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阿拉善地块南缘地处青藏高原东北缘地壳扩展前锋带的北侧,对该地区活动断裂晚第四纪的运动性质、滑动速率等开展研究,有助于理解阿拉善地块的晚第四纪构造变形特征及其对青藏高原向N扩展的响应。文中结合遥感影像解译与野外地质地貌考察,对阿拉善地块南缘的北大山断裂进行了分段和活动性研究。结果表明,北大山断裂左旋走滑断错晚第四纪洪积扇和阶地等地貌,形成显著的位错阶地坎、冲沟以及断层陡坎。通过对断错地貌线等标志的测量、复原、统计分析等,发现断裂的地貌位移值分布于3～20m,发育新鲜断层自由面的断层陡坎和左旋错动的纹沟指示了断层的最新一次活动。基于同期洪积扇年龄估算得到北大山断裂晚更新世以来的左旋滑动速率为0.3～0.6mm/a。北大山断裂的运动学特征与区域NE向应力场一致,可能受到了青藏高原NE向扩展的影响。 相似文献
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本文根据航卫片、第四纪地质、地貌、浅层地震、钻孔、年代学等资料,分析了厦门篑筜港北东向断裂带的第四纪晚期活动特征,并阐述了其构造组合特征。结果表明：①断裂带中的文灶-龙山-五通断裂和虎尾山-钟宅断裂为第四纪早期断裂,晚更新世以来不再活动;②篑筜港断裂为晚更新世早、中期活动断裂,晚更新世晚期（约3万年）以来不活动;③文灶-龙山-五通断裂和虎尾山．钟宅断裂将厦门岛切割为3个地块,分别形成了仙岳山地垒、篑筜港地堑和云项岩地垒的构造组合,晚更新世晚期以来地壳以整体性上升运动为总趋势。 相似文献
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现今中国大陆地壳运动与活动块体模型 总被引：68，自引：2，他引：68
通过分析中国地壳运动观测网络GPS数据特别是1999年与2001年区域网数据, 我们初步得到了中国大陆地壳运动速度场, 并用统计分析的方法从高密度台站速度场中区分出9个独立活动块体和2个广泛形变带, 求出活动块体刚体运动欧拉极和相邻块体间相互运动速率. 结果显示中国大陆形变场似可分为3类区域 第1类区包括青藏高原内部区域和天山造山带, 形变在全区域内广泛分布; 第3类区包括塔里木盆地及南北带以东地区, 形变场表现为活动块体, 内部稳定, 形变局限在狭窄的边界带内; 第2类区则处在青藏高原的边缘带, 如柴达木、祁连、西宁、川滇菱形南块体等, 这类区形变场特征处在第1, 3类区之间, 虽然还能保持一定的块体完整性, 但块体的尺度和强度已不如第3类地区. 通过分析各类区域岩石圈结构以及形变模式我们可以得出初步推断 中国大陆地壳形变模式主要由地壳结构所控制. 中国大陆东部和塔里木盆地地区地壳介质有相当强度, 形变表现为刚性块体的相互运动. 而印度板块的北向挤压造成青藏高原和天山的隆起并产生巨厚地壳, 壳内温度上升, 下地壳低速高导层发育, 介质呈较强黏塑性, 地壳脆性层在下地壳塑性流变场作用下产生各种类型的、多层次的形变, 且分布广泛而不局限于少量块体边界地区. 青藏高原边缘的第2类地区地壳结构为第1, 3类地区之间的过渡区, 其形变特征也介于第1, 3类地区之间, 为强度较低的较小活动块体在边界作用力下的运动与变形. 相似文献
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试论安宁河断裂带新活动的分段性与地震活动 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
本文根据近几年来对安宁河断裂带的野外调查资料,结合地震活动性、地壳形变、断层带中断层泥SEM特征分析,着重讨论了安宁河断裂带活动性的分段特征及其与地震活动的关系。资料表明,断裂带在晚更新世以来活动的强弱与地震活动在时间上和空间上分布的不均匀性有较好的一致性,即地震活动的强度、频度,严格受断裂带在晚更新世以来的活动强度、活动方式的制约。研究活动断层的活动分段性,对判定地震危险区及工程稳定性评价具有重要的科学意义和应用价值。 相似文献
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巴颜喀拉地块东部龙日坝断裂带的发现及其大地构造意义 总被引：27，自引：0，他引：27
在青藏高原东缘NE向龙门山断裂带西北侧约200km的巴颜喀拉地块东部,由GPS复测发现存在一条宽阔的NE向右旋剪变带,变形速率达4-6mm／a．卫星影像解译和野外考察表明：这一右旋剪切带对应了以往被忽略的、新生的NE向龙日坝断裂带．龙日坝断裂带北东段由走向N54°±5°E、相距约30km的两条平行分支断层组成．这两条分支断层沿线晚第四纪断错地貌发育,北支龙日曲断层具有较大的逆冲分量,南支毛尔盖断层为纯右旋走滑断层．依据矢量合成原理可知,龙日坝断裂带北东段晚更新世以来平均右旋滑动速率为（5．4±2．0）mm／a,垂直滑动速率约0．7mm／a,地壳缩短率约0．55mm／a．龙日坝断裂带的存在和发现可以很好地解释青藏高原东缘的大地构造与动力学特征：以龙日坝断裂带为界,巴颜喀拉地块分为西部阿坝和东部龙门山两个次级块体;龙门山次级块体的整体缩短和隆升反映出从龙门山断裂带到龙日坝断裂带是巴颜喀拉地块南东向运移过程中由于受到华南地块的强烈阻挡而形成的后展式推覆构造系统,并成为青藏高原东缘承载新生代晚期至今地壳变形的一种活动地块边界构造类型．龙日坝断裂带正是这一系统中晚第四纪新生的活动断裂带． 相似文献
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由断层滑动资料确定的第四纪构造应力场和晚第三纪以来的地壳形变分析结果,较好地解释了青藏高原北、东边缘自中新世中晚期以来的地壳动力学演化特征:在中新世中晚期至早更新世末期,青藏高原北、东边缘主要受来自印度板块碰撞青藏块体产生的垂直块体边界方向的挤压,在高原周缘主要形成逆断裂．构造应力场以逆断型为主;早更新世末期以后,印度板块继续向北推挤,高原内部挤压变形增大．与此同时,在高原东侧边缘形成北西-南东方向的引张,构成了高原东部块体向东、南东方向滑移的有利条件,从而导致了高原周边一系列断层由逆冲改变为走滑,构造应力场以走滑型为主．其最大主压应力方向相对早期构造应力场发生了一个顺时针方向的旋转． 相似文献
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中国大陆活动地块的运动与应变状态 总被引：49，自引：0，他引：49
