维西‒乔后断裂通甸‒马登盆地段晚第四纪活动特征

依据野外调查成果, 研究维西?乔后断裂通甸?马登盆地段晚第四纪活动的地质地貌特征和古地震事件。结果表明, 该断裂段属于全新世活动段, 以右旋走滑运动为主, 全新世以来的水平滑动速率为1.8~2.4 mm/a, 垂直滑动速率为0.30~0.35 mm/a。 玉水坪探槽 揭示的断错地层OSL年龄为5.1±0.6, 5.3±0.2, 7.5±0.5和10.3±0.9 ka, 属于全新世堆积。下太平某小河T₂阶地上发育的多条断层断错现代土壤层之下的所有地层, 被错上部地层的OSL年龄为5.3±0.6 ka。上新世以来的断裂活动造成上新统的强烈构造变形, 其运动性质由逆冲转变为右旋走滑。新民村和盖场等探槽揭露地震楔、砂脉和软沉积构造变形等地震现象, 垂直错距多在1 m左右, 属同一期地震事件所为, 其发生时间约为28000 aBP, 震级达到7级。     

Colluvial wedges associated with pre-historical reverse faulting paleoearthquakes

Colluvial wedges collapsed from fault scarp can also be used to study reverse faulting paleoearthquakes. Generating processes of reverse faulting colluvial wedges are much more complex than those associated with normal faulting earthquakes. Reverse faulting colluvial wedge is also in triangle shape, and dies away from the fault. Contact between the fault and the colluvial wedge may be a simple straight reverse fault or a combination of an erosive surface in the upper part and a reverse fault in the lower part. Contents and grain sizes increase near the fault and along the base of a colluvial wedge. Based on examples from the piedmont reverse fault and fold along the northern Tainshan, we studied characteristics of reverse faulting colluvial wedges, and discussed the generating processes of reverse faulting colluvial wedges. Reverse faulting generates an unstable scarp hanging in the air immediately after an earthquake. Fallen material deposits along the base of newly formed fault scarp. Erosive surface and surface of colluvial wedge form an antithetic scarp with an opposite direction to underlain reverse fault. If the later stage colluvium covers both the early stage colluvium and the erosive surface, the colluvial wedge will have a curved vertical edge with reverse fault in the lower part and erosive surface in the upper part. If the erosive surface is not covered by later stage colluvium, the colluvial wedge will only have a simple straight vertical edge, which is the reverse fault. A colluvial wedge represents a paleoearthquake event, but the height of the wedge is not equal to vertical offset of the paleoearthquake.