Two types of the Jurassic basins are distinguished in SE China based on their geodynamic features: the Late Triassic-Early
Jurassic post-orogenic basins and the Middle Jurassic intra-continental extensional basins. The Lower Jurassic sequence shows
a change from coarse- to fine-grained accumulation, suggesting a gradually deepening depositional environment from river to
shore-lake and to deep-water lake. In contrast, the Middle Jurassic accumulation was changed from claystone to conglomerate
along the coastal provinces in SE China, indicative of an initial crustal uplift. The Wuyi Mountains have been a paleogeograghic
separating zone since the Middle Jurassic. The Late Jurassic strata are absent in most areas of SE China. A large-scale bimodal
intra-continental rift-type volcanism occurred during the Middle Jurassic along a 40–60 km wide and 200 km long area in western
Fujian and southern Jiangxi provinces, which is most likely the strongest volcanism in SE China since the Cambrian. The SHRIMP
zircon U-Pb analyses on the rhyolite from the Dongkeng basin in the southern Jiangxi area yield a concord U-Pb age of 160±0.5
Ma, providing an upper age limit for the bimodal volcanic eruption. The analyses of the basin features indicate a change of
the depositional environment during the interval from Middle Triassic to Late Triassic from a shallow-sea to an intra-continent
in SE China in response to the strong collision between the Yangtze and North China Blocks. Sedimentary structures record
a southward direction of Early Jurassic paleo-currents, reflecting that their source areas were to the north side. We propose
that the Wuyi region was uplifted as early as Middle Jurassic, followed by a wide E-W-trending extended depression and bimodal
volcanism in the western foot of the Wuyi Mountains. Presumably the uplift of the Wuyi domain changed the Middle Jurassic
paleogeographic outline and formed the transformational tectonic regime from compression to extension as a tectonic response
to the Pacific plate subduction. 相似文献
We use 15 seismic stations,crossing the Qinling orogen(QO),Weihe graben(WG)and Ordos block(OB),to study the crustal structures by receiver functions(RFs)methods.The results show quite a difference in crustal structures and materials of three tectonic units(orogenic belt,extentional basin and stable craton).The average crustal thickness in the northern QO is 37.8 km,and Poisson ratio is 0.247,which indicates the increase of felsic materials in QO.In the southern OB,the average crustal thickness is 39.2 km and Poisson ratio is 0.265.Comparatively high value of Poisson ratio is related with old crystallized base in the lower crust and shallow sediments.The artificial RFs reveal that low-velocity and thick sediments have a significant effect on phases of the Mohorovi i discontinuity(Moho).As a result,the Moho phases in WG are tangled.S-wave velocity(VS)inversion shows that there are shallow sediment layers with 4–8 km’s thickness and high velocity zones in the middle-lower crust in WG.Complex Moho structure and high velocity zone may have been induced by the activities of the Weihe faults series. 相似文献
A portable broadband seismic array was deployed from the northeast Tibetan Plateau to the southwest Ordos block, China. The seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Liupanshan area is obtained using receiver function analysis of teleseismic body waves. The crustal thickness and Poisson’s ratios are estimated by stacking the weighted amplitudes of receiver functions. Our results reveal complex seismic phases in the Liupanshan area, implying intense deformation at the boundary between the Tibetan Plateau and the Ordos block. The average crustal thickness is 51.5 km in the northeast Tibetan Plateau, 53.5 km in the Liupan Mountain and 50 km in the southwest Ordos block, resulting in a concave Moho beneath the Liupan Mountain. The Poisson’s ratio of the Liupanshan area varies between 0.27–0.29, higher than the value of 0.25–0.26 to the east and west of the Liupan Mountain, suggesting partial melting in the lower crust. The variance in Poisson’s ratio across the Liupan Mountain indicates notable changes in the crustal composition and mechanical properties, which may be formed by the northeastward flow of the Tibetan lower crust during the India-Eurasia collision.
The authors select different grain size samples from granitic body in Weishan, central Hunan, to conduct mylonitization experiments
under high temperature (HT) and high pressure (HP), by which the temperature and pressure conditions of mylonitization and
microstructures of deformation have been obtained. Through the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations of experimental
mylonite, we calculate its dislocation density (D), differential rheological stress (Pd) and speed rate of strain (Rs): 3.20x109/cm2, 139.32 MPa and 6.39x10-10/s respectively. The results are in the same magnitude-order with those of natural mylonite from fault zones. By comparison
and analysis of chemical compositions and microstructures of different structural environments, the authors establish approximate
rheological parameters related to shallow structural level and also suggest the multiple rheological properties and total
trend from deep structural level to shallow structural level. 相似文献