从地壳运动与应变的角度给出了活动地块的定义,根据中国大陆及周边地区最近几年GPS观测得到的由1598个GPS站速度组成的统一速度场,估计了各个活动地块的运动与应变参数,分析了各个活动地块的运动与应变状态。中国大陆各地块存在一致的向东运动分量,但其南北分量是不一致的。西部地块存在一致的向北运动分量,东部地块存在一致的向南运动分量。在90°E以东,从喜马拉雅地块向NE方向,各地块的运动方向按顺时针方向旋转,各地块的运动速率是不相同的。从总体上看是西部大、东部小,南部大、北部小,西部大约是东部的3～4倍。各地块主压应变方向的空间分布是不相同的。在90°E以西各地块的主应变方向基本上为SN向,在青藏高原的东北部各地块的主压应变方向基本为NE向,在青藏高原东南部各地块的主压应变方向绕喜马拉雅构造东端顺时针方向旋转。各地块的主应变与剪应变率也是不同的,其中喜马拉雅、天山地块的主压和最大剪应变率最高,其次是拉萨、羌塘、滇西南、祁连与川滇地块。东部各地块的应变率较小。根据应变状态推测,喜马拉雅地块南北向的缩短速率为(15.2±1.5)mm/a,仍然是现今构造活动最强烈的地区,其次是天山地块,天山地块南北向的缩短速率为(10.1±0.9)mm/a。这两个地块目前仍处于隆升状态,从面应变看,面膨胀在中国大陆占优势,东部基本都是膨胀区,在西部面压缩与面膨胀从南向北相间分布。中国大陆的大多数东西向或近东西向断裂两侧的相对运动都是左旋或类似左旋走滑型的,大多数南北向断裂两侧的相对运动都是右旋或类似右旋走滑型的。GPS测定的阿尔金断裂中部的左旋走滑速为(4.8±1.3)mm/a,鲜水河断裂的左旋走滑速为(9.8±2.2)mm/a。地块边界断裂带的运动为地块运动创造了条件,地块及其边界的运动是协调一致的统一的,各个地块的活动程度是不相同的,统计检验结果表明,大多数地块之间的相对运动是显著的与非常显著的,这证明活动地块是客观存在的,喜马拉雅、拉萨、天山、羌塘和滇西南是活动最强烈的地块,中蒙、中朝西、阿拉善和华南是较稳定的地块,印度、太平洋、菲律宾板块与欧亚板块的互相作用力是中国大陆地块运动的主要驱动力。青藏高原地壳物质在印度板块NNE向的强烈推挤下,向NNE和NE方向运动,由于受到北部、东北部和东部地块的阻挡,经高原的东南部向印度洋方向运移, 相似文献
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中国大陆的强震活动与活动地块 总被引：190，自引：6，他引：190
中国大陆晚新生代和现代构造变形以地块运动为主要特征,活动地块是被形成于晚新生代、晚第四纪(10～12万年)至现今强烈活动的构造带所分割和围限、具有相对统一运动方式的地质单元。不同活动地块的运动方式和速度是不同的,地块间的差异运动在其边界最强烈。强震是在区域构造作用下,应力在变形非连续地段不断积累并达到极限状态后突发失稳破裂的结果,活动地块边界带由于其差异运动强烈而构造变形非连续性最强,最有利于应力高度积累而孕育强震。我国大陆几乎所有8级和80％～90％的7级以上强震发生在活动地块边界带上,表明地块间的差异运动是大陆强震孕育和发生的直接控制因素。 相似文献
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青藏高原北部活动地块内部的活断层定量资料 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
文中定义了祁连山活动地块的边界,列表给出了近十几年来在青藏高原北部活动地块内部的活断层定量资料。其内容主要包括:活断层的编号、名称、产状、主要的地质地貌标志、活动年代、断层分段、断层滑动速率、古地震及其年代、地震破裂带的主要特征等。这些资料表明:青藏高原北部活动地块的8级大地震集中在它的边界活断层上,断层的滑动速率都在5~12mm/a左右;7级左右的地震发生在其内部规模较小的断层上,断层的滑动速率都在1~3mm/a左右;青藏高原北部活动地块内部的活断层,可以将该活动地块划分为几个次级地块,这些次级活动地块以变形为主,没有发生旋转;我们的结果支持青藏高原"连续变形"的假说 相似文献
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划分大陆活动地块的重要标志之一是它们在地壳结构间的差异。大陆不同地块具有不同的地壳结构特征。这些结构和构造上的不同反映了它们在地壳内部的变形特征和动力过程的差异。文中利用深地震宽角反射 /折射剖面的结果 ,讨论了青藏高原东北缘东昆仑巴颜喀拉地块、鄂尔多斯地块和华北地块唐山震区地壳结构的差异。它们分别是变形强烈的活动地块、内部变形小相对稳定的地块和现代发生过强震的活动地块。在地壳结构上它们之间的差别是明显的。这些差异表现在地壳的分层性质、上地壳和下地壳的结构、地壳结构的不均匀尺度、壳 /幔分界的性质、壳内低速层的分布、地壳界面、特别是莫霍面的构造形态等方面 相似文献
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Relationship between the regional tectonic activity and crustal structure in the eastern Tibetan plateau discovered by gravity anomaly 
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下载免费PDF全文 The eastern Tibetan plateau has been getting more and more attention because it combines active faults, uplifting, and large earthquakes together in a high-population region. Based on the previous researches, the most of Cenozoic tectonic activities were related to the regional structure of the local blocks within the crustal scale. Thus, a better understanding of the crustal structure of the regional tectonic blocks is an important topic for further study. In this paper, we combined the simple Bouguer gravity anomaly with the Moho depths from previous studies to investigate the crustal structure in this area. To highlight the crustal structures, the gravity anomaly caused by the Moho relief has been reduced by forward modeling calculations. A total horizontal derivative (THD) had been applied on the gravity residuals. The results indicated that the crustal gravity residual is compatible with the topography and the geological settings of the regional blocks, including the Sichuan