期刊
JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES
卷 176, 期 -, 页码 88-104出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.01.026
关键词
Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt; Two-decollement thrust-fold system; Numerical modeling; Salt decollement; Erosion
资金
- National Science Foundation of China [41725017, 41590864]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0600101, 2016YFB0200801, 2017YFC0601505, 2017YFC0404901, 2018YFC1504200]
- Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB18010202]
Since the Late Cenozoic, the central-southern Longmen Shan (LMS) region is characterized by a two-decollement thrust-fold system with a localized upper evaporite weaker layer just beneath the Sichuan Basin and the lower stronger decollement beneath the LMS. To date, the role of upper decollement and erosion in shaping the structural deformation of the LMS remains unknown. The investigation of this question may shed lights on the assessment of the structural evolution and the further discrimination of mountain building mechanism. In this work, a 2D finite difference method is applied with regards to the variations of viscosity/friction angle, and lengths of upper decollement under different erosion rates. Two types of numerical models are setup, with purely lower-upper frictional (FF) decollements and lower-frictional upper-viscous (FV) decollements. Tectonic evolution with FF models exhibits large similarity with that of FV models. Meanwhile, our results underline the presence of in-sequence fault propagation procedures during most of the stages. The development of the boundary ramp, the Range Frontal Blind fault, is strongly induced by a prerequisite with upper decollement of necessary length. The activation of Beichuan/Pengguan faults or blind ramp piercing to the surface is extremely mechanically sensitive to the viscosity of the salt decollement, erosion rate, and the length of the upper decollement. Out-of-sequence thrusting, shallow and possible basal accretion processes beneath the Sichuan Basin are found when deformation transfers from the thick-skinned LMS to the thin-skinned Sichuan Basin at the very late stage, supporting upper crustal shortening dominates the mountain building mechanism.
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