Particle-size distributions of low-angle normal fault breccias: Implications for slip mechanisms on weak faults     

《Journal of Structural Geology》2013

Slip on low-angle normal faults is not well understood because they slip at high angles to the maximum principal stress directions. These faults are considered weak and their motion cannot be explained using standard Byerlee friction and Andersonian fault mechanics. One proposed mechanism for weak fault slip is reduction of effective normal stress induced by high pore-fluid pressure. This mechanism is likely to allow dilation of the fault zone and, therefore, affect the particle-size distribution of fault breccia, which has been shown to differ for unconstrained versus constrained comminution. High pore-fluid pressure can cause dilation which leads to unconstrained comminution. We analyze samples from the footwalls of two low-angle normal faults in southern California (West Salton and Whipple detachment faults) to determine the fault-rock textures and grain-size distributions (GSDs). The GSDs are fractal with fractal dimensions ranging from ∼2.6 to 3.4. The lower end of this range is thought to reflect constrained comminution and only occurs in samples from the footwall of a small-offset “minidetachment” fault about 100 m below the Whipple detachment. The higher fractal dimensions are common in cataclasites related to the main faults and also reflect constrained comminution but are overprinted by shear localization. Our GSDs are similar to those from natural and laboratory-deformed fault rocks from strong faults. We conclude that if high pore-fluid pressure aided slip on these faults, it did not strongly affect mechanisms by which brecciation occurs, implying that fluid pressure generally was sublithostatic. Independent evidence exists for lithostatic fluid pressure that having dropped or cycled to hydrostatic levelsin the minidetachment, but our GSD results suggest that periods of high fluid pressure were too short or infrequent for unconstrained comminution to have been the dominant cataclastic mechanism. Fractal dimensions of ∼2.6 for these samples suggest that little subsequent abrasion occurred due to shear localization, consistent with minor offset on the minidetachment. Main detachment footwall samples with fractal dimensions ≥3 reflect constrained comminution followed by shear-related abrasion, and suggest that seismic cycling was important in formation of main detachment cataclasites.  相似文献   

“云娜”台风影响的商城特大暴雨过程分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

朱文洁王志强  孙永霞冯庆合  朱艳红易亮 《河南气象》2006,(1):25-26

利用常规资料、天气图、物理量诊断分析等资料,对“云娜”登陆后的特征及其对商城造成特大暴雨的天气过程进行了分析,结果表明:强大深厚的台风低压是主要影响系统;华北地区弱冷空气侵入台风倒槽是主要原因;地形对降水起增幅作用;水汽通量和垂直速度中心与特大暴雨落区一致,对特大暴雨具有指示意义。  相似文献   

西太平洋暖池海温对华南前汛期降水影响的数值试验   总被引：14，自引：10，他引：14  

陈艺敏  钱永甫 《热带气象学报》2005,21(1):13-23

简要地介绍了全球大气环流模式CCM3,由该模式模拟得到降水、位势高度场和风场,分析它的模拟性能。根据华南前汛期(4～6月)降水与西太平洋暖池敏感海区(西区)海温的负相关关系,设计了两组敏感性试验,讨论西区海温对华南前汛期降水影响的确定性和可能的物理机制。模拟结果表明,当西区为冷水年(暖水年)时,华南降水偏多(少),长江中下游相对偏少(多),相关最好的地区是广东省,与诊断分析结果相符。海温对降水的影响是通过大气环流场来实现的,因此,再用P-σ九层区域气候模式模拟了西区海温异常年大气环流对华南前汛期降水的影响,与CCM3模拟结果基本一致。  相似文献   

碳同位素动力学模拟及其在天然气评价中的应用   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

李贤庆  肖贤明田辉 TANG Yong-chun方家虎  周强 《地学前缘》2005,12(4):543-550

天然气碳同位素动力学模拟是国际油气地球化学界的前沿性研究方向。它和盆地沉积埋藏史、受热史结合起来,对于评价天然气的成因和成藏历史是一种新而且有效的手段,正逐渐为人们所接受。介绍了天然气形成的碳同位素动力学模拟,以及其在评价天然气的成熟度、气源、运移-聚集史和油气比研究等方面应用的新进展,充分展示了其具有良好的应用价值。天然气碳同位素特征不仅受母源、成熟度的影响,而且与运聚条件、沉积盆地增温速率有关。瞬时聚集气与累积聚集气在碳同位素特征存在明显差别。碳同位素分馏动力学模型在不同含油气盆地会存在差异,不仅取决于气源条件,还与运移-聚集史、沉积-构造史有关。中国叠合型盆地天然气藏成因复杂,具有多期、多源的特点,本研究对这类天然气的研究与评价提供了新思路。  相似文献   

