Numerical Modeling of Basin-Range Tectonics Related to Continent-Continent Collision
与陆-陆碰撞作用相关的盆-山构造数值模拟

Continent-continent collision is the most important driving mechanism for various geological processes in the continental lithosphere. The recognition and determination of continent-continent collision, especially its four-dimensional temporal and spatial evolution, is a subject which has long aroused concern and research interest in geological communities. Continent-continent collision mainly finds expression in strong underthrusting (subduction) of the underlying block along an intracontinental subduction zone and continuous obduction (thrusting propagation) of the overlying block along the intracontinental subduction zone, the formation of a basin-range tectonic framework in a direction perpendicular to the subduction zone and the flexure and disruption of the Moho. On the basis of numerical modeling, the authors discuss in detail the couplings between various quantities and rates of displacement caused by basin subsidence, mountain uplift and Moho updoming and downflexure during obduction (thrusting propagation) and subduction and the migration pattern of basin centers. They are probably indications or criteria for judgment or determination of continent-continent collision.