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广义"断层转折褶皱"的几何学正演数值模拟 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
提出了一个广义“断层转折褶皱”的几何学数值模拟方法,并用C＋＋语言编制了相应的数值模拟软件。该软件能模拟非常复杂的褶皱冲断系统,包括多转折“剪切断层转折褶皱”（multi-bend shear fault-bend folds）、复合楔体构造（composite wedge structures）、以及多滑脱层褶皱冲断系统（multi-detachment fold and thrust systems）。通过把一个沉积岩层分解成“膝折带”（kink-band）和“膝折楔”（kink-wedge）两部分,解决了模拟曲线形态的多转折断层转折褶皱的难点问题,而以往的几何学方法仅对真实的褶皱形态作了粗略的线性近似。通过把复杂的褶皱冲断系统分解成一系列迭加的滑脱层系,可以模拟复杂的楔体构造,并提供这些构造演化的二维动画。该软件被应用于美国加里福尼亚州的Wheeler山脊,一个活动的楔体构造,其构造解释得自于大量钻井数据,正演数值模拟再现了该构造的主要特征。 相似文献
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Flexural slip folds are distinctive of mixed continuous-discontinuous deformation in the upper crust, as folding is accommodated by continuous bending of layers and localized, discontinuous slip along layer interfaces. The mechanism of localized, layer-parallel slip and the stress and fluid pressure conditions at which flexural slip occurs are therefore distinctive of shear localization during distributed deformation. In the Prince Albert Formation mudstone sequence of the Karoo Basin, the foreland basin to the Cape Fold Belt, folds are well developed and associated with incrementally developed bedding-parallel quartz veins with slickenfibers oriented perpendicular to fold hinge lines, locally cross-cutting axial planar cleavage, and showing hanging wall motion toward the fold hinge. Bedding-parallel slickenfiber-coated veins dip at angles from 18° to 83°, implying that late increments of bedding-parallel shear occurred along unfavorably oriented planes. The local presence of tensile veins, in mutually cross-cutting relationship with bedding-parallel, slickenfiber-coated veins, indicate local fluid pressures in excess of the least compressive stress.Slickenfiber vein microstructures include a range of quartz morphologies, dominantly blocky to elongate-blocky, but in places euhedral to subhedral; the veins are commonly laminated, with layers of quartz separated by bedding-parallel slip surfaces characterized by a quartz-phyllosilicate cataclasite. Crack-seal bands imply incremental slickenfiber growth, in increments from tens of micrometers to a few millimeters, in some places, whereas other vein layers lack evidence for incremental growth and likely formed in single slip events. Single slip events, however, also involved quartz growth into open space, and are inferred to have formed by stick-slip faulting. Overall, therefore, flexural slip in this location involved bedding-parallel faulting, along progressively misoriented weak planes, with a range of slip increments. 相似文献
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Transpressional deformation has played an important role in the late Paleozoic evolution of the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), and understanding the structural evolution of such transpressional zones is crucial for tectonic reconstructions. Here we focus on the transpressional Irtysh Shear Zone with an aim at understanding amalgamation processes between the Chinese Altai and the West/East Junggar. We mapped macroscopic fold structures in the southern Chinese Altai and analyzed their relationships with the development of the adjacent Irtysh Shear Zone. Structural observations from these macroscopic folds show evidence for four generations of folding and associated fabrics. The earlier fabric (S1), is locally recognized in low strain areas, and is commonly isoclinally folded by F2 folds that have an axial plane orientation parallel to the dominant fabric (S2). S2 is associated with a shallowly plunging stretching lineation (L2), and defines ∼NW-SE tight-close upright macroscopic folds (F3) with the doubly plunging geometry. F3 folds are superimposed by ∼NNW-SSE gentle F4 folds. The F3 and F4 folds are kinematically compatible with sinistral transpressional deformation along the Irtysh Shear Zone and may represent strain partitioning during deformation. The sub-parallelism of F3 fold axis with the Irtysh Shear Zone may have resulted from strain partitioning associated with simple shear deformation along narrow mylonite zones and pure shear-dominant deformation (F3) in fold zones. The strain partitioning may have become less efficient in the later stage of transpressional deformation, so that a fraction of transcurrent components was partitioned into F4 folds. 相似文献
