沉积物粒度分析在阿尔金山隆升研究中的应用

山体隆升必然制约两侧盆地的沉积,这种约束体现在盆地的沉积响应上.柴达木盆地西北缘的阿尔金山,位于青藏高原的西北边界,自第三纪以来发生了多次隆升事件,其中以早更新世末的一次最为强烈.本次研究在阿尔金山山前红三旱一号剖面干柴沟组自下而上不同层位选取典型的沉积岩样品,进行了系统的薄片矿物鉴定和粒度分析,发现沉积区柴达木盆地的沉积环境和气候条件因受阿尔金山多期次隆升的影响而发生变化,其各方面的沉积特点受到物源区的控制.研究表明,始新世时(下干柴沟组)物源区阿尔金山相对于柴达木盆地没有发生明显的快速隆升,到渐新世(上干柴沟组)阿尔金山相对于柴达木盆地开始发生强烈的快速隆升,沉积区气候变得明显干旱.中新世到上新世(下、上油砂山和狮子沟组)红三旱地区整体处于抬升阶段,可能阿尔金山相对于沉积盆地区不具有明显的地形高差,到早更新世(七个泉组)阿尔金山开始发生急剧隆升,相对于柴达木盆地沉积区在地形上出现巨大的相对高差,这一隆升事件目前仍在持续.该研究也为青藏高原的多次隆升和气候环境变化提供了佐证.     

青藏高原西北缘晚新生代的隆升特征——来自西昆仑山前盆地的沉积学证据

对西昆仑北缘山前盆地新生代沉积特征的研究结果表明,沿西昆仑山前发育的各沉积序列的垂向特征相似:古新世—中新世早期为石膏层、含瓣腮化石的石灰岩和紫红色较细粒的碎屑岩沉积,指示了海相和海陆过渡相较平静的沉积环境;中新世晚期—上新世初期开始出现陆相磨拉石,指示了陆相非平静的沉积环境,砾石的直径由下至上呈增大趋势,可能反映了西昆仑山体不断隆升,其间相对稳定的层段可能是构造运动间歇期或平稳期的沉积,指示了脉动式的隆升模式;磨拉石底部砾石的成分以沉积岩为主,向上火成岩和变质岩砾石逐渐增多,表明剥蚀程度不断加深。根据磨拉石建造的特征,判断剥蚀量和剥蚀强度自西向东有减小和变弱的趋势,可能暗示了西昆仑山晚新生代隆升有自西向东由强变弱的过渡特征。该结论与本区构造地貌学的研究结果一致。     

青藏高原东缘龙门山晚新生代剥蚀厚度与弹性挠曲模拟

龙门山是青藏高原东缘边界山脉,具有青藏高原地貌、龙门山高山地貌和山前冲积平原三个一级地貌单元。利用数字高程模式图像和裂变径迹年代测定方法研究和计算龙门山晚新生代剥蚀厚度与剥蚀速率,结果表明:3.6 Ma以来龙门山的剥蚀厚度介于1.91-2.16 km之间,剥蚀速率介于0.53-0.60 mm/a之间。在此基础上,开展了该地区岩石圈的弹性挠曲模拟,结果表明龙门山的隆升机制具有以构造缩短隆升和剥蚀卸载隆升相叠合的特点。3.6 Ma之前,龙门山的隆升与逆冲推覆构造负载有关,以构造缩短驱动的构造隆升为特色;3.6 Ma之后,龙门山的隆升与剥蚀卸载驱动的抬升有关,并以剥蚀卸载隆升为特色,进而提出了龙门山晚新生代以来的隆升机制以剥蚀成山作用为主的认识。     

