摘要
青藏高原中南部地区有着丰富的地热资源,其中羊八井地区存在着温度高达93℃以上,热流值高达364mWm2的地热奇观.本文利用国际以及中国地震台网资料,详细分析了青藏高原中南部地震活动性和岩石圈脆性破裂深度范围,进而讨论了高地热异常区的岩石圈应力场背景及其动力学机制.研究结果表明,青藏高原地热异常区有高于高原内部平均活动水平的震级为6级左右的中强地震活动,其震中分布呈现出与地热活动相似的、沿近南北向断陷带的带状特征;并且在高热流区域内有高原内部罕见的中深地震活动,地震震源从100km左右深处到地表呈现柱状地震群活动的空间分布等特征.震源机制与应力场研究结果表明,虽然高原中南部应力场主压、主张应力方向与青藏高原的整体特征相符,但是地震发生类型与青藏高原周缘的挤压逆断层型地震完全不同,均属于东西向扩张力作用下的正断层型地震活动,特别是在羊八井高热流区域附近,东西向扩张应力场在岩石圈应力场中起到主导性作用,推测其控制深度可达岩石圈底部100多公里处.青藏高原地热异常区在强烈的近东西向扩张应力场作用下,岩石圈东西向扩张并发生一系列的大规模正断层活动,致使深部软流圈高温热流可以沿着活动正断层及其形成的深裂隙上涌,穿过岩石圈到达地表面,形成了高地热异常区.
The central and southern regions of the Qinghai_Tibetan plateau are famous for their geothermal resource in the world. The temperature of boiling springs is high to 93℃, and the heat flow value is greater than 364 (mW/m^2) in some areas in the plateau. In the present analysis the relationships among the depth of lithospheric brittle fracture, stress field and mechanism of geothermal anomaly are analyzed using the seismic dada from ISC and Chinese seismic network and other geophysical data. The results suggest that the middle sized events about M6 frequently occur in the geothermal active zones, where the seismicity is more active than the average one inside the plateau. The events are distributed along the belts nearly N_S direction coinciding to that of fault_depression zones with intensely geothermal activity. Events of middle and deep hypocenters also appear in the high heat flow zone, where the hypocenter depth stretches to about 100 km. Normal fault type earthquakes due to the extensional stress field dominate the seismicity in the southern and central plateau, differing from the reverse or strike_slip faulting events dominating the seismicity in the low edges around the plateau, although the directions of the main compressive and extensional stress field coincide with those in the low edges. Extensional action in E_W direction dominates the lithospheric stress field in and around the Yangbajain area.
出处
《地球物理学报》
SCIE
EI
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2005年第4期861-869,共9页
Chinese Journal of Geophysics
基金
国家重点基础研究发展(973)计划(2003CB716505)
国家自然科学基金(40399141)联合资助.
关键词
青藏高原
地热异常
正断层型地震
扩张应力场
震源深度
Qinghai_Tibetan plateau, Geothermic anomaly, Normal faulting earthquake, Extensional stress field, Hypocentral depth
