地学前缘 ›› 2021, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 320-336.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2021.8.10

所属专题: Research Articles (English)

• “印度-欧亚大陆碰撞及其远程效应”专栏 • 上一篇    下一篇

深地震反射剖面揭露青藏高原陆-陆碰撞与地壳生长的深部过程

GAO Rui1,2,3,4(), ZHOU Hui1, GUO Xiaoyu1,*(), LU Zhanwu2,*(), LI Wenhui2, WANG Haiyan2, LI Hongqiang2, XIONG Xiaosong3, HUANG Xingfu5, XU Xiao1   

  1. 1.School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
    2.Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    3.Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    4.School of Earth Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China
    5.College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
  • 收稿日期:2021-07-15 接受日期:2021-08-05 出版日期:2021-09-25 发布日期:2021-08-27
  • 通讯作者: GUO Xiaoyu,LU Zhanwu
  • 作者简介:GAO Rui(1950-),Male,Professor ( Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Geophysicist. E-mail: gaorui66@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Deep seismic reflection evidence on the deep processes of tectonic construction of the Tibetan Plateau

GAO Rui1,2,3,4(), ZHOU Hui1, GUO Xiaoyu1,*(), LU Zhanwu2,*(), LI Wenhui2, WANG Haiyan2, LI Hongqiang2, XIONG Xiaosong3, HUANG Xingfu5, XU Xiao1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
    2. Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    3. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    4. School of Earth Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China
    5. College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
  • Received:2021-07-15 Accepted:2021-08-05 Online:2021-09-25 Published:2021-08-27
  • Contact: GUO Xiaoyu,LU Zhanwu

摘要:

印度板块与亚洲板块的碰撞使喜马拉雅-青藏高原隆升,地壳增厚和生长扩展。探测青藏高原深部结构,揭露两个大陆如何碰撞,碰撞如何使大陆变形的过程,是全球关切的科学奥秘。深地震反射剖面探测是打开这个科学奥秘的最有效途径之一。20多年来,运用这项高技术探测到青藏高原巨厚地壳的精细结构,攻克了难以得到下地壳和Moho清晰结构的技术瓶颈,揭露了陆陆碰撞过程。本文在探测研究成果基础上,从青藏高原南北-东西对比,再到高原腹地,系统地综述了青藏高原之下印度板块与亚洲板块碰撞-俯冲的深部行为。印度地壳在高原南缘俯冲在喜马拉雅造山带之下,亚洲板块的阿拉善地块岩石圈在北缘向祁连山下俯冲,祁连山地壳向外扩展,塔里木地块与高原西缘的西昆仑发生面对面的碰撞,在高原东缘发现龙日坝断裂而不是龙门山断裂是扬子板块的西缘边界,高原腹地Moho 薄而平坦,岩石圈伸展垮塌。多条深反射剖面揭露了在雅鲁藏布江缝合带下印度板块与亚洲板块碰撞的行为,印度地壳不仅沿雅鲁藏布江缝合带存在由西向东的俯冲角度变化,而且其向北行进到拉萨地体内部的位置也不同。在缝合带中部,显示印度地壳上地壳与下地壳拆离,上地壳向北仰冲,下地壳向北俯冲,并在俯冲过程发生物质的回返与构造叠置,使印度地壳减薄,喜马拉雅地壳加厚。俯冲印度地壳前缘与亚洲地壳碰撞后沉入地幔,处于亚洲板块前缘的冈底斯岩基与特提斯喜马拉雅近于直立碰撞,冈底斯下地壳呈部分熔融状态,近乎透明的弱反射和局部出现的亮点反射,以及近于平的Moho都反映出亚洲板块南缘的伸展构造环境。

关键词: 喜马拉雅-青藏高原, 陆陆碰撞, 大陆俯冲, 深部过程, 深地震反射剖面

Abstract:

The collision between the Indian and Asian plates uplifted the Himalayan- Tibetan Plateau, thickening and expanding the crust. It is a scientific mystery of global concern as how the two continents collide and how the continent-continent collision deforms the continent. Deep seismic reflection profile detection is one of the most effective ways to unlock this scientific mystery. For more than 20 years using this technology, we have detected fine structures of the thick crust of the Tibetan plateau after overcoming technical bottlenecks to access the lower crust and Moho thus revealing the continental collision processes. This paper systematically summarizes the deep behaviors of the India-Asia collision and subduction beneath the Tibetan Plateau, from south to north, east to west and further into the hinterland of the plateau. The Indian crust undergoes underthrusting beneath the Himalayan orogenic belt on the southern margin of the plateau. Meanwhile, the lithosphere of the Alxa block in the Asian plate subducts southward beneath the Qilian Mountain in the north of the plateau, driving the northward overthrusting of the Qilian crust. Additionally, the Tarim and West Kunlun blocks undergo face-to-face collision in the northwestern margin of the plateau. In the easternmost part of the plateau, the Longriba fault, instead of the Longmen Shan fault zone, marks the western margin of the Yangtze block. It is also seismically evidenced that the Moho geometry in the plateau’s hinterland appears thin and flat, indicating lithospheric collapse and extrusion. Multiple deep reflection profiles revealed the collisional behavior under the Yalung-Zangbo suture zone and longitudinal variation in subducting geometry of the Indian crust from west to the east. In the middle of the suture zone, it shows a decoupling between the upper and lower crusts of the Indian plate, where the upper crust undergoes a northward overthrusting while the lower one experiences a northward underthrusting. It is also seismically evidenced a down-and southward crustal duplexing of the subducting Indian crust thickening the northern Himalayas, leaving over a thinning subducting lower crust of the Indian slab. The subduction front of the Indian crust collides with the lower crust of the Asian plate at the mantle depth. A near-vertical collision boundary is seen between the Gangdese batholith and the Tethyan Himalayas, where the Gangdese batholith shows almost transparent weak reflections in the lower crust with localized bright spot reflection that indicates partial melting. Additionally, the near-flat Moho geometry implies an extensional tectonic environment of the southern margin of the Asian plate.

Key words: Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, continent-continent collision, continental underthrusting, deep processes, deep seismic reflection profile