燕山中晚期的中国东部高原:埃达克岩的启示

中国东部燕山期岩浆岩广泛发育,其中有一类具埃达克岩的特征,并根据埃达克岩的成因提出中国东部在燕山中晚期可能为一个高原。本文就中国东部高原的范围、高原存在的依据、高原隆升和减薄的机制进行了讨论,指出中国东部高原大规模的抬升事件大约发生在中-晚侏罗世期间,在早白垩世之后塌陷。高原的隆升与板块消减作用无关,是陆内事件的产物。高原的塌陷是下地壳拆沉作用的结果。拆沉作用不仅可以解释高原的减薄,而且可以解释新生代玄武岩喷发和中国东部盆地的形成。     

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987110000393

Wide-open V-shaped conjugate strike-slip faults in Asia are typically related to extrusion tectonics. However, the tectonic model based on the slip-line theory of plasticity has some critical problems associated with it. The conjugate sets of slip-lines in plane deformation, according to the theory of plasticity should be normal to each another but, in reality, the angles between the conjugate strike-slip faults, which are regarded as slip-lines in extrusion tectonics in the eastern Mediterranean, Tibet-middle Asia, China and the Indochina Peninsular regions, are always more than 90° (on average 110°) in the direction of contraction. Another problem is that the slip-line theory fails to explain how, in some cases, e.g., in the Anatolian area in the eastern Mediterranean, the extrusion rate is much higher than the indent rate. The two major problems are easy to solve in terms of the Maximum-Effective-Moment (MEM) Criterion that predicts that orientations of the shear zones are theoretically at an angle of 54.7° and practically at angles of 55°±10° with the σ1- or contractional direction. The orientations of the strike-slip faults that accommodate extrusion tectonics are, therefore, fundamentally controlled by the MEM Criterion. When extrusion is along the MEM-orientations, the extruding rate is normally higher than the indenting rate.     

青藏高原大地构造演化——主要构造-热事件的制约及其成因探讨

尽管青藏高原具有至少5 000万年漫长的演化历史,但是我们对它的认识多是基于一些持续时间很短的构造、沉积、热和气候等事件。在前人的研究基础上,本文对发生在高原内的主要构造-热事件进行梳理,并在时空上进行对比,试图确定相对合理的动力学控制因素。在新生代早期(～50 Ma)和中新世中晚期(～10 Ma),印度板块运动速率发生两次大幅度衰减,前一事件被认为与印度与欧亚大陆碰撞有关,后一事件被认为与高原向外扩展有关,成因是高原的底部岩石圈的剥离和由此引发的均衡反弹。除此以外,在高原内还发生过两次事件,虽然它们没有反应在印度板块运动速率的变化,但是留下的痕迹遍布高原。一次是高原内部区域性挤压缩短的停止,平坦的高原面得以发育,另一次是高原周边山脉的隆升,这两次事件都发生在新生代中期(～25 Ma)。这两次构造事件呈现的"此消彼长"关系反映出高原向外的扩展,成因是否是高原岩石圈底部的剥离还是个未知数。由此可以得出结论,即:中央高原现今的构造与地貌格架定型于早期事件(～25 Ma),而高原周边造山带现今的构造和地貌格架定型于晚期事件(～10 Ma)。即使是新生代中期的扩展事件,在时间上也远远滞后于印度与欧亚大陆的碰撞时间,青藏高原新生代早期(50～35 Ma)在很大程度上仍是一段哑历史,该时期到底发生了什么？这是一个值得探索的科学问题。     

青藏高原东南缘玉龙雪山(5596m)晚新生代隆升的侵蚀与构造控制作用

玉龙雪山位于青藏高原东南缘,它以其独特的地貌特征而引人关注。其顶部为一古残留面,在30×20km²范围内海拔>5000m的山峰达18座,高出其周围地区平均海拔近1000m。在分析该区地质地貌特征基础上,我们根据岩石圈弹性挠曲地壳均衡理论,以较保守的残留面海拔4250m为当时金沙江下切玉龙雪山的基准面,结果表明:由于虎跳峡中大规模物质剥蚀而引起玉龙雪山地壳均衡反弹,导致山体隆升了468m,这完全是侵蚀作用对于玉龙雪山隆升的贡献。而玉龙雪山与周围地区的剩余地势高差,主要由正断层等构造作用造成。因此,玉龙雪山的隆升是侵蚀与构造作用共同控制的结果。该区最大量地壳均衡反弹的触发机制是5.0².5M a期间玉龙雪山东西两侧正断层的发生。另一方面,作为玉龙雪山的南东延伸部分——点苍山（4122m）在5.0².5M a同样也发生了构造伸展,但是没有遭受大规模的河流侵蚀作用,因此其海拔相对要低很多。这进一步说明地壳均衡反弹导致了玉龙雪山隆升,并加大了玉龙雪山与点苍山在原有基础上的地势高差。     

