K-Ar Dating of Fault Gouges from the Red River Fault Zone of Vietnam

Constraining the timing of fault zone formation is fundamentally important in terms of geotectonics to understand structural evolution and brittle fault processes.This paper presents the first authigenic illite K-Ar age data from fault gouge samples collected from the Red River Shear Zone at Lao Cai province,Vietnam.The fault gouge samples were separated into three grain-size fractions（〈0.1 μm,0.1-0.4 μm and 0.4-1.0 μm）.The results show that the K-Ar age values decrease from coarser to finer grain fractions（24.1 to 19.2 Ma）,suggesting enrichment in finer fraction of morerecently grown authigenic illites.The timing of the fault movement are the lower intercept ages at 0%detrital illite（19.2 ± 0.92 Ma and 19.4 ± 0.49 Ma）.In combination with previous geochronological data,this result indicates that the metamorphism of the Day Nui Con Voi（DNCV） metamorphic complex took place before ca.26.8 Ma.At about 26.8 Ma-25 Ma,the fault strongly acted to cause the rapid exhumation of the rocks along the Red River-Ailoa Shan Fault Zone（RR-ASFZ）.During brittle deformation,the DNCV slowly uplifted,implying weak movement of the fault.This brittle deformation might have lasted for ca.5 Ma.

EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISM AND ITS TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE ALONG THE TWO SIDES OF THE RED RIVER FAULT ZONE

The Red River Fault Zone is a gigantic slide-slip fault zone extending up to 1000km from Tibet to SouthChina Sea. It has been divided into the north, central and south segments according to the difference of thegeometry, kinetics, and seismicity on the land, but according to the contacted relationship between the old pre-Cenozoic block in Indochina Peninsula and the South China block, the Red River Fault Zone was divided into two parts extending from land to ocean, the north and south segments. Since the Tertiary, the Red River Fault Zone suffered first the sinistral movement and then the dextral movement. The activities of the north and the south segments were different. Based on the analysis of earthquakes and focal mechanism solutions,earthquakes with the focus depths of 0-33km are distributed over the whole region and more deep earthquakes are distributed on the northeastern sides of the Red River fault. Types of faulting activities are the thrust in the northwest, the normal in the north and the strike-slip in the south, with the odd type, viz. the transition type, in the other region. These show the Red River Fault Zone and its adjacent region suffered the extruding force in NNW direction and the normal stress in NEE direction and it makes the fault in the region extrude-thrust,horizontal strike-slip and extensional normal movement.

Segmental nature of the Red River fault revealed by seismic anisotropy and geological structures

As the western boundary of the Sichuan-Yunnan block(SYB),the Red River fault(RRF)is a major fault that controls deep crustal movement and deformation in the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau and regulates middle-lower crustal flow.Geophysical data suggest that the RRF is segmented and exhibits distinct variations in seismicity,velocity structure and crustal deformation from north to south.Seismic anisotropy reveals a complex pattern of lateral spatial and vertical stratified distributions.(1)From the perspective of crustal stratification,in the upper crust,the fast wave polarization in the north segment of the RRF is complex and possibly influenced by the Sanjiang lateral collision zone and adjacent faults with varying strikes.The fast wave polarization in the middle segment is in the NW-SE direction,indicating a localized area of closed down or locked up with consistent deformation.And in the south segment,it presents a disordered pattern,signifying complex deep tectonics and stress conditions at the wedged intersection zone.In the middle-lower crust in the north and south segments of the RRF,the azimuthal anisotropy is strong and consistent with the spatial strike of the weak zone characterized by low-velocity and highconductivity.This suggests a connection between the anisotropy and the material migration.(2)In the whole crustal scale,the fast wave directions in two sides of the RRF are consistent with the NW-SE tectonic strike.It indicates that the RRF,as a large fault potentially cutting through the whole crust,strongly controls the surrounding media.(3)In the lithospheric scale,the fast wave polarizations are oriented nearly E-W and independent of the fault strike,consistent with the low P-and S-wave velocity structures and positive radial anisotropy in the upper mantle.The fast wave directions could be related to lithospheric olivine deformation and asthenospheric flow.This paper suggests a decoupling of deformation between the crust and the lithospheric mantle in the south of approximately 26°20′N near the RRF,which can potentially be attributed to the subduction and rollback of the Indian plate.Based on various geophysical observations and inversions,we can determine the detailed anisotropic structure in the crust and the upper mantle around the RRF.Denser geophysical arrays and more accurate records can be used to explore the intricate anisotropy in segmentation and stratification around the RRF,enhancing the understanding of its tectonic significance.

