Abstract:

The relationship between large-scale landslides and active faults has attracted much attention. From the point of view of active tectonics and disaster geology, the late Quaternary activity of the Jinsha River fault zone is investigated and studied, and the relationship between large-scale landslides and activity of the Jinsha River fault zone is emphatically analyzed. The Jinsha River fault zone was formed during the closure of the Paleotethys Ocean. According to the distribution of the 5km-wide ophiolitic melange zone, the ultramafic rock zone, and the local migmatization and progressive metamorphism around the Variscan intermediate acid intrusive rock mass distributed along the fault, it is inferred that the fault zone was once a strongly active superlithospheric fault zone with obvious compressive properties. The Jinsha River fault zone is a large-scale, long-term active suture structure, with many branches, forming a 50km wide structural fracture zone. Affected by the eastward compression of the Tibet Plateau, it has changed into a strike-slip fault zone characterized by dextral shear since Pliocene. In the study area, the fault landforms are clear along the Zengdatong, Xulong, Nizhong, Lifu-riyu, Langzhong and Guxue faults, which are mainly manifested as straight fault trough, linear ridge, fault scarp, and directional aligned fault facets. Results of field geological and geomorphological investigation and chronology show that the late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits are faulted, indicating the faults are active during the late Quaternary and dominated by dextral strike-slip with an average horizontal slip rate of 3.5~4.3mm/a in Holocene. The study area is located in the middle and north of the world-famous Jinsha River suture of the north-south structural belt in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, and the geological structural conditions are very complex. The main structural line is distributed in NS direction, interwoven with NE and NW faults and fold axes in network shape, and the structure is complex. Strong neotectonic movement, huge topographic elevation difference, steep mountains, dry-hot valleys microclimate and other factors have caused serious internal dynamic geological disasters on both banks of Jinsha River. The landslide in the area has the characteristics of high frequency, large scale and serious damage. There are 23 large-scale and super large-scale landslides in the main stream and its tributaries of Jinsha River within the 38km-long section from Narong to Rongxue. Most of them are super large-scale landslides with a volume of more than 10 million cubic meters, even have a volume of more than 100 million cubic meters. Most of the landslides are located within 1km on both sides of faults, and many of them are developed on the fault zone. The occurrence of these large-scale landslides is closely related to the long-term activity, evolution history and complex structure of Jinsha River fault zone along the river, as a result, the rock mass structure gets fragmented and the continuous tectonic activity becomes the main cause of landslides. Active faulting is the fundamental controlling factor for the occurrence of large landslides along the river, especially for large landslides, and is an important internal dynamic condition for the formation of landslides. Further analysis of the fault structure shows that landslide is closely related to the movement evolution history of Jinsha River fault zone. Special structural combination parts(mechanical mechanism)such as closely adjacent faults, acute angle area of fault intersection, right turning parts of the faults and the intersection area between the main faults and the transverse faults are the key sites where the tectonic stress is easy to concentrate, thus conducive to generating large-scale landslides. Many large landslides occur in these structural parts. The controlling effect of active faults on landslides is not only embodied in the process of large earthquakes, but also can lead to the intensive occurrence of large and super large landslides in a natural state(non seismic action). This research has positive scientific significance for understanding the formation mechanism and development law of landslides on both sides of Jinsha River, and for understanding the relationship between fault activities and large landslides.

Key words: Jinsha River fault zone, late Quaternary activity, large-scale landslides, special structural position, relationship

摘要：

文中从活动构造和灾害地质的角度调查并研究了金沙江断裂带的晚第四纪活动性, 并着重分析大型滑坡与金沙江断裂带活动的关系。金沙江断裂带是一条规模宏大且长期活动的缝合线构造, 是一条具有挤压性质的超岩石圈断裂带, 上新世以来表现为右旋走滑运动, 在曾大同、 徐龙、 尼中、 里甫-日雨、 郎中和古学沿线断层地貌清晰。 地质调查和年代学测试结果表明, 这些断裂断错了晚更新世—全新世堆积, 在晚第四纪具有明显的活动迹象。研究区滑坡具有发生频率高、 规模大、 破坏性严重的特点。拿荣—绒学38km的沿江区段内在金沙江两岸共发育20余个特大型及大型滑坡, 体积一般>1×10⁷m³, 有的>1×10⁸m³, 且几乎所有滑坡均位于活动断裂上及两侧1km范围内。这些大型滑坡群的发生与金沙江断裂带的长期活动、 演化历史和复杂结构等有密切关系, 它不仅使岩体结构变得支离破碎, 且持续的活断层作用成为滑坡发生的主要原因。紧密相邻的断裂间、 断裂交会的锐角区、 断裂右向转弯部位和主断裂与横向断裂交会区等特殊构造部位, 为构造应力易于集中、 有利于特大型滑坡发生的关键部位。活动断裂对滑坡的控制作用不仅表现在大地震过程中, 在非地震作用的自然状态下同样能导致大型滑坡密集发生。

关键词: 金沙江断裂带, 晚第四纪活动, 大型滑坡, 特殊构造部位, 关系