Styles of mesoscale brittle deformations associated with the Miocene folding of the Taishu Group,Tsushima, between the Japan Sea and East China Sea backarc basins

The Taishu Group is a folded, Eocene–Lower Miocene, thick sedimentary package exposed widely on Tsushima Island between the Japan Sea and East China Sea. This location makes the strata important to understand tectonics and paleo-environments in the Far East, but the timing of the folding is controversial. We studied the styles of brittle deformations of the strata. It was found that flextural-slip folds were dominant. Mesoscale faults were classified into two groups: NE–SW trending reverse faults and NW–SE trending strike-slip faults. Members of both the groups showed movements largely perpendicular to the fold axes. The latter group consisted of sinistral and dextral faults. Accordingly, we interpreted that they were transfer faults activated during the folding. Consequently, mesoscale faults and flexural-slip faults evidence the map-scale plane strain of the Taishu Group in the plane perpendicular to the NE-trending fold axes. There were few transpressional deformations in the group. This is inconsistent with the transpression hypothesis for explaining the simultaneous folding and Japan Sea opening. Another hypothesis in which the folds in Tsushima are regarded as an onshore part of the Taiwan-Shinji fold belt is inconsistent with the timing of folding suggested by mining geologists to be consistent with and contemporaneous with this deformation. On the other hand, we found that dolerite dikes and sills were involved in the folding. Therefore, we conclude that the folding began during the late Early Miocene time and climaxed during the ore mineralization at around 15 Ma. We suggest that the folding in Tsushima was the easternmost manifestation of the compressional regime around the Yellow Sea and East China Sea in the Early to early Middle Miocene, and that the compression was brought about by the arrival of the Philippine Sea plate to initiate buoyant subduction under Kyushu.     

Age and associated stress field of middle Miocene back-arc basalt magmatism in Northeast Japan

A large volume of middle Miocene basaltic rocks is widely distributed across the back-arc region of Northeast Japan, including around the Dewa Mountains. Petrological research has shown that basaltic rocks of the Aosawa Formation around the Dewa Mountains were generated as a result of the opening of the Sea of Japan. To determine the precise ages of the middle Miocene basaltic magmatism, we conducted U–Pb and fission-track (FT) dating of a rhyolite lava that constitutes the uppermost part of the Aosawa Formation. In addition, we estimated the paleostress field of the volcanism using data from a basaltic dike swarm in the same formation. The rhyolite lava yields a U–Pb age of 10.73 ±0.22 Ma (2σ) and a FT age of 10.6 ±1.6 Ma (2σ), and the paleostress analysis suggests a normal-faulting stress regime with a NW–SE-trending σ₃-axis, a relatively high stress ratio, and a relatively high magma pressure. Our results show that the late Aosawa magmatism occurred under NW–SE extensional stress and ended at ~ 11 Ma.     

Geologic age of the lower Josoji Formation,Shimane Peninsula,Southwest Honshu,Japan: Implications for an abrupt change to deep-water during the earlier opening stage of the Japan Sea

The lower part of the Josoji Formation, Shimane Peninsula, contains clues for figuring out changes in deep-water characteristics during the opening of the Japan Sea. The foraminiferal assemblage includes early to middle Miocene biostratigraphic index taxa such as planktonic foraminiferal Globorotalia zealandica and Globorotaloides suteri. The occurrence of these two species, together with the absence of praeorbulinids, suggests that the lower part of the Josoji Formation is assigned to the top of planktonic foraminiferal Zone N7/M4 (16.39 Ma). The benthic foraminiferal assemblage, which is characterized by Cyclammina cancellata and Martinottiella communis, clearly suggests that the lower Josoji Formation was deposited at bathyal depths, and that it developed in association with the abrupt appearance of deep-sea calcareous forms. Such bathyal taxa are the main constituents of the Spirosigmoilinella compressa–Globobulimina auriculata Zone of the Josoji Formation and also of the Gyrodina–Gyroidinoides Zone at Ocean Drilling Program Site 797 in the Japan Sea. The base of these benthic foraminiferal zones can be correlated with the base of the nannofossil Sphenolithus heteromorphus Base Zone (= CNM6/CN3); thus, its estimated age is 17.65 Ma. This biostratigraphic information suggests that the lower Josoji Formation was deposited from shortly before 17.65–16.39 Ma in upper limit age. Evidence that fresh to brackish and shallow-water basins formed in the rifting interval of 20–18 Ma in the Japan Sea borderland suggests that the abrupt appearance of deep-sea calcareous foraminifera occurred about 1 my earlier in this area than in other sedimentary basins and suggests that a significant paleoceanographic change occurred in the proto-Japan Sea at 17.65 Ma.     