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Transpressional deformation has played an important role in the late Neoproterozoic evolution of the ArabianNubian Shield including the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Ghadir Shear Belt is a 35 km-long, NW-oriented brittleductile shear zone that underwent overall sinistral transpression during the Late Neoproterozoic. Within this shear belt, strain is highly partitioned into shortening, oblique, extensional and strike-slip structures at multiple scales. Moreover, strain partitioning is heterogeneous along-strike giving rise to three distinct structural domains. In the East Ghadir and Ambaut shear belts, the strain is pure-shear dominated whereas the narrow sectors parallel to the shear walls in the West Ghadir Shear Zone are simple-shear dominated. These domains are comparable to splay-dominated and thrust-dominated strike-slip shear zones. The kinematic transition along the Ghadir shear belt is consistent with separate strike-slip and thrustsense shear zones. The earlier fabric(S1), is locally recognized in low strain areas and SW-ward thrusts. S2 is associated with a shallowly plunging stretching lineation(L2), and defines ～NW-SE major upright macroscopic folds in the East Ghadir shear belt. F2 folds are superimposed by ～NNW–SSE tight-minor and major F3 folds that are kinematically compatible with sinistral transpressional deformation along the West Ghadir Shear Zone and may represent strain partitioning during deformation. F2 and F3 folds are superimposed by ENE–WSW gentle F4 folds in the Ambaut shear belt. The sub-parallelism of F3 and F4 fold axes with the shear zones may have resulted from strain partitioning associated with simple shear deformation along narrow mylonite zones and pure shear-dominant deformation in fold zones. Dextral ENEstriking shear zones were subsequently active at ca. 595 Ma, coeval with sinistral shearing along NW-to NNW-striking shear zones. The occurrence of upright folds and folds with vertical axes suggests that transpression plays a significant role in the tectonic evolution of the Ghadir shear belt. Oblique convergence may have been provoked by the buckling of the Hafafit gneiss-cored domes and relative rotations between its segments. Upright folds, fold with vertical axes and sinistral strike-slip shear zones developed in response to strain partitioning. The West Ghadir Shear Zone contains thrusts and strikeslip shear zones that resulted from lateral escape tectonics associated with lateral imbrication and transpression in response to oblique squeezing of the Arabian-Nubian Shield during agglutination of East and West Gondwana. 相似文献
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This paper describes how a model of fixed-hinge, basement-involved, fault-propagation folds may be adapted to apply to thin-skinned thrust faults to generate footwall synclines. Fixed-hinge, fault-propagation folding assumes that the fold-axial surfaces diverge upwards, fold hinges are fixed in the rock, the fault propagated through the forelimb, thickness changes occur in the forelimb and the forelimb progressively rotates with increasing displacement on the underlying fault. The original model for fixed-hinge, fault-propagation folds was developed for the case of a planar fault in basement with a tip line that was at the interface between basement and the overlying sedimentary cover rocks. The two geometries applicable to thin-skinned thrusts are for the cases where a fixed-hinge fault-propagation fold develops above an initial bedding-parallel detachment, and an initial fault ramp of constant dip which flattens down-dip into a bedding-parallel detachment. 相似文献
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Minor folds formed synchronous with ductile deformation in high strain zones can preserve a record of the scale and kinematics of heterogeneous flow. Using structures associated with WNW-directed Caledonian thrusting in N Scotland, we show that localised perturbations in flow resulted in the generation of predominantly cylindrical minor folds with hinges lying at low angles to the transport direction. These define a series of larger-scale fold culminations (reflecting ‘surging flow’) or depressions (reflecting ‘slackening flow’) that are bisected by transport-parallel culmination and depression surfaces. The fold patterns suggest a dominance of layer-normal differential shearing due to gradients in shear strain normal to transport. Culmination surfaces are marked by along-strike reversals in the polarity of structural facing and vergence of minor folds which, contrary to classic fold patterns, define reverse asymmetric relationships. Culmination surfaces separate folding in to clockwise (Z folds) and anticlockwise (S folds) domains relative to the transport lineation. The dip of fold axial planes systematically increases as their strike becomes sub-parallel to transport