Paleomagnetic implications on the evolution of the tethys belt from the atlantic ocean to the pamirs since the triassic

We first re-examined the apparent polar wander curves for stable Eurasia and Africa since the Triassic. These curves were then combined together with curves of North and South America according to the kinematics of the Atlantic ocean and a synthetic polar wander curve was given. Then, most of the paleomagnetic results from the Tethys mobile belt, from the Atlantic to the Pamirs, were analysed.Several groups of plates, microplates and blocks can be seen. First, relatively stable regions like Maghreb and Sicily, which have not moved much. Then we have a group formed by Iberia, Sardinia, Italy and, to a lesser extent, Corsica and the Western and Central Alps. For these blocks, movements are anticlockwise rotations chiefly driven by the anticlockwise rotation of Africa, but they are sometimes stronger.To the east, a major change takes place. The north of the Aegean Sea and the Ionian zone are clockwise rotated and these rotations are recent: Oligocene-Miocene for the first part, Pliocene to the present for the second part.A major problem arises in Turkey, Caucasus and Iran. Paleomagnetic results indicate a position far to the south of Eurasia, and, at the same time, geological evidence is in favour of a position close to Eurasia. We discuss these discrepancies.     

Kinematic evolution of the Tethys belt from the Atlantic ocean to the pamirs since the Triassic

We present an updated series of kinematic reconstructions of the major plates around the Tethys from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pamirs between the Early Jurassic and the Present. This set is used elsewhere as a basis for paleogeographic maps of the entire region. The problems related to the positions of the continents in the Lower Triassic are also discussed. No direct analyses of magnetic anomalies and fracture zones in the Atlantic have been made. Rather, all available poles and rotations have been tested in order to eliminate or minimize possible kinematic errors. The reconstructions are shown for nine key geological periods which correspond to well recognized magnetic anomalies, except for the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary which correspond to interpolated positions. Paleolatitudes have been drawn using the study of Westphal et al. (1986). An attempt has been made to take into account the displacements caused by formation of the continental margins and basins by stretching. The resulting relative vector of motions along the northern boundary of the Tethys shows a significant change 80 m.y. ago. Left-lateral motion with compression dominates before whereas right-lateral motion with compression dominates after. To the east, rates of motion vary by a factor of three with time and four maxima can be clearly related to tectonic events in the Late Jurassic, Late Cretaceous, Eocene and post Middle Miocene. To the west, north of Apulia, on the contrary, the motion rate has not changed significantly since the Early Cretaceous and is close to 1 cm/yr as an average. These rather complex adjustments in rates and directions of relative motion are produced in great part through a complex migration of the Africa-Eurasia pole of rotation and seem to be mostly governed by the tectonics of the Tethys plate boundary.     

Structure and evolution of the passive margin of the eastern tethys

An extensive passive margin was formed in the Triassic along the periphery of Arabia, including the Tauric carbonate platform. This event is related to the opening of the Mesozoic Tethys when a number of microcontinents split off from Gondwana. Triassic extension and continental rifting resulted in the formation of a structural pattern which is uniform from the Dinarides to Oman. It includes the following elements:

1. (1) shelf,

2. (2) continental slope,

3. (3) deep basin probably with a floor of attenuated sialic crust,

4. (4) inner carbonate platform. In the Jurassic-Cretaceous stable conditions prevailed, influenced only by eustatic oscillations of the sea level. Turbidites accumulated on the continental rise while cherts and radiolarites were deposited in the deep basins (Hawasina, Pichakun, Antalya, Pindus) below the CCD level. Sedimentation on the shelf was controlled by north-northeast transverse tectonic elements which also continued across the passive margin, dividing it into a number of segments. Collision with an island arc led to obduction of the oceanic crust, deformation of the passive margin and overthrusting of its sedimentary cover onto the Arabian shelf. Obduction and deformation lasted for about 10 m.y. and created a new tectonic pattern with concentric structural zones surrounding the Arabian promontory.

