M5. 1地震引起的一个不寻常的砂砾层大范围液化——盐溶的液化活化效应及其机理

地震液化阈值是一个非常重要的科学问题,一般认为M5地震不会形成大面积的液化。2009年12月14日,中国新疆哈密市发生了M5. 1中等地震,震源深度仅4 km。地震砂脉网格在平面从几十厘米到2 m以上;砂脉纵断面呈楔形、倾斜（平均75. 10°）,分选较好。通常情况下,它们通过液化和流化分异作用发生在细粒丰富的盐渍砂砾层（SSGL,Salinization Sand—Gravel Layer）和盐粒砂砾层（SGSGL,Salt- Grain—Sand—Gravel Layer）中,尽管没有细粒盖层和源砂,但这些盐渍的砂砾层极易在盐溶后发生活化,颗粒之间的摩擦力骤降,液化上涌而形成砂脉。液化边界距震中可达80 km,甚至可能达到120 km,相当于M7. 0~8. 0级地震的液化最远距离。哈密地区之所以能在M5. 1地震作用下形成远程砂脉,主要由于以下5个优势：① 砂泥的盐溶液中细粒组分容易发生液化流化。浓盐水能够降低颗粒的剪切能力,平均降低25%~75%左右,使地震液化阈值降低到 0. 15~0. 05 g（以0. 2 g为一般阈值）。与此同时,浓盐水由于密度大,盐水可使淡水最小流化速度（Umf）降低12. 51%~21. 58%,有利于流化。 ② 广泛分布的盐渍砂砾层和盐粒砂砾层。 ③ 震源极浅（深度仅4 km）。 ④ 基底极浅（深度0~3 m）。 ⑤ 表层盐屑混合盖+盐渍砂砾层+盐粒砂砾层+极浅基岩基底组成了特殊的三明治结构。通过对液化流化的形成机理研究表明,砂主要来自砂脉底部的砂砾层的流化分选,流化分选会在砂脉底部的砂砾层中形成一个分选晕。     

华北南缘古元古代末岩墙群侵位的磁组构证据

华北克拉通南缘的中条山及邻区广泛发育元古宙放射状基性岩墙群,与五台山-恒山和大同地区的北北西向基性岩墙群以及熊耳中条拗拉谷的火山岩在时空分布和地球化学方面均具有密切的相关性。中条山及邻区放射状基性岩墙群的宏观和微观流动构造(包括捕虏体、冲痕构造、矿物线理和定向斑晶)指示岩墙群以一定的仰角向北西侵位。通过该区岩墙群磁化率各向异性(AMS)测量得到磁组构的最大磁化率长轴优势方位分布图和磁组构各向异性特征分析进一步指示华北南缘古元古代末岩墙群从熊耳中条拗拉谷的底部向北西侵位。岩墙群的流动构造和磁组构的统计成果夯实了华北克拉通古元古代末基性岩墙群与熊耳中条拗拉谷的成生联系。     

U–Pb geochronology of the Western Channel Diabase,northwestern Laurentia: Implications for a large 1.59 Ga magmatic province,Laurentia's APWP and paleocontinental reconstructions of Laurentia,Baltica and Gawler craton of southern Australia

