南沙群岛万安盆地构造演化史再探讨

南沙群岛万安盆地是位于南海西南海盆被动边缘上的张性沉积盆地。通过分析区域地球物理场特征及断裂分布，以及地震剖面的解释并结合钻井资料对比分析，在万安盆地新生代沉积中对比解释出T1，T2，T3，T4，T5，T6和Tg等7个地震反射界面。其中，Tg，T5和T3为3个区域不整合面的反射波，由这3个区域不整合面将盆地新生代沉积划分为3个构造层：Tg－T5，T5－T3和T3一海底。由此推测万安盆地在新生代经历过3次构造运动，因此其构造演化史经历了3个阶段：神狐运动（白垩纪未至古新世早期），南海运动（晚始新世至早渐新世）和万安运动（中中新世末）。从神狐运动到南海运动为万安盆地的奠基期，从南海运动至万安运动则是万安盆地的发展期，万安运动之后至今日是万安盆地的形成期。万安盆地的构造发育史和珠江口盆地东部的发展史相似，故推测它藏有丰富的油气资源。     

From strike-slip faulting to oblique subduction: A survey of the Alpine Fault-Puysegur Trench transition,New Zealand,results of cruise Geodynz-sud leg 2

The Geodynz-sud cruise on board the R/V l'Atalante collected bathymetric, side-scan sonar and seismic reflection data along the obliquely convergent boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates southwest of the South Island, New Zealand. The survey area extended from 44°05 S to 49°40 S, covering the transition zone between the offshore extension of the Alpine Fault and the Puysegur Trench and Puysegur Ridge. Based on variations in the nature and structure of the crust on either side of the margin, the plate boundary zone can be divided into three domains with distinctive structural and sedimentary characteristics. The northern domain involves subduction of probably thinned continental crust of the southern Challenger Plateau beneath the continental crust of Fiordland. It is characterized by thick sediments on the downgoing slab and a steep continental slope disrupted by fault scarps and canyons. The middle domain marks the transition between subduction of likely continental and oceanic crust defined by a series of en echelon ridges on the downgoing slab. This domain is characterized by a large collapse terrace on the continental slope which appears to be due to the collision of the en echelon ridges with the plate margin. The southern domain involves subduction of oceanic crust beneath continental and oceanic crust. This domain is characterized by exposed fabric of seafloor spreading on the downgoing slab, a steep inner trench wall and linear ridges and valleys on the Puysegur ridge crest. The data collected on this cruise provide insights into the nature and history of both plates, and factors influencing the distribution of strike-slip and compressive strain and the evolution of subduction processes along a highly oblique convergent margin.     

Anatomy of a continent-backarc transform — The Vening Meinesz Fracture Zone northwest of New Zealand

The northwestern continental margin of New Zealand offers one of the finest examples of a continent-backarc transform. This transform, part of the Vening Meinesz Fracture Zone (VMFZ), accommodated about 170 km of sea-floor spreading in the Norfolk backare basin together with eastward migration of a volcanic arc, the Three Kings Ridge, in the Mid- to Late Miocene. Before the onset of spreading, strain along the VMFZ may have been linked to a major Early Miocene obduction event — the emplacement of the Northland Allochthon. The transform is manifested by a belt up to 50 km wide of left-stepping, linear fault scarps up to 2000 m high within an approximately 100 km-wide deformed zone. A marginal ridge, the Reinga Ridge, which includes a faulted, folded and uplifted Miocene sedimentary basin, occurs within the high-standing continental side of the deformed zone, whereas a narrow strip of linear detached blocks occupies the deep backarc oceanic side. Prespreading uplift and erosion of crust in the proto-backarc region, are volcanism, and obduction of the allochthon, supplied clastic sediments to the basin on the continental side. This basin was complexly deformed as the transform evolved. The transform was initiated as a dextral strike-slip fault zone, which developed right-branching splays and left-steps along its length, uplifting and cutting the continental margin into left-hand, en echelon blocks and relays. Folds formed locally within relay blocks and at the distal ends of the splays. Only the high continental side of this zone (the Reinga Ridge) remains, the formerly adjacent crust (the Three Kings Ridge) having been displaced towards the southeast. As the Three Kings block moved and the Norfolk Basin opened, opposing rift margins of the backarc basin foundered to form terraces. The oceanic side of the transform also subsided to produce the belt of detached blocks (some laterally displaced by strike slip) and linear troughs along the main escarpment system.     