Tectonics of the offshore Red River Fault recorded in the junction of the Yinggehai and Qiongdongnan Basins

The Red River Fault,which originated from the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau,has a great significance for obtaining a further understanding of the regional tectonics,topography and river catchment evolution,as well as the petroliferous sedimentary basin formation.The junction of the Yinggehai and Qiongdongnan Basins(YQB Junction)is the key to understanding when and how the strike-slip deformation on the South China Sea resulted from the collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates.In this study,we show regional seismic profiles,3D seismic and drilling core data to analyze the tectonostratigraphy in the YQB Junction,aiming to identify its tectonic framework and the associated faults system.A transitional domain from the strike-slip zone to the extensional deformation zone was mapped,which consisted of the No.1 Fault and the Zhongjian Uplift.The strike-slip faulting in the YQB Junction was active during the Oligocene-Early Miocene,with a period of strong faulting in the Early Oligocene.Integrated with the regional tectonic evolution,a coevolution model of strike-slip and extensional deformation in the YQB Junction and the adjacent area was built.In the Eocene,the YQB Junction was controlled by the NW-SE extension and formed a series of distributed rifts bounded by the NE-striking faults and filled up with proximal sediment.In the earliest Oligocene,a NW-trending strike-slip fault began to develop in the YQB Junction and crosscut the NEstriking normal faults.Since the occurrence of the strike-slip faults,the NE-striking faults,to the west of the No.1 Fault and the Zhongjian Uplift,failed to grow.However,to the east of the No.1 Fault and the Zhongjian Uplift,the faulting continued to develop until the latest Late Oligocene.The faulting of the NW-trending faults was observed to be active until the earliest Middle Miocene.Since then,with the exception of some diapiric structures and associated small-scale faulting in the Yinggehai Basin,we did not observe any basement-involved faulting.Our results will improve our understanding of the tectonics in the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and the South China Sea.

Southeastern extension of the Red River fault zone (RRFZ) and its tectonic evolution significance in western South China Sea

Recent geophysical surveys and basin modeling suggest that the No.1 fault in the Ying- gehai basin (YGHB) is the seaward elongation of the Red River fault zone (RRFZ) in the South China Sea (SCS). The RRFZ, which separates the South China and Indochina block, extends first along the Yuedong fault, offshore of Vietnam, and then continues southward and breaks off into two branches: the Lupar fault and the Tinjia fault. The southern extension of the Lupar fault dies out beneath the NW Borneo while the Tinjia fault extends southeast and reaches the Brunei-Sabah area. According to the gravity and geomagnetic data, and the tectonic evolution of the basins, there are different evolution histories between the Wan’an basin (WAB) and the basins in the Nansha block. The Tinjia fault may be the boundary between the Balingian block and the Nansha block. Hence, the line linking the Yue- dong fault and the Tinjia fault, which both are continental margin faults and strike-slip ones in the geological evolution histories, constitute the boundary between the Indochina and Nansha block. The Lupar fault, in contrast, is an intraplate fault within the Indochina block. The results provide new hints for reconstructing the tectonic evolution history of the RRFZ and the opening of the SCS, and also a framework for hydrocarbon prospecting in the region.

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.