resulting in a 3D statistical fanning arrangement centred about the transport direction. Thus, mean S- and Z-fold axial planes intersect precisely parallel to the transport lineation and potentially provide a means of determining transport directions in cases where lineations are poorly preserved. Culminations display convergent fold patterns with fold hinges becoming sub-parallel to transport towards the culmination surface and underlying detachment, whilst axial planes define overall concave up listric geometries which are bisected by the culmination surface. Thus, around culminations and depressions there are ordered, scale-independent relationships between transport direction, shear sense, fold facing, vergence and hinge/axial plane orientations. The techniques described here can be applied and used predictively within any kinematically coherent system of ductile flow. 相似文献
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The northern fold belt away from the Singhbhum Shear Zone displays a set of folds on bedding. The folds are sub-horizontal
with E-W to ESE striking steep axial surfaces. In contrast, the folds in the Singhbhum Shear Zone developed on a mylonitic
foliation and have a reclined geometry with northerly trending axes. There is a transitional zone between the two, where the
bedding and the cleavage have become parallel by isoclinal folding and two sets of reclined folds have developed by deforming
the bedding—parallel cleavage. Southward from the northern fold belt the intensity of deformation increases, the folds become
tightened and overturned towards the south while the fold hinges are rotated from the sub-horizontal position to a down-dip
attitude. Recognition of the transitional zone and the identification of the overlapping character of deformation in the shear
zone and the northern belt enable the formulation of a bulk kinematic model for the area as a whole. 相似文献
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渝东构造样式分析与成因解析 总被引：18，自引：8，他引：10
详细的构造分析与解析表明,渝东经历了晚元古代—古生代弱造山与稳定的克拉通盆地、中生代强造山与周缘前陆盆地、新生代造山后与残余盆地3个发育世代;现今构造格局与样式实为多期构造变形形迹的复合、联合与叠加。从总体上看,研究区纵向上可划分为3个构造层,其区域构造形态总体呈现前展式逆冲推覆薄皮构造样式,局部构造共见有7种变形样式。其中,下构造层主要发育双重构造与断弯褶皱;中构造层多发育断弯与断展褶皱;上构造层以形成滑脱、断展与突破构造为主;形成时代大致经历了晚燕山、早喜马拉雅、晚喜马拉雅三期;总体体现西冲的NE向逆冲构造体系形成期最早、东南方向逆冲的NEE向冲褶系形成期其次、东冲的NNE—近SN向逆冲褶皱系形成期最晚。研究区北部构造形成早于中南部,北端NWW—EW向逆冲褶皱系干扰、限制着中北部NE—NEE向逆冲推覆系向北延伸,中部发育的转换(调节)带区段具有比较明显的调节作用。 相似文献
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The progressive deformation of the Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) involved the initiation of a mylonitic foliation, its deformation
by three generations of reclined folds and superposition of two later groups of folds, i.e., a group of asymmetric folds with
subhorizontal or gently plunging axes and a group of gentle and open, transverse and more or less upright folds. The occurrence
of sheath folds and U-shaped deformed lineations indicate that the reclined folds were produced by rotation of fold hinges
through large angles. The total displacement along the SSZ was compounded of displacements along numerous mesoscopic shear
zones. The cleavages in the shear lenses and the mesoscopic shear zones cannot be distinguished as C and S surfaces. They
have the same kinematic significance and were produced by ductile deformation, although there were localized discontinuous
displacements along both sets,-of cleavages. A mylonitic foliation had formed before the development of the earliest recognizable
folds. Its time of formation and folding could be synchronous, diachronous or partly overlapping in time in the different
domains of the SSZ. 相似文献
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Philip Berger 《Journal of Structural Geology》1984,6(3):235-246
The Ramshorn Peak area of the Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt lies in the toe of the Prospect thrust sheet along the eastern margin of the exposed part of the thrust belt. The terrain is folded with axes trending N-S and wavelengths ranging from 3 to 4.3 km. Thrusts occur exclusively along the eastern part of the map area where the toe of the Prospect thrust sheet is thinnest. The easternmost thrusts are backthrusts.Monoclinally folded rocks are thrust on less deformed rocks south of Ramshorn Peak. This fold and fault complex is interpreted to have formed by thrusting over a large oblique and small forward step. The oblique step is responsible for the formation of the monocline in the hanging wall of the thrust. All faults and associated folds are rotated by subsequent buckle folding.Second- and third-order folds (folds at the scale of the Ramshorn Peak fold and fault complex and smaller) appear to be isolated features associated with faults (fault-related folds rather than buckle folds) because they are not distributed throughout the map area. These folds were probably initiated by translation and adhesive drag. The early folding was terminated by large translation over a stepped thrust surface which caused additional folding as the hanging wall rocks conformed to the irregular shape of the footwall. The Rich model is utilized to explain the Ramshorn Peak complex because the fold is of monoclinal form and is an isolated feature rather than part of a buckle fold wave-train. 相似文献