U–Pb baddeleyite ages of 1592 ± 3 and 1590 ± 4 Ma are reported for paleomagnetic sites in sheets and dykes of Western Channel Diabase (WCD) that intrude Proterozoic rocks of the flat-lying Hornby Bay Group in the Hornby Bay basin and the deformed volcanic-plutonic Great Bear Magmatic Zone of Wopmay orogen of northwestern Laurentia. A published WCD paleomagnetic pole at 9°N, 115°W (A₉₅ = 6°) has been demonstrated primary. The new ages indicate that the WCD pole falls midway in time between poles for the 1.74 Ga Cleaver dykes and 1.48–1.42 Ga Elsonian-aged plutons, filling an important gap in the Proterozoic apparent polar wander path (APWP) for Laurentia. The WCD pole can be compared with poles reported from similar-aged magmatic units on other cratons in order to test paleocontinental reconstructions. A comparison of the Laurentian WCD pole with primary ca. 1.63 Ga and ca. 1.575 Ga poles for Baltica, along with an earlier comparison of precisely dated 1.27–1.255 Ga poles for Laurentia and Baltica, suggests that the two cratonic blocks drifted as a single entity with Baltica adjacent to eastern Greenland during the ca. 1.59–1.27 Ga interval. On the basis of less well constrained ca. 1.84–1.83 Ga poles from Laurentia and Baltica, it is possible that this reconstruction existed as early as ca. 1.83 Ga. The WCD is the same age as Wernecke breccias of the Wernecke and Ogilvie Mountains of northwestern Laurentia and bimodal Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and related Olympic Dam breccias of the Gawler craton. It has been proposed by others that the Gawler craton lay adjacent to northwestern Laurentia at 1.59 Ga, with the Olympic Dam and Wernecke breccias forming a large hydrothermal province. The primary WCD pole provides an opportunity to test Laurentia–Gawler craton reconstructions at 1.59 Ga. A paleopole has been reported for the GRV, although its primary or secondary nature is open to interpretation. If primary, or if acquired as an overprint during the later stages of 1.60–1.58 Ga Hiltaba-GRV magmatism, then a position for the Gawler craton adjacent to northwestern Laurentia is permitted. If the GRV pole is a later secondary overprint then a reliable comparison with Laurentian poles cannot be made.     

九江堤防塑料排水板软基处理施工技术

塑料排水板在海堤、公路、码头、水闸等软基加固工程中应用较广,塑料排水板处理软地基,是用塑料排水板将地基中的水排除,以增加作用于土颗粒的有效应力来加速地基固结沉降,达到提高强度的目的。在九江市日元贷款城市防洪工程八里湖大堤软基处理中成功应用了塑料排水板施工技术,结合该工程实例。介绍了塑料排水板施工工艺。     

The stress state near Spanish Peaks,colorado determined from a dike pattern

The radial pattern of syenite and syenodiorite dikes of the Spanish Peaks region is analysed using theories of elasticity and dike emplacement. The three basic components of Odé's model for the dike pattern (a pressurized, circular hole; a rigid, planar boundary; and uniform regional stresses) are adopted, but modified to free the regional stresses from the constraint of being orthogonal to the rigid boundary. Dike areal density, the White Peaks intrusion, the strike of the upturned Mesozoic strata, and the contact between these strata and the intensely folded and faulted Paleozoic rocks are used to brient the rigid boundary along a north-south line. The line of dike terminations locates the rigid boundary about 8 km west of West Peak. The location of a circular plug, Goemmer Butte, is chosen as a point of isotropic stress. A map correlating the location of isotropic stress points with regional stress parameters is derived from the theory and used to determine a regional stress orientation (N82E) and a normalized stress magnitude. The stress trajectory map constructed using these parameters mimics the dike pattern exceptionally well. The model indicates that the regional principal stress difference was less than 0.05 times the driving pressure in the West Peak intrusion. The regional stress difference probably did not exced 5 MN/m².     

Volcanoes as possible indicators of tectonic stress orientation — Aleutians and Alaska