These zones include:

1. (1) the flysch basin—a remnant of the closing Tethys;

2. (2) an uplift—a site of periodical emergence and erosion, corresponding to the frontal part of the ophiolitic nappes;

3. (3) the Border furrow—a depocenter of low-energy calcareous marls,

4. (4) the Arabian shield constantly emerged during the Tertiary. Tectonic deformation of these zones caused by the collision of Arabia with Eurasia began prior to the Early Miocene and it is still going on.

Data on Afghanistan demonstrate that its central part (the Gelmend-Argandab and Kabul blocks) belonged during the Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic to the continental shelf of India.     

Geological characteristics and evolution of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau since the late Cenozoic

The eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau developed an integrated series of late Cenozoic lacustrine, loess, red and moraines deposits. Various genetic sediments recorded rich information of Quaternary palaeoenvironment changes. Xigeda Pliocene lacustrine deposits, formed during 4.2 Ma B.P.–2.6 Ma B.P., experienced nine periodic warm-cold stages. Eolian deposition in western Sichuan began at 1.15 Ma B.P., and the loess-soil sequences successively record fourteen palaeomonsoon change cycles. Red clay in the Chengdu plain record five stages of paleoclimatic change stages since 1.13 Ma B.P.. There was an old glacial period of 4.3 Ma B.P. in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. During the Quaternary, there were five extreme paleoclimatic events corresponding to five glaciations. __________ Translated from Geological Bulletin of China, 2007, 26(12): 1620–1626 [译自: 地质通报]     

非洲中南部赞比西造山带地质演化及矿产资源现状

赞比西造山带位于非洲中南缘,是新元古代-早古生代泛非造山运动的重要组成部分,形成于冈瓦纳古陆中心陆块缝合期间。赞比西带大地构造位置位于刚果克拉通和卡拉哈里克拉通之间,东连莫桑比克带,北接卢弗里安弧,西部和纳米比亚的达马拉构造带相呼应。带内主要地层单元为基底杂岩和一套沉积在硅铝质基底上的浅变质沉积序列。岩石学及构造学证据证明沉积作用发生在陆内裂谷盆地中,大量同位素年龄限制了盆地演化时代大致为880～820Ma;赞比西带在600～450Ma的泛非造山事件中再次活化,韧性剪切和大范围糜棱岩化导致了角闪岩相变质作用和同构造期花岗质岩体侵入事件同时发生。赞比西带目前已发现的矿产包括岩浆通道型镍硫化物矿床和浅成低温热液型硅锌矿等。笔者通过对赞比西带的地质演化和矿床成矿作用进行系统总结,并将赞比西带内的主要矿床和国内类似矿床进行对比分析,以期为赞比西带找矿实践提供依据或线索。     

Post-Variscan evolution of the Anti-Atlas belt of Morocco constrained from low-temperature geochronology

International Journal of Earth Sciences - The Anti-Atlas belt of Morocco extends ENE–WSW, over more than 600 km, from the Atlantic margin in the west to the interior of the African...     

渤海湾盆地廊固凹陷杨税务潜山带地质结构与构造演化

杨税务潜山带位于渤海湾盆地廊固凹陷东部的河西务构造带内,整体呈NE向展布,由3个平行斜列的潜山组成,属于典型的断块掀斜型潜山,经历多次构造运动的改造作用,地质结构复杂。目前对杨税务潜山带形成演化过程研究程度较低,因而厘定杨税务潜山带的构造演化阶段有助于分析构造对油气运移、储层改造以及油气成藏的控制作用,为后续进一步明确有利勘探方向奠定基础。本次研究通过研究区内的钻井和地震资料,对杨税务潜山带的断层发育、构造层的划分进行了详细研究;运用平衡剖面技术揭示了杨税务潜山带的构造演化过程。结果表明,研究区共发育6套构造层,即：基底构造层、中—新元古界构造层、下古生界构造层、石炭—二叠系构造层、古近系构造层和新近系—第四系构造层。构造演化分析结果表明：印支期,在SN向挤压应力的作用下,杨税务地区形成了近EW向的古隆起;燕山运动中,古隆起发生旋转并抬升遭受剥蚀;在喜马拉雅期发生构造反转,大兴断层的强烈活动使廊固凹陷进入断陷阶段,随着河西务断层的发育,古隆起被分割为杨税务潜山和泗村店潜山两部分,位于下盘的杨税务潜山被拉断成如今3个潜山平行斜列的潜山带。本次对杨税务潜山带地质结构、构造演化以及构造的控藏作用的研究,为后续类似隐蔽型潜山油气藏研究提供了案例与参考。

