龙门山中段后山断裂带晚第四纪运动特征

本文通过对龙门山断裂带中段后山断裂带主要断裂的研究,认识到从茂汶断裂往西北到挂思岭断裂,断裂最新活动时代有逐渐变老的趋势,反映了龙门山后山断裂在晚新生代同样具有前展式(背驮式)逆冲推覆特征,主断裂茂汶断裂的最新活动时代为晚更新世晚期;后山断裂带除逆冲挤压构造变形外,还存在拉张变形,这为研究青藏高原的运动学及动力学等问题提供了重要信息.

Late Quaternary kinematic characteristic of the back range faults at the Middle Longmenshan fault zone

The Longmenshan fault zone is a huge multiple thrust fault at the middle on the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.It consists of a lot of thrust faults and nappes.It is the boundary between the very active Qinghai-Tibet block and inactive Sichuan block.The latest activity of the fault zone has been attracting much attention of many scientists at home and abroad.The Longmenshan fault zone consists of the back range,the central and the front range faults,which differ from each other in size and activity.Meanwhile,the activity of the whole fault zone is characterized by segmentation.In this study,we made a detailed field investigation on the back range faults at the middle segment of the fault and collected many samples from the strata covering the fault or from fault zone materials for TL and ESR dating.According to the observation of the back range faults at the middle Longmenshan fault zone and dating results,it can be concluded that the back range faults have the tendency to age from the Maowen fault to the Guasiling fault,that is from eastsouthern fault to westnorthern fault.It shows that the back range faults also have an advancing thrust characteristic during late Cenozoic.The main fault,that is the Maowen fault,has been active since late Pleistocene.However,there also is extensional deformation besides thrust deformatiom at the back range faults.This may provide important information for the study of the kinematics and geodynamics of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.