白云鄂博叠加褶皱及其变形机制

华北地块北缘中上元古界的白云鄂博群尖山组，在白云鄂博群东南花果山一带褶皱变形十分复杂，为了研究其褶皱形态、变形机制，在原1：5万填图的基础上选近1km^2的范围进行1：2000大比例尺地质填图，以变质长石石英砂岩为标志层，确定了两期褶皱构造。综合区域资料表明：早期EW向褶皱以纯剪切、纯剪切＋简单剪切为主，是加里东运动的结果；晚期褶皱表现为EW向压扁，为印支运动所形成。     

Changes in the saltation flux following a step‐change in macro‐roughness

The effect of a step change in macro‐roughness on the saltation process under sediment supply limited conditions was examined in the atmospheric boundary layer. For an array of roughness elements of roughness density λ = 0.045 (λ = total element frontal area/total surface area of the array) the horizontal saltation flux was reduced by 90% (±7%) at a distance of ≈150 roughness element heights into the array. This matches the value predicted using an empirical design model and provides confidence that it can be effectively used to engineer roughness arrays to meet sand flux reduction targets. Measurements of the saltation flux characteristics in the vertical dimension, including: saltation layer decay (e‐folding) height and particle size, revealed that with increasing distance into the array, the rate of mass flux change with increasing height decreased notably, and (geometric) mean particle diameter decreased. The distribution of the saltation mass flux in the vertical remains exponential in form with increasing distance into the roughness array, and the e‐folding height increases as well as increasing at a greater rate as particle diameter diminishes. The increase in e‐folding height suggests the height of saltating particles is increasing along with their mean speed. This apparent increase in mean speed is likely due to the preferential removal, or sequestration, of the slower moving particles across the size spectrum, as they travel through the roughness array. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

利用热运动学方法恢复构造隆升过程的探索

构造隆升过程研究对矿产资源勘查及评价具有重要意义,是地质学家长期探索的关键科学问题之一.现有构造隆升过程的研究方法均具有一定的适用性和局限性,正反演方法之间难以建立定量关系.本文利用热运动学方法,通过离散元数值模拟,提取变形过程中离散单元的运动路径作为热年代学样品热史恢复的地质约束,实现了构造变形模拟和热年代学分析的定量耦合,在构造隆升研究中展现出巨大潜力.本文以川东地区多层滑脱褶皱作用作为研究对象,重点恢复了方斗山—齐岳山背斜在距今170～70 Ma内的隆升变形过程.热运动学分析表明:先存的齐岳山断裂串联了深部拆离面和浅部滑脱层,湘鄂西褶皱带在170～110 Ma开始形成;140～110 Ma间齐岳山断层由断展褶皱作用向断弯褶皱作用转化,齐岳山背斜开始发育,略早于东部的利川复向斜;约110～90 Ma,方斗山背斜发育,隔挡式褶皱带开始形成;约90～70Ma,隔挡式褶皱规模逐渐增大,利川复向斜逐渐紧闭.正演模型建立、地温梯度计算、三维建模技术和应力演化分析是制约热运动学方法发展和完善的关键性因素.     

平衡剖面技术中Suppe模型的求解及应用

平衡剖面技术是根据几何守恒原理所确立的地质剖面正、反演方法,它是构造变形恢复的重要手段。通过对Suppe模型的求解讨论,给出了其数值解的实现方法,并给出了应用实例。     

壳内熔融与大陆造山——中山大学地质学系成立90周年暨陈国达院士诞辰102周年纪念

本文将造山作用分为地槽褶皱造山和地台(克拉通)活化造山两种类型,并认为两者均起因于板块的汇聚过程。地槽造山是洋壳向陆壳的转换过程,其标志是地槽沉积物初次熔融形成的、以TTG为主的"不成熟花岗岩"产生。板块俯冲过程的能量转换,导致大陆岩石圈内能升高,包括TTG在内的基底地槽构造层的再次熔融(重熔),产生再生或重熔岩浆形成活化造山期的"成熟花岗岩";壳内重熔岩浆层形成和增厚最终导致大陆克拉通发生大规模压缩变形(活化造山)。造山作用的多幕性和花岗岩活动多期性,以及上老下新的花岗岩"层序",被认为主要与板块俯冲过程的能量转换速度有关。     

