Crust and upper mantle structure of the Ailao Shan-Red River fault zone and adjacent regions

Using arrival data of the body waves recorded by seismic stations, we reconstructed the velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and the northwestern continental margin of the South China Sea through a travel time tomography technique. The result revealed the apparent tectonic variation along the Ailao Shan-Red River fault zone and its adjacent regions. High velocities are observed in the upper and middle crust beneath the Ailao Shan-Red River fault zone and they reflect the character of the fast uplifting and cooling of the metamorphic belt after the ductile shearing of the fault zone, while low velocities in the lower crust and near the Moho imply a relatively active crust-mantle boundary beneath the fault zone. On the west of the fault zone, the large-scale low velocities in the uppermost mantle beneath western Yunnan prove the influence of the mantle heat flow on volcano, hot spring and magma activities, however, the upper mantle on the east of the fault zone shows a relatively stable structure similar to the Yangtze block. The low velocities of the deep mantle beneath the southeastern extending segment of the fault zone are probably related to the mantle convection produced by the pull-apart of the South China Sea.

New Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Post-kinematic Granitic Plutons in the Diancang Shan Metamorphic Massif along the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone and Its Geological Implications

The Ailao Shan-Red River fault zone is the boundary between the Yangtze block to the northeast and the Indochina block to the southwest.It is an important tectonic zone due to its role in the southeastward extrusion of the Indochina block during and subsequent to the Indian-Eurasian collision.Diancang Shan（DCS） high-grade metamorphic complex,located at the northwest extension along the Ailao Shan-Red River（ASRR） shear zone,is a representative metamorphic complex of the ASRR tectonic belt.Structural and microstructural analysis of sheared rocks in the high-grade metamorphic rocks reveals that they are coherent with solid-state high-temperature ductile deformation,which is attributed to left-lateral shearing along the ASRR shear zone.New LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb geochronological and microstructural studies of the post-kinematic granitic plutons provide a straightforward time constraint on the termination ductile left-lateral shearing and exhumation of the metamorphic massif in the ASRR shear zone.It is suggested that the left-lateral shearing along the ASRR shear zone ended at ca.21 Ma at relative lower-temperature or decreasing temperature conditions.During or after the emplacement of the young dikes at ca.21 Ma,rapid brittle deformation event occurred,which makes the DCS massif start fast uplift/exhumation and cooling to a shallow crustal level.

New evidence of tectonic uplift and transform of movement style along Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone

Using cooling curves of K-feldspars obtained by specific40Ar/39Ar step heating procedure and multiple diffusion domain modeling (MDD model), together with results of dating hornblende, biotite, muscovite, and apatite, this research relates the cooling history of 3 areas, from Ejia in NW to Jinping in SE of Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, and near Hekou (distance about 390 km). The results indicate that the slip distance of Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone is more than 350 km (at least based on the study done within China). And between the end of the left-lateral slip movement and the beginning of the right-lateral slip movement, the uplift of shear zone from SE to NW was homogeneously extended.

西沙群岛和哀牢山红河地区的宽频带地震观测

利用宽频带数字地震仪分别在南海西沙永兴岛和云南哀牢山$C红河断裂带两侧开展了流动观测 ,经过 1a的运行记录了许多地震波形数据 ,为研究南海西北部及哀牢山$C红河地区的深部结构提供了重要的信息 ,也为在海域岛礁地带进行地震观测积累了经验。

哀牢山-红河断裂带新生代构造转换及其动力学机制

哀牢山—红河断裂带位于青藏高原东南缘,由青藏高原延入南海,是一条分割华南地块与印支地块的构造分界线,在地貌上也是一条醒目的分界线。纵向上由4个北西向的长条状变质带组成（雪龙山、点苍山、哀牢山和Day Nui Con Voi变质带）,长约1 200 km。横向上分高级变质带和低级变质带,二者之间为倾向北东的哀牢山逆冲断裂带,其中高级变质带主要由元古界高级片麻岩、混合岩.

