新英格兰造山带位于东澳造山带东部,包括新南威尔士州大部分地区和昆士兰州南部Texas地块,其中黑斯廷斯地块位于新英格兰造山带南部,受二叠纪以前构造变形的强烈改造,可划分为北黑斯廷斯地块和南黑斯廷斯地块两部分。《Unravelling the Deformation History of the Northern Hastings Block, Southern New England Orogen》通过研究区断裂构造运动学分析,结合重力和磁力蠕虫等模拟分析,重点研究了北黑斯廷斯地块内断裂系统的组成和活动期次,并详细讨论了其地质构造变形的演化过程。研究认为,北黑斯廷斯地块内共有5期断裂活动,其中两期主要的断裂系统与石炭纪早期北黑斯廷斯地块的滑移与旋转有关,个别右旋走滑断裂系统则形成于较晚的晚三叠世。北黑斯廷斯地块断裂系统的运动学解析为该区金属矿床的勘探与预测提供了重要的基础地质信息。
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Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1 Geological Background 1
1.1 Tectonic Setting 1
1.2 Local Setting 3
1.3 Structural History 5
1.3.1 Nambucca Block 6
1.3.2 Hastings Block 9
1.3.3 Port Macquarie Block 14
1.3.4 Tamworth Belt 15
1.4 The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny 18
Chapter 2 Folding and Cleavage History in the NHB 20
2.1 Introduction 20
2.2 Methodology 21
2.3 Analysis of Bedding Data in the NHB 22
2.4 Analysis of Cleavage Data in the NHB 28
2.5 Analysis of Folding Data in the NHB 32
2.6 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block and NHB 40
2.6.1 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block 40
2.6.2 Cleavages in the NHB 41
2.6.3 Folded Folds in the NHB 42
2.6.4 Faults Displacing Cleaved and Folded Rock in the NHB 42
2.7 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block and NHB 44
Chapter 3 Fault History in the Northern Hastings Block, Southern New England Orogen 46
3.1 Previous Work 46
3.2 Conventional Fault Analysis 50
3.3 Kinematics and Morphology of Faults 53
3.4 Fault Timing 60
3.4.1 The Earliest Time Faulting Could Have Started 60
3.4.2 The Latest Time Faulting Could Have Stopped 62
3.4.3 The Relationship between Faulting and Folding/Cleavage Development 65
3.5 Fault Movement Analysis 66
3.5.1 The Earliest Time Faulting Could Have Started 66
3.5.2 The Latest Time Faulting Could Have Stopped 67
3.5.3 Faults with a Common Strike 68
3.5.4 Implication of Fault Movement Analysis 68
3.5.5 Fault History of the Northern Hastings Block 70
3.6 Brief Summary 73
Chapter 4 Evidence from Fault Block Analysis for A Re-interpretation of the Northern Hastings Block Geology 75
4.1 Fault Systems in the NHB 76
4.2 Interpretations of Geological Data 78
4.3 Gravity and Magnetic Worms Analysis in the HB 79
4.3.1 Gravity and Magnetic Worms 79
4.3.2 Worms Analysis in the Hastings Block 80
4.4 Fault Block Analysis 96
4.4.1 Fault Block A 96
4.4.2 Fault Block B 99
4.4.3 Fault Block C 100
4.4.4 Fault Block D 102
4.4.5 Fault Block E 103
4.4.6 Fault Block F 104
4.4.7 Fault Block G 106
4.4.8 Fault Block H 106
4.4.9 Fault Block I 109
4.4.10 Fault Block J 109
4.4.11 Fault Block K 111
4.5 Implications 113
4.5.1 Fault Block Analysis Highlighted the Shortcomings with the Existing Geological Map 113
4.5.2 Implication of the Fault Blocks Reconstruction for the Entire NHB 119
4.6 Brief Summary 128
Chapter 5 Geological History 130
5.1 Northern Hastings Block-Nambucca Block 132
5.2 Relationship to Surrounding Blocks 135
References 137
Appendices 146
Appendix 1 146
Appendix 2 147
Appendix 3 159