2003年青海德令哈6.7级地震序列的震源机制解及其构造含义

利用8个流动数字地震台和国家数字地震台站的地震波形记录,测量了2003年4月17日青海德令哈6.7级地震及其主要余震的直达P波、SV波、SH波的初动方向和振幅比,应用Snoke(2003)的测定震源机制解的格点尝试法,测定出德令哈地震序列的48个2.4级以上地震的震源机制解.搜集分析了美国哈佛大学测定的德令哈6.7级主震和2004年二期地震活动中的7个地震的震源机制解.基于余震空间分布特征和对震源机制解特征的分析,讨论了德令哈地震序列的可能断层活动方式和地震的构造含义.结果表明,主震和大部分余震都是沿NWW-SEE走向的逆断层错动,北边的上盘可能沿低角度向北倾的断层面向南仰冲;个别正断层余震可能是震源区挤压变形弧顶区附近发生的局部张性破裂;在二期地震活动中,逆断层和走滑断层都有,走滑断层地震主要发生在震源区东侧.德令哈地震活动是青藏高原东北缘NWW-SEE向延伸的挤压带继续处于隆升活动中的表现,这一继承性新构造运动是德令哈地震序列的可能发震原因.     

Discrete element modelling of the influence of cover strength on basement-involved fault-propagation folding

A discrete element model is used to investigate the influence of sedimentary cover strength on the development of basement-involved fault-propagation folds. We find that uniformly weak cover best promotes the development of classical, trishear-like fault-related folds showing marked anticlinal thinning and synclinal thickening, with cover dips increasing downwards towards the fault tip. Uniformly strong cover results in more rounded fold forms with only minor hinge thickening/thinning and significant basement fault-propagation into the sedimentary cover. Heterogeneous, layered, cover sequences with marked differences in strength promote the development of more complex and variable fold forms, with a close juxtaposition of brittle and macroscopically ductile features, which diverge from the predictions of simple kinematic models. In these structures the upper layers are often poor indicators of deeper structure. In addition, we find that in layered cover sequences fault-propagation into the cover is a complex process and is strongly buffered by the weaker cover units.     

Differential subsidence driving the formation of mounded stratigraphy in deep-water sediments; Palaeocene, central North Sea

Deep-water Palaeocene strata of the East Central Graben, UK North Sea, are characterised by elongate depressions and elevations parallel with the palaeotransport direction and with underlying structural lineaments. Palaeozoic and mesozoic faults underlying the basin were briefly re-activated during the Palaeocene, affecting the seabed topography in the form of gentle folding, faulting and slope instability. Two types of mounded features formed in response to the tectonically induced seabed structuration: (i) deformational mounded morphology, a product of syndepositional faulting and mass wasting, (ii) non-deformational mounded morphology, interpreted to result from changing flow dynamics as flows travelled over the deformed sea floor, accentuating the structural topography by means of localised erosion and deposition. This study shows how differential subsidence acted as the ultimate control behind a range of processes leading to mounded stratigraphy. The models of the origin of the mounded morphologies are novel in the context of the North-Sea Palaeocene and have implications for the prediction of lithology in mounded basinal deposits, in the North Sea and elsewhere.     

由现今地震活动分析鲜水河断裂带中-南段活动习性与强震危险地段

利用最近25年的区域台网地震资料, 基于沿鲜水河断裂带中-南段的b值分布以及多个地震活动参数值的不同组合, 结合震源深度分布、 历史强震背景等, 分析了不同断裂段落的现今活动习性, 进而初步判别该断裂带潜在的强震危险地段。 结果表明, 鲜水河断裂带中-南段目前存在6个不同活动习性的段落。 其中, 道孚段自1981年强震后已再次趋于闭锁, 原因可能与断层面存在“凹凸体”有关, 但应变可能还会进一步积累; 八美段目前处于中偏高应力下的相对静止状态, 推测其断面正处于新的应力积累阶段; 塔公段已有255~300年的无强震期, 目前正处于高应力下的相对闭锁状态, 震源深度剖面上的小震空白区显示出闭锁断层面的轮廓, 应属于未来最可能发生强震的危险地段; 康定、 磨西二个段落表现出中偏低应力下的稀疏小震滑动及较频繁小震滑动的状态, 意味着最晚的一次大地震破裂后断层面尚未重新耦合; 石棉段表现出偏高应力下的频繁中-小地震活动与该段的多条断裂交汇有关。     

碳酸盐岩油气藏的断裂改造作用——以塔里木盆地为例

多旋回盆地油气藏形成后多经历复杂的构造改造作用,并对油气的保存与分布具有重要的控制作用。结合塔里木盆地油气藏实例分析,将碳酸盐岩油气藏断裂改造作用划分为断裂切割改造、断裂抬升改造、断裂褶皱改造、断裂再活动改造与断裂成岩封闭改造等5种类型。断裂改造方式主要有圈闭变化、盖层减薄、水力作用、压力变化与成岩变化等,并造成油气逸散与补充、水洗与降解及流体性质的变化等,从而导致碳酸盐岩油气藏与油气分布的复杂性。断裂改造作用研究对多旋回油气盆地勘探开发具有重要借鉴意义。     

