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大多数地堑和半地堑是由深度近水平的拆离正断层控制的。根据面积平衡原理,这些伸展断陷盆地岩层的区域基准面至拆离断层面高度（h）与其损失面积（S）呈线性比例。拆离断层之上的盆地基底岩层的水平伸展量相同,因此,用“S－h图解法”可以确定拆离断层深度,并能在此基础上计算出岩层的总水平伸展量。伸展盆地中的总水平伸展量主要是由不同尺度的正断层的水平离距体现出来的。可观测解释的断层的水平位移可以通过测量盆地宽度、岩层长度等直接得到。用剖面面积平衡方法可计算出盆地各岩层的平行岩层面的应变,其中相当部分是由在观测尺度上不能直接解释出来的“亚分辨正断层”的小尺度位移造成的。因此,在分析伸展断陷盆地的构造样式、岩层力学性质基础上,有可能对计算得到的平行岩层的伸展应变进行合理评估,进而可以定量地预测“亚分辨正断层”的密度和可能的分布部位。  相似文献   

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依舒地堑汤原、方正断陷古近纪边界断裂活动特征   总被引：7，自引：4，他引：3  
依舒地堑位于黑龙江省东部,为一新生代断陷盆地,汤原断陷和方正断陷为其两个面积较大的二级构造单元。通过对汤原断陷和方正断陷边界断裂的研究,可以进一步了解依舒断裂带的形成和演化过程。研究发现,在始新世-渐新世依舒地堑边界断裂的活动整体上具有多中心、不均衡的特征,汤原断陷东部的边界断裂为控盆断裂,方正断陷东、西两侧的边界断裂对盆地的发展都具有一定的控制作用,但西部边界断裂为主要控盆断裂。断层的生长指数分析表明,依舒地堑内部的北西向断裂与边界断裂的活动具有一致的规律性,都起到协调边界断裂演化发展的作用。依舒地堑边界断裂转换引张方向是由莫霍面梯度带的倾斜方向所决定,梯度带的倾向与地堑的整体伸展方向相同。  相似文献   

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A complex graben southeast of Houston, Texas, extends eastwest across the Friendswood-Webster oil field and Interstate Highway 45, through Ellington Air Force Base (EAFB), northeastward through a new residential subdivision, into the Clear Lake oil field, and on to LaPorte, Texas. Some of the faults in this graben system are known to have been active for decades and are represented by scarps several meters high in the deltaic deposits of the Pleistocene Beaumont formation. In the protected environment under two of the buildings at EAFB, one of the faults in this graben occurs as a sinuous fissure 8 to 10 cm wide that is open to a depth of about 35 cm. Another fault system appears to control the shoreline configuration of Clear Lake and the courses of streams tributary to the lake. Rapid urbanization of the surrounding area began in 1962 and damage to buildings and pavements along certain faults in this system became evident about 1970. Although some of the faults are associated with tectonic movements and the production of oil and gas, many of the faults appears to be related to extensive ground-water withdrawal and the consequent dewatering and compaction of the sands and clays in the aquifer.  相似文献   

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Based on high-resolution remote sensing image interpretation, digital elevation model 3-D analysis, field geologic field investigation, trenching engineering, and ground-penetrating radar, synthetic research on the evolution of the Yuguang Basin South Margin Fault (YBSMF) in northwest Beijing was carried out. We found that the propagation and growth of faults most often occurred often at two locations: the fault overlapping zone and the uneven or rough fault segment. Through detailed observation and analysis of all cropouts of faults along the YBSMF from zone a to zone i, we identified three major factors that dominate or affect fault propagation and growth. First, the irregularity of fault geometry determine the propagation and growth of the fault, and therefore, the faults always propagate and grow at such irregular fault segments. The fault finally cuts off and eliminates its irregularity, making the fault geometry and fault plane smoother than before, which contributes to the slipping movement of the half-graben block in the basin. Second, the scale of the irregularity of the fault geometry affects the result of fault propagation and growth, that is, the degree of the cutting off of fault irregularity. The degree of cutting off decreases as irregularity scale increases. Third, the maximum possible slip displacement of the fault segment influences the duration of fault propagation and growth. The duration at the central segments with a large slip displacement is longer than that at the end segments with a smaller slippage value.  相似文献   

