Neoproterozoic microfossils from the margin of the East European Platform and the search for a biostratigraphic model of lower Ediacaran rocks

A ca. 600 m thick siliciclastic succession in northern Russia contains abundant and diverse microfossils that document early to middle Ediacaran deposition along the northeastern margin of the East European Platform. The Vychegda Formation is poorly exposed but is well documented by a core drilled in the Timan trough region (Kel’tminskaya-1 borehole). Vychegda siliciclastics lie unconformably above Tonian to lower Cryogenian strata and below equivalents of the late Ediacaran Redkino succession that is widely distributed across the platform. The basal 10 m of the formation preserve acritarchs and fragments of problematic macrofossils known elsewhere only from pre-Sturtian successions. In contrast, the upper, nearly 400 m of the succession contains abundant and diverse large acanthomorphic acritarchs attributable to the Ediacaran Complex Acanthomorph Palynoflora (ECAP). This distinctive set of taxa is known elsewhere only from lower, but not lowermost, Ediacaran rocks. In between lies an additional assemblage of relatively simple filaments and stratigraphically long ranging sphaeromorphic acritarchs interpreted as early Ediacaran in age. Bearing in mind that knowledge of late Cryogenian (post-Strurtian/pre-Marinoan) microfossils is sparse, the Vychegda record is consistent with data from Australia and China which suggest that diverse ECAP microfossil assemblages appeared well into the Ediacaran Period. Accumulating paleontological observations underscore both the promise and challenges for the biostratigraphic characterization of the early Ediacaran Period.     

The Yudomian of Siberia,Vendian and Ediacaran systems of the International stratigraphic scale

In Russia, the terminal Neoproterozoic formally includes the Vendian of western part of the East European platform and the concurrent Yudoma Group of Siberia. As is shown in this work, the designated subdivisions correspond in the stratotypes only to the upper, Yudomian Series of the Vendian. In the Siberian platform, the Ust-Yudoma and Aim horizons of the Yudomian are tightly interrelated. The lower of them, bearing remains of Ediacaran Fauna, represents the Ediacarian Stage, whereas the upper one containing small-shelled fossils (SSF) corresponds to the Nemakit-Daldynian Stage divided into the trisulcatus and antiqua superregional zones. In more complete sections of the platform periphery, sediments of these subdivisions conformably rest on siliciclastic succession that should be ranked as basal subdivision of the Yudomian. The succession is concurrent to the Laplandian Stage of the East European platform. According to geochronological dates obtained recently, the Yudomian Series spans interval of 600–540 Ma. In the East European platform, the Upper Vendian (Yudomian) begins with the Laplandian basal tillites of synonymous stage. In the west of the platform, tillites are dated at 600 Ma like the Upper Vendian base in Siberia. The next Ediacarian Stage of the East European platform is stratigraphic equivalent of the Redkino Horizon, while summary range of the Kotlin and Rovno horizons is concurrent to that of the Nemakit-Daldynian Stage. The Vendian of Russia is conformably overlain by the Tommotian Stage of the Lower Cambrian. Intense pre-Vendian events constrained distribution areas of the Lower Vendian sediments in Russia. The Lower Vendian deposits of the East European platform are most representative and well studied in the central Urals, where they are attributed to the Serebryanka Group. In Siberia, separate subdivisions representing the Lower Vendian are the Maastakh Formation of the Olenek Uplift, two lower members of the Ushakovka Formation in the Baikal region, and the Taseeva Group of the Yenisei Range. Chronological interval of the Lower Vendian corresponds to 650–600 Ma. The Marinoan Glaciation dated in Australia at 650–635 Ma is concurrent to basal part of the pre-Yudomian interval of the Vendian in Russia, whereas the Laplandian Tillite and Gaskiers Glaciation (600–580 Ma) correspond to onset of the Yudomian Epoch. The new Ediacaran System (Knoll et al., 2004) legalized in the International Neoproterozoic scale is close in range to the entire Vendian (635–544 Ma), although without basal beds (Marinoan Tillite) it deprives the terminal Neoproterozoic of its original sense. Inferiority of the system consists also in its indivisibility into stages. Hence, it is clear that the Vendian System subdivided in detail in Russia should be retained in the rank of terminal system of the Precambrian, one of the basic in general scale of the Neoproterozoic.     