青藏高原隆升与环境效应

通过对青藏高原北缘库木库里盆地新生代沉积建造、孢粉、阶地热年龄、沉积响应的调查研究，得出青藏高原新生代的渐新世、上新世和更新世一全新世形成的三套磨拉石建造代表青藏高原最强烈的三次隆升作用；自渐新世以来到上新世晚期高原隆升幅度达1500～2000m，更新世、全新世高原隆升了约2500m，46．4Ka．Bp至今高原隆升了约44m；青藏高原的隆升速率由渐新世开始有愈来愈强烈的趋势，预示青藏高原的隆升是一个多阶段、不等速和非均变的复杂过程；根据库木库里盆地沉积演化揭示青藏高原的隆升经历了早中渐新世早期隆升期、晚渐新世——早中新世早期稳定剥蚀夷平期、早中新世中晚期小幅隆升期、中中新世较稳定剥蚀夷平期、晚中新世振荡隆升期、上新世快速隆升期、更新世一全新世强烈隆升期共七个隆升阶段；并探讨了高原隆升引起的气候干燥、生物灭绝、荒漠化等多种环境效应。     

帕米尔东北缘新生代隆升活动:来自奥依塔格剖面砾石统计的证据

砾岩相通常作为构造事件的标志,对探讨造山带隆升过程有着重要的意义.选取位于帕米尔构造带东北缘的奥依塔格剖面开展砾石统计分析.新生代不同时期砾石的统计结果显示,奥依塔格剖面砾石成分主要为火成岩和变质岩,这与帕米尔造山带岩性相符.其中,花岗岩砾石作为特征组分首次出现在上新统阿图什组底部.砾石主要为巨砾,且以长短轴比值为1~2的近圆状为主;砾石的磨圆度中等,绝大部分为次磨圆-次棱角状;分选中等-差.结合砾石所处地层的沉积环境和热年代学记录,认为帕米尔东北缘新生代可能存在3期构造隆升事件,包括渐新-中新世克孜洛依组沉积早期、中新世中期(安居安组中-上段和帕卡布拉克组下段沉积时期)和上新世以来(阿图什组下段沉积以来).      

西宁和贵德盆地新生代沉积物重矿物变化对构造活动的响应

位于青藏高原东北缘的西宁、贵德盆地的新生代沉积序列较完整的记录了盆地周围物源区构造变形过程。重矿物是碎屑物质的重要组成部分,是最直观、有效揭示源区母岩、构造-沉积过程的重要手段。通过重矿物的系统分析,结合沉积-构造变形,揭示出始新世-上新世末西宁-贵得盆地及其源区经历了几个构造活动阶段:古新世-始新世早期的隆升阶段、始新世中期-渐新世晚期的构造稳定阶段、渐新世末-中新世初的构造隆升阶段、中中新世构造稳定阶段和晚中新世以来的强烈隆升阶段。并结合特征矿物（绿泥石）及古水流分析,推断古近纪西宁-贵德盆地是东昆仑山前一个统一盆地。中新世早期青藏高原的扩张导致了拉脊山开始隆起,使原型盆地解体;约8.5 Ma以来拉脊山强烈隆升,两侧盆地逐渐转变为山间盆地。这为正确理解青藏高原东北缘盆山格局的形成和演化提供了重要依据。     

青藏高原东北缘寺口子盆地新生代沉积演化及其构造意义

宁夏固原寺口子盆地发育巨厚的新生代地层,这些地层记录了青藏高原东北部的沉积演化特征和构造演变历史。根据剖面沉积物粒度特征、沉积结构和构造、沉积层序,识别出20种岩相、5种沉积相类型。结合前人对寺口子剖面的古地磁测年,分析研究盆地的沉积演化特征以及对构造的响应表明:20.1 Ma盆地以缓慢的坳陷沉降开始演化,直至1.2 Ma遭受破坏。在此期间青藏高原东北部经历了6.4 Ma、4.6 Ma和1.2 Ma这3次明显的构造挤压隆升运动,其中约6.4 Ma的构造运动是青藏高原向东北部扩展首次影响到海原—六盘山断裂以东地区。从盆地的形成和沉积演化过程来看,马东山山前断裂的逆冲推覆,导致了寺口子盆地的强烈变形和构造降升,并且最终成为青藏高原的最新组成部分。     

