徐州地区冲断褶皱带研究

通过研究徐州地区构造的几何学特征,指出其构造为一薄皮型式的向北西逆掩的冲断褶皱带。其构造变形具有东西分带和南北分段的特征。东西可分为东部滑脱带、中部锋带和西部外缘带。这种分带性为在区内冲断层和推覆体下找煤指明了方向。锋带紧密的叠互式冲断层和褶皱与震旦系碳酸盐岩地层楔状体沿底部拆离带向北西滑脱有关。冲断褶皱带是在与郯庐断裂活动有关的挤压力和重力的联合作用下,形成于印支—燕山运动早期。     

Brittle tectonism in relation to the Palaeogene evolution of the Thulean/NE Atlantic domain: a study in Ulster

The tectonic effects of the Thulean mantle plume on the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean is still poorly understood. An analysis of the brittle deformation affecting the Late Cretaceous Chalk and Lower Tertiary igneous formations cropping out in Ulster (Northern Ireland), part of the Thulean Province, leads to the recognition of two tectonic phases. Each of these phases is characterized by different stress regimes with similar trends of the horizontal maximum principal stress σ_H. The first phase, syn-magmatic and dominated by NE–SW to ENE–WSW extension, occurred during the Palaeocene. It is followed by a second post-magmatic phase, characterized initially by a probably Eocene strike-slip to compressional palaeo-stress regime with σ₁ (=σ_H) trending NE–SW to NNE–SSW associated with the partial reactivation (as reverse faults) of normal faults formed during the first phase NE–SW extension. This episode is postdated by an Oligocene extension, with σ_H (=σ₂) still striking NNE–SSW/NE–SW, which reactivated Eocene strike-slip faults as nearly vertical dip-slip normal faults. This Palaeogene tectonic evolution is consistent with the tectonic evolution of similar age in western Scotland and in the Faeroe Islands. In particular, the post-magmatic NE–SW compression is here related to the ‘Faeroe compressive event’, which is related to the earliest stages of drift of the Greenland plate.