Earthquake-related soft-sediment deformation structures in Palaeogene on the continental shelf of the East China Sea

LI Shanshan1, ZHANG Zhe1, WU Jinhua1, DU Yuansheng2

PDF(759 KB)
PDF(759 KB)
Front. Earth Sci. ›› DOI: 10.1007/s11707-008-0026-9

Earthquake-related soft-sediment deformation structures in Palaeogene on the continental shelf of the East China Sea

  • LI Shanshan1, ZHANG Zhe1, WU Jinhua1, DU Yuansheng2
Author information +
History +

Abstract

Earthquake, as disastrous events in geological history, can be recorded as soft-sediment deformation. In the Palaeogene of the East China Sea shelf, the soft-sediment deformation related to earthquake event is recognized as seismic micro-fractures, micro-corrugated laminations, liquefied veins, ‘vibrated liquefied layers’, deformed cross laminations and convolute laminations, load structures, flame structures, brecciation, slump structures and seismodisconformity. There exists a lateral continuum, the wide spatial distribution and the local vertical continuous sequences of seismites including slump, liquefaction and brecciation. In the Palaeogene of East China Sea shelf, where typical soft-sediment deformation structures were developed, clastic deposits of tidal-flat, delta and river facies are the main background deposits of Middle-Upper Eocene Pinghu Formation and Oligocene Huagang Formation. This succession also records diagnostic marks of event deposits and basinal tectonic activities in the form of seismites.

Cite this article

Download citation ▾
LI Shanshan, ZHANG Zhe, WU Jinhua, DU Yuansheng. Earthquake-related soft-sediment deformation structures in Palaeogene on the continental shelf of the East China Sea. Front. Earth Sci., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-008-0026-9