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A 10-station portable seismograph network was deployed in northern Greece to study aftershocks of the magnitude (mb) 6.4 earthquake of June 20, 1978. The main shock occurred (in a graben) about 25 km northeast of the city of Thessaloniki and caused an east-west zone of surface rupturing 14 km long that splayed to 7 km wide at the west end. The hypocenters for 116 aftershocks in the magnitude range from 2.5 to 4.5 were determined. The epicenters for these events cover an area 30 km (east-west) by 18 km (north-south), and focal depths ranges from 4 to 12 km. Most of the aftershocks in the east half of the aftershock zone are north of the surface rupture and north of the graben. Those in the west half are located within the boundaries of the graben. Composite focalmechanism solutions for selected aftershocks indicate reactivation of geologically mapped normal faults in the area. Also, strike-slip and dip-slip faults that splay off the western end of the zone of surface ruptures may have been activated.The epicenters for four large (M 4.8) foreshocks and the main shock were relocated using the method of joint epicenter determination. Collectively, those five epicenters form an arcuate pattern convex southward, that is north of and 5 km distant from the surface rupturing. The 5-km separation, along with a focal depth of 8 km (average aftershock depth) or 16 km (NEIS main-shock depth), implies that the fault plane dips northward 58° or 73°, respectively. A preferred nodal-plane dip of 36° was determined by B.C. Papazachos and his colleagues in 1979 from a focal-mechanism solution for the main shock. If this dip is valid for the causal fault and that fault projects to the zone of surface rupturing, a decrease of dip with depth is required.  相似文献   

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In 1973 detailed seismic crustal studies were performed across the prominent fault zone between the Hercynian fold systems of the Rhenish Slate Mountains (western part of Rhenoherzynikum) and the Saar-Nahe trough. Reflection data show a zone of strongly dipping reflectors, separated from another area with nearly horizontal layering. Data from refraction stations confirm the picture of a fault zone cutting two old crustal blocks down to the Moho. A similar but smaller survey was performed in 1975 across the western Rhine graben fault near Landau. This fault is tensionsal and could not be observed with the same certainty and up to the same depth range as the former one. Apparently, its dip near the surface is smaller than anticipated and may even assume still smaller values at intermediate crustal depths. Moreover, high temperatures in this area tend to limit the maximum depth of the fault zone, in accordance with the concept of a direct relationship between the depths of seismicity along faults and the temperature—viscosity regime. The area between the two reflection surveys was studied by refraction observations, making use of the shots of the reflection work. In general, the reflection investigations are well able to reveal the geometry and the maximum depth of fault zones and show many structural details, while the supplementing refraction work determines the overall velocity depth relation and may follow important horizons.  相似文献   

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Extensional basins include mainly grabens and half grabens displaced along a lower detachment. Based on area balance theory, there is a linear relationship between a height of regional and the lower detachment h on the outside of the basin and “lost area S“ from the regional in the basin. The pre-growth beds above lower detachment are of the same extensional displacement so that an “S-h diagram“ can be used to determine the depth to lower detachment and to calculate the total extensional displacement of the beds above the lower detachment. The extensional displacement is dominated by the heave of various scale normal faults. The displacement of obvious faults can be immediately figured out from the measured bed-length. The requisite extension calculated by area balance is the layer-parallel strain, which could be accommodated by displacement on sub-resolution faults. Accordingly, the layer-parallel strain can help us predict the magnitude and distribution of sub-resolution faults on the basis of analysis of the structural style and rheological behavior.  相似文献   

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《Geodinamica Acta》2001,14(1-3):57-69
There is a N–S lying narrow strip of Neogene outcrop between the towns of Kuşadası and Söke in western Anatolia. It contains remnants of successive Neogene graben basins. The first graben began to form under the control of a N40–70°E-trending oblique fault system during the Early Miocene. At the initial phase of the opening coarse clastic rocks were deposited in front of the fault-elevated blocks as scree deposits and fanglomerates. Later the graben advanced into a large lake basin. Towards the end of the Middle Miocene the lacustrine sediments of the Early–Middle Miocene age underwent an approximately N–S compressional deformation and elevated above the lake level, and were partly eroded. During the Late Miocene a new graben basin began to form as a consequence of the development of E–W-trending normal faults, formed under the N–S extensional regime. This graben also turned later into a lake environment. The lake extended far beyond the limits of the fault zones, and covered the entire regions stretching from the south of Bafa Lake in the south to Kuşadası and beyond in the north. Micritic clayey limestones were predominantly deposited in the lake. A severe erosional phase followed the termination of the lake basin. This corresponds to the cessation of the N–S extension. When the N–S extension regenerated during the Pliocene(?)–Pleistocene, the Büyük Menderes graben system began to form. In the western part of the graben, a conjugated pair of oblique faults, the Priene–Sazlı fault and the Kuşadası fault, have formed. The faults having important strike-slip components, bounded a tectonic wedge, which began to move westward into the Aegean Sea region. Major morphological features of the region were formed under the effective control of these fault zones.  相似文献   

