Relic UHP Structures in Dabie-Sulu Region, China: Structural Expression and Geodynamic Significance

The present day observed tectonic framework of ultrahigh pressure (UHP) metamorphic belt in the Dabie Sulu region was dominantly formed by an extensional process at 200-170 Ma, under amphibolite facies conditions, following the Triassic collision between the Sino Korean and Yangtze cratons. UHP relic structures, including massive eclogites with a weak foliation, UHP shear zones and A type folds, that are preserved in less retrograde metamorphism and deformation overprinted eclogite lenses can be recognized using the tectonic analysis. Examples are drawn from the Chengmagang area and Hejiawan area, Hubei; Bixiling area, Anhui, and Donghai area, northern Jiangsu. A speculative kinematic model is proposed for the collision between the cratons based on the UHP relic structures studied, in combination with the data of petrography, geochronology and P T path of UHP metamorphic rocks in the studied region which were reported in literature. It is stressed that only the early UHP relic structures, particularly, regionally consistent foliation and stretching lineations, record and reflect the formation of the UHP metamorphic rocks, and the relative dynamic and kinematic process related to the Triassic NNE directed oblique collision between the Sino Korean and Yangtze cratons.

Shear wave splitting analysis of local earthquakes from dense arrays in Shimian,Sichuan

The Shimian area of Sichuan sits at the junction of the Bayan Har block.Sichuan-Yunnan rhombic block,and Yangtze block,where several faults intersect.This region features intense tectonic activity and frequent earthquakes.In this study,we used local seismic waveform data recorded using dense arrays deployed in the Shimian area to obtain the shear wave splitting parameters at 55 seismic stations and thereby determine the crustal anisotropic characteristics of the region.We then analyzed the crustal stress pattern and tectonic setting and explored their relationship in the study area.Although some stations returned a polarization direction of NNW-SSE.a dominant polarization direction of NW-SE was obtained for the fast shear wave at most seismic stations in the study area.The polarization directions of the fast shear wave were highly consistent throughout the study-area.This orientation was in accordance with the direction of the regional principal compressive stress and parallel to the trend of the Xianshuihe and Daliangshan faults.The distribution of crustal anisotropy in this area was affected by the regional tectonic stress field and the fault structures.The mean delay time between fast and slow shear waves was 3.83 ms/km.slightly greater than the values obtained in other regions of Sichuan.This indicates that the crustal media in our study area had a high anisotropic strength and also reveals the influence of tectonic complexity resulting from the intersection of multiple faults on the strength of seismic anisotropy.

Development of a nonlinear 3D solid finite element model for the calculation of bending moments of flexural members

A numerical model is developed in this paper to calculate the bending moments of flexural members through integration in 3D solid finite element analyses according to the nonlinear constitutive model of concrete and the elastoplastic constitutive model of steel,utilizing the stress condition of the cross-section,considering the destruction characteristic of reinforced concrete members,and based on the plane cross-section assumption.The results of this model give good agreement with those of the classical method.Consequently,we can also deduce the corresponding numerical expression for eccentrically loaded members according to the analysis method.

华南早燕山中晚期挤压构造事件识别及其成矿效应

华南是中国重要的钨、锡、铋、铜、银、锑、汞、稀有、重稀土、金和铅锌多金属重要成矿省,成矿时代以中-新生代为主。众多学者通过野外调查、构造变形解析、科学深钻、年代学研究等方法对华南各个区域进行构造地质学研究,并取得重要成果。但对整个华南中生代构造演化过程的认识依然存在分歧,这主要归咎于不同学者根据局部研究成果或单一地质要素对华南构造演化进行讨论。系统总结前人在华南研究的成果,对华南早燕山期古地层产出状态、古地理变化、古构造应力场、构造变形样式、岩浆记录等多种地质要素进行归纳。初步认为华南早燕山中晚期处于SEE-NWW或近EW向挤压构造背景下,时间界限大致为170~135 Ma,推测挤压事件可能是成矿大爆发开始的前奏,挤压作用将成矿物质预富集,形成矿化区域,为后期成矿作用提供物质基础及成矿有利空间。

Stripe of normal mechanisms for crustal earthquakes with M ≤ 3.5 flanking the western side of the thrust front zone in the Andes backarc

Earthquakes with magnitudes M ≤ 3.5 were registered in the Andes backarc between ~32.5°S 33.75°S within a temporary experiment from November 2002 to March 2003. Data were collected from 15 seismological broad band stations, deployed above flat subduction section and also above the transitional to normal section of the Nazca plate. Seismic events were located mostly in part of the Southern Precordillera and Cerrilladas Pedemontanas of Mendoza Province. Focal mechanism solutions were obtained, for selected data between15 kmand35 kmdepths, from P wave first motion using FOCMEC software. A band trending NW-NNW of normal focal mechanism earthquakes is located just by the thrust front towards West, and covers the Southern tip of the Southern Precordillera and the Western side of the Cerrilladas Pedemontanas, Mendoza Province, Argentina. Thrust focal mechanism solutions obtained in the present work for events with magnitude less than or equal to 3.5 also show that the thrust front South of ~33.1°S is located in the same place as Mw ≥ 3.6 earthquakes. The most significant findings in this work are these signals of extensional regimen which appear in a compressional subduction tectonic regimen. Nevertheless the short temporal experiment precludes firm interpretations about this particular phenomenon. Probably it is related to a temporary stress relaxation. The normal earthquakes are likely associated to normal faults, and/or to their subsidiaries, that were inverted by contraction and now re-inverted at least transitorily as normal. These faults, which are near and to the East of the suture between Chilenia and Cuyania Paleozoic terranes, were originally involved in the Cuyo Triassic basin formation.

我国西北地区石油地质特征和勘探前景

中国西北地区是在经历了震旦一泥盆纪、石炭─三叠纪与侏罗─第四纪三大伸展聚敛旋回的基础上，由大小不等的克拉通块体与造山带镶嵌形成的大陆岩石圈块体。沉积盆地具有以前陆与克拉通叠合为代表的叠加地质结构特点。三期伸展与海（湖）侵事件形成了寒武─奥陶系、石炭─二叠系与侏罗系三套区域性烃源岩，以其为基础构成了盆地上、中、下三套生储盖组合；三期聚敛作用形成了相应的圈闭组合，与源岩热成熟演化相匹配决定了西北地区四个成藏关键时刻。西北地区的油气资源潜力巨大，主要有克拉通盆地与前陆盆地两种油气成藏环境，盆地的地质结构单元决定了油气的成藏模式与大型油气田的分布。西北地区的油气勘探前景广阔，克拉通盆地与前陆盆地是主要的勘探领域。