References

1. Chen L L 2000 Discussion of transgressive tidal channels in the PinghuFormation of Xihu Trough, the East China SeaOffshore Oil21521 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
2. Chen L L 2001 Discussion on depositional mechanism controlled by axis-wisedrainage in Huagang Formation (Oligocene) of Xihu Trough, the EastChina SeaOffshore Oil33541 (in Chinese with English abstract)
3. Cita M B Ricci L F 1984 Seismicityand sedimentationMar Geil55(1–2)1161
4. Cojan I Thiry M 1992 Seismicallyinduced deformation structures in Oligocene shallow-marine and eoliancoastal sands (Paris Basin)Tectonophysics2067989. doi:10.1016/0040‐1951(92)90369‐H
5. Du Y S Han X 2000 Seismo-depositionand seismitesAdvances in Earth Science15(4)389394 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
6. Du Y S Gong S Y Han X et al. 2001 Silurian seismites and its tectonicsignificance in Hanxia, Yumen City, north Qilian MountainsActa Geologica Sinica75385390 (in Chinese)
7. Du Y S Shi G R Gong Y M 2005 Earthquake-controlled event deposits andits tectonic significance from the Middle Permian Wandrawandian Siltstonein the Sydney basin, AustraliaScience inChina (Ser D)48(9)13371346. doi:10.1360/02YD0202
8. Du Y S 2005 Seismite related to volcanic activity from Quaternary HuguangyanFormation in Weizhou Island, Beihai, GuangxiActa Sedimentologica Sinica23(2)203209 (in Chinese with English abstract)
9. Du Y S Shi G R Gong Y M et al. 2007 Permian soft-sediment deformationstructures related to earthquake in the Southern Sydney basin, EasternAustraliaActa Geologica Sinica81(4)511518 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
10. Ettensohn F R Rast N Brett C E 2002 Ancient seismitesGeological Society of America Special Paper3591392
11. Guo J H Wang F P Liu G et al. 1999 Shattered breccia of the UpperSinian Dengying Formation in Dayong, West Hunan ProvincePetroleum Geology and Experiment21(3)219224 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
12. Heezen B C Ewing M 1952 Turbiditycurrents and submarine slumps and 1929 Grand Bank earthquakeAm J Sci250849873
13. Heezen B C Dyke C L 1964 Grand bankslumpBull Am Ass Petrol Geol48221225
14. Liang D Y Nie Z T Wan X Q et al. 1991 On the seismites and seismodisconformity-takingthe western Sichuan and western Yunnan regions as an exampleGeosciences5(2)138147 (in Chinese with English abstract)
15. Liang D Y Nie Z T Song Z M 1994 A restudy on seismites and seismodisconformity-takingthe western Sichuan and western Yunnan as an exampleGeosciences19(6)845850 (in Chinese with English abstract)
16. Nan L Cui Z J 1996 Sedimentaryfeature and recognition of seismo-màlange (seismites)Journal of Earthquake Geology Translations18(6)19 (in Chinese)
17. Owen G 1995 Soft sediment deformation in Upper Proterozoic Torridoniansandstones (Applecross Formation) at Torridon, Northwest ScotlandJournal of Sedimentary Research65495504
18. Peng Y Yang T N Qiao X F et al. 2001 A study of seismic event in theLate Sinian carbonates of DalianActa GeologicaSinica75(2)221227 (in Chinese with English abstract)
19. Qiao X F Song T R Gao L Z et al. 1994 Seismic sequence in carbonate rocksby vibrational liquefactionActa GeologicaSinica68(1)1634 (in Chinese with English abstract)
20. Qiao X F 1996 Study of seismites of China and its prospectsGeological Review42(4)317320 (in Chinese with Englishabstract)
21. Qiao X F Li H B Gao L Z 1997 Sinian-Early Palaeozoic seismic rhythmson the North China platformEarth ScienceFrontiers4(3–4)155160 (in Chinese with English abstract)
22. Qiao X F Gao L Z 2000 Earthquakeevents in Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic and its relationshipwith super continental Rodinia in North ChinaChinese Science Bulletin45(10)931935. doi:10.1007/BF02886203
23. Schwab W C Lee H J 1988 Causes oftwo slope-failure types in continental-slope sediment, northeasternGulf of AlaskaJournal of Sedimentary Petrology58111. doi:10.1016/0037‐0738(88)90002‐4
24. Seilacher A 1969 Fault-graded bed interpreted as seismitesSedimentology13(1–2)155159. doi:10.1111/j.1365‐3091.1969.tb01125.x
25. Seilacher A 1984 Sedimentary structures tentatively attributed to seismiceventsMarine Geology55(1–2)112. doi:10.1016/0025‐3227(84)90129‐4
26. Shiki T Cita M B Gorsline D S 2000 Seismoturbidites, seismites and tsunamiitesSedimentary Geology1351326. doi:10.1016/S0037‐0738(00)00059‐2
27. Song T R 1988 A probable earthquake-tsunami sequence in Precambrian carbonatestrata of Ming Tombs District, BeijingChineseScience Bulletin33(13)11211124
28. Spallctta C Vai G B 1984 Upper Devonianintraclastic parabreccias interpreted as seismitesMar Geol55(1–2)133144
29. Sun X M Liang D Y Nie Z T 1995 Continental marginal seismites sequence-takingseismites in the middle region of the Jinsha River as an exampleGeosciences9(3)271278 (in Chinese with English abstract)
30. Wang G S Zhou Z M Xiao C H et al. 2002 Sedimentray characteristics ofEogene Pinghu Formation and Huagang Formation in Chunxiao Zone ofXihu DepressionOil & Gas Geology23(3)257261 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
31. Wu X T Yin G X 1992 Features andsignificance of seismites from Upper Jurassic lacustrine depositsof Emei, SichuanActa Sedimentologica Sinica10(3)1925 (in Chinesewith English abstract)
32. Yang J P Wang Y L Zha M et al. 2006 Discovery of the seismic surgewave deposits of Paleogene in Huimin depression, Shandong ProvinceActa Geologica Sinica80(11)17151720 (in Chinese with Englishabstract)
33. Yuan J 2004 The property and geological significance of seismites fromUpper Jurassic lacustrine deposits of Emei, SichuanActa Sedimentologica Sinica10(3)1925 (in Chinese with English abstract)
34. Yuan J 2005 The research development of seismic process and seismitesin ChinaJournal of China University ofPetroleum29(1)144149 (in Chinese with English abstract)
35. Zhang M L Wang Z 2003 A discussionon tectonic stress field and hydrocarbon migration-accumulation inXihu sag, East China Sea basinChina OffshoreOil and Gas (Geology)17(1)5156 (in Chinese with English abstract)
AI Summary AI Mindmap
PDF(759 KB)

Accesses

Citations

Detail

Sections
Recommended

/