A new method for obtaining from volcanic surface features the orientations of the principal tectonic stresses is applied to Aleutian and Alaskan volcanoes. The underlying concept for this method is that flank eruptions for polygenetic volcanoes can be regarded as the result of a large-scale natural magmafracturing experiment. The method essentially relies on the recognition of the preferred orientation of radial and parallel dike swarms, primarily using the distribution of monogenetic craters including flank volcanoes. Since dikes tend to propagate in a direction normal to the minimum principal stress (T-axis), the method primarily yields the direction of the maximum horizontal compression (MHC) of regional origin. The direction of the MHC may correspond to either the maximum (P-axis) or intermediate (B-axis) principal stress.The direction of MHC obtained at 20 volcanoes in the Aleutian arc coincides well with the direction of convergence between the Pacific and North American plates. This result provides evidence that in the island arc the inferred direction of MHC is parallel to the maximum principal tectonic stress. In the back-arc region, general E-W trends of MHC are obtained from seven volcanic fields on islands on the Bering Sea shelf and the mainland coast of Alaska. These volcanic fields consist mostly of clusters of monogenetic volcanoes of alkali basalt. In the back-arc region, the trends of MHC may correspond to an E-W intermediate, a vertical maximum, and a N-S minimum principal stress.Implications for the tectonics of island arcs and back-arc regions are: (1) volcanic belts of some island arcs, including the Aleutian arc, are under compressional deviatoric stress in the direction of plate convergence. It is improbable that such arcs would split along the volcanic axis to form actively spreading marginal basins. (2) This compressional stress at the arc, probably generated by underthrusting, appears to be transmitted across the entire arc structure, but is apparently replaced within several hundred kilometers by a stress system characterized by horizontal extension (tensional deviatoric stress) in the back-arc region. (3) The volcanoes associated with these two stress systems differ in type (polygenetic vs. monogenetic) and in the chemistry of their magmas (andesitic vs. basaltic). These differences and the regional differences in orientation of the principal tectonic stresses suggest that the back-arc stress system has its own source at considerable depth beneath the crust.Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory Contribution No. 2503.     

某堤防工程中防渗墙对地下水运动规律影响的初步分析

在1998年之后,长江堤防部分堤段采用了垂直防渗墙措施来处理堤身和堤基中存在的渗流隐患问题,但与此同时,也有人担心防渗墙实施后,会影响原有的江水与地下水之间补给排泄关系而带来新的环境问题.本文将以某实施了防渗墙的堤段为例,采用GMS软件中的MODFLOW计算模块模拟分析临江地层中地下水与江水的动态互动关系,并重点讨论了防渗墙实施后对这种关系的影响,分析结果认为,防渗墙实施后一般不会带来新的地下水环境问题.     

西昆仑新藏公路118～323km段基性、酸性岩脉K—Ar年龄

在西昆仑西段新藏公路沿线广泛发育数量众多的岩脉，野外出露有煌斑岩脉、辉绿岩脉、闪长岩脉、花岗岩脉。对以上岩脉进行了全岩K-Ar同位素测年，其侵位年龄与该区的地质构造事件有很好的对应关系：辉绿岩脉273～280Ma的侵位年龄对应着弧后扩张的时间，闪长岩脉和花岗岩脉230～244Ma的侵位年龄对应着碰撞造山的时间。     

Weak tidal correlation of NW-Bohemia/Vogtland earthquake swarms

We analyze the possible effect of solid Earth tidal stresses upon a vertical strike-slip fault in NW-Bohemia/Vogtland, central Europe, typical by occurrence of swarm earthquakes. The horizontal components of solid Earth tidal stresses were found strongly to prevail and to reach the level of 2 kPa. We examined tidal triggering as influence of tidal stresses to launching the swarm activity in relative absence of other stress disturbances. The onset times of 46 swarms of mostly M_L < 3 earthquakes that occurred in the period 1991–2005 displayed an increased occurrence near the fortnightly maximum of tidal extensive normal stress. The statistical test however did not prove a statistically significant correlation indicating a triggering effect of fault extension due to tidal loading. We also examined tidal effects to the already running seismic activity of the prominent 2000 swarm by comparing the tidal stress distribution in the investigated period with the distribution of tidal stresses in the occurrence times of each earthquake. The results show that these distributions are almost similar, which indicates that individual earthquakes occur independent of tidal stresses. The unclear tidal correlation of the swarm seismicity may be interpreted by small amplitudes and rates of tidal stress changes compared to the amplitudes and rates of coseismic stress perturbations and of pressure bursts of deep generated fluids.     

西准噶尔东部碱性花岗岩体侵位机理的岩浆动力学初步探讨

运用岩浆动力学原理探讨了西准噶尔东部碱性花岗岩浆侵位的驱动力、上升通道、通道最小临界宽度和定位过程。指出：碱性花岗岩体是由其岩浆主要在区域性挤压应力作用下,沿深大断裂以最小临界宽度1．33～301m的脉状上升,并在地壳浅部发生气球膨胀和岩墙扩张．定位于与区内深大断裂有关的次级张性裂隙发育部位后形成的。