Abstract:The intra-craton strike-slip fault system in the central Sichuan Basin, developed above the Neoproterozoic rift system, plays a key role in controlling hydrocarbon migration, accumulation and differential enrichment. In order to deepen the understanding of the structural geometry and kinematic characteristics of the strike-slip fault in the central Sichuan Basin, this paper describes the structural geometry characteristics of the No.8 strike-slip fault zone in the Gaoshitai-Moxi area in detail based on high-precision three-dimensional seismic data, and establishes a three-dimensional structural model of the fault zone. Combined with aeromagnetic data, the relationship between strike-slip fault system and deep rift system in central Sichuan Basin is analyzed. The growth pattern and evolution process of strike-slip fault zone are recovered by fault throw statistics and structural stripping inversion. The study indicates that: 1.The strike length of No.8 strike-slip fault zone is about 70km, and it experiences the variation of NWW-NE-NWW-NE from west to east, causing the right-lateral faulting on the platform of the second and fourth members of the Dengying Formation. The fault zone has typical strike-slip structure styles such as high steep linear structure, "Y" shape structure and negative flower-like structure in the section, and has obvious segmented characteristics in the plane, consisting of 5 main faults, mainly developed horsetail structure and linear structure. 2.The deep Neoproterozoic rift system in the central Sichuan Basin has a good positioning effect on the Sinian-Lower Triassic strike-slip fault system, and the former is the foundation of the latter. The No.8 strike-slip fault zone is controlled by the deep Gaoshitai-Moxi Neoproterozoic rift fault, and the two are "hard connected". 3.No.8 strike-slip fault zone experienced three stages of inherited tectonic superposition on the basis of fault control of deep rift system: initial development stage from Late Sinian to Early Cambrian, growth setting stage before denudation from Late Ordovician to Caledonian erosion, and partial resurrection stage of Early Triassic. 4.There are two growth modes: 1)the fault grows upward from the weak zone of the basement, and the fault throw between the upper and lower strata is the same or gradually decreases. 2)The fault ruptures first from the top, gradually expands downward during the active period, and penetrates with the existing deep weak zone. The fault throw is large on the top and small on the bottom. In summary, The fault zone has experienced the complex deformation of "extension and right strike-slip", which belongs to the multi-stage development and multi-stage link tension-torsion (strike-slip) fault caused by the activation of the pre-existing fault.