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Propagation of brittle failure triggered by magma in Iceland   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  
Tatiana Tentler   《Tectonophysics》2005,406(1-2):17-38
The architectures of normal faults at a divergent plate boundary in Iceland are examined by combining surface fault observations with cross-sectional studies at different structural levels to constrain a model of failure propagation. The structures of Holocene faults defining graben are analyzed to characterize the upper-most parts of ruptures. The shapes of faults resulting from growth and interaction of separate segments are used to better understand failure propagation inferred to occur in the intervening stages of displacement accumulation and lateral propagation. Pleistocene faults in volcanic sequences exhumed from 800 to 1000 m are analyzed to characterize deeper portions of failure that occurred beneath the central rift zone. Tertiary dikes exhumed from depths of 1300–1500 m are studied to infer how magma controls the failure initiation. Field studies in combination with a literature review indicate that the planar ruptures are likely to initiate at depth as magma-filled vertical fractures and lengthen upward and laterally. As failures propagate to higher crustal levels, they are likely to change into inclined normal faults. At near-surface levels, faults link with cooling joints and dilational fractures propagating downward from the surface. It is suggested that the inferred stages of fault propagation are characteristic for normal faults developed at spreading ridges.  相似文献   

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Mount Ablah is a mining prospect, hosted by a dioritic igneous body that is bound to the east by greenschist grade metamorphic rocks and to the west by Ablah group volcano–sedimentary rocks. Rock units of Mount Ablah area were remapped through field investigations, petrological studies, and analysis of enhanced TM Landsat data. Ablah group rocks were divided into lower tuffaceous and upper epiclastic units. The epiclastic unit was divided into three subunits. During remapping, a sliver of serpentinite was discovered, which occurs between the dioritic igneous body and Ablah group rocks. The greenschist grade metamorphic rocks were intruded by Late Proterozoic quartz diorite prior to deposition of Ablah group rocks. The epiclastic unit is an infracambrian molassic unit that filled a graben, known as the Ablah graben. The Mount Ablah area was intruded by post-tectonic granitic rocks and affected by two superimposed F1-F2 folding events, associated with thrust and dextral faults, respectively. The first folding event involved N–S folding and thrusting. Simultaneously, stress partitioning at E–W accommodations zones produced E–W minor folds (F2) and associated E–W dextral faults. The F1–F2 folding events are contemporaneous with the Pan African deformation event, also known as the East African Orogeny (EAO). The EAO is infracambrian in age and culminated in development of the Najd sinistral fault system. The E–W dextral faults were probably reactivated during Cenozoic Red Sea rifting. The Ablah graben's infracambrian sedimentary rocks, such as siltstone, sandstone, and limestone that are mainly bound within the Ablah graben were not deformed prior to F1–F2 folding. Thus, the upper epiclastic unit of the Ablah group rocks is rheologically different from the surrounding greenschist rocks, responded to the late E–W compression in a more ductile manner than the surrounding greenschist rocks. Therefore, the Ablah graben was inverted, refolded, and crosscut by E–W dextral faults during the infracambrian EAO event, prior to development of Najd sinistral fault system, which are evident in Asir Terrane and crosscut Ablah graben.  相似文献   

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In southeastern Turkey, the NE-trending Antakya Graben forms an asymmetric depression filled by Pliocene marine siliciclastic sediment, Pleistocene to Recent fluvial terrace sediment, and alluvium. Along the Mediterranean coast of the graben, marine terrace deposits sit at different elevations ranging from 2 to 180 m above present sea level, with ages ranging from MIS 2 to 11. A multisegmented, dominantly sinistral fault lying along the graben may connect the Cyprus Arc in the west to the Amik Triple Junction on the Dead Sea Fault (DSF) in the east. Normal faults, which are younger than the sinistral ones, bound the graben’s southeastern margin. The westward escape of the continental ?skenderun Block, delimited by sinistral fault segments belonging to the DSF in the east and the Eastern Anatolian Fault in the north caused the development of a sinistral transtensional tectonic regime, which has opened the Antakya Graben since the Pliocene. In the later stages of this opening, normal faults developed along the southeastern margin that caused the graben to tilt to the southwest, leading to differential uplift of Mediterranean coastal terraces. Most of these normal faults remain active. In addition to these tectonic movements, Pleistocene sea level changes in the Mediterranean affected the geomorphological evolution of the area.  相似文献   