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One of the rules of thumb of structural geology is that drag folds, or minor asymmetric folds, reflect the sense of layer-parallel shear during folding of an area. According to this rule, right-lateral, layer-parallel shear is accompanied by clockwise rotation of marker surfaces and left-lateral by counterclockwise rotation. By using this rule of thumb, one is supposed to be able to examine small asymmetric folds in an outcrop and to infer the direction of axes of major folds relative to the position of the outcrop. Such inferences, however, can be misleading. Theoretical and experimental analyses of elastic multilayers show that symmetric sinusoidal folds first develop in the multilayers, if the rheological and dimensional properties favor the development of sinusoidal folds rather than kink folds, and that the folded layers will then behave much as passive markers during layerparallel shear and thus will follow the rule of thumb of drag folding. The analyses indicate, however, that multilayers whose properties favor the development of kink folds can produce monoclinal kink folds with a sense of asymmetry opposite to that predicted by the rule of thumb. Therefore, the asymmetry of folds can be an ambiguous indicator of the sense of shear.The reason for the ambiguity is that asymmetry is a result of two processes that can produce diametrically opposed results. The deformation of foliation surfaces and axial planes in a passive manner is the pure or end-member form of one process. The result of the passive deformation of fold forms is the drag fold in which the steepness of limbs and the tilt of axial planes relative to nonfolded layering are in accord with the rule of thumb.The end-member form of a second process, however, produces the opposite geometric relationships. This process involves yielding and buckling instabilities of layers with contact strength and can result in monoclinal kink bands. Right-lateral, layer-parallel shear stress produces left-lateral monoclinal kink bands and left-lateral shear stress produces right-lateral monoclinal kink bands. Actual folds do not behave as either of these ideal end members, and it is for this reason that the interpretation of the sense of layer-parallel shear stress relative to the asymmetry of folds can be ambiguous.Kink folding of a multilayer with contact strength theoretically is a result of both buckling and yielding instabilities. The theory indicates that inclination of the direction of maximum compression to layering favors either left-lateral or right-lateral kinking, and that one can predict conditions under which monoclinal kink bands will develop in elastic or elastic—plastic layers. Further, the first criterion of kink and sinusoidal folding developed in Part IV remains valid if we replace the contact shear strength with the difference between the shear strength and the initial layer-parallel shear stress.Kink folds theoretically can initiate only in layers inclined at angles less than
to the direction of maximum compression. Here φ is the angle of internal friction of contacts. For higher angles of layering, slippage is stable so that the result is layer-parallel slippage rather than kink folding.The theory also provides estimates of locking angles of kink bands relative to the direction of maximum compression. The maximum locking angle between layering in a nondilating kink band and the direction of maximum compression is
. The theory indicates that the inclination of the boundaries of kink bands is determined by many factors, including the contact strength between layers, the ratio of principal stresses, the thickening or thinning of layers, that is, the dilitation, within the kink band, and the orientation of the principal stresses relative to layering. If there is no dilitation within the kink band, the minimum inclination of the boundaries of the band is
to the direction of maximum compression, or
