中国构造地质学发展:百年回顾与展望

Structural geology development in China:one hundred years

一百年以来,中国构造地质学学科发展经历了二十世纪初期萌芽孕育、早期发展和多学派大地构造学说百家争鸣。构造地质学专业委员会的成立和发展,标志着我国构造地质学的教育与研究进入一个新的发展时期。专业委员会长期以“服务国家战略需求、搭建学术交流平台、促进学科前沿发展和开展科学普及”为宗旨,主办、组织召开了系列全国性构造会议和现场研讨会议,搭建全国性和国际性的学术交流平台。我国构造地质学家吸收和借鉴国际先进大地构造和构造地质学理论,以环太平洋洋-陆过渡带、特提斯构造域和古亚洲构造域,特别是青藏高原动力学演化研究为引领,针对地球不同圈层相互作用、互馈机理与动力学,开展板块构造起源与早期地球演化、大陆的生长与再造过程、洋-陆系统演化与深部地球动力学、大陆构造变形与宜居地球系统、活动构造,对资源-环境-灾害的影响等领域开展了研究工作,取得了丰硕的成果。尤其是在新世纪以来,在青藏高原形成演化、华北克拉通破坏、中亚增生型造山带等多个领域取得具有国际水平的研究成果。在构造地质学发展的新阶段,我国构造地质学学科的发展将强化学科基础,推进原创性、创新性理论探索,深化发展板块构造理论,力争在东亚洋陆构造格局与转变、大陆构造变形与人类宜居的地球系统等方面的理论研究上取得原始创新与突破,参与国际地学发展与竞争并作出贡献。

Development of Structural Geology in the last century in China experienced its birth,early development and contention of schools of thoughts of several tectonic theories.The foundation of the Structural Geology Committee has long been committed“to serve the national strategy,to set up academic exchange stage,to promote development of structural geology and geodynamics in the frontiers of the discipline,and to carry out scientific popularization”.The Committee has been dedicated itself to explore the formation and evolution of earth’s crust(or of the earth),to enhance utilization of resources and prevention of natural disasters,and to promote the harmonious development of man and nature.The foundation of the Committee marks a new period of development of the study and education of structural geology and tectonics in China and has built a national and international academic exchange stage for Chinese structural geologists,by hosting and organizing a series of national conferences and field seminars on structural geology and geodynamics.By learning and applying new theories and progresses in plate tectonics and structural geology(Precambrian structure,ductile shear zone,thrust-nappe tectonics and extensional tectonics and basin structures,etc.)from the international community,Chinese structural geologists have extensively studied the tectonic evolution of the Pan-Pacific Ocean-continent transition zone,the Tethys tectonic domain and the paleo-Asian tectonic domain,especially the dynamic evolution of the Tibetan plateau.They have focused on the interaction,feedback mechanisms and dynamics of different layers within the earth,the origin and evolution of early plate tectonics,the growth and reworking of continents,the evolution of ocean-continent systems and deep earth dynamics,continental tectonic deformation and habitable earth system,and active tectonics.Achievement on resources-environment-disaster prevention has served the economic and social development of the country.Structural geology(and geodynamics)has developed rapidly since the beginning of the new century.On one hand,the Committee has organized a series of academic activities,including academic conferences,on-site seminars and online forums.On the other hand,it has achieved brilliant research results.Internationally-famed research work and results have been done on the formation and evolution of the Tibetan plateau,Present-day velocity field of tectonic deformation of China and especially the Tibetan plateau,destruction of the North China craton,accretionary orogenesis of the Central Asian orogenic belt,remobilization and intracontinental orogenesis in South China,the tectonic evolution of the Central China orogenic belt,the ocean-continent transition zone of the western Pacific-northern Indian Ocean,Precambrian geology and supercontinent evolution,active tectonics and earthquake disasters,and mesoscopic to microscopic deformation structures.In the new age of development,structural geology and geodynamics in China will strengthen itself on fundamental research,promote original and innovative theoretical studies,work on new frontiers of plate tectonics.Original innovations and breakthroughs in theoretical researches are expected on the ocean-continent tectonic framework and transformation in East Asia,continental tectonic deformation and habitable earth system,mutual feedback between deep processes and surface systems,and multi-layer interactions earth system science,to contribute to the new progresses in earth sciences in the world.