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《Geodinamica Acta》2003,16(2-6):131-147
Combining fieldwork and surface data, we have reconstructed the Cenozoic structural and tectonic evolution of the Northern Bresse. Analysis of drainage network geometry allowed to detect three major fault zones trending NE–SW, E–W and NW–SE, and smooth folds with NNE trending axes, all corroborated with shallow well data in the graben and fieldwork on edges. Cenozoic paleostress succession was determined through fault slip and calcite twin inversions, taking into account data of relative chronology. A N–S major compression, attributed to the Pyrenean orogenesis, has activated strike-slip faults trending NNE along the western edge and NE–SW in the graben. After a transitional minor E–W trending extension, the Oligocene WNW extension has structured the graben by a collapse along NNE to NE–SW normal faults. A local NNW extension closes this phase. The Alpine collision has led to an ENE compression at Early Miocene. The following WNW trending major compression has generated shallow deformation in Bresse, but no deformation along the western edge. The calculation of potential reactivation of pre-existing faults enables to propose a structural sketch map for this event, with a NE–SW trending transfer fault zone, inactivity of the NNE edge faults, and possibly large wavelength folding, which could explain the deposit agency and repartition of Miocene to Quaternary deformation.  相似文献   

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本文讨论了南阳凹陷东庄地区的构造特征,探讨了东庄地区同生断裂、背斜构造和地堑式断裂的形成机制。本区同生断裂的发育,与沉积中心逐渐南迁密切相关。欠压实泥岩中的孔隙水,矿物转化过程中析出的层间水和结晶水,在泥岩颗粒相对移动时起润滑作用,从而大大增加了泥岩的可塑性。在上覆地层压力下,泥岩沿着南部断超带基底断面发生塑流上拱,导致上覆地层形成背斜构造和地堑式断裂。  相似文献   

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In this paper, we investigate normal fault patterns produced by the sliding motion along a gently dipping normal fault by using analogue model tests and numerical modeling. The motivation for this study was offered by microseismic test data that indicate the existence of an active low-angle shear zone at a depth of 9–11 km in the extensional region of high seismic activity of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece). Both modeling techniques seem to support the hypothesis that the system of high-angle normal faults that are responsible for the final asymmetrical graben formation initiate at the tip of the active basal detachment nearest to the free surface. The normal faults propagate upwards with progressive sliding of the inclined basal plane, resulting in a first phase of symmetrical graben configuration that is delimited by a main synthetic fault and an antithetic fault forming a Rankine zone. Subsequent sliding on the inclined base induces a family of secondary antithetic normal faults, which are responsible for the asymmetry of the failure pattern and the diffusive character of deformation in that area. Shear deformation is more intense and localized along the synthetic normal fault than along the antithetic faults. Elaboration on the analogue test results has led to the phenomenological relations among four main parameters that describe the geometry of grabens, namely, (i) the width and (ii) the maximum subsidence of the graben, (iii) the dip angles of the conjugate normal faults, and (iv) the amount of sliding along the low-angle normal fault. However, analogue models do not produce the system of synthetic faults that is observed in the Gulf of Corinth. The effects of both friction angle variation along the detachment base and of the constitutive behavior of the model material on the configuration of the final structural pattern were also studied with a series of numerical continuum models. It was found that (a) the fault pattern of the Gulf of Corinth may be reproduced with either a strain-softening material with low elastic modulus or a constant strength material, and (b) two consecutive grabens, such as those of Gulfs of Corinth and Evia, may also be reproduced by an appropriate combination of variation of dip and frictional properties along the hypothesized detachment zone.  相似文献   

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福建省均口断陷位于崇安－石城断裂带中部,是武夷山加里东隆起区在燕山期的重要活动形式之一。本文论述了均口断陷带的变形、火山、岩浆、沉积作用地质特征,并划分出３４个燕山期的构造层。作者认为主要断层是区域扩张作用下形成的拆离断层,它们控制了各种地质作用,推测主断层为超壳断层。  相似文献   

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Two proposed mechanisms of rift initiation are crustal uplift alone and a combination of crustal uplift and regional horizontal extension. A three-dimensional, thick-plate, elastic analysis has been used to model the crustal stress state and the fault patterns associated with these mechanisms. Small ratios of uplift width to crustal thickness (<10) necessitate the thick-plate approach.For the crustal uplift model, the surface fault pattern is characterized by normal faults trending parallel to the major uplift axis at the uplift center and radial normal faults toward the ends of the major uplift axis. Zones of compressional structures (e.g., strikeslip and thrust faults) may develop at the periphery of the uplift. Superposition of regional horizontal tension with the stresses produced by crustal uplift eliminates the compressive stresses at the uplift periphery producing normal faults parallel to the major uplift axis at the uplift center and normal faults perpendicular to the major uplift axis at the uplift periphery.A comparison of these predicted fault patterns with the faults of the Rhine graben suggests that the combination of crustal uplift and regional horizontal extension contributed to the formation of that rift system. The stresses produced by crustal uplift promoted the formation of the central graben and the fan-shaped troughs toward the ends of the major uplift axes, while superposed regional horizontal tension eliminated the large compressive stresses at the uplift periphery promoting the normal faulting and dike intrusions observed on the Rhine graben flanks.  相似文献   