Geological analysis and FT dating of the large-scale right-lateral strike-slip movement of the Red River fault zone

Tectonically, the large-scale right-lateral strike-slip movement along the Red River fault zone is char-acterized at its late phase with the southeastward extension and deformation of the Northwestern Yunnan normal fault depression on its northern segment, and the dextral shear displacement on its central-southern segment. Research of the relations between stratum deformation and fault movement on the typical fault segments, such as Jianchuan, southeast Midu, Yuanjiang River, Yuanyang, etc. since the Miocene Epoch shows that there are two times dextral faulting dominated by normal shearing occurring along the Red River fault zone since the Miocene Epoch. The fission track dating (abbrevi-ated to FT dating, the same below) is conducted on apatite samples collected from the above fault segments and relating to these movements. Based on the measured single grain’s age and the con-fined track length, we choose the Laslet annealing model to retrieve the thermal history of the samples, and the results show that the fault zone experienced two times obvious shear displacement, one in 5.5 ± 1.5 MaBP and the other in 2.1± 0.8 MaBP. The central-southern segment sees two intensive uplifts of mountain mass in the Yuanjiang River-Yuanyang region at 3.6―3.8 MaBP and 1.6―2.3 MaBP, which correspond to the above-mentioned two dextral normal displacement events since the late Miocene Epoch.

Crust and uppermost mantle structure of the Ailaoshan-Red River fault from receiver function analysis

S-wave velocity structure beneath the Ailaoshan-Red River fault was obtained from receiver functions by using teleseismic body wave records of broadband digital seismic stations. The average crustal thickness, Vp/Vs ratio and Poisson’s ratio were also estimated. The results indicate that the interface of crust and mantle beneath the Ailaoshan-Red River fault is not a sharp velocity discontinuity but a characteristic transition zone. The velocity increases relatively fast at the depth of Moho and then increases slowly in the uppermost mantle. The average crustal thickness across the fault is 36―37 km on the southwest side and 40―42 km on the northeast side, indicating that the fault cuts the crust. The relatively high Poisson’s ratio (0.26―0.28) of the crust implies a high content of mafic materials in the lower crust. Moreover, the lower crust with low velocity could be an ideal position for decoupling between the crust and upper mantle.

Submarine slide evidence for late Miocene strike-slip reversal of the Red River Fault

During the late Miocene(~5.5 Ma), a large-scale submarine slide with an area of approximately 18000 km^2 and a maximum thickness of 930 m formed in the deep-water region of the Qiongdongnan Basin. The large-scale submarine slide has obvious features in seismic profile, with normal faults in the proximal region, escarpments at the lateral boundary, and a pronounced shear surface at the base. The internal seismic reflections are chaotic and enclosed by parallel and sub-parallel seismic events.The main direction of sediment transport was from south to north and the main sediment source was the southern region of the Qiongdongnan Basin, which is located in the east of the Indo-China Peninsula and the north of the Guangle uplift. In this region,late Miocene strike-slip reversal of the Red River Fault, uplift and increased erosion of the Indo-China Peninsula, and an abrupt rise in the rate of deposition in the western part of the South China Sea provided the basic conditions and triggering mechanism for the large-scale submarine slide. The discovery of the large-scale submarine slide provides sedimentological evidence for the tectonic event of late Miocene strike-slip reversal of the Red River Fault. It can also be inferred that the greatest tectonic activity during the process of the Red River Fault reversal occurred at ~5.5 Ma from the age of top surface of the submarine slide.

