Post-mid-Cretaceous eastern North Sea evolution inferred from 3D thermo-mechanical modelling   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lykke Gemmer  Sren B. Nielsen  Mads Huuse  Holger Lykke-Andersen 《Tectonophysics》2002,350(4):105-342

The Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic evolution of the eastern North Sea region is investigated by 3D thermo-mechanical modelling. The model quantifies the integrated effects on basin evolution of large-scale lithospheric processes, rheology, strength heterogeneities, tectonics, eustasy, sedimentation and erosion.

The evolution of the area is influenced by a number of factors: (1) thermal subsidence centred in the central North Sea providing accommodation space for thick sediment deposits; (2) 250-m eustatic fall from the Late Cretaceous to present, which causes exhumation of the North Sea Basin margins; (3) varying sediment supply; (4) isostatic adjustments following erosion and sedimentation; (5) Late Cretaceous–early Cenozoic Alpine compressional phases causing tectonic inversion of the Sorgenfrei–Tornquist Zone (STZ) and other weak zones.

The stress field and the lateral variations in lithospheric strength control lithospheric deformation under compression. The lithosphere is relatively weak in areas where Moho is deep and the upper mantle warm and weak. In these areas the lithosphere is thickened during compression producing surface uplift and erosion (e.g., at the Ringkøbing–Fyn High and in the southern part of Sweden). Observed late Cretaceous–early Cenozoic shallow water depths at the Ringkøbing–Fyn High as well as Cenozoic surface uplift in southern Sweden (the South Swedish Dome (SSD)) are explained by this mechanism.

The STZ is a prominent crustal structural weakness zone. Under compression, this zone is inverted and its surface uplifted and eroded. Contemporaneously, marginal depositional troughs develop. Post-compressional relaxation causes a regional uplift of this zone.

The model predicts sediment distributions and paleo-water depths in accordance with observations. Sediment truncation and exhumation at the North Sea Basin margins are explained by fall in global sea level, isostatic adjustments to exhumation, and uplift of the inverted STZ. This underlines the importance of the mechanisms dealt with in this paper for the evolution of intra-cratonic sedimentary basins.  相似文献   

Lithosphere structure of European sedimentary basins from regional three-dimensional gravity modelling     

T. P. Yegorova  V. I. Starostenko 《Tectonophysics》2002,346(1-2)

A three-dimensional (3D) density model, approximated by two regional layers—the sedimentary cover and the crystalline crust (offshore, a sea-water layer was added), has been constructed in 1° averaging for the whole European continent. The crustal model is based on simplified velocity model represented by structure maps for main seismic horizons—the “seismic” basement and the Moho boundary. Laterally varying average density is assumed inside the model layers. Residual gravity anomalies, obtained by subtraction of the crustal gravity effect from the observed field, characterize the density heterogeneities in the upper mantle. Mantle anomalies are shown to correlate with the upper mantle velocity inhomogeneities revealed from seismic tomography data and geothermal data. Considering the type of mantle anomaly, specific features of the evolution and type of isostatic compensation, the sedimentary basins in Europe may be related into some groups: deep sedimentary basins located in the East European Platform and its northern and eastern margins (Peri-Caspian, Dnieper–Donets, Barents Sea Basins, Fore–Ural Trough) with no significant mantle anomalies; basins located on the activated thin crust of Variscan Western Europe and Mediterranean area with negative mantle anomalies of −150 to −200×10⁻⁵ ms⁻² amplitude and the basins associated with suture zones at the western and southern margins of the East European Platform (Polish Trough, South Caspian Basin) characterized by positive mantle anomalies of 50–150×10⁻⁵ ms⁻² magnitude. An analysis of the main features of the lithosphere structure of the basins in Europe and type of the compensation has been carried out.  相似文献   

Modelling and imaging the Moho transition: the case of the southern Urals   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

R. Carbonell  J. Gallart  A. Pérez-Estaún 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,149(1):134-148

  相似文献   

A 2-D hybrid technique to model the effect of topography on coseismic displacements. Application to the Umbria-Marche (central Italy) 1997 earthquake sequence     

Stefano Tinti  Alberto Armigliato 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,150(2):542-557

  相似文献   

Lithosphere structure of Europe and Northern Atlantic from regional three-dimensional gravity modelling     

T. P. Yegorova  V. I. Starostenko 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,151(1):11-31

  相似文献   

Determination of thermal conductivity and formation temperature from cooling history of friction-heated probes   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Tien-Chang Lee  A. D. Duchkov  S. G. Morozov 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,152(2):433-442

  相似文献   

Resolution, stability and efficiency of resistivity tomography estimated from a generalized inverse approach   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Sven Friedel 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,153(2):305-316

  相似文献   

Assessment of crustal velocity models using seismic refraction and reflection tomography   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

Colin A. Zelt  Kalachand Sain  Julia V. Naumenko  Dale S. Sawyer 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,153(3):609-626

  相似文献   

A 3-D finite-element algorithm for DC resistivity modelling using the shifted incomplete Cholesky conjugate gradient method     

Xiaoping Wu 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,154(3):947-956

  相似文献   

三峡库区巫山新城超高加筋挡墙变形破坏及修复研究   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

殷跃平  鄢毅  陈波  唐辉明  林彤 《工程地质学报》2003,11(1):89-99

结合三峡库区弃渣灾害的防治和回填增地,以巫山新城加筋土挡墙等实际工程为典型进行剖析,对加筋土挡墙,特别是超高加筋土挡墙变形破坏机制和过程进行了系统深入的研究。从加筋土挡墙填土物理力学性质室内试验研究入手,采用FLAC等数值计算方法,系统地研究了加筋土挡墙的应力状况和变形破坏特性。将离心模拟技术应用于超高多级加筋土挡墙(H=57m)的研究中,进行了三级加筋土挡墙的离心模型试验,对加筋土挡墙墙背土压力分布规律、挡墙面板和填土的沉降情况以及拉筋的拉力分布规律进行了详细而系统的研究。特别是精心设计出离心模型试验中三级挡墙的面板与拉筋的联结,较真实地反映了实际工程中加筋土挡墙整体复合结构的力学特性。根据研究结果,提出了巫山新城加筋土挡墙修复加固方案,编制了设计报告,并加以实施。目前,修复加固工程效果良好。　对库区,乃至全国超高加筋土挡墙的建设均有指导和示范作用。  相似文献