龙门山断裂带北段晚新近纪以来的右行走滑运动及其构造变换研究——以青川断裂为例

龙门山断裂带位于青藏高原东缘,构成了青藏高原和四川盆地的重要构造边界。近年来的研究表明:在新生代晚期,除了存在逆冲推覆之外,龙门山的中段和南段还发生了明显的右行走滑活动。对龙门山北段的青川断裂进行的系统研究发现:断裂具有明显的右行走滑特征,沿断裂发育大量不同规模的水系位错,其中嘉陵江水系位错规模最大,据此可确定青川断裂的最大位移量为17km。进一步的野外工作证实断裂的走滑位移在尾端发生构造变换,位于断裂南西端的轿子顶穹隆是叠加构造,吸收了青川断裂的部分位移量;位于断裂北东端的汉中盆地则是处于伸展应力环境下的断陷盆地,吸收了其大部分位移量。     

中中新世南祁连山的构造抬升——来自柴达木盆地大红沟剖面的沉积证据

山间盆地中的碎屑沉积是周围山脉隆升信息的记录载体。本文对柴达木盆地中北部大红沟剖面砂岩中的碎屑含量进行了详细的分析。结果显示在34～8.5 Ma大红沟剖面的物源区性质没有发生改变,均为前陆隆升物源（foreland uplift provenance）。但是,砂岩中的石英、长石、岩屑含量均呈现了两阶段的演化特征,在12 Ma发生了快速的大幅变化。这些现象与以前通过沉积学、沉积速率、磁化率等分析获得的结果是一致的。成因上,这可能与12 Ma大红沟剖面北部的柴北缘褶皱逆冲带的构造复活有关。     

滇中小江走滑剪切带晚新生代挤压变形研究

对滇中小江走滑剪切带中的挤压变形作用进行研究发现,尽管这些变形多发生于中元古界昆阳群浅变质岩中,其形成时代却可能是第三纪末和第四纪初,和小江断裂带的走滑运动有成因关系,并导致了走滑位移量的衰减。昆阳群的隆起可能主要是第四纪变形的结果。     

Late Cenozoic to recent transtensional deformation across the Southern part of the Gaoligong shear zone between the Indian plate and SE margin of the Tibetan plateau and its tectonic origin

Chuquicamata, in northern Chile, is one of the largest porphyry copper deposits in the world; the western side of its orebody is bounded by a major longitudinal fault, the West fault. We report paleomagnetic results from surface sites and drill cores from different geological units at Chuquicamata, especially within the late Eocene Fiesta granodiorite of the western block of the West fault. Characteristic remanent magnetizations (ChRM) were determined after detailed thermal or alternating field demagnetization. Soft components carried by multidomain magnetite crystals in the Fiesta granodiorite were removed by AF demagnetization at 10–20 mT. The ChRMs, not demagnetized by alternating fields up to 100 mT, have unblocking temperatures above 580 °C with ~ 75% of the magnetization removed in the temperature range of 580–590 °C. Optical and SEM mineralogical observations, and microprobe data indicate the occurrence of multidomain magnetite formed during a late magmatic stage of alteration coeval with strong oxidation of primary titanomagnetite and formation of ilmenite, hematite, pseudobrookite, and rutile. The characteristic directions have negative inclinations and declinations (330° to 230°); strongly deflected from the expected Eocene direction. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), with degree up to 1.4, is carried by multidomain magnetite. AMS ellipsoids have subvertical foliations with azimuth varying strongly from N280° to N20°. We show that both the ChRMs and the AMS fabrics record the same apparent relative rotations between sites. Although the AMS anisotropy is high, there is no evidence for a solid-state deformation and the apparent rotation of the magnetic fabric is interpreted to be the consequence of small-block rotation. The apparent large (> 100°) counterclockwise rotations of small blocks within the Fiesta granodiorite suggest a wide damaged zone related to sinistral displacement along the West fault. This interpretation is consistent with previous models indicating that the Fiesta granodiorite was sinistrally translated and brought in front of the early Oligocene porphyry copper deposit during the Oligocene–early Miocene. This study shows that paleomagnetic markers are useful for improving the quantification and understanding of small-scale deformation within plutons adjacent to major fault zones.