The southern Rhine graben: A new view of the initial phase

One of the puzzling features of the southern end of the Rhine graben is the Dinkelberg-Tabular Jura block on the eastern shoulder of the graben. It is dissected by a large number of faults, the most notable ones forming a field of narrow little grabens and half-grabens whose bordering faults converge at the level of the Middle Triassic evaporites, which points to décollement at that horizon. The little grabens were traditionally considered to be of Oligocene age, coeval with the main taphrogenesis of the Rhine graben. Two hypotheses were offered for their formation, one ascribing them to extension on the extrados of large basement folds, the other to gravity sliding on paleoslopes. Recent field work uncovered overwhelming evidence for an Eocene age of the little grabens, the time of the initial phase of Rhine graben formation. At that time there were neither large basement folds nor paleoslopes of any significance, and therefore the two hypotheses offered until now do not work. However, the map-view pattern of the field of faults offers a somewhat unusual way out of the dilemma. This pattern is most prominently displayed in the Dinkelberg area north of the Rhine. There a lane of narrow décollement grabens with a mean NNE strike is confined within the NW- striking Dinkelberg graben, which is much wider and rooted in the basement. It is also very shallow, with a subsidence on the order of 100 m. The lane of décollement grabens forms a dextral en-échelon pattern with respect to the Dinkelberg graben, suggesting stretching of the post-evaporite sequence above a basement essentially extended by strike slip. This model, though not as clearly expressed, is also compatible with the data in the rest of the Dinkelberg-Tabular Jura block. It also fits surprisingly well a theoretical model by Withjack and Scheiner (1982) that predicts a dominance of strike-slip in the marginal area of a system consisting of extension superimposed on doming.     

新平大红山铜矿二期基建探矿控矿构造特征

二期基建揭露的断层按其产出方向分为四个组：NWW向的正断层,NNE向的平移正断层,NE～NEE向的正断层,NW向的矿区断层F3;按形成时间可分为早期断层和晚期断层,除边界断层F3外均为早期断层。早期断层又按其切错关系,可分为5个活动期次。断层构造将矿体沿走向切错成条块状,沿倾向切错成阶梯状排列,形成堑、垒式构造,对矿床开采产生较大的影响。     

The West Victorian Uplands of Southeastern Australia: Origin and history

The West Victorian Uplands is a region of low relief, gentle gradients, young volcanicity and local domal uplift. These characteristics distinguish it from the rest of the Eastern Highlands of Australia. The origin of the West Victorian Uplands dates back to uplift in the Cretaceous, but elevation and relief have always remained low. Further uplift, extending westwards from central Victoria, may have begun raising the West Victorian Uplands in Middle Tertiary times. Doming, fault activity, earthquakes and volcanism are extending progressively westwards. Not only may the Eastern Highlands of Victoria have grown in this way in the past, but the area may also provide a view of the early evolution of the Eastern Highlands of Australia.     

济阳坳陷古近系沙四段上亚段烃源岩沉积有机相研究

根据沉积构造、古生物组合、有机质赋存方式等特征研究,明确了沉积过程底水含氧量对古近系湖相烃源岩中有机 质的组成和含量的控制作用。在此基础上借鉴沉积有机相和古氧相研究的成果,将济阳坳陷古近系沙四段上亚段湖相烃源 岩划分为四种沉积有机相,分别为缺氧相、短暂充氧相、低氧相、充氧相,并且确定了不同类型沉积有机相的判识标志。 并结合测井资料开展了烃源岩沉积有机相的单井、连井及平面分布特征分析,提出沙四段上亚段烃源岩的发育存在着明显 的东西差异,东部地区明显优于西部地区,而不同走向断裂的活动差异控制了优质烃源岩的分布。沙四段上亚段烃源岩的 分布规律对于下一步勘探决策的制定和深层隐蔽油气藏成藏规律研究具有重要意义。     

Distinctive diamagnetic fabrics in dolostones evolved at fault cores,the Dead Sea Transform

We resolve the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) axes along fault planes, cores and damage zones in rocks that crop out next to the Dead Sea Transform (DST) plate boundary. We measured 261 samples of mainly diamagnetic dolostones that were collected from 15 stations. To test the possible effect of the iron content on the AMS we analyzed the Fe concentrations of the samples in different rock phases. Dolostones with mean magnetic susceptibility value lower than −4 × 10⁻⁶ SI and iron content less than ∼1000 ppm are suitable for diamagnetic AMS-based strain analysis. The dolostones along fault planes display AMS fabrics that significantly deviate from the primary “sedimentary fabric”. The characteristics of these fabrics include well-grouped, sub-horizontal, minimum principal AMS axes (k₃) and sub-vertical magnetic foliations commonly defined by maximum and intermediate principal AMS axes (k₁ and k₂ axes, respectively). These fabrics are distinctive along fault planes located tens of kilometers apart, with strikes ranging between NNW-SSE and NNE-SSW and different senses of motion. The obtained magnetic foliations (k₁–k₂) are sub-parallel (within ∼20°) to the fault planes. Based on rock magnetic and geochemical analyses, we interpret the AMS fabrics as the product of both shape and crystallographic anisotropy of the dolostones. Preferred shape alignment evolves due to mechanical rotation of subordinate particles and rock fragments at the fault core. Preferred crystallographic orientation results from elevated frictional heating (>300 °C) during faulting, which enhances c-axes alignment in the cement-supported dolomite breccia due to crystal-plastic processes. The penetrative deformation within fault zones resulted from the local, fault-related strain field and does not reflect the regional strain field. The analyzed AMS fabrics together with fault-plane kinematics provide valuable information on faulting characteristics in the uppermost crust.