镶嵌构造是张伯声教授提出来的。他认为地壳是被一些活动构造带分割成许多大小不等形状不一和厚薄有别的块体。对于新疆来说,这一点比较明显。从大尺度来看,天山相当于一个活动构造带,其两侧的准葛尔盆地和塔里木盆地相当于两个块体。从小尺度看,天山内部还可以划分出一些次级活动带和次级块体。上述不同块体的交界带往往就是地震活动带。 Mosaic structure is Professor Zhang Boshin put forward. He believes that the crust is divided into a number of active tectonic belts divided into many different sizes and thickness of the other blocks. For Xinjiang, this is more obvious. On a large scale, the Tianshan Mountains are equivalent to an active tectonic belt, and the Zhunge’er Basin and the Tarim Basin on both sides are equivalent to two blocks. From a small scale, Tianshan interior can also be divided into some secondary activity and secondary blocks. The junction between the different blocks is often the seismic zone.