The Zihuatanejo, Mexico, earthquake of 1994 December 10 (M= 6.6): source characteristics and tectonic implications     

M. Cocco  J. Pacheco  S. K. Singh  F. Courboulex 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,131(1):135-145

An analysis of the Zihuatanejo, Mexico, earthquake of 1994 December 10 ( M = 6.6), based on teleseismic and near-source data, shows that it was a normal-faulting, intermediate-depth ( H = 50 ± 5 km) event. It was located about 30 km inland, within the subducted Cocos plate. The preferred fault plane has an azimuth of 130°, a dip of 79° and a rake of −86°. The rupture consisted of two subevents which were separated in time by about 2 s, with the second subevent occurring downdip of the first. The measured stress drop was relatively high, requiring a Δσ of about a kilobar to explain the high-frequency level of the near-source spectra. A rough estimate of the thickness of the seismogenic part of the oceanic lithosphere below Zihuatanejo, based on the depth and the rupture extent of this event, is 40 km.
This event and the Oaxaca earthquake of 1931 January 15 ( M = 7.8) are the two significant normal-faulting, intermediate-depth shocks whose epicentres are closest to the coast. Both of these earthquakes were preceded by several large to great shallow, low-angle thrust earthquakes, occurring updip. The observations in other subduction zones show just the opposite: normal-faulting events precede, not succeed, updip, thrust shocks. Indeed, the thrust events, soon after their occurrence, are expected to cause compression in the slab, thus inhibiting the occurrence of normal-faulting events. To explain the occurrence of the Zihuatanejo earthquake, we note that the Cocos plate, after an initial shallow-angle subduction, unbends and becomes subhorizontal. In the region of the unbending, the bottom of the slab is in horizontal extension. We speculate that the large updip seismic slip during shallow, low-angle thrust events increases the buckling of the slab, resulting in an incremental tensional stress at the bottom of the slab and causing normal-faulting earthquakes. This explanation may also hold for the 1931 Oaxaca event.  相似文献   

Three-dimensional velocity structure of the upper mantle beneath Costa Rica from a teleseismic tomography study     

D. Colombo  G. B. Cimini  R. de  Franco 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,131(2):189-208

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Deformation of subducted oceanic lithosphere   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Gregory A. Houseman  David Gubbins 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,131(3):535-551

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Inelastic models of lithospheric stress-11. Implications for outer-rise seismicity and dynamics     

Steve Mueller  William Spence  George L. Choy 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,125(1):54-72

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Gaussian curvature and the relationship between the shape and the deformation of the Tonga slab     

Sarah Nothard  Dan McKenzie  John Haines  James Jackson 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,127(2):311-327

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南天山蛇绿混杂岩和中天山南缘糜棱岩的⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar年龄及其大地构造意义   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8       下载免费PDF全文

蔡东升  卢华复  贾东  吴世敏  陈楚铭 《地质科学》1996,(4):384

 ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar同位素年龄测定,获得南天山蛇绿混杂岩基质黑云母石英片岩单矿物黑云母的两个坪年龄分别为(370.0±4.8)Ma和(259.0±3.3)Ma;中天山南缘长英质糜棱岩单矿物黑云母的坪年龄为(250.5±7.9)Ma,二云母花岗岩单矿物白云母的坪年龄为(348.9±0.3)Ma。结合南天山古生代沉积特征和塔里木及伊犁-哈萨克斯坦板块古地磁数据的综合分析,提出南天山晚泥盆世至石炭纪早期完成向伊犁-哈萨克斯坦板块的B型俯冲,中-晚二叠世进行陆内A型俯冲造山的板块碰撞演化模式。  相似文献   

扬子克拉通北缘中、新元古代洋壳俯冲及壳幔再循环作用的同位素地球化学证据   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

凌文黎  张本仁  张宏飞  骆庭川 《地球科学》1996,(3)

报道和总结了近期陕西汉中碑坝和西乡地区重要地质体系统同位素年代研究成果，在重新厘定的年代学基础上，就扬子克拉通北缘同位素特征及其地质意义进行剖析，依据该区岩浆作用的上地幔源区性质及演化规律，提出了中、新元古代扬子克拉通北缘存在与现代板块运动类似的洋壳俯冲和壳幔再循环作用的同位素地球化学证据  相似文献   

含油气盆地地球动力学模式   总被引：34，自引：1，他引：34  

陈发景  汪新文 《地质论评》1996,42(4):304-310

文章讨论了含油气盆地地球动力学模式,其中着重讨论了以下几个问题:(1)沉积盆地地球动力学研究的进展,使得能够提出一种根据盆地所处的板块位置和地球动力学模型进行划分的含油气盆地分类;(2)尽管我们有一些古生代克拉通盆地的地球动力学模式,但其成因机制仍缺乏令人信服的解释;(3)通过大陆内裂谷火山岩化学成分、地温场、构造变形、岩石圈结构以及区域板块构造背景综合分析,我们建立了六种大陆裂谷形成的地球动力学模式;(4)前陆盆地的形成与其周缘造山带密切相关,其地球动力学模式是大陆岩石圈对褶皱冲断带构造负载的挠曲响应;  相似文献   

祁连山地区大地构造演化及其性质特征   总被引：13，自引：1，他引：13  

黄瑞华 《大地构造与成矿学》1996,20(2):95-104

祁连山地区大地构造演化历经了元古代至早古生代的地槽阶段、晚古生代的地台阶段和中、新生代的地洼阶段。地槽阶段元古代为陆块奠基、成长和扩展时期，早古生代为洋壳化板缘构造活动和陆间碰撞构造作用时期。地台阶段大型沉积盆地发育。地洼阶段以陆内造山－造盆作用和块断推覆构造活动为特征。祁连山地区遭受了三次不同性质的造山作用：元古代未托莱运动的陆块挤压褶皱造山作用、加里东晚期祁连运动的陆间碰撞造山作用和中、新生代的陆内块断造山作用。由上，祁连山及其邻区的构造单位由北至南划分如下：（１）走廊地洼；（２）北祁连地穹；（３）中祁连洼陷；（４）南祁连地穹；（５）柴达木地洼。  相似文献   

Geodynamic Background of the Mesozoic Intracontinental Magmatism in Southeast China     

毛建仁  陶奎元等 《中国地球化学学报》1997,16(3):230-239

The authors have proposed a dynamic model in this paper based on the ages,rock series and associations,Sr-Nd isotopic signatures of the Mesozoic intracontinental magmatism overlying the Cathaysian and Yangtze blocks.The model describes the relation of intracontinental collision and subduction in the Tethyan tectonic regie with Paleo-Pacific oceanic plate sudbuction-strike slip-extension in the Pacific tectonic regime.During 220-150Ma,the horizontal collision between the North China block and the Yangtze block,as well as the intracontinental subduction of some divergent microcontinental terranes in the southwestern part of South China are ascribed to the influence of the Tethyan tectonic regime,giving rise to a volume of high-Isr and low-εNd(t) S-type granites only in the Cathaysian Block.During 145-90Ma,under the geodynamic backgound of subduction-strike slip-extension of the Paleo-Pacific oceanic plate on the basis of the deep tectonic process in the Tethyan tectonic regime,high-K,alkalirich calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcano-plutonic complexes were generated in the Yangtze block,and high-K calc-alkalic and bimodal volcano-plutonic complexes were generated in the Cathaysian block.The occurrence of A-type peralkaline granites in the coastal areas of South east China indicates the end of Mesozoic intracontinental magmatism.  相似文献