to the direction of nonfolded layers. Here α is the angle between the direction of maximum compression and the nonfolded layers. It is positive if clockwise.Analysis of processes in terminal regions of propagating kink bands in multilayers with frictional contact strength indicates that an essential process is dilitation, which decreases the normal stress, thereby allowing slippage and buckling even though slopes of layers are low there. 相似文献
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《Journal of Structural Geology》1987,9(3):375-379
Thrust sheet movement over ramps requires energy because of the frictional resistance and deformation within the fault zone, fault-bend folding at the base and top of the ramp, and changes in the gravitational potential energy because of uplift. To model the energy usage, a kinematic model of a foreland thrust sheet is constructed assuming: (1) the ramp is planar and the flats are parallel to bedding; (2) the fault-bend folds are concentric; (3) thickness is preserved for beds that enter the folds parallel to the basal thrust fault and (4) cross-sectional area is preserved for rocks deformed by folding. Equations for the work done within the fault zone, and during uplift and fault-bend folding are derived by combining the kinematic model with stresses that increase in proportion to depth. The relative amounts of energy consumed by friction along the fault, uplift and fault-bend folding are estimated to be 2.7:1.0.25 for a ramp angle of 30°. The energy balance for the movement of large thrust sheets thus depends principally upon friction in the fault zone and changes in the gravitational energy. 相似文献
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玛东褶皱-冲断带是世界上保存最好的早古生代褶皱冲断带之一,也是塔里木油气勘探的重点区域之一。褶皱-冲
断带浅部构造由于遭受强烈剥蚀,为玛东褶皱-冲断带的构造样式和变形机制研究带来巨大的挑战。断层相关褶皱理论定
量化建立了断层形态和褶皱形态几何学和运动学的关系,是一种有效的利用断层形态来推测褶皱形态的方法,为恢复玛东
地区被剥蚀区域的构造形态提供了可能。文中详细介绍了断层转折褶皱和断层传播褶皱的几何学和运动学特征,并将其应
用于玛东地区的典型构造中,建立2 种玛东地区构造变形模式。最后结合工业地震剖面和钻井资料,认为玛东地区的主要
构造样式是断层转折褶皱, 并分析了构造样式对油气圈闭的影响。 相似文献
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玉东-玛东构造带位于塔里木盆地,是在中寒武统膏盐层上滑脱的大规模褶皱冲断带,内部发育多种断层相关褶皱。目前对此构造带的研究,多关注了构造带的局部以及断裂变形。本文根据断层相关褶皱理论,利用地震资料,分析了玉东-玛东构造带内构造样式上的差异性,并通过二维构造正演模拟,建立了典型构造样式的运动学模式。认为研究区内玉东、玛东、塘北3个分区,具有不同的构造样式。玉东地区主要发育和铲式逆断层相关的断弯褶皱,玛东、塘北地区则发育断层突破的滑脱褶皱,突破断层在玛东地区为铲式断裂,而在塘北地区为坪-坡-坪式断裂。根据上奥陶统变形特征及其顶面不整合面之上的地层年代,认为玉东-玛东构造带的变形始于晚奥陶世,主要断裂及其相关褶皱形成于晚奥陶世末期。玉东地区在晚奥陶世早期,形成基底-盖层的低幅褶皱,在晚奥陶世末,形成铲式断裂及断弯褶皱;玛东和塘北地区变形发生在上奥陶统沉积之后,经历了滑脱褶皱和断层突破阶段。通过对比分析认为,断层相关褶皱样式的差异,与膏盐层岩性、厚度,上奥陶统岩性、厚度及构造转换作用有关。本研究有助于完善对塔里木盆地早古生代末期构造变形及演化的认识。 相似文献
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库车再生前陆盆地冲断构造楔特征 总被引：60，自引：4，他引：56
库车再生前陆盆地冲断构造楔由一系列向南运动的逆冲断层和相关褶皱组成。冲断楔的北部以断层转折褶皱、断层传播褶皱、双重逆冲构造为主。断层楔的前缘发育了很好的滑脱膝折背斜,全为盲断层控制,形成隐蔽式前锋。冲断层的就位从中新世开始,自北向南迁移,前锋的构造形成在第四纪。造成逆冲断层的地壳水平缩短作用速度在中新世较慢,平均为0．355mm/a,上新世中期达0．82mm/a,而到上新世晚期和第四纪速度增大了约一个数量级,达到1．29－3mm/a。 相似文献
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断层相关褶皱的三维构造几何学分析:以川西三维地震工区为例 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
现有的断层相关褶皱理论均基于平衡剖面原理而建立的二维几何学模型。所谓的假三维模型则是通过一系列的二维剖面复合而成的,真正意义上的三维断层相关褶皱理论尚未确立,仍然处于探索阶段。本文采用Trishear 4.0和GoCad软件,分别构建一系列不同位移量的断层转折褶皱和三剪断层传播褶皱的二维正演剖面,将这些正演剖面按照一定的线性位移梯度平行排列,从而建立起断层转折褶皱和三剪断层传播褶皱的假三维理论模型并加以分析和讨论。进而选取川西南盆地中三维地震勘探所覆盖的邛西断层转折褶皱和盐井沟断层传播褶皱,作为真三维实际解释模型的两个实例。研究表明,邛西背斜是一个典型的剪切断层转折褶皱,盐井沟背斜是一个典型的三剪断层传播褶皱;断层相关褶皱的假三维理论模型与实际解释模型的对比分析,可以看出沿背斜走向的位移梯度是控制三维构造几何学特征的基本因素,然而自然界断层面几何学的复杂多变以及岩层力学性质的各向异性,是造成断层相关褶皱真三维理论模型难以建立的主要原因。 相似文献
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In fold-and-thrust belts rocks undergo deformation as fold geometries evolve. Deformation may be accommodated by brittle fracturing, which can vary depending on structural position. We use 2D forward modelling and 3D restorations to determine strain distributions throughout folds of the Achnashellach Culmination, Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland. Fracture data is taken from the Torridon Group; a thick, coarse grained fluviatile sandstone deposited during the Proterozoic. Modelling infers a correlation between strain and simple curvature; we use simple curvature to infer how structural position and strain control fracture attribute variations in a fold and thrust belt.In high curvature regions, such as forelimbs, fracture intensities are high and fractures are short and oriented parallel to fold hinges. In low curvature regions fractures have variable intensities and are longer. Fracture orientations in these regions are scattered and vary over short distances. These variations do not relate to strain; data suggests lithology may influence fracturing. The strain history of fold structures also influences fracturing; structures with longer deformation histories exhibit consistent fracture attributes due to moderate-high strain during folding, despite present day low curvature. This is in contrast to younger folds with similar curvatures but shorter deformation histories. We suggest in high strain regions fracturing is influenced by structural controls, whereas in low strain regions lithology becomes more important in influencing fracturing. 相似文献
