利用土壤逸气调查掩覆断层及破裂带之可能分布.PDF

經濟部中央地質調查所特刊 第十五號 ，第147-160 頁，民國九十三年十月 利用土壤逸氣調查掩覆斷層及破裂帶之可能分 佈：以潮州斷層為例 Recognition of buried fault and/or fracture by soil gas investigations: A case study on the Chao-chou Fault 1 1 1 傅慶州 楊燦堯 陳正宏 1 1 1 Ching-Chou Fu , Tsanyao F. Yang , Cheng-Hong Chen ABSTRACT Taiwan is located on the boundary between Eurasia plate and Philippine Sea plate. The on-going collision between these two plates makes Taiwan densely faulted. So far most of the researches for the active faults in Taiwan are based on geophysical techniques, trench studies and structure geology, and geochemical methods are rarely used. In this work, the soil-gas compositions are measured and synthesized to compare with the geological, geophysical and geomorphological information along the Chao-chou Fault, which is considered as an active fault in southern Taiwan. The geochemical method using soil gases is based on the principle that faults and/or fractures are conduits which may provide high permeability pathways for deep source gases migrating upward to the surface, and that deep crust or mantle can produce anomalously high deep source signatures for some gases that are distinctive from those already existed in the overlying soils. Through this method, data can be collected rapidly with low cost. Preliminary results show that helium and carbon dioxide concentrations in the soil gas reveal anomalous values for specific positions along each of the transverses to the Chao-chou Fault. It indicates that the N-S trending, geochemically anomalous lineation corresponds to