Lower-crustal rifting in the Rukwa Graben, East Africa     

Ming Zhao  Charles A. Langston  rew A. Nyblade  Thomas J. Owens 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,129(2):412-420

An M_w 5.9 earthquake occurred in the Lake Rukwa rift, Tanzania, on 1994 August 18, and was well recorded by 20 broad-band seismic stations at distances of 160 to 800 km and 21 broad-band stations at teleseismic distances. The regional and teleseismic waveforms have been used to investigate the source characteristics of the main shock, and also to locate aftershocks that occurred within three weeks of the main shock. Teleseismic body-wave modelling yields the following source parameters for the main shock: source depth of 25 ± 2 km, a normal fault orientation, with a horizontal tension axis striking NE-SW and an almost vertical pressure axis (Nodal Plane I: strike 126°–142°, dip 63°–66°, and rake 280°–290°; Nodal Plane II: strike 273°–289°, dip 28°–31°, and rake 235°–245°), a scalar moment of 4.1 times 10¹⁷ N m, and a 2 s impulsive source time function. Four of the largest aftershocks also nucleated at depths of 25 km, as deduced from regional sPmp–Pmp times. The nodal planes are broadly consistent with the orientation of both the Lupa and Ufipa faults, which bound the Rukwa rift to the northeast and southwest, respectively. The rupture radius of the main shock, assuming a circular fault, is estimated to be 4 km with a corresponding stress drop of 6.5 MPa. Published estimates of crustal thickness beneath the Rukwa rift indicate that the foci of the main shock and aftershocks lie at least 10 km above the Moho. The presence of lower-crustal seismicity beneath the Rukwa rift suggests that the pre-rift thermal structure of the rifted crust has not been strongly modified by the rifting, at least to depths of 25 km.  相似文献   

The Darwin Rise demise: the western Pacific guyot heights trace the trans-Pacific Mendocino fracture zone     

N. Christian Smoot  Robert E. King 《Geomorphology》1997,18(3-4)

The Darwin Rise has been proposed so many times and in so many forms and places that the time has come to make a more comprehensive examination of the region. Lying on the NW Pacific Plate between the Geisha Guyots, the Mid-Pacific Mountains, the equator, and the trenches, the region is roughly bounded by magnetic anomaly M20 (147 Ma). It was subjected to a massive outpouring of lava about 105 to 120 Ma, which created the guyots and seamounts in that region. Guyots are excellent tools for studying events of long ago because they eroded in the same lowstand in the Cretaceous and guyot relief, therefore, is a surrogate for paleo-sealevel. The relief is derived by subtracting the break depth of the summit plateau of a guyot from the regional depth. Guyot relief would necessarily be less in the center than to the periphery if the feature formed on a pre-existing rise, as has been postulated. The existence of a paleo-Darwin Rise would give concentric contours for the region in question. Of the sixty guyots used in this study, thirty-seven of these guyots were surveyed using SASS multibeam in the Marcus-Wake seamount group. Twenty-three guyots were surveyed using random track single-beam sonar surveys. An entirely different scenario is shown. Data revealed a major fracture passing through the area coevally or after the guyots formed. Because the depths to the summit are not the same now, vertical tectonics occurred after subaerial erosion. This means the fracture formed during and after the erosion (roughly 105 Ma) and influenced the normal sequence of events in guyot formation. Depending on how one deciphers trends through the Hess Rise morass, SASS bathymetry shows a continuation of the Surveyor/Mendocino fracture zone swarm inside the M20 region to the NE of these data. The fracture swarm continues to the western Pacific trench system. Based on this information, if the Darwin Rise ever existed, it had to have done so elsewhere.  相似文献   

测氡法快速确定油气田边界及深度   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

叶树林 《华东地质学院学报》1996,19(2):150-156

本介绍了运用测氡法快速确定大庆××油气田边界，估算其埋藏深度试验，结果表明，该方法具有可行性和实用性。由于所做工作有限，尚属经验性探讨，还必须从理论和实践上进一步地工作，进而充实、完善它。  相似文献   

天山地震活动区的深部构造特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

胥颐 《新疆地质》1996,(2)

以地壳介质的Ｐ波速度分布和导电性为基础，描述了天山地区几个主要地震活动区域深部构造特征，地震大都发生在地壳内不同速度块体之间的过渡带附近；沿着天山的南缘和毗邻塔里木盆地的西昆仑、阿尔金等山前地带，壳内高导层由北向南、由东向西逐渐加深并增厚，它们与所在地区震源深度的分相相吻合。这种不稳定的地壳结构有长期受力情况下非常容易发生形变甚至破裂而引发地震。  相似文献   