Large-Scale Dextral Strike-Slip Movement and Associated Tectonic Deformation Along the Red-River Fault Zone

Field investigation has revealed that the large-scale dextral strike-slip movement and the associated tectonic deformation along the Red River fault zone have the following features: geometrically, the Red River fault zone can be divided into three deformation regions, namely, the north, central and south regions. The north region lies on the eastern side of the Northwest Yunnan extensional taphrogenic belt, which is characterized by the 3 sets of rift-depression basins striking NNW, NNE and near N-S since the Pliocene time, and on its western side is the Lanping-Yunlong compressive deformation belt of the Paleogene to Neogene; the deformation in the central region is characterized by dextral strike-slip or shearing. The east Yunnan Miocene compressive deformation belt lies on the eastern side of the fault in the south, and the Tengtiaohe tensile fault depression belt is located on its west. In terms of tectonic geomorphology, the aforementioned deformation is represented by basin-range tectonics in the north, linear faulted valley-basins in the central part and compressive (or tensional) basins in the south. Among them, the great variance in elevation of the planation surfaces on both sides of the Cangshan-Erhai fault suggests prominent normal faulting along the Red River fault since the Pliocene. From the viewpoint of spatial-temporal evolution, the main active portion of the fault was the southern segment in the Paleogene-Miocene-Pliocene, which is represented by “tearing” from south to north. The main active portion of the fault has migrated to the northern segment since the Pliocene, especially in the late Quaternary, which is characterized by extensional slip from north to southeast. The size of the deformation region and the magnitude of deformation show that the eastern plate of the Red River fault has been an active plate of the relative movement of blocks.

基于GNSS的红河断裂中段现今变形特征

采用红河断裂带中段加密布设的GNSS连续站观测资料以及前人发布的速度场结果,获取红河断裂带中段及邻区现今地壳运动速度场。根据川滇地区活动断裂分布建立研究区三维有限元模型,以红河断裂带中段及邻区GNSS速度场为约束,获得红河断裂带中段不同段落的现今滑动速率和区域应变率场。结果表明,红河断裂带弥渡-元江段右旋走滑速率为1.2±0.6 mm/a,挤压速率为0.6±0.5 mm/a;红河断裂带元江-元阳段右旋走滑速率为1.8±0.7 mm/a,挤压速率为1.5±0.6 mm/a。应变率结果显示,红河断裂带中段及邻区以剪切变形为主,最大剪应变率高值区位于小江断裂带附近,最大幅度约为62×10^(-9)/a,红河断裂剪切变形相对较弱;面应变率显示,红河断裂元江-元阳段挤压变形较为显著,挤压应变率值约为10×10^(-9)/a,该段落处于强闭锁状态,未来地震危险性值得关注。

红河断裂对莺歌海盆地地热系统的控制作用

基于莺歌海盆地地热背景,从地热系统的水源、流体通道、热储和盖层4个方面系统地去评价红河断裂对其的控热作用。研究结果表明,通过水样、气样分析,断裂构造在地热水循环中起到重要的控制作用;红河断裂的差异变形显著影响裂隙型热液热储的平面分布范围和纵向发育深度的异质性;莺歌海盆地地热系统是以地幔热物质作为主要热源,红河断裂带和盆地内中央凹陷底辟带为主要通道,裂隙型热液热储和上部大面积水道、海底扇、三角洲等储集体为主要热储,莺歌海组巨厚泥岩为主要盖层。

GNSS约束的红河断裂带现今三维闭锁耦合程度及时空演变特征研究

为研究红河断裂带近年来活动状态的演变特征,并分析该区域地震危险性,基于1999~2007年、1999~2017年2期GNSS速度场数据,采用负位错块体模型反演红河断裂带的闭锁程度与滑动亏损空间动态分布。结果表明,红河断裂带的闭锁程度具有两端强、中间弱的特点。红河断裂带北段和南段局部断层闭锁深度为20 km,闭锁程度较高;中段为浅层闭锁,闭锁深度为5 km。在滑动亏损方面,北段为2.5~5 mm/a,积蓄能量速度较快;中段为0.4~1.8 mm/a,南段为1.5~2 mm/a,中、南两段较为平稳。在2008年以后,红河断裂带整体闭锁特点不变,南、北两段深度闭锁状态开始向中间扩散,红河断裂带整体闭锁程度加深,同时滑动亏损速率有所增加,断层北段地震风险继续增大,而断层南段活动状态变得不稳定。