Numerical simulations of mantle convection: Time-dependent,three-dimensional,compressible, spherical shell

Abstract

We describe nonlinear time-dependent numerical simulations of whole mantle convection for a Newtonian, infinite Prandtl number, anelastic fluid in a three-dimensional spherical shell for conditions that approximate the Earth's mantle. Each dependent variable is expanded in a series of 4,096 spherical harmonics to resolve its horizontal structure and in 61 Chebyshev polynomials to resolve its radial structure. A semiimplicit time-integration scheme is used with a spectral transform method. In grid space there are 61 unequally-spaced Chebyshev radial levels, 96 Legendre colatitudinal levels, and 192 Fourier longitudinal levels. For this preliminary study we consider four scenarios, all having the same radially-dependent reference state and no internal heating. They differ by their radially-dependent linear viscous and thermal diffusivities and by the specified temperatures on their isothermal, impermeable, stress-free boundaries. We have found that the structure of convection changes dramatically as the Rayleigh number increases from 10⁵ to 10⁶ to 10⁷. The differences also depend on how the Rayleigh number is increased. That is, increasing the superadiabatic temperature drop, δT, across the mantle produces a greater effect than decreasing the diffusivities. The simulation with a Rayleigh number of 10⁷ is approximately 10,000 times critical, close to estimates of that for the Earth's mantle. However, although the velocity structure for this highest Rayleigh number scenario may be adequately resolved, its thermodynamic structure requires greater horizontal resolution. The velocity and thermodynamic structures of the scenarios at Rayleigh numbers of 10⁵ and 10⁶ appear to be adequately resolved. The 10⁵ Rayleigh number solution has a small number of broad regions of warm upflow embedded in a network of narrow cold downflow regions; whereas, the higher Rayleigh number solutions (with large δT) have a large number of small hot upflow plumes embedded in a broad weak background of downflow. In addition, as would be expected, these higher Rayleigh number solutions have thinner thermal boundary layers and larger convective velocities, temperatures perturbations, and heat fluxes. These differences emphasize the importance of developing even more realistic models at realistic Rayleigh numbers if one wishes to investigate by numerical simulation the type of convection that occurs in the Earth's mantle.     

Magnetic instabilities in rapidly rotating spherical geometries I. from cylinders to spheres

Abstract

The solution of the full nonlinear hydromagnetic dynamo problem is a major numerical undertaking. While efforts continue, supplementary studies into various aspects of the dynamo process can greatly improve our understanding of the mechanisms involved. In the present study, the linear stability of an electrically conducting fluid in a rigid, electrically insulating spherical container in the presence of a toroidal magnetic field B_o(r,θ)lø and toroidal velocity field U_o(r,θ)lø, [where (r,θ,ø) are polar coordinates] is investigated. The system, a model for the Earth's fluid core, is rapidly rotating, the magnetostrophic approximation is used and thermal effects are excluded. Earlier studies have adopted a cylindrical geometry in order to simplify the numerical analysis. Although the cylindrical geometry retains the fundamental physics, a spherical geometry is a more appropriate model for the Earth. Here, we use the results which have been found for cylindrical systems as guidelines for the more realistic spherical case. This is achieved by restricting attention to basic states depending only on the distance from the rotation axis and by concentrating on the field gradient instability. We then find that our calculations for the sphere are in very good qualitative agreement both with a local analysis and with the predictions from the results of the cylindrical geometry. We have thus established the existence of field gradient modes in a realistic (spherical) model and found a sound basis for the study of various other, more complicated, classes of magnetically driven instabilities which will be comprehensively investigated in future work.     