A 1.5D model of the steady-state thermal structure of detachment folds

We present a 1.5D steady-state model of thermal perturbations in the core of detachment anticlines. The model incorporates the effects of heat conduction, advection by folding, radiogenic sources, and conversion of work into heat by viscous dissipation. We work out analytical solutions of model's equations for heat flow and temperature field for the case of low amplitude detachment folds growing in a thick homogeneous stratigraphy.Our analytical solutions for the simplest case of no heat sources show that detachment folds develop a thermal boundary layer. Conduction of heat dominates inside the layer, whereas advection of heat by folding prevails outside the boundary layer. We also find that heat flow in a growing detachment fold decays exponentially with the square of the thickness of the detached stratigraphic section. When heat sources are included into the problem we find that radiogenic heat generates thermal anomalies at the crest of the anticlines whereas viscous dissipation produces thermal anomalies at the core of the detachment fold.We analyze three cases of geological interest: detachment folds growing in evaporitic sequences, marine carbonates, and shaley sediments. For a typical uplift rate of 2 mm/yr conduction dominates in the first class of rocks. Viscous dissipation dominates in folds growing in limestone due to its high viscosity. Advection and the generation of heat by radiogenic isotopes dominate the growth of detachment folds in shale. Additionally, the cooling histories of Lagrangian particles embedded in the fold for the last two cases are analyzed. The core of the fold is characterized by rapid cooling whereas the limbs cool at slower rates than the core. Thus, the development of detachment anticlines may either accelerate maturation of source rocks and expand the maturation window or halt it by removing source rocks from the generating window.     

The junction of the eastern Central Asian Fold Belt and the Siberian Platform: deep structure and Mesozoic tectonics and geodynamics

The tectonic structure of the junction of the eastern Central Asian Fold Belt and the Siberian Platform, along with the deep structure of the Earth's crust and lithosphere in this region, has been described on the basis of new geological and geophysical data (seismic, geoelectric, and space-structural studies as well as new-generation geological maps), combined with new interpretation techniques (processing of the previous data by special software). The data suggest the existence of oblique collision during the convergence of the tectonic plates and, correspondingly, tectonic units composing these plates, when the Mongol–Okhotsk paleobasin closed. Such a scenario within the Aldan–Stanovoi Shield is evidenced by areas of syn- and postcollisional magmatism, with their deep-level and geochemical characteristics, and by the presence of a Late Mesozoic fold–thrust zone. Deep “traces” of these tectonomagmatic events, detected in the course of geological and geophysical modeling, are manifested in inclined deep boundaries between the crustal and lithospheric blocks. On the Earth's surface, they correspond to large fault systems: the Dzheltulak, North and South Tukuringra, Gulyui, and Stanovoi. It has been found that the influence of collision decreases northward with distance from the junction of the eastern Central Asian Fold Belt and the Siberian Platform (Dzheltulak and North Tukuringra transcrustal faults).     

The Zagros hinterland fold-and-thrust belt in-sequence thrusting,Iran

The collision of the Iranian microcontinent with the Afro-Arabian continent resulted in the deformation of the Zagros orogenic belt. The foreland of this belt in the Persian Gulf and Arabian platform has been investigated for its petroleum and gas resource potentials, but the Zagros hinterland is poorly investigated and our knowledge about its deformation is much less than other parts of this orogen. Therefore, this work presents a new geological map, stratigraphic column and two detailed geological cross sections. This study indicates the presence of a hinterland fold-and-thrust belt on northeastern side of the Zagros orogenic core that consists of in-sequence thrusting and basement involvement in this important part of the Zagros hinterland. The in-sequence thrusting resulted in first- and second-order duplex systems, Mode I fault-bend folding, fault-propagation folding and asymmetric detachment folding which indicate close relationships between folding and thrusting. Study of fault-bend folds shows that layer-parallel simple shear has the same role in the southeastern and northwestern parts of the study area (α_e = 23.4 ± 9.1°). A major lateral ramp in the basement beneath the Talaee plain with about one kilometer of vertical offset formed parallel to the SW movement direction and perpendicular to the major folding and thrusting.