Abstract: The Kalpintag fold nappe is located at the northwestern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Since Cenozoic, owing to the Indian-Eurasian collision, the Mesozoic fold structures of Tianshan have been rejuvenated, uplifted and pushed northward and westward. As a result, several rows of fold-reverse fault zones have been progressively formed within the foreland basins. This paper describes in detail the Cenozoic deformation features and propagation of the fold-reverse fault zone on the west of the nearly south-north-trending Piqiang fault zone. The results show that the Cenozoic deformation of the nappe was characterized by wavy differential uplift, and this has caused the successive formation of the fold-reverse fault zone from the southern side of the Tianshan Mountains to the Tarim Basin. Among them, the early-formed folds are close to the Tianshan Mountains, while the latter-formed folds are close to the Tarim Basin, indicating the general tendency of northward propagation of the fold-reverse fault zone during their formation process. The distance of propagation may reach up to 76km. Moreover, the front of individual fold-reverse fault zone consists of several fault strands, which are associated with folds and have different ages of formation and time of recent activity. The early-formed faults are close to the Mountain side and the latter-formed close to the basin, indicating the northward propagation of the frontal faults of the individual fold. The distance of propagation is about 100～500m. The mechanism of the propagation of the fold-reverse fault zone is discussed in this paper as well.

Key words: Kalpintag, Nappe, fold-reverse fault zone, deformation and propagation

摘要： 柯坪塔格推覆体位于天山西南麓。新生代以来,由于印度板块与欧亚板块的碰撞,天山晚古生代褶皱和断裂构造重新复活隆起,并向南北两侧推挤,在前陆盆地中渐进式地形成多排褶皱-逆断裂带。文中讨论了皮羌近SN向断裂带以西推覆体的新生代变形与扩展特征。结果表明,推覆体的新生代变形为波浪式差异性隆起。从天山南侧到塔里木盆地方向,构成推覆体的各排褶皱-逆断裂带的形成顺序有先后之分,早期形成的靠近天山,晚期形成的靠近塔里木盆地,反映推覆体在形成过程中由北向南的扩展,其扩展距离最大约76km。除此之外,各排褶皱-逆断裂带前缘都由多条断裂组成,它们与褶皱伴生,具有不同的形成和新活动时代。早期形成的断裂靠近山地一侧,晚期形成的断裂靠近盆地一侧,反映褶皱-逆断裂带单排前缘断裂也具有由北向南扩展的性质,其扩展距离为100～500m。最后,对推覆体扩展的形成机制进行了讨论。

关键词: 柯坪塔格, 推覆体, 褶皱-逆断裂带, 变形与扩展