Continental Dynamics

Donghai, China UHP Metamorphism

KTB, Germany Fluids and Seismicity

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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program

Chinese Continental Scientific

Drilling Project
Main Objectives:
Ultra-High Pressure
Metamorphic Rocks
of the Dabie-Sulu
Belt, East China
Dynamics of deep
subduction of continental lithosphere
Uplift, exhumation,
and cooling history

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UHP belt

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Yellow Sea

Donghai

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120km

Chinese Continental
Scientific Drilling Project
Planned depth:
5500 m
0

Depth (m)

Eclogite with thin layers of

gneiss and garnet peridotite
650

1000

2000

Ductile shear zone

Biotite amphibole gneiss

with thin layers of schist
and amphibolite, and
lenses of eclogite.
1930

Ductile shear zone

Aegirine-bearing gneiss
with thin layers and lenses
of eclo gite and amphibolite
3000
3210

4000

Ductile shear zone

Eclogite and garnet peridotite

4550
5000

Ductile shear zone

Biotite gneiss

Zhongyuan Oilfield Third Drilling Engineering

Company, Lankao, Henan, PRC

Site selection 1997

Pre-pilot holes (500 & 1000 m) drilled in
1999
2 km Pilot hole spud in: July 2001
5 km Main hole spud in: September 2002

Inferred Drilling Profile

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program

Vertical Seismic Profiling in KTB

Reflectivity of fault zones

Effects of texture,
fractures and fluids
Nature of reflecting zones
Correlation of seismic
anisotropy, foliation,
stress
Brightness of reflections
caused by fluids?
Seismic scattering
Ductile-brittle transition
Fluid pressure as source
of low-velocity zones?
Fluid saturation and
earthquakes
Brine saturation and high
resistivity

Blastholes
> 30 m depth

MSP: Seismic sources

on diverse positions
and distances to KTB

VSP: sources directly

aside of the KTB well
(= Zero Offset)

Borehole
geophone sonde:

Blastholes
> 30 m depth

Vibro-truck
Group
several
kilometers

for VSP in many

depth positions,
for MSP
stationary

VSP was designed to obtain data on the effect of fluids on

seismic wave propagation, especially in the fluid bearing SE1
fault zone (April 1999)

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program