New concepts on the composition, structure, and age of the Lower Amur fragment of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous accretionary prism, Russian Far East

On the basis of geological observations and the study of conodont and radiolarian microfauna, a new stratigraphic scheme was proposed for the Mesozoic deposits of the Komsomolsk district of the Amur region. The lower Khorpy Group (T₂-J₃) consists of two units: the Boktor (T₂-J₂) and Kholvasi (J_2–3). The Boktor Sequence (400 m thick) is represented by pelagic cherts with an admixture of cherty-clayey shales and volcanic rocks. The Kholvasi Sequence (500 m thick) is built up of the predominant siltstones and clayey shales with rare intercalations and lenses of clayey cherts and cherty-clayey shales. The upper Komsomolskaya Group (K₁) has a terrigenous composition and includes the Gorin, Pionerskaya, and Pivan formations of 5 km total thickness. It is made up of intercalated sandstones, siltstones, mudstones, and often turbidites (proximal to distal). The rocks contain abundant buchia fauna of Volgian-Valanginian age, as well as carbonized plant detritus and flora of the Early Cretaceous habit. The described complex is characterized by a nappe-fold structure typical of the accretionary prisms in the ocean-continent convergence zones. The predominance of the coherent type of accretionary prisms reflects the simple morphology of the oceanic plate.     

The Early Evolution of the Acanthomorphic Acritarchs in China and Their Biostratigraphical Implication

On the basis of a study of the acanthomorphic acritarchs discovered in the Late Proterozoicto Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in different regions of China, especially in southernShaanxi and the Yangtze Platform, coupled with a study of the assemblages, morphological cor-relation, microstructure, and evolutional relations of the acanthorphic acritarchs, as well as awide correlation with those found in different regions of the world, the authors discuss the earlyevolutionary stages of the acanthomorphs, features of their assemblages in various stages, theirbiostratigraphical significance, and their evolutionary trend in China.     

Palaeomagnetic study of Vendian and Early Cambrian rocks of South Siberia and Central Mongolia: was the Siberian platform assembled at this time?

A palaeomagnetic study of Vendian and Early Cambrian sediments from the Angara block of the Siberian platform: Shaman (52.08°N, 108.83°E) and Minya (58.0°N, 110.0°E) Formations, and the Tuva-Mongolian block: Tsagan-Olom and Bayan-Gol Formations (46.76°N, 96.37°E) isolated three different components of magnetization through thermal demagnetization. The stable high-temperature characteristic remanence directions show both normal and reverse polarities. The mean palaeopoles computed after these high-temperature components are: 32.0°S/71.1°E (dp/dm=6.9°/13.8°) for the Vendian Shaman Formation (10 sites, 80 samples), 33.7°S/37.2°E (dp/dm=8.6°/14.7°) for the Vendian Minya Formation (12 samples), 22.8°S/28.4°E (dp/dm=10.8°/21.6°) for the Vendian Tsagan-Olom Formation (4 sites, 25 samples) and 21.4°S/167.1°E (dp/dm=9.6°/19.1°) for the Early Cambrian Bayan-Gol Formation (6 sites, 49 samples). From a compilation of Vendian and Early Cambrian palaeopoles from the Anabar, Angara and Aldan blocks of the Siberian platform and Tuva-Mongolia block, we propose a model where these blocks were situated in an equatorial to low south palaeolatitude position, with their present-day southern boundaries facing the north pole. From the analysis of the scatter of these poles, we conclude that the Siberian platform might not have fully amalgamated by this time, and that significant rotations occurred after the Early Cambrian. Our new palaeopoles for the Tuva-Mongolia block, together with previously published ones, show that this block was already adjacent to Siberia by the Vendian and Early Cambrian. We propose that the large counterclockwise rotation of the Tuva-Mongolia block with respect to Angara block could mark the end of the closure of the part of the Palaeo-Asian ocean separating these two blocks, and could account for the occurrence of Vendian-Early Cambrian ophiolites in the region.     