Chronological and Geochemical Study of the Cenozoic Potassic Felsic Igneous Rocks in Western Yunnan,SE Tibet:Implications for their Tectonic Mechanisms

Whether there is a relationship between widespread Cenozoic igneous rocks and the activated Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone(ASRR)in western Yunnan,SE Tibet,remains highly controversial.New geochronological,and geochemical data derived from Cenozoic igneous rocks both within and far from the ASRR offers answers.Although these coeval felsic rocks(36.9-33.5 Ma)are enriched in large-ion lithophile elements relative to high field strength elements,they also display some special geochemical features,such as high Y and Yb values of syenitic porphyries,which contrast with the high Sr and low Y contents of monzoporphyries and granitic porphyries.The syenitic porphyries exhibit geochemical characteristics similar to those of coeval mafic magmas,e.g.,high K 2 O,Y,and Yb contents,indicating that the former were probably generated by fractional crystallization of the latter.However,the high Sr/Y(56.1-109)monzoporphyries and granitic porphyries,combined with their low MgO,and Cr(or Ni)contents,suggest that they were mainly derived from partial melting of a thickened mafic lower crust.Given that these Cenozoic magmatic events exhibiting planar distributions occurred outside of the activation of the ASRR(31-20 Ma),then they were not controlled by the latter.Instead,they were tied to convective removal of a thickened lower lithospheric mantle in western Yunnan during the Paleogene.

哀牢山—红河断裂带中南段新生代构造活动的年代学证据

运用同位素年代学研究哀牢山—红河断裂带的构造演化历史已获得众多成果,但尚未有从低温—中温—高温系统的角度构建热演化史过程的研究,断裂带左旋走滑的启动时间仍存在争议。总结了哀牢山—红河断裂带中南段的年龄数据,通过分析认为相同同位素体系厘定的年龄值从南东端到北西端变新,差异性减小;将研究区分为北、中、南3段,使用低温、中温、高温年龄构建时间-温度(T-t)变化曲线,热演化史表明断裂带经历了2期冷却历史,冷却速率和隆升剥蚀速率的时空变化记录了伸展应力自南向北依次传播、转换拉张强度在传递过程中逐渐减弱、断裂活动性明显减弱的过程;将断裂带构造活动划分为快速左旋走滑阶段(35~20 Ma)、左旋走滑逐渐减弱阶段(20~6 Ma)及右旋走滑阶段(6 Ma至今)。断裂构造活动反映了印度—欧亚板块碰撞过程中,青藏高原东南缘的应力持续调节过程。

哀牢山-红河断裂带哀牢山-大象山段渐新世-早中新世热史演化及成因

哀牢山-红河断裂带范围内样品热史演化的系统构建工作偏少;部分学者往往将样品的冷却年龄简单地归因于断裂带的事件年龄,而没有考虑热扰动因素,致使以往研究结论仍然存在分歧及不合理之处.利用断裂带中高温测年资料,构建了Tt变化曲线,结合压力-温度-深度(P-T-D)变化趋势及地层恢复,对T-t变化的成因提出了较为合理的解释.中高温热史演化表明断裂带SE端(大象山段)与NW端(哀牢山段)皆经历2期冷却过程;在地层剥蚀或构造剥露作用诱导下,SE端、NW端于32~30Ma、32~22Ma分别经历第1期冷却过程,而其在26~24Ma、22~20Ma分别经历的第2期冷却过程中,由于断裂活动减弱这一因素,致使该期冷却速率明显增大(尤其是断裂带NW端).伴随着印支地块的顺时针旋转挤出,断裂带中南部左旋转换拉张构造活动向北迁移.在断裂带T-t演化的第1个阶段内,受断裂带转换拉张强度NW向减弱的影响,断裂带SE端正断活动所致的山体隆升效应明显强于NW端,致使SE端样品冷却过程较早,同时冷却速率明显偏大;而在第2个阶段,伴随着青藏高原进入中新世早期的隆升阶段,作为高原东南缘板块调节边界的哀牢山-红河断裂带其活动性由SE端开始减弱,使得冷却过程由SE端向NW端传递.