A model study on the decay of volcanic aerosol layer and verification with Pinatubo and El Chichon data     

S. Ramachandran  A. Jayaraman  B. R. Sitaram 《Journal of Earth System Science》1997,106(3):157-167

The time evolution of stratospheric aerosol layer formed after a volcanic eruption is studied taking into account the aerosol microphysical processes of growth, coagulation and sedimentation. Using a simple model we could explain the observed evolution of the Pinatubo volcanic layer which decayed in about 3 years. The experimental data obtained by Nd:YAG backscatter lidar over Ahmedabad further supports this finding. The data obtained after the El Chichon volcanic eruption also showed that the El Chichon aerosol layer decayed in about 3 years time. Thus, though the amount of SO₂ injected has been higher, in the case of Pinatubo, about two to three times more than El Chichon, it has resulted in the production of larger aerosol particles due to faster growth and coagulation processes, and subsequently a faster removal rate, to give more or less a similar background aerosol amount at the stratosphere in about 3 years time.  相似文献   

Measurement and research method of metallogenic depths of Jiaojia orefield and Linglong orefield Shandong Province, China   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Guxian Lü 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》1997,40(5):449-455

Taking the contribution of the tectonic force to the total hydrostatic pressure into account, the author puts forward a new method on the calculation of the depth of petrogenesis and metallogenesis which is summarized as follows: first the tectonic added hydrostatic pressured P_s is subtracted from the total hydrostatic pressure P, then using their difference P_r, according to the general method the depth of petrogenesis and metallogenesis can be determined in consideration of lateral constraint. By the new method the following data on the depths of the metallogenesis are obtained: 2 243.6 m (No. I and No. II veins with metallogenic epoch of 105 Ma) and 1 632. 38 m (No. III vein with 105 Ma) for Jiaojia orefield, and 3 454.97 m (NE-trending zone with 213.2 Ma), 1 902.79 III (ENE-trending zone with 100.28 Ma), 1 090.97 m (NE-trending zone with 80.67 Ma) and 720.55 m (NNE-trending zone with 71.86 Ma) for Linglong orefield. Project supported by the Foundation of the State Planning Commission, China and the Foundation of the State Science and Technology Commission, China.  相似文献   

青藏高原东北缘及其邻区的地壳结构与地震关系初探   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6       下载免费PDF全文

周民都  赵和云  马钦忠  钱家栋 《地震工程学报》1997,19(1):58-63,69

用人工地震测深资料及天然地震反演结果给出了东经９６°～１０８°，北纬３２°～４０°范围内的莫霍面埋深图，并讨论了莫霍面轮廓与中强地震发生的关系。结果表明，中强地震多发生在地壳厚度急剧变化、陡变带拐弯处及中地壳顶部存在低速层的区域内  相似文献   

三维分块倾斜界面的反演及其应用   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

赖晓玲  郑需要  张先康 《地震工程学报》1997,19(3):63-68

介绍了利用反射波走时反演介质层速度和包含直立断层的三维界面的计算方法．对各层界面利用多个倾斜或平界面方程来描述．给出了数值计算实例．结果表明，反演解与真模型很接近，说明计算方法是有效的．利用该方法处理了唐山地震区的ＰｍＰ反射波资料，获得了该区域莫霍界面的三维分块形态．唐山附近莫霍界面错断与该区域１９７６年唐山地震及一系列余震的发生有密切的联系．  相似文献   

关于大陆与陆缘的深部地震探查的进展──1994、1996年两届国际学术讨论会综述     

杨宝俊  杨平华  李春华 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》1997,(2)

连续两届国际深部地震讨论会成果累累。对深部地震的资料采集、处理、解释技术以及几类专门地质地球物理问题的研究进行了综述。研究成果在理论、方法方面是该领域的世界先进水平：在地震学应用于陆缘、陆壳与壳幔过渡带等地质问题方面有明显的提高。提出了值得讨论的问题，最后探讨了发展趋势  相似文献   

参数椭球表面的重力   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10       下载免费PDF全文

郝晓光 《地球科学》1997,22(2):223-226

推导了带密度参数的界面深度参数的旋转椭球表面重力的封闭公式，提出了“参数椭球”的概念。  相似文献