新疆四棵树地区西山窑组孢粉组合及古气候意

四棵树凹陷位于准噶尔盆地南缘西段乌苏市境内,蕴含丰富的油气和煤炭资源。由于匮乏化石证据,制约四棵树凹陷侏罗纪地层的地质时代的确定。对西山窑组沉积环境和孢粉分析研究,恢复重建了其古环境,探讨了本区中西山窑时期的植被演替及环境演变。西山窑组岩性以泥质细砂岩、浅灰绿色泥岩、粉砂岩、泥岩为主。通过对孢粉化石分析研究,建立了Cyathidites minor—Osmundacidites —Cycadopites—Disacciatrileti（COCD）孢粉组合。组合中蕨类植物孢子与裸子植物花粉含量大体相当,蕨类植物孢子以紫萁科的Osmundacidites为主,桫椤科孢子也有一定含量,其他常见分子包括Deltoidospora、Neoraistrickia等,裸子植物以松柏类两气囊花粉含量为主,均为我国侏罗纪常见属种。通过对西山窑组孢粉植物群的分析,认为西山窑组孢粉组合时代属于中侏罗世早期,该孢粉植物群总体上反映了温暖湿润的热带—亚热带气候特点,植被类型以针阔混交林为主。     

The lithology and organic geochemistry of the Vendian deposits in the cis-Yenisei subprovince (from the results of the well Vostok-3)

We have studied for the first time the organic geochemistry of the Vendian thick section stripped by the parametric well Vostok-3 in the depth range 5002–3870 m in southeastern West Siberia. The results point to the aquagene–plankton–derived and bacterial nature of the buried organic matter (OM). At some depth levels, the deposits are enriched in OM (up to 0.7–9.6%). The study of kerogens has shown that the OM is transformed to the apocatagenesis stage. The composition of biomarker hydrocarbons in bitumens has been studied, and the geochemical criteria for the petroleum presence prediction are considered.     

西藏羌塘盆地半岛湖中生代索瓦组的层状礁： 群落结构和时代

西藏北羌塘盆地索瓦组底界可对比为上侏罗统,关于该组上界能否达到下白垩统还需证实.半岛湖地区3个地点见隆起平缓且以珊瑚和层孔虫格架岩为主的层状礁,底栖群落结构显示以Pachythecopora pachytheca Deng,Actinostromaria motianlingensis Dong et Wang和Spongiomorpha robusta Yang et Wang为主体,其次还含有Latusastraea xigazeensis Liao et Xia,Preverastraea sp.,Ptychochaetes cf.globosus Koechlin和Spongiomorpha asiatica xainzaensis Deng.索瓦组上部孢粉组合中的Dicheiropollis etruscus为特提斯海周边地区早白垩世早期的特征分子;Senegalosporites和Steevesipollenites两属多见于早白垩世晚期乃至更晚的孢粉组合中,尚未见产于白垩纪以前地层的记录.珊瑚及孢粉组合指示索瓦组的主体部分为上侏罗统,而上部可对比为下白垩统.     

