單斜構造(英語:Monocline)是岩層中的一種階梯狀褶皺,由在水平或傾角較緩地層序列內的傾角較陡區域組成。

單斜構造立體示意圖
瞭望The Grandview-Phantom Monocline,地點:大峽谷, Arizona
單斜構造,地點:Colorado National Monument
一個小逆衝斷層尖端形成的單斜構造,地點:Brims Ness, Caithness, Scotland

形成方式

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形成單斜構造的模式

單斜可以以幾種不同的方式形成(見圖)

盆地邊緣斷層的上覆地層序列差異壓實:由於盆地填充物具有更大的壓實性,導致地層下陷,在盆地邊緣形成單斜構造[1]

伸展斷層的後期構造反轉導致上覆地層序列中的單斜構造[2]

由基底伸展斷層向上延申到上覆地層層序列所造成[3]

反向斷層向上延申到上覆地層序列所造成[4]

實例

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Waterpocket Fold,地點:猶他州Capitol Reef National Park [5]

Comb Ridge,地點:猶他州南部[6]。 Grandview-Phantom Monocline,地點:亞利桑那州大峽谷 [7]

Grand Hogback,地點:科羅拉多州[8]

Lebombo Mountains地點:南部非洲 [9]

Lapstone Monocline地點:澳大利亞Blue Mountains[10]

Beaumaris Monocline地點:澳大利亞[11]

Purbeck Monocline 地點:英格蘭,Isle of Purbeck, Dorset [12]

Fore-Sudetic Monocline,地點:波蘭[13]

Sindh Monocline, 地點:巴基斯坦[14]

Torres Flexure,地點:巴西南部 [15]

參考文獻

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