四川盆地川中地区走滑断裂的分布、类型与成因

近期研究发现四川克拉通盆地内存在大型走滑断裂带,是断控油气藏勘探开发的有利新领域,走滑断裂的分布与成因对油气目标评价具有重要意义。本文在三维结合二维地震资料解释的基础上,分析走滑断裂的分布与成因类型,并探讨走滑断裂的形成机制。结果表明,川中三维地震工区发育北西向走向为主的大型板内走滑断裂系统;走滑断裂呈雁列、斜列的不连续的带状分布,断裂发育成熟度低,具有断裂样式的多样性与分层分布的差异性;四川盆地存在川中克拉通内走滑断层、川东南帚状走滑构造、川东调节走滑带、川东北楔入走滑带、川西北斜向冲断走滑带等5个地区发育5种类型走滑断裂带;走滑断裂形成于震旦系灯影组沉积晚期,受控于原特提斯洋俯冲背景下的斜向伸展作用,基底北西向先存断裂构造复活,形成了调节斜向伸展裂陷槽的川中板内走滑断裂系统。结果揭示克拉通盆地可能发育大型的板内走滑断裂系统,不同于常规的板缘与板内调节走滑断裂系统。     

塔里木盆地西部鸟山-古董山地区断裂构造分析

鸟山-古董山地区位于塔里木盆地西部, 巴楚隆起与麦盖提斜坡之间, 鸟山、玛南、玛扎塔格、古董山和罗斯塔格构造带在此交汇, 附近还发育与之密切相关的沙陇断裂, 十分引人注目。鸟山-古董山地区的主干断裂形成于晚白垩世, 包括鸟山、罗斯塔格和玛扎塔格晚白垩世冲断构造带和玛南晚白垩世走滑断裂带, 玛南断裂是玛扎塔格构造带与鸟山和罗斯塔格构造带之间的调节断层。该期构造变形受控于南羌塘和拉萨地块与亚洲大陆之间的碰撞造山作用。鸟山-古董山地区的断裂构造于中新世末基本定型。因帕米尔突刺楔入于塔里木和卡拉库姆之间, 在塔西南地区形成一系列走滑断裂, 包括玛扎塔格-罗斯塔格中新世末走滑断裂, 古董山断裂是其派生断层。晚白垩世是研究区构造和圈闭的关键形成期, 上新世晚期-全新世早期以古近系底部膏盐层为主滑脱面的滑脱-冲断构造保护早期形成的圈闭和油气藏。鸟山和玛扎塔格构造带是研究区最有利的油气勘探区带, 玛南构造带是重要的油气运移通道。     

辽东湾坳陷新生代构造改造作用及演化

利用大量的渤海油气勘探资料与成果对辽东湾坳陷构造演化特点综合分析,揭示出辽东湾坳陷新生代构造改造作用主要表现在:断裂作用、地层抬升剥蚀及褶皱作用,对辽东湾坳陷构造演化过程具有重要的影响。其西部地区现今构造特征主要受前期伸展断层控制,构造改造作用较弱;而东部地区构造改造作用强烈,辽东凸起是在后期构造改造作用下形成的,分隔现今的辽中凹陷与辽东凹陷。郯庐断裂带辽东湾段新生代早期活动特征不明显,始新世末-渐新世主要以伸展作用叠加右旋走滑作用为主;渐新世末-新近纪晚期以右旋走滑作用为主,断裂带活动不控制辽东湾东部地区的沉积。辽东湾坳陷新生代的演化整体可划分为断陷期(孔店组沉积期-沙河街组三段沉积期)、断坳改造期(沙河街组二段沉积期-东营组沉积期)、走滑改造期(馆陶组沉积期至今)3个演化阶段。现今辽东湾坳陷构造格局与沙河街组三段沉积前古构造格局的差异性,对该区海域油气勘探具有重要意义。     

滇中河网特征及其对断层活动的响应

滇中地区作为青藏高原东南缘构造活动最强烈的地区之一,发育了许多活动走滑断裂,并且在该区域上密布着不同级别的河网,为利用河网分析断裂活动提供了有利条件。为揭示滇中河网发育与断裂活动内在联系,本文基于30 m分辨率的SRTM-3数字高程模型(DEM)在ArcGIS环境下提取了滇中地区金沙江、珠江、红河内的20条支流的河流网络,分析其典型的河网参数(分支比和长度比),通过这些比值与Horton定律描述的一般性河流网络进行对比。同时,基于ArcGIS空间分析技术及Matlab程序脚本系统,对这20条河流流域纵剖面进行定量化研究,分析其河道基岩侵蚀力模型,得到S-A拟合图解。结果表明:滇中地区金沙江、珠江、红河中大多数与断裂带重合的高级别河流的支流,河网发育明显地受到了断裂活动的影响;在河道基岩侵蚀力模型S-A拟合图中呈现为上凸和下凹相间排列,这一现象在金沙江流域的各支流最为显著,造成这一现象的原因可能是研究区内的河道主要受走滑断裂控制,当断裂以压扭性为主时,河道的隆升量大于剥蚀量,S-A拟合曲线表现为上凸;当断裂以张扭性为主时,河道的隆升量小于剥蚀量,S-A拟合曲线表现为下凹。通过对河网构造地貌特征的研究可以使我们更好地理解该地区的构造活动特征。     

