous socio-economic and meteorological data for cross-sectional regression modelling to reveal the spatial determinants of the land cover patterns and understand the human-environmental relationships.A tentative evaluation on the potential of soil exploitation in the near future was carried out in combination with our land use and cover change detection results aiming at supplying some useful references for the central and local governments in their sustainable land use planning.     

三峡移民安置区土地生态安全风险评价 及其生态利用模式 ———以重庆市巫山县为例

针对三峡库区蓄水后移民安置区的土地生态安全问题, 本文以重庆市巫山县为例, 在总 结归纳了巫山县移民安置区主要土地生态环境问题及形成原因的基础上, 以6 个流域为研究单 元, 从生态系统风险、人文社会风险和环境污染风险三方面选取具有代表性的8 个环境风险性因 子, 采用特尔菲法和层次分析法评价了巫山县移民安置区的土地生态安全问题, 并在此基础上提 出了有利于巫山县移民安置区土地可持续的生态利用模式。     

江西广丰杨村超大型滑石矿床成因探讨

江西广丰杨村滑石矿储量达上亿吨,是世界上超大型滑石矿床之一。矿石主要由鲕粒状滑石组成,含少量石英和碳酸盐矿物及浸染状有机质,具有典型的沉积鲕粒状结构;赋矿围岩白云岩硅化较强烈。研究结果表明,白云岩与滑石矿页岩标准化稀土元素分配模式基本一致,重稀土元素相对轻稀土元素弱富集,稀土元素总量低,弱负铈异常,并且它们具有相同的87Sr/86Sr比值(0.7092~0.7101),白云岩的δ13CV-PDB值变化范围在-4.9‰~+0.7‰之间,与同期海水大体一致。这些地球化学特征暗示了滑石矿和白云岩具有相同的物质来源,滑石成矿所需的镁可能来源于海水。部分样品显示正铕异常,且白云岩中δ18OV-SMOW值(+14.5‰~+19.7‰)较同期海水偏低,87Sr/86Sr比值比同期海水稍高,暗示成矿物质并非由海水单一提供,可能还有高87Sr/86Sr比值、富硅的热液提供了成矿所需的硅。综合滑石和白云岩岩相学和地球化学特征,认为江西广丰杨村滑石矿为同生热水沉积成因,滑石中镁来源于富镁海水,硅来源于海水下渗淋滤古老硅铝质地层形成的富硅、高87Sr/86Sr比值的热液,海水中镁与热液中硅结合形成滑石。滑石矿在经历了同生沉积-热液期之后,又受到了后期强烈的变质变形作用的叠加,形成了具片理构造的滑石片岩。     

Spherulitic omphacite in pseudotachylytes: Microstructures related to fast crystal growth from seismic melt at eclogite-facies conditions

The microstructures and microtexture of omphacite spherulites from an eclogite-facies pseudotachylyte from central Zambia was studied by electron backscattered diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The spherulitic growth is characteristic for fast growth rates at high undercoolings resulting from quenching a melt of seismic origin to the eclogite-facies conditions. Its preservation constrains that no significant deformation was present after the seismic event and during uplift. The analysis of grain misorientations in spherulites indicates – in addition to the overall radial alignment of grains – that crystallization took place in a highly viscous medium, which does not allow grain reorientation during growth. The microstructure of omphacite is diverse and ambiguous: Grain contacts appear both curved and with 120° triple junctions with few recrystallized grains. Dislocations are frequent, but heterogeneously distributed and occur in dislocations networks, subgrain boundaries and as free dislocations with locally high densities. Planar defects (chain multiplicity faults parallel (0 1 0) ending at partial dislocations) are abundant, while twinning parallel to (1 0 0) is rare. Anti-phase domains with variable domain sizes within a single grain and the disappearance of domain walls around the planar defects constrain that most of the microstructure must be formed during or shortly after crystallization.Omphacite microstructures are commonly discussed as result of deformational stresses due to a tectonic forcing. Here, we hypothesize that thermal stress during growth also can provide a feasible explanation for this melt-grown omphacite followed with partial recovery under static conditions. The observation does not exclude repeated stress loading of the shear veins in general, but suggest that only the latest seismic event is preserved in the studied samples as fine-grained texture of the spherulites. Moreover, anti-phase domain sizes constrain that the rock must be uplifted rather shortly after the seismic event.     

Orogen-transverse tectonic window in the Eastern Himalayan fold belt: A superposed buckling model

The Eastern Lesser Himalayan fold-thrust belt is punctuated by a row of orogen-transverse domal tectonic windows. To evaluate their origin, a variety of thrust-stack models have been proposed, assuming that the crustal shortening occurred dominantly by brittle deformations. However, the Rangit Window (RW) in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (DSH) shows unequivocal structural imprints of ductile deformations of multiple episodes. Based on new structural maps, coupled with outcrop-scale field observations, we recognize at least four major episodes of folding in the litho-tectonic units of DSH. The last episode has produced regionally orogen-transverse upright folds (F₄), the interference of which with the third-generation (F₃) orogen-parallel folds has shaped the large-scale structural patterns in DSH. We propose a new genetic model for the RW, invoking the mechanics of superposed buckling in the mechanically stratified litho-tectonic systems. We substantiate this superposed buckling model with results obtained from analogue experiments. The model explains contrasting F₃–F₄ interferences in the Lesser Himalayan Sequence (LHS). The lower-order (terrain-scale) folds have undergone superposed buckling in Mode 1, producing large-scale domes and basins, whereas the RW occurs as a relatively higher-order dome nested in the first-order Tista Dome. The Gondwana and the Proterozoic rocks within the RW underwent superposed buckling in Modes 3 and 4, leading to Type 2 fold interferences, as evident from their structural patterns.