basin, the Chuxiong basin, the Xiaojiang fault, and the Jinhe fault, as well as the Longmenshan fault zone. The THD emphasized the west margin of Yangtze block, i.e., the Longriba fault zone and the Xiaojiang fault cut through the Yangtze block. The checkboard pattern of the gravity residual in the Songpan-Garze fold belt and Chuandian fragment shows that the crust is undergoing a southward and SE-directed extrusion, which is coincident with the flowing direction indicated from the GPS measurements. By integrating the interpretations, the stepwise extensional mechanism of the eastern Tibetan plateau is supported by the southeastward crustal deformation, and the extrusion of Chuandian fragment is achieved by Xianshuihe fault. 相似文献
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INTRODUCTIONWestern Sichuan and its vicinity are in the juncture of three big blocks,the Chuandian,theBayan Har andthe South China blocks,whicharelocated onthe eastern margin of the Qinghai-Xizang(Tibet)Plateau(Fig.1).Three groups of active block boundaryfault zones that generate destructiveearthquake occurrence,whichtrend NW-,NE-and nearly SNrespectively,have been developedthere(Zhang Peizhen,et al.,2003).Western Sichuan and its vicinity have such basic tectoniccharacteristics tha… 相似文献
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中国大陆现今实测地应力场的状态与板块构造环境、活动断裂带分布、地形地貌以及地壳结构呈现一定相关性. 在中国大陆西缘,印度洋板块与欧亚板块陆发生陆碰撞,在中国大陆东缘,菲律宾海板块、太平洋板块俯冲到欧亚板块之下. 中国大陆内部被大型活动断裂带分割为多个块体,各个块体的地壳结构和厚度呈不均匀分布,地形地貌起伏具有很大的差异. 笔者以中国大陆块体模型为基础,把板块构造作用和重力势作为主要影响地应力状态的两个主要要素,在现今活动构造、GPS和实测地应力等成果的约束下,利用线性黏弹体球壳有限元模拟分析了中国大陆现今地应力场的分布特征和控制因素. 结果表明: (1)构造应力场总体上呈现出西部挤压,东部拉张的特征,印度板块与欧亚板块的持续碰撞形成了青藏高原及其周缘的挤压性质的构造应力场,而东部菲律宾板块与太平洋板块的俯冲形成了黄海、东海和环渤海区域的拉张性质的构造应力场,中间为拉张环境和挤压环境的过渡,最大主应力的方向受到板块构造环境和活动构造分布的控制;(2)重力的影响主要体现在地形梯度大和地壳厚度结构变化大的地壳浅部区域,在藏南、滇西北局部地区的地壳浅部由于受到重力势控制,呈现为张性应力场,在塔里木地区由于重力势引起的应力场与构造应力场同为挤压性质,因此该区的挤压强度得以增加;(3)中国大陆浅部地应力场的状态主要受到区域板块构造环境、块体边界活动构造带的展布和地形的控制,总体上以南北构造带为界,西部以较强的压性构造环境为主,东部为较弱的压性构造环境,藏南和滇西北局部地区存在有张性构造环境;构造应力对地应力的贡献比重随着深度增加而增加;(4)采用黏弹性模型的构造应力场模拟结果比完全弹性模型的模拟结果能够更好地与实测地应力场相吻合,利用完全弹性模型分析由地震等诱发的地应力瞬时变化是有效的;(5)青藏高原东南缘最大主应力方向发生了较大的偏转,其主要控制因素有:印度板块持续的碰撞、中下地壳对上地壳拖曳以及印度板块通过实皆断裂对欧亚板块的剪切拉伸作用. 中国大陆现今地应力场是整个地壳岩石黏弹特性长期演化和断裂活动的结果,是地应力场动态演化过程中在现今时间点上的状态,受到板块构造环境、大陆内部活动断裂分布、地形地貌和地壳结构等因素不同程度的控制,模拟结果为中国大陆地应力场提供了一个定量的参考模型. 相似文献
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The morphotectonic framework of the Central Apennines is given by faulted blocks bounded by normal faults, mostly trending NW–SE, NNW–SSE and NE–SW, which cut previous compressive structures. Such a structural setting is consistent with the focal mechanisms of the earthquakes which often occur in this area. In this paper, three lithologically different normal fault-generated mountain fronts are analysed in order to assess the relations between their geomorphic features and active tectonics. They border the Norcia depression (Sibillini Mts, Umbria), the Amatrice–Campotosto plateau (Laga Mts, Lazio) and the Fucino basin (Marsica Mts, Abruzzi). The Norcia depression is bounded by a N20°W trending normal fault to the