Study of the Late Quaternary Slip Rate Along the Northern Segment on the South Branch of the Longling-Ruili Fault

The Longling-Ruili fault is an important active fault in Southwestern China, striking generally northeast. The fault controls the development of the sedimentary series and magmatic action on its two sides, as well as the development of the Longling basin, Mangshi basin and the Zhefang basin along it. Due to limited Quaternary sediments and harsh natural conditions, the study of late Quaternary fault activity on the northern segment of the Longling-Ruili fault is lacking and the time of the newest faulting and the Quaternary slip rate are not clear at present. Based on the interpretation of remote images, quantitative geomorphologic deformation measurements and dating of young terrace deposits and alluvial fans, this paper obtains some new results as follows. The northern segment of the Longling-Ruili fault is a Holocene dextral strike-slip fault with some component of a normal slip. The terrace T1 composing mainly of alluvial deposits formed during 4ka B. P. was offset by the northern segment of the Longling-Ruili fault and its left-lateral and its vertical displacements are 8m - 12m and 2m, respectively. The late Pleistocene alluvial fan was displaced with a left-lateral and vertical displacement of 70m and lgm, respectively. The strike-slip rate of the Longling-Ruili fault is 2.2mm/a 2.5mm/a and the vertical slip rate is 0.6mm/a since the late Pleistocene epoch. The strike-slip rate of the Longling-Ruili fault is 1.8mm/a - 3.0mm/a and vertical slip rate is 0.5mm/a during the Holocene epoch. The proportion of horizontal to vertical displacement is about 4： 1, which means that the vertical slip rate on the northern segment of the Longling-Ruili fault is about 25 % of the horizontal slip rate. The left-lateral slip rate in the late Holocene is consistent with the GPS measurement. The strike slip rate is of great consistency in different time scales since the late Pleistocene epoch, indicating that the activity of the Longling-Ruili fault is of great stability.

Research of the Late Quaternary Recent Activity of the Middle Segment of Kouquan Fault

Systematic research of the characteristics of late Quaternary activity of the middle part of Kouquan fault has been done through conducting 1∶50000 geologic mapping combining with remote sensing interpretation of spot imaging, field validating and chronology research of the research area. Studies suggest that the middle part of Kouquan fault has had strong activity since the late Quaternary which controls the tectonic evolvement of the nearby mountains and Datong basin. The recent activity of this fault has faulted the sandy gravel layers of T1 terrace and the lower part of dark loessial soils over the terrace on the north of Chanfang village. The maximum vertical displacement is over 3m in the area between Xiaoyukou village and Louzikou village, and to the south of Dayukou village and the north of Emaokou village, the displacement decreases to 0.5m and 0.25m respectively. Based on the recent faulted landforms and combined with dating, we determined the age of recent activity of the fault in the research area to be between 7.71ka B.P. to 3.00 ka B.P. Discussions are made on this in combination with previous research.