     

西藏乃东-米林地区雅鲁藏布江结合带的地质特征及构造演化

以新一轮125万区域地质调查及专题研究成果为基础,结合前期120万区域地质填图和科学考察资料,对雅鲁藏布江结合带的区域地质背景、基本地质特征、构造演化模式及有关问题进行了探讨.以雅鲁藏布江结合带为重点,论述了三叠纪玉门蛇绿岩构造冲断片、晚三叠世郎杰学弧前增生楔、泽当-罗布莎-朗县蛇绿混杂构造冲断片和白垩纪朗县弧前构造混杂岩片的基本地质特征.并将雅鲁藏布江结合带中蛇绿混杂构造冲断片的原始层序与特罗多斯典型蛇绿岩剖面对比,初步建立了研究区各构造带从新元古代-寒武纪克拉通化阶段、奥陶纪-二叠纪克拉通陆表海发展阶段、三叠纪-侏罗纪洋盆主扩张阶段、侏罗纪-白垩纪俯冲消减阶段、白垩纪-渐新世闭合-碰撞造山阶段到中新世以来的伸展、拆离、快速隆升阶段之演化模式.     

Geological and tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains,from ancient craton to recent enigma

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are one of Earth's great mountain belts and are a fundamental physiographic feature of Antarctica. They are continental-scale, traverse a wide range of latitudes, have high relief, contain a significant proportion of exposed rock on the continent, and represent a major arc of environmental and geological transition. Although the modern physiography is largely of Cenozoic origin, this major feature has persisted for hundreds of millions of years since the Neoproterozoic to the modern. Its mere existence as the planet's longest intraplate mountain belt at the transition between a thick stable craton in East Antarctica and a large extensional province in West Antarctica is a continuing enigma. The early and more cryptic tectonic evolution of the TAM includes Mesoarchean and Paleoproterozoic crust formation as part of the Columbia supercontinent, followed by Neoproterozoic rift separation from Laurentia during breakup of Rodinia. Development of an Andean-style Gondwana convergent margin resulted in a long-lived Ross orogenic cycle from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic, succeeded by crustal stabilization and widespread denudation during early Gondwana time, and intra-cratonic and foreland-basin sedimentation during late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic development of Pangea. Voluminous mafic volcanism, sill emplacement, and layered igneous intrusion are a primary signature of hotspot-influenced Jurassic extension during Gondwana breakup. The most recent phase of TAM evolution involved tectonic uplift and exhumation related to Cenozoic extension at the inboard edge of the West Antarctic Rift System, accompanied by Neogene to modern glaciation and volcanism related to the McMurdo alkaline volcanic province. Despite the remote location and relative inaccessibility of the TAM, its underlying varied and diachronous geology provides important clues for reconstructing past supercontinents and influences the modern flow patterns of both ice and atmospheric circulation, signifying that the TAM have both continental and global importance through time.     

