Eocene extensional tectonics in the Amakusa region,northern Ryukyu arc     

Kentaro Ushimaru  Atsushi Yamaji 《Island Arc》2024,33(1):e12511

Paleogene surface tectonics in Japan is not well understood because of the paucity of onshore Paleogene stratigraphic records except for those from accretionary complexes. Paralic Paleogene formations remaining in SW Japan are usually so thin that it is difficult to decipher the tectonics from them. However, the Eocene paralic sedimentary package with a thickness of kilometers indicates syn-depositional tectonic subsidence by a few kilometers in the Amakusa archipelago, west of Kyushu Island. Thus, we made a detailed geological map of the Eocene formations in an area of ~50 square kilometers in the northwestern part of the archipelago. We identified NE-SW and NW-SE trending normal faults, most of which were recognized by previous researchers, and also discovered low-angle faults. NW-SE trending ones are known to be of the Miocene. NE-SW trending and low-angle normal faults are the oldest map-scale structures in the Eocene ones. It is not obvious within the above-mentioned area whether those normal faults are accompanied by growth strata. However, the significant southeastward thickening of the Eocene formations across the Amakusa archipelago suggests that they filled a large half graben with the basin margin fault along the eastern side of the archipelago. This basin model is consistent with the N-S to NW-SE transport directions of the low-angle and NE-SW trending normal faults. Since many NE-SW to EW trending Eocene grabens were formed in the offshore regions west of Kyushu Island and in the East China Sea, the Amakusa region was probably a northeastern branch of the rift system. The geologic structures and depositional ages of the Eocene formations indicate that the Eocene extensional tectonics removed the overlying strata to some extent for the high-P/T Takahama Metamorphic Rocks which crops out to the south of our study area.  相似文献   

The 1982 COCRUST seismic experiment across the Ottawa–Bonnechere graben and Grenville Front in Ontario and Quebec     

R. F. Mereu  D. Wang  O. Kuhn  D. A. Forsyth  A. G. Green  P. Morel  G. G. R. Buchbinder  D. Crossley  E. Schwarz  R. duBerger  C. Brooks  R. Clowes 《Geophysical Journal International》1986,84(3):491-514

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渭河断陷及邻近地区震源空间分布规律探讨   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

袁志祥  狄秀玲  丁韫玉 《地震工程学报》1998,20(3):73-78

选取１０３°～１１３°Ｅ,３１°～３９°Ｎ范围内陕西、山西、河南、湖北、甘肃、宁夏等省（区）共７９个地震观测台站１９８４—１９９３年的观测资料,对于被４个以上台站所记录到的地震,根据其直达横波与纵波的到时差,采用鲍威尔（Ｐｏｗｅｌ）搜索法重新进行了定位,测定了震源深度,共得到２０５１个可定震中的地震的震源深度数据．作出了渭河断陷及邻近地区现代地震的震中分布图、震源空间分布图、震源深度的平均等值线分布图、震源深度的经向剖面图和纬向剖面图．根据这些资料对震源空间分布规律进行了初步探讨．结果表明,渭河断陷及邻近地区震源的空间分布是不均匀的,与该地区大地构造的差异性及地壳速度结构的非均匀性密切相关．  相似文献   

汤阴地堑及邻区的壳幔结构与地震危险性     

任青芳  张先康 《东北地震研究》1998,14(3):10-16

本文利用荷泽－林县－长治剖面西段和郑州－济南剖面南段深地震测深资料,通过一、二维计算与解释,获得了汤阴地堑及邻区的二维速度结构。结果显示：该区地壳上地幔结构在纵、横向上均具明显的差异,地壳厚度变化大局部存在低速块体,对应汤阴地堑为Ｍ面隆起,隆起高点Ｍ面埋深为３１ｋｍ,向东往浚县隆起区Ｍ面逐渐加深３２ｋｍ,向西往太行山前隆起Ｍ面为一陡变带,至长治附近Ｍ面埋深增至４０ｋｍ。根据华北地区历史地震与深部结  相似文献   

The anisotropy of loess magnetic susceptibility in the northeastern fringe of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau as an indicator of palaeowind direction     

王建力 《中国地理科学(英文版)》1998,8(1):85-90

ＴＨＥＡＮＩＳＯＴＲＯＰＹＯＦＬＯＥＳＳＭＡＧＮＥＴＩＣＳＵＳＣＥＰＴＩＢＩＬＩＴＹＩＮＴＨＥＮＯＲＴＨＥＡＳＴＥＲＮＦＲＩＮＧＥＯＦＱＩＮＧＨＡＩＸＩＺＡＮＧＰＬＡＴＥＡＵＡＳＡＮＩＮＤＩＣＡＴＯＲＯＦＰＡＬＡＥＯＷＩＮＤＤＩＲＥＣＴＩＯＮＷａｎ...  相似文献   

福建省均口断陷带的地质特征及其演化     

黄长煌  傅绩华 《福建地质》1998,17(1):16-23

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   

The use of GIS and remote sensing for the assessment of waterlogging in the dryland irrigated catchments of Farafra Oasis,Egypt     