east and by a parallel antithetic fault to the west. The main fault has a 1000 m throw and gives rise to a wide fault escarpment, characterized by: (1) sharp slope breaks due to low angle gravity faults; (2) important paleolandslides; and (3) several fault scarplets on the piedmont belt affecting Quaternary deposits. The Amatrice–Campotosto plateau is delimited by the western slope of Mt Gorzano which runs along a N20°W trending normal fault having a 1500m throw. Minor parallel faults dislocate Quaternary landforms. Large-scale massmovements also occur here. The Fucino basin was struck by the 1915 Avezzano earthquake (I=XI MCS) which produced extensive surface faulting along two parallel NW trending normal fault escarpments on the eastern border of the basin. There is paleoseismic evidence including buried gravity graben in Late Glacial gravels and tectonic dip-slip striations on Holocene calcitic crusts covering bedrock normal fault planes. These data suggest that active extensional tectonics plays a major role in the slope morphogenesis of the Central Apennines and they indicate the importance of geomorphic analysis in seismic zonation of this area. 相似文献
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Evolution characteristics of Quaternary tectonic stress field in the north and east margin of Qinghai-Xizang plateau 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
By inversion of fault slip data for Quaternary tectonic stress field and the analysis of crustal deformation after late Teriary, we explained the evolution of crustal dynamic about the north and east margin of Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau since Miocene. From middle or late Miocene to early Pleistocene, the tectonic stress field was featured by a maximum principal compression which was coming from the collision of India Plate perpendicular to the boundary of the plateau, and was basically of reverse faulting type. Since the late period of early Pleistocene, India Plate continued to push northward and the compressional deformation of the plateau interior increased continuously, meanwhile, NW-SE extension appeared on the east side of the plateau. This formed a favorable condition for the interior block of the plateau to slide towards east and southeast, causing the faults surrounding the plateau to change from thrust to strike-slip. The contemporary tectonic stress field was formed from the late period of early Pleistocene and continued to present. The direction of maximum principal compressional stress rotated clockwise with respect to the previous tectonic stress field, the stress field was mainly of strike-slip type. 相似文献