循化-化隆盆地晚白垩世以来盆山耦合过程: 来自物源与磷灰石裂变径迹年代学分析的证据

循化-化隆盆地新生代沉积及盆地基底和周缘山系磷灰石裂变径迹年代学分析揭示了青藏高原东北缘晚白垩世以来经历过3期隆升剥露事件: (1)盆地基底及拉脊山和西秦岭北缘构造带磷灰石裂变径迹年龄分析普遍记录了晚白垩世-始新世中期相对快速的区域性的隆升剥露事件, 西秦岭北缘快速抬升的起始时间为84Ma, 受控于向北的逆冲抬升; 向北到循化-化隆盆地中部的拉目峡抬升的起始时间为69Ma; 更北的拉脊山一带快速抬升期主要为40~50Ma, 从而反映晚白垩世-始新世中期的快速抬升由南向北逐渐扩展.这一期构造隆升事件导致循化-化隆盆地和临夏盆地缺失了北部西宁-民和盆地古近纪所具有的西宁群沉积.隆升剥露结束于31Ma左右, 此时化隆-循化盆地向东与同时期的临夏盆地相连为一个统一的大型西秦岭山前盆地, 两者具有相同的构造、沉积演化史, 因此循化-化隆盆地他拉组底部地层年龄最老不会超过临夏盆地最老地层的古地磁年龄, 即29Ma.(2)渐新世晚期约26Ma拉脊山开始双向逆冲隆升, 并可能延续到中新世早期约21Ma, 隆升作用使循化-化隆盆地成为挟持于拉脊山逆冲带和西秦岭构造带之间的山前挤压型前陆盆地, 循化-化隆盆地开始大规模沉积巨厚的他拉组冲积扇相粗碎屑岩.(3)通过循化-化隆盆地咸水河组和临夏组的沉积相分析、古流方向和砾石成分分析, 揭示出拉脊山构造带在中新世8Ma左右发生的最大规模的双向逆冲隆升事件, 这次事件直接导致循化-化隆盆地由前陆挤压盆地转变为山间盆地, 形成现今青藏高原东北缘的盆山地貌基本格局.      

阿尔金山新生代隆升历史:来自塔东南若羌凹陷的沉积记录

阿尔金山位于青藏高原北部边缘,在高原隆升和演化过程中扮演着重要的角色。但是,关于它的新生代隆升历史现今仍存在较大的争议。阿尔金山北麓若羌凹陷新生代接受来自山脉的剥蚀物质。因此,凹陷内的沉积特征记录了阿尔金山新生代隆升的重要信息。本文利用石油钻井编录资料及地震剖面,通过对盆地区新生代各个地层之间的接触关系、沉积相组合和沉积速率变化进行研究,结果显示阿尔金山34Ma以来的隆升分为两阶段:第一阶段为34~20.4Ma,持续低速隆升;第二阶段为16Ma至现今,急剧快速隆升。结合前人研究成果,认为渐新世—早中新世,阿尔金断裂作为一个局限在中、下地壳的韧性剪切带造成阿尔金山一带产生大范围的地表隆起,控制了山脉在第一阶段的持续低速隆升;中中新世以来,阿尔金断裂大规模左行走滑,青藏高原北缘主要通过地壳缩短的形式释放应力,控制了山脉在第二阶段的急剧快速隆升。     

青藏高原北缘的隆升时期——来自阿尔金山和柴达木盆地的证据

根据柴达木盆地西部中新世上、下油砂山组的沉积特征及其地震反射界面的特征,推断阿尔金山的主隆升时期为中晚中新世,山体的隆升导致盆地沉积中心向东迁移.盆地周缘山系的隆升年代学资料也表明,青藏高原北缘在中晚中新世发生了快速抬升,与青藏高原南部的同期区域构造事件一致,表明中晚中新世是青藏高原向北生长的重要时期.阿尔金山此次隆升事件与塔里木板块向柴达木地块楔入有关,整个高原的隆升动力源自印度板块与欧亚大陆拼合后持续向北的俯冲.     

