Structural Evolution of the Northern Okinawa Trough

북부 오키나와트러프의 구조 발달

  • 선우돈 (한국지질자원연구원 석유해저자원연구부)
  • Published : 2004.10.01

Abstract

Analysis of multi-channel seismic reflection and well data serves to detail the structural evolution of the northern Okinawa Trough, southern offshore Korea. The overall structural style of the area is characterized by a series of half grabens and tilted fault blocks bounded by basement-involved listric normal faults. Most half grabens and tilted fault blocks developed in the direction of NNE-SSW, parallel to the axis of the Okinawa Trough. Orientation and distribution of the listric faults also suggest the development of transfer faults in NW-SE direction. The rifting phase of the northern Okinawa Trough have been established on the basis of structural and stratigraphic analyses of depositional sequences and their seismic expressions. Major phase of rifting probably started in the Late Miocene and the most active rifting occurred during the Early Pliocene. The rifting produced a series of half grabens and tilted fault blocks bounded by listric normal faults. It appears that the rifting activity has become weaker since the Late Pliocene, but the Pleistocene sediments faulted by listric faults bounding tilted fault blocks suggest that the rifting activity is probably still in progress.

다중 채널 탄성파 반사 자료 및 시추공 자료 분석을 통하여 북부 오키나와트러프의 구조 발달을 연구하였다. 전체적인 구조 발달 형태는 기반암 내부까지 발달한 리스트릭 단층과 리스트릭 단층으로 경계 지워지는 일련의 반지구 구조와 경사진 단층 블록으로 특징 지워진다. 대부분의 반지구 구조와 경사진 단층 블록은 오키나와트러프의 축 방향인 북북동-남남서 방향으로 발달하여 있으며 트랜스퍼 단층이 북서-남동 방향으로 발달하고 있다. 퇴적 시퀀스에 대한 구조 및 층서 분석을 통하여 북부 오키나와트러프의 열개 작용 발달 단계를 연구하였는데 그 결과 열개 작용은 후기 마이오세에 시작한 것으로 추정되며 전기 플라이오세 시기에 가장 활발한 것으로 해석된다. 단층 블록과 반지구 구조와 같은 대부분의 열개 구조들은 이 시기에 형성되었다. 후기 플라이오세부터 열개 작용이 약해지는 것으로 보이나 경사진 단층 블록의 경계부에 발달한 리스트릭 단층이 플라이스토세 퇴적층까지 발달한 것을 보면 열개 작용이 최근까지 진행되고 있을 가능성이 있다.

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