Filamentous microfossils in the early proterozoic transvaal supergroup: their morphology,significance, and paleoenvironmental setting

Well preserved filamentous microfossils (Siphonophycus transvaalensis n. sp.) are described here from the carbonate (Campbellrand Subgroup) to iron-formation (Kuruman Iron Formation) transition of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, estimated to be 2.5-2.3 Ga years old. The microfossils occur in petrographic thin-sections of a core sample of carbonate-chert. They are preserved by permineralization in both chert and in sparry ferroan dolomite. Stratigraphically the fossiliferous core sample occurs as part of an upward transition from a stromatolitic dolomite and limestone sequence (Campbellrand) to the overlying iron-rich sediments of the Kuruman-Griquatown Iron Formations. The average δ¹³C value of the kerogen in the sample is about - 36.9%.The microfossils are filamentous, unbranched, tubular to somewhat flattened, 15–25, μm in diameter and a few to many hundred microns in length. They exhibit a coriaceous, finely granular external surface texture resulting from the presence of adhering, randomly distributed, fine mineralic (carbonate) needles. In salient morphological characteristics they are comparable to the tubular, originally polysaccharide, encompassing sheaths of extant oscillatoriacean cyanobacteria. In comparison with previously described Precambrian microfossils, these fossil filaments are unusual because of their preservation in sparry carbonate (in addition to chert), their relatively large diameter, and their coating by adhering, precipitated, carbonate needles; they appear to be among the oldest assured microfossils now known from Proterozoic-age sediments.The microfossils are interwoven, occurring in subparallel aggregates that form a stromatolitic mat-like fabric; they are considered to be of an endogenetic in situ benthic origin occurring at the proximal margin of a ‘deep shelf’ environment at the front (distal margin) of the Campbellrand carbonate platform. The water depth for this environment, at the break in slope between deep shelf and euxinic basin, is estimated to have been of the order of 40–45 m. Paleomagnetic data support our interpretation that the micro-organisms inhabited a warm water marine environment, probably at low latitudes.     

东太平洋中国开辟区沉积物中热水活动的矿物学及地球化学证据

通过对东太平洋多金属结核中国开辟区表层沉积物和短柱状沉积物的系统观察和分析，首次根据矿物学和地球化学两方面的证据，发现中国开辟区沉积物中热水活动及其产物的存在。X射线衍射分析表明，沉积物样品中普遍含有重晶石，部分样品中含量高达10％以上，扫描电镜观察发现，重晶石均为完整自形晶，并与同为自形的石英及钠长石共生。根据本区重晶石的地质背景及结晶形态，可以认为它的形成环境与加利福尼亚湾瓜伊马斯盆地（Guaymas)相似，属热水成因，伴生的石英和钠长石亦为常见的热水矿物，。这一共生组合的形成温度不低于70℃。地球化学研究发现，在柱状沉积物剖面上，Ba的垂向分布有两种类型，一种为平稳型，在一定深度范围内无明显变化。另一种为跃升型，并伴有其他活泼组分的同步变化，跃升型可视为热水活动在沉积历史上的记录，迄今为止，热水矿物组合主要见于东区的表层沉积物，而在西区，Ba在沉积物中的富集主要见于10cm以下层位，根据沉积速率推算，在中国开辟区西区的热水化活动记录比东区至少早0．1Ma。     

The Böllstein Odenwald: evidence for pre- to early Variscan plate convergence in the Central European variscides

New chemical, petrological and structural data characterize the pre- to Early Variscan evolution of the Eastern or Böllstein Odenwald, which forms a part of the Mid-German Crystalline Rise. This part of the Odenwald Crystalline Complex is different to the Western or Bergsträsser Odenwald with respect to the age of the magmatic events, the structures, chemistry and metamorphism. The complex is formed by a large anticline composed of an older metamorphosed volcano-sedimentary unit and a younger metagranitoid core. The volcano-sedimentary sequence represents a relic of a pre-Variscan accretionary prism with relics of older island-arc volcanics, formed in front of a continental margin. During the Silurian to Lower Devonian the prism was intruded by S-type granitoids. The acidic intrusions were followed by a series of basic intrusives with an island-arc signature. After the magmatic phases the complex was metamorphosed under probably pre-Variscan medium pressure and high temperature conditions. During Variscan times the rocks underwent multiple penetrative deformations under pressure-temperature conditions or partial melting. The main deformation produced isoclinal folds and had a sense of movement of top to the west. During subsequent deformation the anticlinal structure and the Otzberg fault zone were formed and later overprinted by two generations of open folds with vertical and horizontal axes.The rocks of the Böllstein Odenwald document multiple plate convergences of pre- to Early Variscan to Upper Visean age. Correspondence to: U. Altenberger     