Sedimentary characteristics of Cenozoic strata in central-southern Ningxia,NW China: Implications for the evolution of the NE Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Cenozoic sedimentary deposits in central-southern Ningxia province, NW China are an important record of Tertiary tectonic events along the evolving Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau’s northeast margin. Shortly after the onset of the Indo-Eurasia collision to the south, a thrust belt and adjoining foreland basin began to form during 40–30 Ma. The Eocene Sikouzi Formation developed in a distal setting to this basin, in normal fault-bound basins that may have formed in a forebulge setting. Subsequent deposition of the Oligocene Qingshuiying Formation occurred during a phase of apparently less intense tectonism and the previous underfilled foreland basin became overfilled. During the Early Miocene, contractional deformation was mainly distributed to the west of the Liupan Shan. This resulted in deformation of the Qingshuiying Formation as indicated by an unconformity with the overlying Miocene Hongliugou Formation. The unconformity occurs proximal to the Haiyuan Fault suggesting that the Haiyuan Fault may have begun movement in the Early Miocene. In the Late Miocene, thrusting occurred west of the southern Helan Shan and an unconformity developed between the Hongliugou and Qingshuiying Formations proximal to the the Cha-Gu Fault. Relationships between the Miocene stratigraphy and major faults in the region imply that during the Late Miocene the deformation front of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau had migrated to the Cha-Gu Fault along the western Ordos Margin, and the Xiang Shan was uplifted. Central-southern Ningxia was then incorporated into the northeast propagating thrust wedge. The driving force for NE propagation of the thrust wedge was most likely pronounced uplift of the northeastern plateau at the same time. Analysis of the sedimentary record coupled with consideration of the topographic evolution of the region suggests that the evolving fold-and-thrust belt experienced both forward-breaking fold-and-thrust belt development, and out-of-sequence fault displacements as the thrust wedge evolved and the foreland basin became compartmentalised. The documented sedimentary facies and structural relationship also place constraints on the Miocene-Recent evolution of the Yellow River and its tributaries.     

宁夏中南部中新世构造活动的地质证据及其意义

通过区域性新生界的对比及不整合面分布的研究,发现宁夏地区中新世曾发生过两次构造运动,一次发生于早中新世,另一次发生于中中新世晚期,但以后者明显,分布也最广。其中前者集中在六盘山以西地区,后者分布在查汗布拉格—三关口—青铜峡—固原(查-固)断裂沿线。宁夏中北部大部分红柳沟组是在受中新世构造运动影响的环境下沉积的。发生于早中新世的构造运动集中体现在六盘山以西的地区和甘肃部分地区,该期运动使渐新统清水营组变形,由于这些现象多发生于海原断裂附近,因此推测在早中新世海原断裂就可能已活动了。而发生于中中新世晚期的运动体现在如下几个方面,在贺兰山中南段西侧发现了中中新世晚期的逆冲推覆活动,堆积了厚度较大的同构造沉积(红柳沟组);在查-固断裂沿线发现了由于中中新世晚期的构造活动而形成的红柳沟组与清水营组之间的角度不整合面,这些说明在该期青藏高原的变形前锋已到达查-固断裂,也就是鄂尔多斯西缘地区,早新生代盆地因此解体;与此同时盆地内部红柳沟组向上逐渐变粗,也说明中中新世晚期较强烈的构造运动已影响到了该区,香山地区开始隆起并分割了早先的盆地,使之成为背驮盆地。宁夏中南部并入到青藏高原东北缘逆冲构造楔之中,该逆冲构造楔中新世向北东扩展的原因可能是由于高原北部在同期显著的隆升运动使得逆冲楔顶角超过临界值,而向前扩展的,查-固断裂是早期类似于目前海原断裂的青藏高原变形前缘,整个高原东北部的扩展并不是前展式,而是一种没有特定顺序的变形。上述这些现象否定了前人认为宁夏地区第三系的变形发生在上新世末期—更新世以后的观点。     