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In this paper a new kinematic and dynamic model on the Recent and active contractional deformation of the Catania region, eastern Sicily, is discussed. The study area represents one of the most seismically active region of the Mediterranean, located at the intersection between the front of the Sicily collision belt and the seismogenic Siculo-Calabrian Rift-Zone. The analysed contractional tectonics form an active triangle zone that originated from the tectonic inversion of a Lower-Middle Pleistocene extensional basin, which was located at the northern edge of the African foreland. The triangle zone consists of two antithetic ENE–WSW oriented thrust-ramps that show evidence of motion during the Holocene and bound a folded belt that involves alluvial deposits as young as 40 ka. These contractional structures represent the final product of the positive tectonic inversion of extensional features located, in the Hyblean Plateau in SE Sicily, along the flank of the active rift zone. The Late Quaternary motions along the inverted structures was accommodated to the west by a major N–S oriented left-lateral fault zone, which separates the active contractional domains from the adjacent sectors of the African margin. As a whole, the Late Quaternary contractional tectonics of SE Sicily have been related to a NW-verging crustal stacking, related to a Mantle intrusion beneath the Hyblean Plateau that developed as effect of the rift-flank deformation. The crustal lineaments, which compose the new kinematic model, represents potentially active seismogenic sources that might be considered in the frame of the seismotectonic picture of the Catania region. 相似文献
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The GPS data in and around the Ordos block area indicate that the left-lateral slip rate along the northern or southern margin of the Ordos block is about twice or three times as fast as the right-lateral slip rate along the eastern or western margin of the block. However, many researchers stressed the dextral-slip of the eastern or western boundaries of the Ordos block, and suggested that the block as a whole rotated counterclockwise based on the available geological data. Focusing on the inconsistency, we reexamine the late Cenozoic deformation pattern in the Ordos region based on seismicity data and geodesy data (GPS and leveling) around it. The results indicate that the rigid block-like motion appears to be the basic characteristic of the kinematics of the Ordos region, and this motion is absorbed by the displacement of the faults around the block. When the faults along the northern and southern boundaries of the Ordos block are active, its eastern boundary is inactive. However, if the faults along the eastern boundary are active, the northern and southern are inactive. In recent years, the northern and southern boundaries of the Ordos block are in active. But in the long term, the Ordos block is moving southeastward relative to the Alxa and Yinshan blocks because of the strong pushing of the Tibetan Plateau on its southwestern side, and this deformation is accommodated by the counterclockwise rotation of the block itself. 相似文献