Geological evolution of the Afro-Arabian dome

The Afro-Arabian dome includes the elevated continental regions enclosing the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Ethiopian rift system, and extends northwards as far as Jordan. It is more than an order of magnitude larger than other African uplifts. Both the structures and the igneous rocks of the dome appear to be products of the superimposition of two, perhaps three, semi-independent generating systems, initiated at different times but all still active. A strain pattern dominated by NW-trending basins and rifts first became established early in the Cretaceous. By the end of the Oligocene, much of the extensional strain had been taken up along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden axes, which subsequently developed into an ocean. Palaeogene “trap” volcanism of mildly alkaline to transitional character was related to this horizontal extension rather than to doming. Further west, the East Sahara swell has a history of intermittent alkaline volcanicity which began in the Mesozoic and was independent of magmatism in the Afro-Arabian dome. Volcanicity specifically related to doming began in the Miocene along a N-S zone of uplift extending from Ethiopia to Syria. This elongated swell forms the northern termination of the East African system of domes and rifts, characterized by episodic vertical uplift but very little extension. Superimposition of epeirogenic uplift upon structures formed by horizontal extension took place in the Neogene. Volcanicity related to vertical tectonics is mildly alkaline in character, whereas transitional and tholeiitic magmas are found along the spreading axes.     

Western Tibet relief evolution since the Oligo-Miocene

Western Tibet, between the Karakorum fault and the Gozha–Longmu Co fault system, is mostly internally drained and has a 1.5–2 km amplitude relief with km-large valleys. We investigate the origin of this peculiar morphology by combining a topography analysis and a study of the Cenozoic sedimentation in this area. Cenozoic continental strata correspond to a proximal, detrital fan deposition, and uncomformably rest on a palaeorelief similar to the modern one. Zircon U–Pb dating from trachytic flows interbedded within the Cenozoic continental sediments indicates that detrital sedimentation occurred at least between ca 24 and 20 Ma in the Shiquanhe basin, while K/Ar ages suggest it may have started since ~ 37 Ma in the Zapug basin. The distribution of continental deposits shows that present-day morphology features, including km-large, 1500 m-deep valleys, were already formed by Early Miocene times. We suggest that today's internally drained western Tibet was externally drained, at least during late Miocene, contemporaneously with early motion along the Karakorum Fault. Detailed study of the present day river network is compatible with a dextral offset on the Karakorum Fault of 250 km at a rate of ~ 10 ± 1 mm/yr. Displacement along the Karakorum fault possibly induced the shift from external to an internal drainage system, by damming of the Bangong Co ~ 4 Ma ago, leading to the isolation and preservation of the western Tibet relief.     

钦州湾-杭州湾构造结合带（南段）地质演化和找矿方向

钦州湾-杭州湾结合带是位于扬子与华夏两大古陆块中间的巨型构造结合带。根据内部结构不均一性和演化历史的差异,钦-杭结合带可划分为3段：北（东）段、中段和南（西）段,分界线大致为北纬24°和北纬27°。中段与南岭带大体一致;北段指南岭以北地区,即绍兴-江山-萍乡一带;南段位于南岭以南区域,大致与云开-十万大山带相当。钦-杭结合带南段是华南大陆壳再造和矿产资源寻找的重要研究课题。它的地质演化与钦-杭结合带具有整体一致性,特别是具有一致的开-合历史。震旦系底部的粤西云浮大降坪块状硫化物矿床是海底喷流沉积的产物,它与信宜和陆川新元古代蛇绿岩等是南段洋壳存在的重要证据。在进一步的矿床勘查中,要重视斑岩型铜（钼）矿床的寻找。中酸性斑岩体来自于元古宙岛弧底部玄武质岩石（下地壳）在中生代时期的部分熔融,本质上该类矿床带有岛弧俯冲环境的基因。     

