内生体制和构造圈的演化

地壳的内生发展包括构造过程、岩浆过程和变质过程。这些过程形成有规律的组合,称为内生体制。从最新的资料看来,我们可以从整个构造圈(既包括地壳,也包括上地幔)的成分、构造和状态的有规律的特点出发,更广泛地探讨这个问题。 按照这种解释,内生体制可以根据不同的特征分类。 内生体制可以根据强度分为平静体制和受激体制。地台体制和洋盆体制是平静体制。

The emplacement mechanisms and growth styles of the GuposhanHuashan batholith in western Nanling Range, South China

The Guposhan-Huashan batholith was emplaced during transition from Tethysian tectonic regime to Pacific tectonic regime in the Middle-Late Jurassic. The regional EW-striking Yishan-Quannan basement deep fault zone, associated with the Tethysian regime, is thought likely to control the formation of the batholith. The development of the batholith was, however, achieved when the Pacific tectonic extensional regime dominated. The batholith consists of seven individual intrusive units that were emplaced subsequently over a 15 m.y. span. Deformation structures and strain analysis of the intrusive units and their country rocks suggest the existence of active and passive emplacement mechanisms. For example, shape-preferred orientation of dioritic enclaves and megacrystic K-spars within earlier units and the development of rim synforms resulted from active mechanisms. It is estimated that active expansion and structural propagation each contributed approximately 27%, and stoping accounted for 46% of the space for the entire batholith. The active emplacement mechanisms produced earlier units at deeper levels of the crust and followed by passive emplacement mechanism at shallower crustal levels when the tectonic regime changed from compression to extension. Each intrusive unit shows a different growth mode. Niumiao and Yangmeishan intrusions show a polarized lateral growth mode, the main-phase Lisong and Wanggao intrusions show either a central growth mode or an eccentric growth mode, and the youngest Baishuidai and Huamei units have a polarized multi-point central growth mode. Both Guposhan and Huashan plutons show a concentric growth zoning pattern with the former built in an outward growth style and the latter an inward growth style. The well-preserved circular shape of both plutons is indicative of relatively stationary magma feeders, suggesting that any considerable horizontal displacement in the region was unlikely even if the area was in an intracontinental strike-slip tectonic setting during the last emplacement phases of the batholith.

Emplacement and deformation of Shigujian syntectonic granite in central part of the Dabie orogen:Implications for tectonic regime transformation

The Shigujian pluton is a gneissic quartz monzonite located in Tiantangzhai area in central part of the Dabie orogen.Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility(AMS) data show that most magnetic foliations dip steeply to southeast.About 85% of sampling points dip from 40° to 90°.Magnetic foliations are generally parallel to the foliations measured in the field.The pluton has NWW-SEE trending lineations in the southeast and NE-SW trending lineations in central part and north,but the lineations plunge to SW in central part and to NE in the north.All plunges are moderate.The anisotropy degree(P) is between 1.065 and 1.532 and the shape parameter(T) is between 0.005 and 0.694.A Flinn diagram of the magnetic fabrics shows that the value of K is less than 1.The analysis of AMS suggests that the pluton was emplaced and deformed under a SE-NW compressional stress regime.The analysis of quartz C-axis fabrics indicates that the pluton was deformed under compressional stress and deformation temperatures range from 400 to 500℃.Microstructures indicate that the pluton is deformed in near solidus conditions and the pluton is a synkinematic intrusion.The emplacement of the Shigujian granite is inferred to have taken place syntectonically.The zircon U-Pb dating of the granite suggests that the pluton was intruded at 141±2.3 Ma.By synthesizing all data,it seems that the Shigujian pluton was emplaced in a compressional environment and the transformation time of the Dabie orogen from compression to extension took place after 141 Ma.The structural evolution of the Dabie orogen was controlled by the Pacific tectonic domain when the Shigujian pluton was emplaced,whereas the adjacent Tiantangzhai complex massif is the result of an extensional environment.

Tectonics of South China Continent and its implications

This paper aims at exploring the tectonic characteristics of the South China Continent （SCC） and extracting the universal tec- tonic rules from these characteristics,to help enrich the plate tectonic theory and better understand the continental dynamic system. For this purpose, here we conduct a multi-disciplinary investigation and combine it with the previous studies to reas- sess the tectonics and evolution of SCC and propose that the tectonic framework of the continent comprises two blocks, three types of tectonic units, four deformation systems, and four evolutionary stages with distinctive mechanism and tectonic characteris- tics since the Neoproterozoic. The four evolutionary stages are： （1） The amalgamation and break-up of the Neoproterozoic plates, typically the intracontinental rifting. （2） The early Paleozoic and Mesozoic intracontinental orogeny confined by plate tectonics, forming two composite tectonic domains. （3） The parallel operation of the Yangtze cratonization and intracontinental orogeny, and multi-phase reactivation of the Yangtze craton. （4） The association and differentiation evolution of plate tectonics and intraconti- nental tectonics, and the dynamic characteristics under the Meso-Cenozoic modem global plate tectonic regime.