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Extension Model of Crustal Uplifting in Western Shandong   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
Block faults, as the -dominant tectonic framwork of western Shandong, were formed by the linked extensional fault system through two extensional movements during the Meso-Cenozoic. Both of the extensional movements experienced the same evloutional process: first, the upper crust was pulled apart to form faults; then the Tai-Lu-Yi (Taishan-Lushan-Yishan) fault block occurring in the footwall of the extensional fault was uplifted, which induced the shallow-level detachment movement along the early Precambrian and Palaeozoic unconformity; the " branching" fault in the upper part of the deep-level detachment layer propagated. As the shallow detachment moved towards the north and the deep one towards the south, the Tai-Lu-Yi fault block acted as the common footwall of both the southern and northern detachment systems. The Tai-Lu-Yi fault block rebounded and uplifted as the overlying material was pulled apart to cause an unloading. Sialic material of the mid-crust below the deep detachment flowed to and accum  相似文献   

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滇西地区夷平面变形及其反映的第四纪构造运动   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  
滇西地区广泛发育一级上新世夷平面。夷平面普遍受到两种变形,一种是大面积的掀斜变形,夷平面高度由西北向东南方向递减;另一种为断裂变形,夷平面呈地堑式下降或地垒式上升。 如果以夷平面为第四纪构造运动标志,那么,自上新世末朗以来,滇西地区垂直上升幅度为3500～400m;滇西几条活断层的垂直位移幅度分别是,剑川断裂1650～500m,怒江断裂1850m,腾冲 梁河盆地南北向、北东向断裂分别为850m和1300m。  相似文献   

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A high-quality 3D seismic volume from offshore Espírito Santo Basin (SE Brazil) is used to assess the importance of gravitational collapse to the formation of crestal faults above salt structures. A crestal fault system is imaged in detail using seismic attributes such as curvature and variance, which are later complemented by analyses of throw vs. distance (T-D) and throw vs. depth (T-Z). In the study area, crestal faults comprise closely spaced arrays and are bounded by large listric faults, herein called border faults. Two episodes of growth are identified in two opposite-dipping fault families separated by a transverse accommodation zone. Statistical analyses for eighty-four (84) faults show that fault spacing is < 250 m, with border faults showing the larger throw values. Fault throw varies between 8 ms and 80 ms two-way time for crestal faults, and 60–80 ms two-way time for border faults. Fault length varies between ∼410 m and 1750 m, with border faults ranging from 1250 m to 1750 m. This work shows that border faults accommodated most of the strain associated with salt growth and collapse. The growth history of crestal faults favours an isolated fault propagation model with fault segment linkage being associated with the lateral propagation of discrete fault segments. Importantly, two episodes of fault growth are identified as synchronous to two phases of seafloor erosion, rendering local unconformities as competent markers of fault reactivation at a local scale. This paper has crucial implications for the understanding of fault growth as a means to assess drilling risk and oil and gas migration on continental margins. As a corollary, this work demonstrates that: 1) a certain degree of spatial organisation occurs in crestal fault systems; 2) transverse accommodation zones can form regions in which fault propagation is enhanced and regional dips of faults change in 4D.  相似文献   

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渤海湾盆地黄骅坳陷新生代结构特征及构造动力学模式   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：6  
为了揭示黄骅坳陷新生代构造动力学机制, 本文运用油区构造解析理论, 对黄骅坳陷新生代盆地结构特征做了综合分析。结果表明黄骅坳陷的古近系可视为发育在沧东断层上盘的地堑—地垒构造系统。不同区段的盆地结构特征有显著的差异, 南区总体表现为两个地堑式断陷, 断陷结构与基底断裂产状的变化有关; 中区南部表现为由3条SE向倾斜的正断层控制的半地堑系, 向北变为地堑断陷结构; 北区盆地结构主要受NE向和NW向断层控制, 表现为半地堑或地堑断陷结构。在黄骅坳陷新生代盆地结构特征分析的基础上, 进一步讨论盆地结构演化过程和动力机制之间的关系, 提出了黄骅坳陷新生代构造动力学模式。  相似文献   

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