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T. J. Fowler 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(3):451-468
Low grade metasediments and metavolcanics of the Hill End Synclinorial Zone within the Rockley district, NSW have experienced two phases of macroscopic folding (D1 and D2), both of which are post‐latest Silurian in age. No hiatus is evident between D1 and D2. D1 produced large Fi folds (λ/2 usually > 2 km) lacking mesoscopic elements and having variable axial trends. D2 was associated with the development of regional slaty cleavage (S2) and mesoscopic folds which are parasitic on plunging macroscopic F2 folds (λ/2=0.4–2 km). D2 strain is variable, being most intense in the north of the district where slaty cleavage and tight mesoscopic F2 folds are well developed, and weakest in the south where mesoscopic folds are absent or usually gentle and cleavage is often feebly developed even in mica‐rich rocks, which are stratigraphic equivalents to slates and schists in the north. The F1 fold mechanism may involve multiple folding, simultaneous folding in more than one direction, or complex buckling of layers of variable thickness. D1 and D2 are tentatively correlated with folding events elsewhere in the Hill End Synclinorial Zone. 相似文献
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Dhruba Mukhopadhyay Mohan C. Baral Ranjan K. Niyogi 《Journal of Earth System Science》1997,106(4):259-276
The banded iron-formation in the southeastern Bababudan Hills display a macroscopic synformal bend gently plunging towards
WNW. The bedding planes in smaller individual sectors show a cylindrical or conical pattern of folding. The dominant set of
minor folds has WNW-ESE trending axial planes and the axes plunge towards WNW at gentle to moderate angles, though there is
considerable variation in orientation of both axes and axial planes. A later set of sporadically observed folds has N-S trending
axial planes. The macroscopic synformal bend within the study area forms the southeastern corner of a horseshoe shaped regional
synformal fold closure which encompasses the entire Bababudan range.
The minor folds are buckle folds modified to a varying extent by flattening. In some examples the quartzose layers appear
to be more competent than the ferruginous layers; in others the reverse is true. The folds are frequently noncylindrical and
the axes show curvature with branching and en echelon patterns. Such patterns are interpreted to be the result of complex
linking of progressively growing folds whose initiation is controlled by the presence of original perturbations in the layers.
Domes and basins have at places developed as a result of shortening along two perpendicular directions in a constrictional
type of strain. Development of folds at different stages of progressive deformation has given rise to nonparallelism of fold
axes and axial planes. The axes and axial planes of smaller folds developed on the limbs of a larger fold are often oriented
oblique to those of the latter. Progressive deformation has caused rotation and bending of axial planes of earlier formed
folds by those developed at later stages of the same deformational episode. Coaxial recumbent to nearly reclined fold locally
encountered on the N-S limb of the macroscopic fold may belong to an earlier episode of deformation or to the early stage
of the main deformation episode.
The E-W to ESE-WNW strike of axial plane of the regional fold system in the Bababudan belt contrasts with the N-S to NNW-SSE
strike of axial planes of the main fold system in the Chitradurga and other schist belts of Karnataka. 相似文献
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D. J. Sanderson 《Journal of Structural Geology》1979,1(3):171-180
A transition from upright folds, at high structural levels, to recumbent folds at depth is described from the Variscan fold belt in southwest England. The folds tighten and cleavage intensifies progressively as the axial plane dip decreases. A simple shear model is developed in which the shortening of a multilayer and its folding produces initially upright open folds which tighten as they rotate during increasing shear strain. The model predicts the observed relationship between interlimb angle and axial plane dip and is used to discuss the development of the structure of north Cornwall. 相似文献