祁连山新生代古海拔变化的碳氧同位素记录

祁连山构成青藏高原的北东边界,是研究青藏高原的隆升与向内陆扩展的关键区域,利用新生代湖相沉积的碳氧同位素组成估算祁连山古海拔对认识青藏高原的隆升有重要意义。在中祁连陆块不同地点出露的始新统、渐新统、中新统和中晚更新统分别取样并进行碳氧同位素分析,估算相应地质时期的古年均温和古海拔高度。结果表明,祁连山地区古近纪的海拔约为2711 m,中新世早期的海拔为2848 m左右,中新世中晚期祁连山海拔达到约3586 m,中晚更新世祁连山的古海拔约为3790~3890 m。古近纪祁连山的海拔较低,但已经构成了青藏高原的东北边界;中新世中晚期祁连山强烈隆升,形成了盆-山构造地貌格局;第四纪祁连山地壳重新活跃并呈阶段性快速隆升,河流堆积和侵蚀交替进行。根据碳氧同位素估算的祁连山古海拔高度变化为认识青藏高原隆升的过程提供参考。     

Tertiary fluvial gravels and evolution of the Western Canadian Prairie Landscape

The early Tertiary of Western Canada and northern United States was marked by a change from compressional to extensional tectonics. The result was regional uplift and magmatic events. The uplift resulted in a major unconformity and deposition of extensive regional sheets of gravel and sand, of which only isolated remnants remain. These units are the Eocene to Miocene Cypress Hills Formation, the Miocene Wood Mountain Formation, Miocene Flaxville Formation and preglacial Souris River gravels, All four stratigraphic units consist of gravel and sand with lesser amounts of clay. The formations were largely deposited as laterally continuous sheets of braided river gravels, with some occurrences of meandering-river sedimentation. The sediment was deposited several hundred kilometres downstream of their source areas. Paleocurrent data for the Cypress Hills and Wood Mountain formations indicate that regional paleoslope dipped towards the north–northeast. The modern prairie landscape of western Canada began to evolve with the deposition of these gravels during the Eocene with creation of a basin-wide unconformity followed by deposition of an extensive braidplain system that was subsequently uplifted, incised, and molded into its present form.     

Petrography and geochemistry of the Paleogene sandstones from the Ningnan Basin,NW China: implications for provenance,weathering and tectonic setting

Petrographical and geochemical characteristics of the Paleogene sandstones in the Ningnan Basin, NW China, were studied by analyzing thin sections and major, trace, and rare earth element (REE) compositions. The sandstones of the Sikouzi and Qingshuiying formations are sublitharenite to feldspathic litharenite and characterized by low-medium compositional and textural maturity. Petrographic provenance study indicates a quartzose-recycled provenance with higher concentration of Zr in the Qingshuiying Formation. Depositional environment of the Sikouzi and Qingshuiying sandstones was mainly oxic as evidenced by lower values of δEu, δCe, V/Cr, Ni/Co, U/Th, and δU. The Chemical Index of Weathering (CIW’) and the Th/U ratios (av. 3.3 and 3.54) reveal weak and moderate weathering history in the source area. The Zr, Nb, Y, Th, and U concentrations in the Qingshuiying Formation are comparable to upper continental crust (UCC) values and the negative Eu anomalies support contribution from a felsic source. However, a significantly larger range of Ce anomalies in the Sikouzi Formation also reveals mixing of felsic and mafic/ultramafic source terrains. The petrology and geochemistry analyses of the Sikouzi sandstones imply that the provenance was mainly derived from diabase in Xiang Shan and lower Cretaceous strata in the study area whereas the Qingshuiying sandstones were derived from the granites in the southern part of Liupan Shan, which means that the northeastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau did not make the Liupan Shan a high relief during Paleogene. The present study has let to document the origin of the Ningnan Basin that was formed during the late phase of Ordos Basin reformation, along with the other synchronous peripheral fault-bounded basins of the Ordos Basin, and was not related to the northeastern extrusion of Tibetan Plateau.     