The Dihedral Angle and Intersection Processes of a Conjugate Strike‐Slip Fault System in the Tarim Basin,NW China

Recent studies, focused on dihedral angles and intersection processes, have increased understandings of conjugate fault mechanisms. We present new 3-D seismic data and microstructural core analysis in a case study of a large conjugate strike-slip fault system from the intracratonic Tarim Basin, NW China. Within our study area, "X" type NE and NW trending faults occur within CambrianOrdovician carbonates. The dihedral angles of these conjugate faults have narrow ranges, 19° to 62° in the Cambrian and 26° to 51° in the Ordovician, and their modes are 42° and 44° respectively. These data are significantly different from the ～60° predicted by the Coulomb fracture criterion. It is concluded that:(1) The dihedral angles of the conjugate faults were not controlled by confining pressure, which was low and associated with shallow burial;(2) As dihedral angles were not controlled by pressure they can be used to determine the shortening direction during faulting;(3) Sequential slip may have played an important role in forming conjugate fault intersections;(4) The conjugate fault system of the Tarim basin initiated as rhombic joints; these subsequently developed into sequentially active "X" type conjugate faults; followed by preferential development of the NW-trending faults; then reactivation of the NE trending faults. This intact rhombic conjugate fault system presents new insights into mechanisms of dihedral angle development, with particular relevance to intracratonic basins.     

Deep Structural Framework and Genetic Analysis of Gold Concentration Areas in the Northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, China: A New Understanding based on High-Resolution Reflective Seismic Survey

The gold concentration areas in the northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula constituted an important gold metallogenetic region in Eastern China during the Mesozoic. The deep geological bodies’ texture characteristic is important for exploring the resources thoroughly and understanding the metallogenic process. The detailed textures were revealed using high-resolution seismic profiles through the three major ore-controlling structures-Sanshandao fault zone, Jiaojia fault zone and Zhaoping fault zone. This study aims to establish a deep structural framework of this area. Based on their formation mechanism, the fault structures developed in the area can be divided into regional and local fault structures. The structural styles are characterised by superimposing their compressional, strike-slip and extensional multi-stage activities. The crust is cut by vertical structures corresponding to a left-lateral strike-slip fault system on the surface. Nearby these structures are the arc-shape structures formed by multi-stage magma intrusions into the upper crust. Bounded by the Tancheng–Lujiang and Muping–Jimo fault zones, the current Jiaodong block, developed a series of NE-trending strike-slip fault systems, was probably formed by the assemblage of several obliquely aligned blocks. The intensive magmatism and hydrothermal activity between the blocks induced large-scale mineralisation. It provides a new angle of view for understanding the cratonic destruction and large ore-concentration formed during the Mesozoic.     

Polyphase accretionary tectonics in the Jurassic to Cretaceous accretionary belts of central Japan

Abstract Mesozoic accretionary complexes of the southern Chichibu and the northern Shimanto Belts, widely exposed in the Kanto Mountains, consist of 15 tectonostratigraphic units according to radiolarian biochronologic data. The units show a zonal arrangement of imbricate structure and the age of the terrigenous clastics of each unit indicates successive and systematic southwestward younging. Although rocks in these complexes range in age from Carboniferous to Cretaceous, the trench-fill deposits corresponding to the Hauterivian, the Aptian to Middle Albian and the Turonian are missing. A close relationship between the missing accretionary complexes and the development of strike-slip basins is recognizable. The tectonic nature of the continental margin might have resulted from a change from a convergent into a transform or oblique-slip condition, so that strike-slip basins were formed along the mobile zones on the ancient accretionary complexes. Most terrigenous materials were probably trapped by the strike-slip basins. Then, the accretion of the clastic rock sequence occurred, probably as a result of the small supply of terrigenous materials in the trench. However, in the case of right-angle subduction, terrigenous materials might have been transported to the trench through submarine canyons and deposited there. Thus, the accretionary complexes grew rapidly and thickened. Changes both in oceanic plate motion and in the fluctuation of terrigenous supply due to the sedimentary trap caused pulses of accretionary complex growth during Jurassic and Cretaceous times. In the Kanto Mountains, three tectonic phases are recognized, reflecting the changes of the consuming direction of the oceanic plates along the eastern margin of the Asian continent. These are the Early Jurassic to early Early Cretaceous right-angle subduction of the Izanagi Plate, the Early to early Late Cretaceous strike-slip movement of the Izanagi and Kula Plates, and the late Late Cretaceous right-angle subduction of the Kula Plate.