Mohammed El Bastawesy  Rafat Ramadan Ali 《水文研究》2013,27(2):206-216

This paper investigates the interplay of the hydrogeological characteristics, soil properties and recent land reclamation projects on the distribution of waterlogging and salinization within the Farafra Oasis. The multi‐temporal remote sensing data and field observations show that new reclaimed areas have been recently cultivated in distant areas from the old agricultural land. These new cultivations have developed widespread waterlogging, seepage channels and soil salinization. Analyses of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model (DEM) showed that both old and new agricultural areas are located within same closed drainage basin. The fluvial channels of these catchments, which were developed during wet climatic pluvial, have largely been obliterated by the prevailing aridity and often buried under aeolian deposits. However, the new cultivations have been developed on the fingertips of these fluvial channels, while the old fields occupy the low‐level playas. The soil of the new cultivated areas is mainly lithic with a high calcium carbonate content, thus limiting the downward percolation of excess irrigation water and therefore developing perched water table and seepage through the palaeo‐channels. The automatically extracted drainage networks from DEM resemble fluvial patterns and coincide with the seepage channels slowly heading toward old cultivation. The inactive alluvial channels and landforms have to be considered when planning for new cultivation in dryland catchments to better control waterlogging and salinization hazard. It is highly recommended that newly developed seepage channels have to be detected and intercepted before reaching old agriculture areas. Therefore, the ‘dry‐drainage’ concept can be implemented as the seepage water can be conveyed into nearby playas reserved for evaporation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Landform and sediment imprints of fast glacier flow in the southwest Laurentide Ice Sheet     

David J. A. Evans  Chris D. Clark  Brice R. Rea 《第四纪科学杂志》2008,23(3):249-272

Evidence for former fast glacier flow (ice streaming) in the southwest Laurentide Ice Sheet is identified on the basis of regional glacial geomorphology and sedimentology, highlighting the depositional processes associated with the margin of a terrestrial terminating ice stream. Preliminary mapping from a digital elevation model of Alberta identifies corridors of smoothed topography and corridor‐parallel streamlined landforms (megaflutes to mega‐lineations) that display high levels of spatial coherency. Ridges that lie transverse to the dominant streamlining patterns are interpreted as: (a) series of minor recessional push moraines; (b) thrust block moraines or composite ridges/hill–hole pairs constructed during readvances/surges; and (c) overridden moraines (cupola hills), apparently of thrust origin. Together these landforms demarcate the beds and margins of former fast ice flow trunks or ice streams that terminated as lobate forms. Localised cross‐cutting and/or misalignment of flow sets indicates temporal separation and the overprinting of ice streams/lobes. The fast‐flow tracks are separated by areas of interlobate or inter‐stream terrain in which moraines have been constructed at the margins of neighbouring (competing) ice streams/outlet glaciers; this inter‐stream terrain was covered by more sluggish, non‐streaming ice during full glacial conditions. Thin tills at the centres of the fast‐flow corridors, in many places unconformably overlying stratified sediments, suggest that widespread till deformation may have been subordinate to basal sliding in driving fast ice flow but the general thickening of tills towards the lobate terminal margins of ice streams/outlet glaciers is consistent with subglacial deformation theory. In this area of relatively low relief we speculate that fast glacier flow or streaming was highly dynamic and transitory, sometimes with fast‐flowing trunks topographically fixed in their onset zones and with the terminus migrating laterally. The occurrence of minor push moraines and flutings and associated landforms, because of their similarity to modern active temperate glacial landsystems, are interpreted as indicative of ice lobe marginal oscillations, possibly in response to seasonal climatic forcing, in locations where meltwater was more effectively drained from the glacier bed. Further north, the occurrence of surging glacier landsystems suggests that persistent fast glacier flow gave way to more transitory surging, possibly in response to the decreasing size of ice reservoir areas in dispersal centres and also locally facilitated by ice‐bed decoupling and drawdown initiated by the development of ice‐dammed lakes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Meso-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Dangyang Basin,north-central Yangtze craton,central China     

《International Geology Review》2012,54(3):382-396

Based on detailed structural data and available tectonic chronological data from the Dangyang Basin, the authors propose that the north-central Yangtze craton experienced three stages of tectonic evolution since Late Triassic time. In the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic (T₃–J₁), due to the Indosinian orogeny, nearly N–S compression and shortening occurred, which initiated the Dangyang Basin as a foreland basin of the Qinling–Dabie orogen. During the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous (J₃–K₁) period, the Yanshanian intracontinental orogeny caused contemporaneous NE–SW and NW–SE shortening, which resulted in intense folding of the foreland basin; contraction formed a brush structure diverging in a SE direction and strongly converging in a NW direction around the Huangling anticline. In the Late Cretaceous to Palaeogene, the Yuan'an and Hanshui grabens were separated from other parts of the Dangyang Basin due to post-orogenic ENE–WSW extension. Finally, at the end of the Palaeogene, ENE–WSW shortening led to inversion and deformation of the grabens.  相似文献   

河南省舞阳铁矿田岗庙刘铁矿床的地质特征及构造控矿分析          下载免费PDF全文

刘昭宜 《地质找矿论丛》2012,27(2):180-185

文章从地层、构造、矿体和矿石等方面总结了河南省舞阳铁矿田岗庙刘铁矿床的地质特征,分析了控制铁矿床的地质构造.铁矿床为沉积变质型铁矿,含矿岩系位于新太古界铁山庙组的上、下混合岩段之间;矿床赋存的空间位置严格受地堑和地垒式断块控制;古侵蚀面不整合构造面只使岗庙刘矿床中部矿块的矿石全部氧化,而对东部和西部矿块没有造成很大的影响.  相似文献