宁南盆地新生界寺口子组磁性地层学研究

通过对宁夏固原新生代寺口子剖面的古地磁年代研究,获得该剖面始新统寺口子组共记录的15个正极性和14个反极性,可以与标准极性柱C21n—C11n.1n段进行很好的对比,通过多种地质资料综合分析,确定年龄为47.906—29.401Ma。这一年龄区间正好与现今鄂尔多斯盆地周缘其他新生代断陷盆地(如渭河盆地、银川盆地等)接受沉积的时代基本一致,宁南盆地的发育与这些周缘新生代断陷盆地很可能具有相同的区域地球动力学环境和盆地属性。     

The Exhumation History of North Qaidam Thrust Belt Constrained by Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology: Implication for the Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

Determining the spatio-temporal distribution of the deformation tied to the India-Eurasian convergence and the impact of pre-existing weaknesses on the Cenozoic crustal deformation is significant for understanding how the convergence between India and Eurasia contributed to the development of the Tibetan Plateau. The exhumation history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau was addressed in this research using a new apatite fission track (AFT) study in the North Qaidam thrust belt (NQTB). Three granite samples collected from the Qaidam Shan pluton in the north tied to the Qaidam Shan thrust, with AFT ages clustering in the Eocene to Miocene. The other thirteen samples obtained from the Luliang Shan and Yuka plutons in the south related to the Luliang Shan thrust and they have showed predominantly the Cretaceous AFT ages. Related thermal history modeling based on grain ages and track lengths indicates rapid cooling events during the Eocene-early Oligocene and since late Miocene within the Qaidam Shan, in contrast to those in the Cretaceous and since the Oligocene-Miocene in the Luliang Shan and Yuka region. The results, combined with published the Cretaceous thermochronological ages in the Qaidam Shan region, suggest that the NQTB had undergo rapid exhumation during the accretions along the southern Asian Andean-type margin prior to the India-Eurasian collision. The Cenozoic deformation initially took place in the North Qaidam thrust belt by the Eocene, which is consistent with the recent claim that the deformation of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau initiated in the Eocene as a response to continental collision between India and Eurasia. The immediate deformation responding to the collision is tentatively attributed to the pre-existing weaknesses of the lithosphere, and therefore the deformation of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau should be regarded as a boundary-condition-dependent process.     

试论宁夏地区始新统寺口子组沉积的构造背景

做为新生代宁夏境内的第一套沉积,始新统寺口子组具有其特殊的意义,但一直没有得到满意的解释。从寺口子组的沉积规模以及较为剧烈的沉积相变化来看,寺口子组的沉积来的很突然。通过沉积相以及构造分析表明寺口子组是走廊南山前陆盆地中前隆位置靠前陆盆地一侧的沉积。该盆地是30～40Ma之间走廊南山逆冲隆起的前陆盆地,盆地的前隆沉积单元位于鄂尔多斯西缘及香山等地区,隆后沉积单元位于鄂尔多斯西缘以东,由于挠曲作用在该前隆上产生了许多倾向造山带的正断层,这些正断层控制了寺口子组的分布．基本上是一种近源的快速堆积,形成一系列围绕前隆的冲积扇或洪积扇沉积,物源为鄂尔多斯西缘隆起等地区。     

青藏高原东北缘六盘山地区新生代构造旋转及其意义

青藏高原东北缘构造变形的研究是认识高原隆起过程、机制和印度-欧亚板块碰撞远程效应的重要途径。新生代时期,海原-六盘山断裂、香山-天景山断裂、烟筒山-窑山断裂和青铜峡-固原断裂控制的青藏高原最东北缘六盘山地区山前盆地群,接受了巨厚的新生代沉积,较完整地记录了高原东北部的变形隆升历史。通过六盘山地区丁家二沟剖面的精细古地磁研究发现,白垩纪结束后至中新世六盘山地区发生了约23°的长期顺时针构造旋转,并主要发生在三个时期:可能于晚始新世至早渐新世六盘山地区发生了约9°的顺时针旋转、早渐新世晚期顺时针快速旋转约9°、早中新世初顺时针快速旋转约5°,同时它们也被地层变形侵蚀和沉积演化所记录,说明印度-欧亚板块碰撞变形的前峰最迟在约始新世末-渐新世初就已经达到六盘山地区。这比目前普遍认同的六盘山地区变形隆升是青藏高原隆起中最晚形成(第四纪以来)的观点早了至少3千多万年,它为深入认识高原隆升过程和环境效应提供了新的证据。