“构造研究进展与趋势”专辑特邀主编寄语

Guest Editor's Preface to the “Review and Tendency of Structural Research”

构造研究是地球系统科学研究中最具有交叉学科性质的领域,是长期经久不衰的学科,尤其涉及到解决对人类社会至关重要的问题时凸显它的重要性,如青藏高原形成演化过程对资源能源、地表作用及其环境气候与灾害的影响,以及地震活动对人类社会的冲击等等。地质学家们经过长期的持续研究,在地质学、地球物理学方面,包括岩石圈流变学、实验岩石学和青藏高原构造变形等方面取得了一系列重大成果与重要认识。《地球学报》集中在2019年第1期刊发16篇文章作为"构造研究进展与趋势"专辑,专辑涵盖了四个方向的研究成果:(1)大陆岩石圈流变学;(2)青藏高原形成与构造过程;(3)断裂作用与地震活动;(4)地区构造样式与效应等。这些工作主要涉及目前大陆岩石圈流变学的发展现状与前景、青藏高原形成演化和帕米尔及喀喇昆仑断裂带等重要构造带的研究进展,以及目前人们关注的与地震活动相关的断裂活动、岩石记录和物理化学性质变化等方面的研究,包括8篇综述性文章和8篇研究性成果。本文将从这4个研究方向简要介绍收入本专辑论文的研究工作,呈现构造研究成果与趋势,为深入研究和认识地球系统科学提供重要的基础。

Structural research is the most interdisciplinary field in earth system science,and also a long-lasting science topic.In particular,it addresses the importance of the geological structure in solving the issues critical to human society,such as the impact of the evolution of the Tibetan Plateau on energy resources,surface effect,and its climate and environmental disasters,and the impact of seismic activity on the population.Based on a long-term continuous research,geologists have obtained a series of major achievements and important understandings in geology and geophysics,including lithospheric rheology,experimental petrology,and tectonic deformation of the Tibetan Plateau.The first Acta Geoscientica Sinica special issue contains 16 papers in the"Review and Tendency of Structural Research".This special issue covers the following four subjects:(1)continental lithospheric rheology,(2)the formation and tectonic processes of the Tibetan Plateau,(3)faulting and seismic activities,and(4)regional structural style and effect.These papers mainly discuss the current development status and prospects of the continental lithospheric rheology,the formation and evolution of the Tibetan Plateau,and the research progress of important tectonic belts such as the Pamir and Karakorum fault zones,as well as the current fault activities,rock records,changes in the physico-chemical properties related to seismic activity.This special issue includes 8 review papers and 8 research papers.This introduction aims to briefly introduce each study according to the four subjects and to present the achievements and tendency of structural research,in order to provide significant basic data for the further studying and understanding of the Earth system science.