东天山红山Cu-Au矿床氧化带首次发现的副针绿矾巨晶及其多型针绿矾

一种艳丽的蓝紫色矿物巨晶在我国新疆哈密地区红山铜.金矿床氧化带中、上部大量出现,经详实的野外地质观察和室内测试,如X-射线单晶及粉晶衍射测定、湿法化学分析、热分析、穆斯堡尔谱和红外光谱测试等,确认其为一罕见硫酸盐矿物-副针绿矾(Paracoquimbite,Fe2(So4)3·9H2O),是继智利丘基卡马塔巨型宽岩铜矿区1935年报道后,在世界上的又一次发现,在我国尚属首次.该矿物晶体如此之硕大(单晶粒度可达8cm～12cm),远大于智利首次发现的晶体(1.95cm),在国内外和自然界亦堪称首例,与副针绿矾密切共生者为针绿矾,二者呈多型关系.本文副针绿矾湿法化学分析结果为(wt%):SO3 42.55,Fe2O3 28.19,H8O 28.72,CaO 0.02,MgO 0.01,AL2O3 0.03,Na2O 0.02,总计99.54,其XRD特征谱线为:4.61(100),8.89(83),3.38(67);针绿矾湿法化学分析结果为(wt%):SO,3 42.31,Fe2O3 28.61,H2O 28.98,MgO 0.01,Al2O30.01,总计99.92,其XRD特征谱线为:8.27(100),5.46(76),2.77(76).红外光谱分析判定了不同基团及同一种基团在不同结构环境下振动模式或频率的差别.穆斯堡尔谱分析确定了副针绿矾和针绿矾中铁的氧化态、配位数以及结构中存在共价键(霄键).其穆斯堡尔谱共有特征是四极矩分裂值较小,均由单一吸收峰组成.各种实验分析数据完全吻合,保证了副针绿矾和针绿矾研究的准确性和可靠性.在同一标本上连续切片,通过连续系统的电子探针分析,对针绿矾与副针绿矾互为多型的成因机理做了初步探讨.红山矿区氧化带中除与该矿物副针绿矾共生者外,尚有其它多种硫酸盐矿物亦为我国首次发现.目前上述诸多矿物已作为湿法冶铜及制酸工业的新型资源,副针绿矾巨大晶体的发现兼有一定的实用价值和收藏价值.     

The Paleocene and Eocene in the Russian part of West Eurasia

Biostratigraphic charts of marine Paleocene and Eocene in the European and West Siberian parts of Russia include the unified zonations of nannoplankton, planktonic and benthic foraminifers, dinocysts, radiolarians, diatoms, and palynomorphs of higher plants. These regional zonations summarize comprehensive data on the Lower Paleogene, which have been obtained by paleontologists and biostratigraphers in the last century. In the content and resolution degree, they represent a solid basis for geological and paleogeographic consideration and characterize the time succession of diverse biotic and abiotic events. On the other hand, the depicted biotic events have been controlled by successive tectonic, paleogeographic, and paleoclimatic events, because organisms determining contents of biostratigraphic zones changed not only in the course of evolution, but also in response to transformation of surroundings. As elements of general communication systems, epicontinental seas of the Paleogene have been interconnected via straits and seaways, which promoted interchange of water masses and biotas belonging to the Tethys, Atlantic or Arctic oceans, and inner seas. Size and configuration of the seas and seaways changed under influence of tectonic processes and eustatic events of epeirogenic or regional origin. Widening, narrowing, and cessation of communication ways have been responsible for different-scale changes in sedimentation and biotic environments. New materials on the Paleogene in a vast territory of Russian sector of West Eurasia offer an opportunity to revise somewhat the dynamics of climatic changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the Early Cenozoic, which characterize the terminal phase of transition from the warm to cold biosphere of the Earth.     

