青藏高原新生代隆升研究现状

新生代青藏高原的隆升过程倍受世界关注。国内外学者从不同角度围绕青藏高原成为统一整体(印度-欧亚碰撞)的时限、隆升阶段性和空间差异性、青藏高原作为高海拔高原形成的时间、青藏高原隆升的动力机制等重大事件进行了深入的研究。对印度板块-欧亚板块的碰撞时间存在70Ma、65Ma、55Ma、50Ma、45Ma和40～34Ma等多种观点。印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞不是在某个时间点完成的,其碰撞持续时间约10～15Ma。碰撞方式存在由西向东迁移、由东向西迁移等多种观点。青藏高原的隆升过程具有强烈的时空差异性。青藏高原新生代隆升阶段存在多种划分方案,流行的有3阶段、4阶段和5阶段强隆升过程。青藏高原作为高海拔高原形成的时间可归纳为约3.6Ma以来、13～8Ma、26～20Ma、40～35Ma和55～45Ma 5类观点。青藏高原的形成机制模型存在较大分歧,流行的模式可分为碰撞、俯冲、挤出和拆沉-板片断离4类。青藏高原多阶段隆升及构造-岩浆演化造就了高原复杂多样的大陆成矿作用。高原隆升与环境和气候演变具耦合关系。     

新生代全球变冷与青藏高原隆升的关系

文中综合分析可以影响新生代全球变冷的四种原因,提出青藏隆升对新生代大气ＣＯ２浓度降低起主导作用,对新生代全球气温的降低起关键控制作用。这种作用是通过青藏高原隆升加剧全球硅酸盐岩和碳酸盐岩的化学风化、有机碳埋藏、植物的光合作用来实现的。而且,青藏高原隆升有可能同洋流改变和行星轨道参数变化于第三纪末至第四纪共同对新生代全球变冷起控制作用。因此,目前首先解决的科学目标应该是：精确刻划青藏高原隆升时代和幅度,并确定青藏高原隆升对新生代全球变冷的贡献,确定一种以青藏高原隆升为主导作用的控制新生代全球变冷的综合模式。     

羌塘腹地新生代火山岩的地球化学特征与青藏高原隆升

羌塘腹地新生代火山岩产出于青藏高原地壳向北减薄、地壳泊松比值向北发生异常增高的过渡地区。该区火山岩在藏北地区新生代火山岩中形成时代最老,为 4 4.1± 1.0Ma～32.6± 0.8Ma。岩石学及地球化学研究表明,区内新生代火山岩形成于大陆碰撞造山后的拉张环境,为壳源岩浆和幔源岩浆的混合产物。藏北高原的隆升与岩石圈地幔的拆离、地壳拉伸减薄及火山活动密切相关,由此推测藏北高原的主要隆升起始期为 4 0Ma左右。     

青藏高原隆升研究新进展综述

90年代以来,随着研究思路的拓宽、先进方法的采用,在不到十年的时间里获取了一大批有关青藏高原隆升研究的成果与数据,由此形成了青藏高原研究90年代新特色：在隆升机制研究上,既提出和强调了高原隆升的多块断性、多阶段性、多因素的特点,又发现了高原深部动力作用在高原隆升过程中的重要地位;在板块碰撞与高原隆升历史方面,一方面提出印度与亚洲板块的碰撞由西往东的穿时性约达10 Ma,故而把45 Ma作为碰撞的确切年代是不准确的。另一方面,有关碰撞期后的高原隆升史,虽各家说法不一,但却一致公认高原的形成是多期脉动性隆升的结果,并非一蹴而就。     

青藏高原隆升的动力学模型研究

本文根据青藏高原隆升特点和前人科考成果，结合笔者利用卫星重力资料求得的地幔蠕动流分布格局和岩石圈底部切向应力场值，设计了高原隆升的动力学模型，并进行了计算。通过计算获得高原下地幔流的有效粘滞系数（η＝10^18-10^20PaS)，并求得地幔流南北向蠕动的平均速率（v≈5.26cm/a)和高原现今隆升的速率（预测）值为7mm/a。据此讨论了高原隆升的动力学机制，指出高原隆升原因是高原周边地区地幔流向高原下蠕动会聚、挤压而成。     