钦州湾-杭州湾构造结合带（南段）地质演化和找矿方向

钦州湾-杭州湾结合带是位于扬子与华夏两大古陆块中间的巨型构造结合带。根据内部结构不均一性和演化历史的差异,钦-杭结合带可划分为3段：北（东）段、中段和南（西）段,分界线大致为北纬24°和北纬27°。中段与南岭带大体一致;北段指南岭以北地区,即绍兴-江山-萍乡一带;南段位于南岭以南区域,大致与云开-十万大山带相当。钦-杭结合带南段是华南大陆壳再造和矿产资源寻找的重要研究课题。它的地质演化与钦-杭结合带具有整体一致性,特别是具有一致的开-合历史。震旦系底部的粤西云浮大降坪块状硫化物矿床是海底喷流沉积的产物,它与信宜和陆川新元古代蛇绿岩等是南段洋壳存在的重要证据。在进一步的矿床勘查中,要重视斑岩型铜（钼）矿床的寻找。中酸性斑岩体来自于元古宙岛弧底部玄武质岩石（下地壳）在中生代时期的部分熔融,本质上该类矿床带有岛弧俯冲环境的基因。     

钦州湾-杭州湾构造结合带（南段） 地质演化和找矿方向

钦州湾-杭州湾结合带是位于扬子与华夏两大古陆块中间的巨型构造结合带。根据内部结构不均一性和演化历史的差异,钦-杭结合带可划分为3段：北（东）段、中段和南（西）段,分界线大致为北纬24°和北纬27°。中段与南岭带大体一致;北段指南岭以北地区,即绍兴-江山-萍乡一带;南段位于南岭以南区域,大致与云开-十万大山带相当。钦-杭结合带南段是华南大陆壳再造和矿产资源寻找的重要研究课题。它的地质演化与钦-杭结合带具有整体一致性,特别是具有一致的开-合历史。震旦系底部的粤西云浮大降坪块状硫化物矿床是海底喷流沉积的产物,它与信宜和陆川新元古代蛇绿岩等是南段洋壳存在的重要证据。在进一步的矿床勘查中,要重视斑岩型铜（钼）矿床的寻找。中酸性斑岩体来自于元古宙岛弧底部玄武质岩石（下地壳）在中生代时期的部分熔融,本质上该类矿床带有岛弧俯冲环境的基因。     

秦岭区前寒武纪构造格局与演化问题探讨

秦岭造山带中夹持大量前寒武纪岩层、地块,筛除后期改造与变位,昨原,它们复杂而多样,不仅是秦岭造山带研究的基础,也是研究早期中国大陆壳形成演化的关键地带。现有的地质、地球化学研究,揭示秦岭区早前寒武纪具非统一多块分离拼合特征,晚期已成为早期化南块的边缘带。中新元古代相应于Ｇｒｅｎｖｉｌｌｉａｎ造山事件和Ｒｏｄｉｎｉａ超大陆全球性构造时期,秦岭区从扩张裂谷系与小洋盆兼杂并存的垂向加积增生构造体制向侧向     

藏东类乌齐-左贡成矿带构造演化与成矿作用

藏东类乌齐-左贡成矿带(简称类-左带)是三江特提斯成矿域内一条重要的成矿带,其整体的研究较为薄弱、零散。本文基于最新的研究成果,按照成矿时代、地质背景、成矿作用及成矿元素组合将带内矿床划分为了6个成矿系列,包括：(1)印支期晶质石墨矿系列;(2)印支期蛇绿岩相关风化淋滤型菱镁矿系列;(3)印支期沉积-改造型Fe-Cu多金属系列;(4)燕山期与中酸性岩浆岩相关的W-Sn-Mo-Cu多金属系列;(5)燕山期热液脉型Pb-Zn多金属系列;(6)喜山期MVT型Pb-Zn多金属系列。针对每一个成矿系列,作者选取了典型矿床对其成矿地质特征进行了简要论述,并对其成因机制进行了重点剖析。此外,作者深入探讨了类-左带内区域构造演化与成矿作用之间的关系,指出各类矿床在带内大量发育是古、中、新特提斯构造长期演化的结果。本项研究有助于深入认识类-左带内的成矿作用与成矿规律,并对区内未来的找矿勘查工作具有重要的参考价值。     

柴北缘宗务隆构造带印支期花岗闪长岩地质特征及其构造意义

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