Fault－weakening effect of reservoir temperature of hot spring and its influence on seismic activities

In this paper, the reservoir temperatures of 14 hot spring samples collected from the northern segment of theRed River Fault are calculated by using the mixing-model of SiO2-geothermometer. Based on the features ofreservoir temperatures and densities of hot springs, the northern segment of the Red River Fault is furtherdivided into 4 sub-segments. The influence of weakening effect of water on seismic activities is discussed fromthe view point of fault-weakening effect of water. It is suggested that the difference in seismic activity between various sub-segments is principally caused by the difference in intensity of the fault-weakening effect ofwater of these sub-segments. The Eryuan sub-segment where the reservoir temperatures are high and the hotsprings are dense corresponds to a slipped region, however, the Jianchuan and Midu sub-segments where thereservoir temperatures are lower and the hot springs are fewer as well as the Dan sub-segment where the hotspring are very few all correspond to locked regions. It is suggested that Dan sub-segment is the riskiest region for strong earthquake preparation, while the possibility for strong earthquake preparation is very little inthe Eryuan sub-segment.

莺歌海盆地新生代构造沉积演化及动力学机制分析

南海西北陆缘构造演化极其复杂,受到红河断裂、海南地幔柱和南海形成演化等多种因素的控制。莺歌海盆地位于南海西北部,发育了巨厚的新生代沉积物,详细记录了南海西北陆缘新生代的演化历史。但是莺歌海盆地新生代以来主要受到何种构造因素的控制目前还不太清楚。本文在莺歌海盆地较为均匀地选择了7口钻井和23口模拟井,通过空盆构造沉降方法重建了莺歌海盆地的构造沉降量、构造沉降速率和沉积速率,同时运用重力反演方法模拟了莺歌海盆地深部地壳结构,并结合前人研究成果进行了综合分析。结果发现莺歌海盆地在裂陷期(45-23 Ma BP),盆地北部和中部沉降速率较大,南部沉降速率较小;在裂后期(23-0 Ma BP),盆地北部和中部沉降速率存在两期“台阶式”上升,分别为23-11.7 Ma BP和11.7 Ma BP至今,北部裂后期构造沉降速率最大可达80 m/Ma,中部最大可达110 m/Ma;南部地堑和隆起裂后期分别在11.7-5.7 Ma BP和15.9-11.7 Ma BP构造沉降速率最大可达70 m/Ma。莺歌海盆地新生代整体上表现为沉降速率与沉积速率变化基本一致,说明构造沉降对沉积速率具有显著的控制作用。重力反演发现莺歌海盆地可能存在下地壳高密度异常体,结合盆地沉积物内部钻遇玄武岩,我们推测下地壳高密度异常体为基性侵入体。通过与南海周边其他沉积盆地沉降速率对比发现,几乎所有盆地都在中中新世-晚中新世(15.9-11.7 Ma BP)发生了加速沉降事件,我们认为这可能跟南海海盆停止扩张导致大陆边缘次生地幔对流消失有关。莺歌海盆地5.7 Ma BP至今的加速沉降则可能与红河断裂右旋走滑活动有关。

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。

红河断裂带的新生代变形机制及莺歌海盆地的实验证据

红河断裂带是印藏碰撞过程中 ,印支地块被顺时针旋转挤出的走滑变形带。莺歌海盆地发育于红河断裂带海上延伸带上。根据莺歌海盆地和相邻的NE向琼东南盆地在晚中新世前 (5 .5MaB .P .)独立的构造发育和差异的沉降特点 ,认为红河断裂不可能穿越莺琼盆地界限向北东延伸 ,而越东断裂和中建南断裂很可能是红河断裂的延续。莺歌海盆地成盆机制的物理模拟结合红河断裂带陆上的变形特征、年代学证据与青藏高原隆升过程的研究 ,参考莺歌海盆地模拟过程中不同应力场下沉降中心的长轴方向 ,我们推断红河断裂带新生代的演化大致分 4个阶段 :(1 ) 50— 38MaB .P .期间的缓慢平移运动 ;(2 ) 38— 2 5MaB .P .期间的快速左行走滑运动 ;(3) 2 5— 5MaB .P .期间的左行走滑逐渐停止阶段 ;(4) 5MaB .P .后的右行走滑阶段。