临夏盆地晚新生代哺乳动物群演替与青藏高原隆升背景

临夏盆地的晚新生代沉积中富含哺乳动物化石,以晚渐新世巨犀动物群、中中新世铲齿象动物群、晚中新世三趾马动物群和早更新世真马动物群的化石最为丰富。晚新生代是青藏高原快速隆升的时期,临夏盆地的4个主要哺乳动物群在构造剧烈变化的背景下发生了显著的更替。通过对不同动物群所代表的生态特征的分析,恢复了临夏盆地晚新生代以来的气候环境演变过程:晚渐新世以温暖湿润的森林环境为主,间杂有一些开阔地带;中中新世的森林更加茂密,水体更加丰富;晚中新世演变为炎热半干旱的稀树草原环境,季节性变化加强;早更新世气候寒冷而干燥,并伴有显著的海拔升高。青藏高原在晚渐新世的隆升幅度还不足以阻挡大型哺乳动物在高原南北的交流,但到中中新世已成为明显的障碍,至晚中新世对动物迁徙的阻碍作用更加突出,而临夏盆地在早更新世已经达到相当大的高度,产生了一个高原或高山的动物群     

塔里木盆地南缘新生代沉积:对青藏高原北缘隆升和塔克拉玛干沙漠演化的指示

塔里木盆地南缘新生代沉积地层厚达万米以上。研究的叶城和阿尔塔什两个剖面分别厚4500m和7000m,基本代表了塔里木南部的新生代沉积。叶城剖面的底界年龄根据磁性地层测定约为8Ma。阿尔塔什剖面的底界年龄根据海相碳酸盐岩87Sr/86Sr的比值与全球Sr同位素曲线对比,约为30～35Ma。从岩性地层分析,剖面的下部为中新统乌恰群,主要由泥岩和粉砂岩组成,沉积相为低能环境的辫状河和曲流河。剖面的中部是上新统阿图什组,由红色泥岩、砂岩夹薄层砾岩以及埋藏风成黄土构成,沉积环境为冲-洪积扇的中远端。剖面的上部是上新统—下更新统西域组,由中粗砾岩夹块状粉砂岩透镜体(埋藏风成黄土)组成,主要是近源洪积扇沉积和风成沉积,以上地层层序可以进行很好的区域对比。塔里木盆地南缘新生代沉积由新近纪红层向上变化为逆粒序砾岩和碎屑流沉积,记录了青藏高原北缘隆升造成的沉积环境的变化,尤其是干旱化气候的阶段性演化。在约8Ma时,叶城和阿尔塔什两个剖面都发育了风成沙丘沉积。而在阿尔塔什剖面,沙丘沉积之下还发育了一套厚层的膏盐沉积,指示了塔里木盆地南缘在此前后已经相当干旱,只是仅凭这些证据还难以判断沙漠发育的规模。而上新世—更新世阿图什组和西域组中发育的埋藏风成黄土沉积,则指示了塔克拉玛干沙漠在此时已经发育到了相当规模,极度干旱的气候条件(可能类似于现在)已经形成。     

