Mesozoic intracontinental orogeny in the Qinling Mountains,central China

The Qinling Orogenic belt has been well documented that it was formed by multiple steps of convergence and subsequent collision between the North China and South China Blocks during Paleozoic and Late Triassic times. Following the collision in Late Triassic times, the whole range evolved into an intracontinental tectonic process. The geological, geophysical and geochronological data suggest that the intracontinental tectonic evolutionary history of the Qinling Orogenic Belt allow deduce three stages including strike-slip faulting during Early Jurrassic, N-S compressional deformation during Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous and orogenic collapse during Late Cretaceous to Paleogene. The strike-slip faulting and the infills in Early Jurassic along some major boundary faults show flower structures and pull-apart basins, related to the continued compression after Late Triassic collision between the South Qinling Belt and the South China Block along the Mianlue suture. Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous large scale of N-S compression and overthrusting progressed outwards from inner of Qinling Orogen to the North China Block and South China Block, due to the renewed southward intracontinental subduction of the North China Block beneath the Qinling Orogenic Belt and continuously northward subduction of the South China Block, respectively. After the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous compression and denudation, the Qinling Orogenic Belt evolved into Late Cretaceous to Paleogene orogen collapse and depression, and formed many large fault basins along the major faults.     

西秦岭造山带泥盆纪沉积地质学和动力沉积学研究:古地理、地层层序及构造演化

晚加里东到早海西期,西秦岭北带存在一较大规模的造山带,泥盆纪的古地形呈北高南低的特下。持续的海侵由南向北侵进。中泥盆世由于北秦岭造山带的向南爷冲,形成同造山的前陆拗陷盆地。南秦岭裂陷槽是早古生代小洋盆的残余海槽。     

秦岭-大别新元古代-中生代沉积盆地演化

秦岭-大别造山带处于中央造山带的东部,经历了复杂的构造-沉积历史.在系统分析研究区4个二级和13个三级构造单元岩石地层、化石组合、同位素年代学及构造学等资料的基础上,划分出18个沉积盆地类型,并讨论新元古代-中生代构造-沉积演化:(1)新元古代-早古生代:商丹洋以北的北秦岭为岩浆弧和弧前盆地;南秦岭为陆内裂谷-台盆、台地-陆缘裂谷发育阶段;大别-苏鲁为陆内裂谷-台盆台地发育阶段;(2)晚古生代:北秦岭为海陆交互陆表海;勉略洋于泥盆纪开启;南秦岭为弧后陆棚与台盆台地并存发育阶段;(3)三叠纪:陆陆碰撞造山,全区进入前陆盆地发育阶段;(4)侏罗纪-白垩纪:断陷盆地和压陷盆地发育阶段.      

秦岭造山带的印支运动及印支期成矿作用

秦岭碰撞造山经历了长期的板块构造的俯冲-碰撞的构造演化,于印支期最终完成对接拼合,形成了统一的中国大陆,并由此转入陆内变形。众多Au、Mo多金属矿床的同位素年龄资料表明,印支期是秦岭的重要成矿期,其成矿作用明显受到构造演化的控制,反映特定的地球动力学背景和作用过程。秦岭印支期成矿作用不仅是中国东部中生代成矿作用的先导和开始,奠定了中国东部中生代成矿大爆发的基础,而且为碰撞期和碰撞期后构造体制快速转换的研究提供了依据。重视秦岭以及中国印支期成矿作用的研究,对正确认识秦岭成矿带的区域成矿规律、造山带演化的深部动力学过程,建立符合中国和东亚实际的印支期成矿理论体系具有重要科学意义。     

Sedimentary provenance of the Hengyang and Mayang basins,SE China,and implications for the Mesozoic topographic change in South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon geochronology

Detrital zircon U–Pb data from sedimentary rocks in the Hengyang and Mayang basins, SE China reveal a change in basin provenance during or after Early Cretaceous. The results imply a provenance of the sediment from the North China Craton and Dabie Orogen for the Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic sandstones and from the Indosinian granitic plutons in the South China Craton for the Lower Cretaceous sandstones. The 90–120 Ma age group in the Upper Cretaceous sandstones in the Hengyang Basin is correlated with Cretaceous volcanism along the southeastern margin of South China, suggesting a coastal mountain belt have existed during the Late Cretaceous. The sediment provenance of the basins and topographic evolution revealed by the geochronological data in this study are consistent with a Mesozoic tectonic setting from Early Mesozoic intra-continental compression through late Mesozoic Pacific Plate subduction in SE China.     

南秦岭新元古代地壳增生事件花岗质岩石钕同位素示踪

本文根据南秦岭花岗质岩石和有关基底岩石的钕同位素示踪，研究了南秦岭地壳的增生。     

Structural characteristics and evolution of the South Yellow Sea Basin since Indosinian

