A gravity and magnetic survey has been carried out with the purpose of investigating geophysical features of the crusts beneath three geological provinces in western Argentina: Cuyo Precordillera, the Sierras Pampeanas of San Juan and La Rioja, and Famatina System, the results of which are displayed in three maps: Bouguer anomaly, total field magnetic anomaly and total field reduced to the pole.
The top and bottom boundaries of the magnetized crust were calculated from power-density spectra of the total-field anomalies from our terrestrial database in 90 2D windows. The depths obtained for the bottom of magnetized crust are assumed to correspond to Curie point depths. The values thus obtained for the Precordillera range between 29 and 40 km, whereas for the Sierras Pampeanas, in the Sierra de Pie de Palo, and other mountain chains along the Bermejo-Desaguadero lineament or Valle Fértil lineament, such depth ranges between 20 and 35 km. These results are consistent with Curie point depths determined on different continental regions in the world.
A map of regional heat flow has been prepared in the present work based on the depth of the Curie point isotherm, which shows that heat flow patterns in Precordillera are different from those found in Sierras Pampeanas.
A significant heat flow extending in Northeast-Southwest direction seems to be directly related to Juan Fernández Ridge trace.
The results of the present investigations also point out a possible relationship between the base of the magnetized crust and the boundary separating the brittle from the ductile crustal regime. 相似文献
This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of the time τ between two consecutive events in a stationary point process.
The study is motivated by the discovery of unified scaling laws for τ for the case of seismic events. We demonstrate that
these laws cannot exist simultaneously in a seismogenic area. Under very natural assumptions we show that if, after rescaling
to ensure Eτ =1, the interevent time has a universal distribution F, then F must be exponential. In other words, Corral’s unified scaling law cannot exist in the whole range of time. In the framework
of a general cluster model we discuss the parameterization of an empirical unified law and the physical meaning of the parameters
involved.
An erratum to this article is available at . 相似文献
The main goal of this work is to critically review the IGS solution products and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) in order
to demonstrate their potential to contribute to studies of large earthquakes such as the one that devastated Southeast Asia
on December 26th, 2004. In view of a possible detection of the Mw 9.0 Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake of December 26, 2004,
position solutions, ranging from intervals of years to one second, of four International GNSS Service (IGS) stations within
3000 km of the epicenter were examined. The IGS combined, cumulative solution product (IGS04P51), consisting of epoch and
station velocity solutions and based on data spans of several years prior to the earthquake, was used as a reference. Four
IGS combined weekly position solutions (igs04P1301-4), two weeks before and after the earthquake, were utilized for the weekly
solution resolution. PPP static and kinematic solutions with IGS Final combined orbits and clocks were used for the mean daily
and instantaneous 5-min and 1-sec epoch solutions, respectively. The most significant changes, detected by both weekly and
daily solutions occurred in longitude. The nearest IGS station ntus, about 1000 km east of the epicenter, moved westward about
15 mm, while the more distant Indian station iisc (∼ 2300 km NW from the epicenter), shifted about 15 mm eastward. In spite
of position errors caused by interpolation of the 5-min IGS clocks, the 1-sec solutions, based on separate data sets, available
only for two stations (iisc, dgar), still showed seismic surface waves, in particular at the Indian station iisc. Precise
daily IGS combined polar motion and length-of-day products, after correcting for the atmospheric effects, also likely detected,
statistically significant, anomalistic excitations on December 26, 2004 that could be caused by this great earthquake. 相似文献
The Tres Arboles ductile fault zone in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, central Argentina, experienced multiple ductile deformation and faulting events that involved a variety of textural and reaction hardening and softening processes. Much of the fault zone is characterized by a (D2) ultramylonite, composed of fine‐grained biotite + plagioclase, that lacks a well‐defined preferred orientation. The D2 fabric consists of a strong network of intergrown and interlocking grains that show little textural evidence for dislocation or dissolution creep. These ultramylonites contain gneissic rock fragments and porphyroclasts of plagioclase, sillimanite and garnet inherited from the gneissic and migmatitic protolith (D1) of the hangingwall. The assemblage of garnet + sillimanite + biotite suggests that D1‐related fabrics developed under upper amphibolite facies conditions, and the persistence of biotite + garnet + sillimanite + plagioclase suggests that the ultramylonite of D2 developed under middle amphibolite facies conditions. Greenschist facies, mylonitic shear bands (D3) locally overprint D2 ultramylonites. Fine‐grained folia of muscovite + chlorite ± biotite truncate earlier biotite + plagioclase textures, and coarser‐grained muscovite partially replaces relic sillimanite grains. Anorthite content of shear band (D3) plagioclase is c. An30, distinct from D1 and D2 plagioclase (c. An35). The anorthite content of D3 plagioclase is consistent with a pervasive grain boundary fluid that facilitated partial replacement of plagioclase by muscovite. Biotite is partially replaced by muscovite and/or chlorite, particularly in areas of inferred high strain. Quartz precipitated in porphyroclast pressure shadows and ribbons that help define the mylonitic fabric. All D3 reactions require the introduction of H+ and/or H2O, indicating an open system, and typically result in a volume decrease. Syntectonic D3 muscovite + quartz + chlorite preferentially grew in an orientation favourable for strain localization, which produced a strong textural softening. Strain localization occurred only where reactions progressed with the infiltration of aqueous fluids, on a scale of hundreds of micrometre. Local fracturing and microseismicity may have induced reactivation of the fault zone and the initial introduction of fluids. However, the predominant greenschist facies deformation (D3) along discrete shear bands was primarily a consequence of the localization of replacement reactions in a partially open system. 相似文献