Foraminifers and conodonts from the late Viséan to early Bashkirian succession in the Saharan Tindouf Basin (southern Morocco): biostratigraphic refinements and implications for correlations in the western Palaeotethys

The Carboniferous succession in the Tindouf Basin of southern Morocco, North Africa, displays Mississippian to Early Pennsylvanian marine beds, followed by Pennsylvanian continental deposits. The marine beds comprise a shallow water cyclic platform sequence, dominated by shales and fine‐grained sandstones with thin but laterally persistent limestone/dolostone beds. Foraminiferal assemblages have been studied in the limestone beds in several sections from the Djebel Ouarkziz range in the northern limb of the Tindouf Syncline; they indicate that the age of the limestones range from late Asbian (late Viséan) to Krasnopolyanian (early Bashkirian). The foraminiferal assemblages are abundant and diverse, and much richer in diversity than those suggested by previous studies in the region, as well as for other areas of the western Palaeotethys. The richest assemblages are recorded in the Serpukhovian but, unusually, they contain several taxa which appear much earlier in Western European basins (in the latest Viséan). In contrast, conodont assemblages are scarce due to the shallow‐water facies, although some important taxa are recorded in the youngest limestones. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

银额盆地额济纳旗伊很乌苏地区下白垩统巴音戈壁组的微体化石及沉积环境

银额盆地额济纳地区中生代地层分布广泛,近些年的研究表明,盆地内发现的油气多来源于中生代地层的烃源岩,因此研究银额盆地中生代地层具有十分重要的意义。通过对银额盆地额济纳地区微体化石进行分析研究,发现鉴定了孢粉3属3种,介形类3属6种,其共存时限为早白垩世。据此将前人原划上侏罗统重新厘定为下白垩统巴音戈壁组,并根据岩石组合特征将其划分为3个岩性段。结合化石古生态、沉积构造和区域地质背景,认为巴音戈壁组3个岩性段分别代表了近岸水下扇、滨—浅湖、扇三角洲平原的淡水—微咸水内陆河湖相沉积环境,揭示其沉积经历了湖盆从产生、发展到萎缩的演化过程。巴音戈壁组岩石组合、沉积环境和化石组合特征的研究结果,有助于区域地层研究对比,为研究油气基础地质和区域演化提供基础资料。     

滇西保山西邑地区香山组一段牙形石的发现及其时代意义

保山西邑铅锌矿区香山组一段灰岩牙形石丰富,包括5属7种1个相似种及2个未定种,分别为:Ancyrodella curvata,A.nodosa,A.spp.,Ancyrognathus triangularis,Icriodus alternatus alternatus,I.sp.,Palmatolepis hassi,Pa.simpla,Polygnathus webbi,Po.cf.tenellus和Po.sp.。该牙形石组合面貌可与上泥盆统Late Palmatolepis rhenana带对比,表明研究区内香山组一段的时代为晚泥盆世弗拉斯期晚期,并非早石炭世。     

A new key pole for the East European Craton at 1452 Ma: Palaeomagnetic and geochronological constraints from mafic rocks in the Lake Ladoga region (Russian Karelia)