红河断裂带大型右旋走滑运动与伴生构造地貌变形

调查研究表明,自中新世以来,红河断裂大规模右旋走滑运动及其伴生构造变形有如下一些主要特征在几何结构上,可将整个红河断裂系分为北、中、南3个变形区。北区东侧为滇西北伸展裂陷区,以轴向NNW,NNE和近SN向3组上新世以来的裂陷型断盆为特征,北段西侧为兰坪—云龙古近纪、新近纪压缩变形区;中段变形以右旋剪切走滑运动为特征,南部断裂东侧有滇东中新世以来的压缩变形,西侧为藤条河中新世拉伸断陷区。上述变形特征反映在构造地貌上为北部盆岭构造、中段线性断谷断盆构造及南部压(张)性盆地变形,其中苍山—洱海一带断裂两侧主夷平面的巨大落差是红河断裂上新世以来断陷正断作用的显著代表。在时空演化上,从古近纪经中新世至上新世,断裂主体活动部位在南段,并呈由南向北的“撕裂”格局,上新世以后至第四纪,尤其是晚第四纪以来,主体活动部位已转移至北段,表现为由N向SE的滑移伸展变形;变形区的范围大小和变形幅度表明红河断裂的东盘地块始终是作为地块相对运动的主动盘。

红河断裂两侧早第三纪古地磁研究及其地质意义

通过在红河两侧(大姚、景谷、江城、勐腊剖面)的早第三纪古地磁样品的研究,进一步证实了红河两侧由白垩纪古地磁研究所揭示的印支地块相对于华南地块存在的左旋相对运动。这一结果说明了印度支那地块在印度板块的挤压下,于早第三纪至中新世沿红河大断裂发生向南侧向滑移达1000km左右,它不仅使青藏高原的巨大构造缩短得到调整,而且在北部湾地区形成伸展构造,并引起南中国海的张开。印度支那地块北部各地区的差异性旋转和红河断裂共轭的剪切断裂系的发育,以及红河大断裂早第三纪至中新世左旋剪切作用密切相关。

用陆块旋转解释藏东南渐新世—中新世伸展作用——来自点苍山及邻区变质核杂岩的证据

沿红河断裂带(RRFZ)分布的点苍山变质核杂岩是一个不完整的变质核杂岩,它由两个特征迥异的单元组成,包括被同构造二长花岗岩侵入角闪岩相构造岩组成的下盘和绿片岩相的拆离断层带。下盘岩石包括具有高温构造组合,具有指示左行走滑剪切运动方向的L型糜棱岩或LS型糜棱岩。拆离断层带是一个上盘向E到SE伸展剪切的低温剪切带,由具有剪应变和压应变的典型S-L糜棱岩构成。低温构造岩也包括发育于下盘的几个糜棱岩化似斑状二长花岗岩侵入体。变质核杂岩与西侧覆盖未变质的中生代沉积岩并置,东部受第四纪断层作用影响为沿洱海分布的更新世—全新世沉积盆地。通过对点苍山变质核杂岩的构造研究,结合邻区变质核杂岩的地质年代学及古地磁学分析,我们认为:位于东南亚红河断裂和实皆断裂带之间的扇形区域内出现的变质核杂岩与渐新世—中新世时期区域性伸展作用有关,而伸展作用是由印支地块的差异性旋转产生的,其原因是由于约33Ma开始斜向俯冲的印度板块的顺时针旋转和回退所致。