Evolution of Yizhou aulacogen in Guangxi during Late Paleozoic and distribution of manganese deposits in Early Carboniferous

The palaeogeographic configuration of the shallow water carbonate platform and deep water siliceous basin formed in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi region during the Late Paleozoic,which developed on the rifting of fold basement and differential subsidence during the Caledonian period. Yizhou-Liuzhou in Guangxi is an important sedimentary boundary in the southern Upper Yangtze carbonate platform. It is also the stratigraphic boundary of Late Paleozoic between middle and northern Guangxi,and it is the tectonic boundary between the southern Xuefengshan and central Guangxi depression during Paleozoic and Mesozoic. In this paper,the evolution of sedimentary basin located at Yishan-Liuzhou region during the Late Paleozoic is reconstructed through the regional stratigraphic correlation and genetic analysis.The elongate Yizhou rifting belt develops from the Nandan-Hechi fault from the west,and extends along Longtou,Beiya,Yizhou,and to Liuzhou. The rifting started at the eastern and western ends of the narrow rifting belt during the Middle Devonian and it developed into the rifting basin during the Early Carboniferous. Due to massive terrestrial siliciclastic filling derived from the Jiangnan Uplift to north,the rifting basin presented the asymmetrical feature and it was eventually filled up at late Early Carboniferous. Many magnesium deposits of Early Carboniferous are found in the rifting basin of Yizhou. The distribution of ore-bearing strata,the depositional succession and sedimentary environment are obviously related with the evolution of rifting basin. They are the evidences of basin evolution,implying the characteristics of rifting aulacogen in central Guangxi,which should be paid more attention in the manganese ore genesis study.