库车前陆冲断带西部却勒盐推覆体变形特征分析

库车前陆冲断带西部发育中国最好的地表盐构造,可作为盐构造研究的天然实验室。前人对本区盐构造的研究主要集中于地下,包括地下盐构造样式的识别、地下盐构造分段性研究及盐构造形成机制研究等,而对于地表盐构造的研究相对较少。文章在前人研究的基础上,通过详细的野外填图,并辅以地震解释、遥感解译等方法,对库车前陆冲断带西部却勒盐推覆体变形特征进行分析,认为却勒盐推覆体的发育受控于却勒逆冲断层,库姆格列木群盐岩随逆冲断层出露地表。盐推覆体在东西向上构造差异较大,具有明显的分段性,在推覆体的中、西部,推覆体上盘地层发育齐全,盐岩仅沿推覆体逆冲前缘出露地表,属于典型的露趾增生型盐席;而在推覆体东部的察尔汗盐席处,盐上地层被剥蚀,盐岩出露地表后在重力的驱动下向周缘流动,属于溢流增生型盐席。察尔汗盐席受地表径流和降水作用影响明显,发育大量溶洞和盐山构造,并以"脉动流"的形式向前增生。盐内能干层的变形特征是反映盐岩流动性强弱的指标,盐推覆体东部察尔汗盐席盐内能干层变形样式更复杂,盐岩的流变性更强。缺少厚层顶板的限制和受降水及地表径流的充分影响是察尔汗盐席盐岩流变性较强的原因。     

Impact of solid second phases on deformation mechanisms of naturally deformed salt rocks (Kuh-e-Namak,Dashti, Iran) and rheological stratification of the Hormuz Salt Formation

Viscosity contrasts displayed in flow structures of a mountain namakier (Kuh-e-Namak - Dashti), between ‘weak’ second phase bearing rock salt and ‘strong’ pure rock salt types are studied for deformation mechanisms using detailed quantitative microstructural study. While the solid inclusions rich (“dirty”) rock salts contain disaggregated siltstone and dolomite interlayers, “clean” salts reveal microscopic hematite and remnants of abundant fluid inclusions in non-recrystallized cores of porphyroclasts. Although the flow in both, the recrystallized “dirty” and “clean” salt types is accommodated by combined mechanisms of pressure-solution creep (PS), grain boundary sliding (GBS), transgranular microcracking and dislocation creep accommodated grain boundary migration (GBM), their viscosity contrasts observed in the field outcrops are explained by: 1) enhanced ductility of “dirty” salts due to increased diffusion rates along the solid inclusion-halite contacts than along halite–halite contacts, and 2) slow rates of intergranular diffusion due to dissolved iron and inhibited dislocation creep due to hematite inclusions for “clean” salt types Rheological contrasts inferred by microstructural analysis between both salt rock classes apply in general for the “dirty” salt forming Lower Hormuz and the “clean” salt forming the Upper Hormuz of the Hormuz Formation and imply strain rate gradients or decoupling along horizons of mobilized salt types of different composition and microstructure.