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The GPS data in and around the Ordos block area indicate that the left-lateral slip rate along the northern or southern margin of the Ordos block is about twice or three times as fast as the right-lateral slip rate along the eastern or western margin of the block. However, many researchers stressed the dextral-slip of the eastern or western boundaries of the Ordos block, and suggested that the block as a whole rotated counterclockwise based on the available geological data. Focusing on the inconsistency, we reexamine the late Cenozoic deformation pattern in the Ordos region based on seismicity data and geodesy data (GPS and leveling) around it. The results indicate that the rigid block-like motion appears to be the basic characteristic of the kinematics of the Ordos region, and this motion is absorbed by the displacement of the faults around the block. When the faults along the northern and southern boundaries of the Ordos block are active, its eastern boundary is inactive. However, if the faults along the eastern boundary are active, the northern and southern are inactive. In recent years, the northern and southern boundaries of the Ordos block are in active. But in the long term, the Ordos block is moving southeastward relative to the Alxa and Yinshan blocks because of the strong pushing of the Tibetan Plateau on its southwestern side, and this deformation is accommodated by the counterclockwise rotation of the block itself. 相似文献
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ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTION OF THE RIYUESHAN FAULT SINCE LATE PLEISTOCENE USING STRUCTURAL GEOMORPHOLOGY 下载免费PDF全文
下载免费PDF全文 The northeastern margin of Tibetan plateau is an active block controlled by the eastern Kunlun fault zone, the Qilian Shan-Haiyuan fault zone, and the Altyn Tagh fault zone. It is the frontier and the sensitive area of neotectonic activity since the Cenozoic. There are widespread folds, thrust faults and stike-slip faults in the northeastern Tibetan plateau produced by the intensive tectonic deformation, indicating that this area is suffering the crustal shortening, left-lateral shear and vertical uplift. The Riyueshan Fault is one of the major faults in the dextral strike-slip faults systems, which lies between the two major large-scale left-lateral strike-slip faults, the Qilian-Haiyuan Fault and the eastern Kunlun Fault. In the process of growing and expanding of the entire Tibetan plateau, the dextral strike-slip faults play an important role in regulating the deformation and transformation between the secondary blocks. In the early Quaternary, because of the northeastward expansion of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, tectonic deformations such as NE-direction extrusion shortening, clockwise rotation, and SEE-direction extrusion occurred in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, which lead to the left-lateral slip movement of the NWW-trending major regional boundary faults. As the result, the NNW-trending faults which lie between these NWW direction faults are developed. The main geomorphic units developed within the research area are controlled by the Riyueshan Fault, formed due to the northeastward motion of the Tibet block. These geomorphic units could