Palaeomagnetic and geochronological studies on mafic rocks in the Lake Ladoga region in South Russian Karelia provide a new, reliably dated Mesoproterozoic key paleopole for the East European Craton (Baltica). U–Pb dating on baddeleyite gives a crystallisation age of 1452 ± 12 Ma for one of the studied dolerite dykes. A mean palaeomagnetic pole for the Mesoproterozoic dolerite dykes, Valaam sill and Salmi basalts yields a paleopole at 15.2°N, 177.1°E, A₉₅ = 5.5°. Positive baked contact test for the dolerite dykes and positive reversal test for the Salmi basalts and for the dykes confirm the primary nature of the magnetisation. Comparison of this Baltica palaeopole with coeval paleomagnetic data for Laurentia and Siberia provides a revised palaeoposition of these cratons. The results verify that the East European Craton, Laurentia and Siberia were part of the supercontinent Columbia from the Late Palaeoproterozoic to the Middle Neoproterozoic.     

贵州宗地上石炭统达拉阶—下二叠统隆林阶的沉积微相组合及其沉积环境

根据镜下薄片统计结果,参照野外观察,采用R型和Q型聚类分析方法对贵州省紫云县宗地乡上石炭统达拉阶—下二叠统隆林阶的沉积环境进行了研究。分析结果表明,贵州宗地达拉阶—隆林阶存在11种微相类型,分别为深水局限泻湖、浅水局限泻湖、深水藻丘、接近浅滩的洼地、台地边缘浅滩、深水泻湖、浅水藻丘、浅水泻湖或潮坪、潮汐砂坝、局限浅滩或泻湖和深水斜坡等环境的沉积。不同的微相类型在剖面纵向上构成了6个微相组合,代表了沉积环境依时间变化的6个基本过程：浅滩或潮坪—开阔台地—藻丘—局限台地—深水斜坡—局限藻丘。     

祁漫塔格找矿远景区地质组成及勘查潜力

祁漫塔格位于东昆仑山东端。近年来,找矿成果显著,相继发现了白干湖大型钨锡矿床,以及具有大型远景的卡尔却卡铜多金属矿床、维宝铅锌矿床和长清铁矿床等,原发现的迪木那里克铁矿也新增资源量,构成大型磁铁矿矿床。这些矿床的发现展示了祁漫塔格巨大的找矿潜力,已成为中国最重要的金属矿产勘查开发接替基地之一。祁漫塔格地质上处于东昆仑、阿尔金构造带和柴达木地块等几个重要构造单元交汇的构造结上,经历了复杂的地质构造演化过程。对它的理解实际是对东、西昆仑及阿尔金构造带构造演化和相互之间关系的认识,也必然涉及柴达木地块与塔里木地台之间的演化关系。就目前资料,祁漫塔格可划分为4个主要成矿期:中元古代沉积变质型磁铁矿和SEDEX型维宝铅锌矿;中奥陶世与镁铁-超镁铁层状侵入岩有关的岩浆钛磁铁矿;志留纪末矽卡岩-石英脉型钨锡矿、铁矿;中晚三叠世斑岩-矽卡岩型铜多金属矿。它们分别代表了区域不同构造演化阶段不同地质单元的产物。现今祁漫塔格的构造格架是多期构造演化拼贴的结果。成矿分布上呈"八字型"构架,以鸭子泉白干湖断裂为界,东、西翼构成了不同的成矿组合。因此,应以两翼为重点,加快勘查的进程。     

东秦岭沉积建造演化与成矿

在华北古大陆南缘,以控制不同构造单元的断裂为界,构造格局自北而南划分如下:古大陆边缘的基底与盖层单元(华-熊陆缘带),宽坪群构造单元,二郎坪群构造单元,北秦岭(秦岭群)构造单元和南秦岭(刘岭群)构造单元.据陆缘构造发展阶段的沉积建造和岩石组合控矿因素,划分该区沉积建造演化阶段:①前长城纪陆核活动性边缘沉积建造;②中、新元古代被动大陆边缘沉积建造;③早加里东期构造体制转换期演化阶段;④古生代活动大陆边缘沉积建造;⑤中生代陆内碰撞演化阶段.从时间与空间角度,分别研究了不同构造演化阶段的成矿问题.