反滤回灌井的结构设计理论和方法   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

李旺林 《地下水》2009,31(1):126-129

反滤回灌井是地下水库中一种有效的回灌设施,它由回灌井和回灌池组成,回灌池位于井口、具有反滤功能。介绍了反滤回灌井单井回灌量的计算方法,提出反滤回灌井结构设计的原则和方法。回灌池反滤结构应有两层,上部反滤层应能过滤回灌水中的杂质,选择较细的砂粒;下部反滤层应能防止上层反滤料通过井盖的孔口落入井内,选择较粗的砾类。从过流能力和水流流态的角度。对回灌池的外型进行了优化,探讨了回灌池池口和池底横截面面积的比例,提出应选择抛物线型竖向剖面,同时介绍了回灌池防淤和抗冲设计的方法。  相似文献   

The warm pool in the Indian Ocean   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

P. N. Vinayachandran  S. R. Shetye 《Journal of Earth System Science》1991,100(2):165-175

The structure of the warm pool (region with temperature greater than 28°C) in the equatorial Indian Ocean is examined and compared with its counterpart in the Pacific Ocean using the climatology of Levitus. Though the Pacific warm pool is larger and warmer, a peculiarity of the pool in the Indian Ocean is its seasonal variation. The surface area of the pool changes from 24 × 10⁶ km² in April to 8 × 10⁶ km² in September due to interaction with the southwest monsoon. The annual cycles of sea surface temperature at locations covered by the pool during at least a part of the year show the following modes: (i) a cycle with no significant variation (observed in the western equatorial Pacific and central and eastern equatorial Indian Ocean), (ii) a single maximum/minimum (northern and southern part of the Pacific warm pool and the south Indian Ocean), (iii) two maxima/minima (Arabian Sea, western equatorial Indian Ocean and southern Bay of Bengal), and (iv) a rapid rise, a steady phase and a rapid fall (northern Bay of Bengal).  相似文献   

从微体化石看西太平洋暖池的形成与演化   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9       下载免费PDF全文

翦知湣  李保华  王吉良 《第四纪研究》2003,23(2):185-192

通过对南海大洋钻探ODP第184航次的ODP1143站和ODP1146站以及中德合作"太阳号"95航次的南沙海区17957-2柱状样中微体化石进行定量分析,提取了近18MaB.P.以来南海上部海水垂向结构的变化.结果发现11.5～10.6MaB.P.之间和3.6～3.3MaB.P.以来南海温跃层深度的南北梯度明显增大,指示了西太平洋暖池雏形的开始和现代暖池的最终形成,且分别对应于印度尼西亚海道和巴拿马地峡的关闭.此后,南沙海区的温跃层深度自约0.9MaB.P.逐渐变浅,至约0.15MaB.P.又再变深,反映了西太平洋暖池的减弱和再次加强.因而,晚新生代西太平洋暖池的形成和演化呈现阶段性.  相似文献   

基于Kiwi数据格式的地图显示研究   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：7  

徐敬海  李清泉  宋莺  郑年波 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》2005,30(10):866-869

在分析Kiwi显示数据存储组织方法的基础上,研究了Kiwi显示数据在内存中的动态组织,改进了地图显示的二级缓存方法,提出了地图显示的双缓冲池策略。试验结果表明,本文研究的数据动态组织方法和地图显示策略提高了地图显示速度。  相似文献   

The variation of sediments organic carbon content in Chongming east tidal flat during Scirpus mariqueter growing stage   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

CHEN Hua  WANG Dongqi  CHEN Zhenlou  WANG Jun  XU Shiyuan 《地理学报》2005,15(4):500-508

The investigations on the organic carbon (OC) of core sediments were carried out in Chongming east tidal flat (CM) during Scirpus mariqueter growing stage (from April to December 2004) in Yangtze Estuary. The Yangtze River annually transports a runoff discharge of 30,000 m3/s, carrying about 480 million tons of sediments to the estuarine and coastal area, which formed a great OC pool. In the sampling spots, seven quadrats of 50 cm × 50 cm and five sediments cores of 20 cm deep (40 cm deep in December) were randomly established in order to collect vegetations and core sediments samples during the low tide each month except November. After pretreatment, the core sediments were sieved and their OC contents were measured according to the potassium dichromate method. The results show that the higher surface sediment OC content in summer comes from allochthonous terrigenous particle settlements on the Chongming east middle tidal flat S. mariqueter zone. In autumn and winter, the decomposing of the defoliated S. mariqueter increases the surface sediments OC content. Settling velocity, sediment temperature and S. mariqueter growth are the main factors that can control the sediment carbon content. Summer is the "carbon losing" period of the tidal flat sediments, while from September, it changes into the "carbon accumulating" period of sediment OC pool because of the decomposing of dead S. mariqueter community in the sediments. From this alternation of "carbon losing" period and "carbon accumulating" period, we conclude that carbon in the OC pool of the middle tidal flat S. mariqueter zone sediments mainly comes from the atmospheric carbon rooted by S. mariqueter photosynthesis.  相似文献   

克拉玛依近40年来气温变化特征分析     

杨建成  孙东霞 《沙漠与绿洲气象(新疆气象)》2005,28(1):11-12

利用1961～2000年克拉玛依的逐月平均气温、平均最高、最低气温、高温日数等资料，对克拉玛依近40年的气温变化作了较全面的分析。  相似文献