be classified as:Qinghai Lake Basin, Haiyan Basin, Datonghe Basin, Dezhou Basin, and the mountains developed between the basins such as the Datongshan and the Riyueshan. Paleo basins, alluvial fans, multiple levels of terraces are developed at mountain fronts. The climate variation caused the formation of the geomorphic units during the expansion period of the lakes within the northeastern Tibetan plateau. There are two levels of alluvial fans and three levels of fluvial terrace developed in the study area, the sediments of the alluvial fans and fluvial terraces formed by different sources are developed in the same period. The Riyueshan Fault connects with the NNW-trending left-lateral strike-slip north marginal Tuoleshan fault in the north, and obliquely connects with the Lajishan thrust fault in the south. The fault extends for about 180km from north to south, passing through Datonghe, Reshui coal mine, Chaka River, Tuole, Ketu and Xicha, and connecting with the Lajishan thrusts near the Kesuer Basin. The Riyueshan Fault consists of five discontinuous right-step en-echelon sub-fault segments, with a spacing of 2~3km, and pull-apart basins are formed in the stepovers.
The Riyueshan Fault is a secondary fault located in the Qaidam-Qilian active block which is controlled by the major boundary faults, such as the East Kunlun Fault and the Qilian-Haiyuan Fault. Its activity characteristics provide information of the outward expansion of the northeastern margin of Tibet. Tectonic landforms are developed along the Riyueshan Fault. Focusing on the distinct geomorphic deformation since late Pleistocene, the paper obtains the vertical displacement along the fault strike by RTK measurement method. Based on the fault growth-linkage theory, the evolution of the Riyueshan Fault and the related kinetic background are discussed. The following three conclusions are obtained:1)According to the characteristics of development of the three-stage 200km-long steep fault scarp developed in the landforms of the late Pleistocene alluvial fans and terraces, the Riyueshan Fault is divided into five segments, with the most important segment located in the third stepover(CD-3); 2)The three-stage displacement distribution pattern of the Riyueshan Fault reveals that the fault was formed by the growths and connections of multiple secondary faults and is in the second stage of fault growth and connection. With CD-3 as the boundary, the faults on the NW side continue to grow and connect; the fault activity time on the SE side is shorter, and the activity intensity is weaker; 3)The extreme value of the fault displacement distribution curve indicates the location of strain concentration and stress accumulation. With the stepover CD-3 as the boundary, the stress and strain on NW side are mainly concentrated in the middle and fault stepovers. The long-term accumulation range of stress on the SE side is relatively dispersed. The stress state may be related to the counterclockwise rotation inside the block under the compression of regional tectonic stress. 相似文献