油气成藏动力学研究方法与应用

油气成藏过程的动力学研究是以一期油气成藏过程中从油气源到油气藏的统一动力环境系统为单元,定量研究油气供源、运移、聚集的机理、控制因素和动力学过程。以此为基础有望解决油气成藏定量的动力学研究中的几个关键问题。输导层概念的提出及砂岩输导层模型基本工作程序的建立,形成了可以利用通常的物性参数进行输导层量化表征的方法,实现了对油气运移通道的量化表征; 采用断层连通概率的概念对各种参数表征断层开启性的能力进行比较和评价,探讨了各种地质参数的有效性和代表性,建立起了断层启闭性表征参数的评价方法; 采用数值模拟方法,耦合运聚动力与输导体系,实现成藏系统内油气运移过程的模拟分析; 以运移途中烃损失量估算为基础,建立新的物质平衡方法,以模拟获得的运移路径为线索,评估油气在研究不同方向上的运移聚集量,展现油气运移的路径特征、运移方向及运移量,初步形成了以油气成藏动力学成因为基础的油气资源预测方法。     

Study of the seismic performance of expansion double spherical seismic isolation bearings for continuous girder bridges

The development of an expansion double spherical seismic isolation (DSSI) bearing by modifying the fixed DSSI bearing is described in this paper.The expansion DSSI bearing is characterized by its good ...     

球形模板压入仪在冻土长期强度测试中的应用

球形模板压入仪（球模仪）在前苏联和俄罗斯等冻土区土力学性质测试中得到广泛应用。在60多年的工程实践中,试验理论、方法等方面都得到了完善。因其试验简单易行且测试结果能较好地反映冻结土的力学性质,特别是在冻结土黏聚力的长期强度评价及预测方面广泛应用。简要介绍该试验理论、试验方法、试验仪器。以莫斯科郊外冰碛粉质黏土作为研究对象。在恒定-7～20 ℃温度条件下,在封闭状态下分别进行3、6、20、40次冻融循环试验。对各试验阶段土样进行物理性质测试,之后用球模仪对冻结土样进行强度测试。冻融循环后土样的各物理指标均有不同程度的减小,随着冻融次数的增加,其强度降低。冻融过程中,土样中水体积的变化使其密度减小、孔隙率增大是造成这一结果的原因。     

一种求解应变软化岩体中球腔问题的数值方法

均匀地应力场中球形洞室开挖问题可以简化为空间轴对称问题,为分析和评价球形洞室开挖的稳定性,采用有限差分方法对平衡方程与变形协调方程进行离散,将洞室围岩潜在塑性区划分为一系列的球壳,并考虑岩体的应变软化行为,可以得到满足线性Mohr-Coulomb（H-C）准则和非线性Hoek-Brown（H-B）屈服准则的围岩体塑性区范围及相应的应力与变形分布。计算结果表明,随着离散步的增加,数值解逐渐收敛,文中解与已有文献的结果完全吻合,且计算效率更高。对一组强度参数遵循CWFS（黏聚力弱化与摩擦角强化）规律的围岩体内塑性区范围、变形与应力的分布进行了分析,并与常规的应变软化模型的计算结果进行了对比,CWFS模型的结果更合理一些。     

内蒙古对外开放的地区差异分析

改革开放以来,内蒙古经济获得快速发展,取得可喜成就。但是．各地区的经济发展非常不平衡,地区经济差距显著。本文首先揭示了地区经济差距的现状,然后详细地分析各地区对外开放的差异及对地区经济的影响,并运用数学的回归分析法,进行了相关性分析,结果显示二者之间呈现密切的相关关系。