Based on the seismic data gathered in past years and the correlation between the sea and land areas of the Lower Yangtze Platform, the structural characteristics of the South Yellow Sea Basin since the Indosinian tectonic movement is studied in this paper. Three stages of structural deformation can be distinguished in the South Yellow Sea Basin since the Indosinian. The first stage, Late Indosinian to Early Yanshanian, was dominated by foreland deformation including both the uplifting and subsidence stages under an intensively compressional environment. The second stage, which is called the Huangqiao Event in the middle Yanshanian, was a change for stress fields from compression to extension. While in the third stage (the Sanduo Event) in the Late Himalayan, the basin developed a depression in the Neogene-Quaternary after rifting in the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene. The long-time evolution controlled 3 basin formation stages from a foreland basin, then a fault basin to a final depression basin. In conclusion, since the Indosinian, the South Yellow Sea Basin has experienced compressional fold and thrust, collisional orogen, compressional and tensional pulsation, strike-slip, extensional fault block and inversion structures, compression and convergence. The NE, NEE, nearly EW and NW trending structures developed in the basin. From west to east, the structural trend changed from NEE to near EW to NW. While from north to south, they changed from NEE to near EW with a strong-weak-strong zoning sequence. Vertically, the marine and terrestrial facies basins show a “seesaw” pattern with fold and thrust in the early stages, which is strong in the north and weak in the south and an extensional fault in later stages, which is strong in the north and weak in the south. In the marine facies basin, thrust deformation is more prevailing in the upper structural layer than that in the lower layer. The tectonic mechanism in the South Yellow Sea Basin is mainly affected by the collision between the Yangtze and North China Block, while the stress environment of large-scale strike-slip faults was owing to subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate. The southern part of the Laoshan uplift is a weak deformation zone as well as a stress release zone, and the Meso-Paleozoic had been weakly reformed in later stages. The southern part of the Laoshan uplift is believed, therefore, to be a promising area for oil and gas exploration.     

洛南、山阳盆地沉积充填特征及其对东秦岭中—新生代陆内演化的约束

晚三叠世后东秦岭造山带进入陆内造山阶段,其陆内演化过程主要表现为显著的隆升冷却和剧烈的岩浆活动,形成了一系列的山间断陷盆地。作为东秦岭陆内演化的重要载体,这类盆地的发育在很大程度上揭示了造山带的演化。以东秦岭地区的洛南、山阳山间断陷盆地为对象,通过实测剖面、构造要素测量,分析其沉积充填特征,并厘定其地层构造变形期次,从而为东秦岭地区中—新生代陆内演化提供约束。研究结果显示:(1)晚白垩世,洛南与山阳盆地主控断裂发生总体N—S向拉张兼具左行走滑运动,盆地基底由此开始进入以N—S向拉张断陷为主的活动期。受盆地发生拉张断陷作用的影响,两盆地的物源区岩体在该时期经历了强烈的隆升剥蚀冷却过程,剥蚀下来的碎屑颗粒被就近搬运到相应的盆地中,在盆地内部形成扇三角洲、湖泊及旱地冲积扇等沉积体系,形成了非常典型的山间断陷盆地。(2)从古新世开始到渐新世盆地沉积规模由大变小,磷灰石裂变径迹计算结果和构造变形证据共同表明,控制盆地发展的深大断裂拉张兼走滑作用持续减弱,推测此时的洛南与山阳盆地可能受到其它非东西方向上的挤压作用,抑制了拉张走滑运动。     

秦岭三叠系分带及印支期发展史

秦岭及共邻区的三叠系自北而南可分为四带.北秦岭三叠系具有富含植物化石的陆相上三叠统,其下的优地槽型细碧角斑岩系时代未定.中秦岭下三叠统为复理石夹多层砾状灰岩,后者系斜坡沉积,物源可能来自北方,安尼期为复理石.南秦岭北带在二叠纪晚期已裂陷接受复理石及以砾状灰岩为代表的斜坡沉积.早三叠世至安尼期为深水相黑色板岩、薄层灰岩、复理石并夹火山岩.南秦岭南带及巴顿喀喇从早三叠世至安尼期为扬子地台的一部分,岩相及化百群与之一致,具有发育良好的安尼期陆棚边缘生物滩.从拉丁期开始裂陷．出现鱼鳞蛤页岩、砾状灰岩及巨厚复理石,后者延续至晚三叠世,有放射虫为证.整个中,南秦岭呈现一个由二叠纪晚期开始,延续于印支期的裂陷槽发育史.它的北部—中秦岭和南秦岭北带于二叠纪末及三叠纪初先后裂陷,并于拉丁期褶皱回返.它的南部—南秦岭南带及巴颜喀喇于拉丁期裂陷,并于三叠纪末回返.这个裂陷槽是否构成印支期秦岭的主体,抑或它仅是“北秦岭小洋盆”在扬子大陆边缘的弧后扩张盆地,取决于北秦岭是否存在早、中三叠世优地槽沉积.后者尚未证实.     

北秦岭南缘弧前盆地沉积作用及盆地发展

秦岭被商丹缝合带分为北秦岭和南秦岭两个部分,在北秦岭南缘残留着与俯冲作用相关的岛弧火山岩以及弧前沉积体。对沿海丹带两个地区(黑河地区和黑山地区)弧前沉积体岩相组合和相序的研究显示,它们主要由深水浊积岩系。火山碎屑岩,扇三角洲沉积以及局限性台地碳酸盐岩和陆棚碎屑岩组成。总的沉积序列显示向上变浅趋势,但在弧前内侧边缘则表现为向上变深趋势。两个不同地区岩相和相序的差异明显受物源、海平面变化以及特别是构造作用的挫制。深水浊积岩系所反映的线状物源供给形式、扇三角洲体系的发育和其内部不同沉积段反复重叠的特征指示一种活动构造环境。弧前区构造发展一方面与其前部加积或下部垫底作用有关,另一方面则在很大程度上受由斜向俯冲而导致的伸展作用的影响。