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。     

青藏高原新生代构造岩相古地理演化及其对构造隆升的响应

在系统分析青藏高原新生代98个残留盆地类型、形成构造背景、岩石地层序列的基础上, 对青藏高原古新世—始新世、渐新世、中新世及上新世构造岩相古地理演化特征进行了讨论: (1)古新世—始新世: 松潘—甘孜和冈底斯带为大面积构造隆起蚀源区.塔里木东部、柴达木、羌塘、可可西里地区主体表现为大面积的构造压陷湖盆-冲泛平原沉积.高原西部和南部为新特提斯海.(2)渐新世: 冈底斯—喜马拉雅和喀喇昆仑大范围沉积缺失, 指示上述地区大面积隆升.沿雅江自东向西古河形成(大竹卡砾岩).西昆仑和松潘—甘孜地区仍为隆起蚀源区.塔里木、柴达木、羌塘、可可西里地区主体表现为大面积构造压陷湖盆沉积.塔里木西南部为压陷盆地滨浅海沉积.渐新世末塔里木海相沉积结束.(3)中新世: 约23 Ma时高原及周边不整合面广布, 标志高原整体隆升.塔里木、柴达木及西宁—兰州、羌塘、可可西里等地区主体表现为大面积的构造压陷湖盆沉积; 约18~13 Ma高原及周边出现中新世最大湖泊扩张期.约13~10 Ma期间, 藏南南北向断陷盆地形成, 是高原隆升到足够高度开始垮塌的标志.(4)上新世: 除可可西里—羌塘、塔里木、柴达木等少数大型湖盆外, 大部分地区为隆起剥蚀区.由于上新世的持续隆升和强烈的断裂活动, 使大型盆地的基底抬升被分割为小盆地, 湖相沉积显著萎缩, 进入巨砾岩堆积期, 是高原整体隆升的响应.高原从古近纪的东高西低格局, 经历了新近纪全区的不均衡隆升和坳陷, 最终铸就了西高东低的地貌格局, 青藏作为一个统一的高原发生了重大的地貌反转事件.      

青藏高原隆升机制新模式

作为创建大陆动力学理论体系的最佳野外实验室的青藏高原, 涉及当代固体地球科学前沿和热点的许多重大科学问题.迄今为止, 包括板块构造在内的众多模式不能合理地解释青藏高原重要的地质和地球物理现象.本文从下地壳与中上地壳、造山带与沉积盆地的耦合作用出发, 对青藏高原及邻区进行分尺度、分层块、分阶段的构造解析, 提出青藏高原隆升的下地壳层流构造模式, 认为青藏高原地壳增厚和构造隆升是晚新生代由于锡瓦利克盆地、塔里木盆地和四川盆地下地壳的热软化岩石大量流向青藏高原造成的.      

Sedimentary Evolution of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in Cenozoic and its Response to the Uplift of the Plateau

We have studied the evolution of the tectonic lithofacies paleogeography of Paleocene–Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau by compiling data regarding the type, tectonic setting, and lithostratigraphic sequence of 98 remnant basins in the plateau area. Our results can be summarized as follows. (1) The Paleocene to Eocene is characterized by uplift and erosion in the Songpan–Garzê and Gangdisê belts, depression (lakes and pluvial plains) in eastern Tarim, Qaidam, Qiangtang, and Hoh Xil, and the Neo-Tethys Sea in the western and southern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. (2) The Oligocene is characterized by uplift in the Gangdisê–Himalaya and Karakorum regions (marked by the absence of sedimentation), fluvial transport (originating eastward and flowing westward) in the Brahmaputra region (marked by the deposition of Dazhuka conglomerate), uplift and erosion in western Kunlun and Songpan–Garzê, and depression (lakes) in the Tarim, Qaidam, Qiangtang, and Hoh Xil. The Oligocene is further characterized by depressional littoral and neritic basins in southwestern Tarim, with marine facies deposition ceasing at the end of the Oligocene. (3) For the Miocene, a widespread regional unconformity (ca. 23 Ma) in and adjacent to the plateau indicates comprehensive uplift of the plateau. This period is characterized by depressions (lakes) in the Tarim, Qaidam, Xining–Nanzhou, Qiangtang, and Hoh Xil. Lacustrine facies deposition expanded to peak in and adjacent to the plateau ca. 18–13 Ma, and north–south fault basins formed in southern Tibet ca. 13–10 Ma. All of these features indicate that the plateau uplifted to its peak and began to collapse. (4) Uplift and erosion occurred during the Pliocene in most parts of the plateau, except in the Hoh Xil–Qiangtang, Tarim, and Qaidam.     

Uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Lithospheric Structure and Structural Geomorphology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

1. IntroductionWith its very thick continental crust (70 kmthick on average, a double norma1 thickness of thecrust), dramatic uplift since the late of thePleistocene (now with an average elevation of 4500-5000 m) and sustained and strong tectonicdeformation, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been oneof the frontier subjects of international geoscienceresearch. With the advent of the 2lst century theQinghai-Tibet Plateau is renowned as a fieldlaboratory of the program of continental dynamics.Peo…     

Cenozoic Sedimentary Sequence in the Kumkal Basin, Xinjiang and New Evidence for the Late Quaternary Uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

1. IntroductionThe Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is an importantregion for the study of the global change andstructural evolution history). The in-depth knowledgeon its uplift process is the ke}' to understand theformation and development of temporary ph}'sicalenvironment of China or even East Asia. Therefore.a large quantity of researchers have given muchmore attention on this field (Burbank et al.. l982;Fang Xiaornin et al.. 1995f Ruddoman. ]997f AnZhisheng et al.. 1998). The macroscopic e\'o…     

Temporal-Spatial Structure of Intraplate Uplift in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The intraplate uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau took place on the basis of breakup and assembly of the Precambrian supercontinent, and southward ocean-continent transition of the Proto-, Paleo-, Meso-and Neo-Tethys during the Caledonian, Indosinian, Yanshanian and Early Himalayan movements. The intraplate tectonic evolution of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau underwent the early stage of intraplate orogeny characterized by migrational tectonic uplift, horizontal movement and geological processes during 180-7 Ma, and the late stage of isostatic mountain building characterized by pulsative rapid uplift, vertical movement and geographical processes since 3.6 Ma. The spatial-temporal evolution of the intraplate orogeny within the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau shows a regular transition from the northern part through the central part to the southern part during 180-120 Ma, 65-35 Ma, and 25-7 Ma respectively, with extensive intraplate faulting, folding, block movement, magmatism and metallogenesis. Simultaneous intraplate orogeny and basin formation resulted from crustal rheological stratification and basin-orogen coupling that was induced by lateral viscous flow in the lower crust. This continental dynamic process was controlled by lateral flow of hot and soft materials within the lower crust because of slab dehydration and melted mantle upwelling above the subducted plates during the southward Tethyan ocean-continent transition processes or asthenosphere diapirism. Intraplate orogeny and basin formation were irrelevant to plate collision. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a whole was actually formed by the isostatic mountain building processes since 3.6 Ma that were characterized by crust-scale vertical movement, and integral rapid uplift of the plateau, accompanied by isostatic subsidence of peripheral basins and depressions, and great changes in topography and environment. A series of pulsative mountain building events, associated with gravity equilibrium and isostatic adjustment of crustal materials, at 3.6 Ma, 2.5 Ma, 1.8-1.2 Ma, 0.9-0.8 Ma and 0.15-0.12 Ma led to the formation of a composite orogenic belt by unifying the originally relatively independent Himalayas, Gangdisê, Tanghla, Longmenshan, Kunlun, Altyn Tagh, and Qilian mountains, and the formation of the complete Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with a unified mountain root after Miocene uplift of the plateau as a whole.     

Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Paleomagnetic Chronology of the Zanda Basin, Tibet, and Records of the Uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The characteristics of Late Cenozoic tectonic uplift of the southern margin of the Qinghai- Tibet Plateau may be inferred from fluvio-lacustrine strata in the Zanda basin, Ngari, Tibet. Magnetostratigraphic study shows that the very thick fluvio-lacustrine strata in the basin are 5.89- 0.78 Ma old and that their deposition persisted for 5.11 Ma, i.e. starting at the end of the Miocene and ending at the end of the early Pleistocene, with the Quaternary glacial stage starting in the area no later than 1.58 Ma. Analysis of the sedimentary environment indicates that the Zanda basin on the southern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau began uplift at -5.89 Ma, later than the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Presence of gravel beds in the Guge and Qangze Formations reflects that strong uplift took place at -5.15 and -2.71 Ma, with the uplift peaking at -2.71 Ma.     

青藏高原地质科学研究的新进展

《青藏高原隆升的地质记录及机制》科研项目实施4年取得一些新进展:证实西昆仑存在两种基底和4期构造变形;大幅度提高了可可西里盆地研究程度,重塑了滇西高原隆升史;厘定了冈底斯构造-岩浆岩带时空结构和地壳生长方式;进一步查明羌塘地区新生代火山岩存在3个亚带和4个活动高峰期;确定南迦巴瓦构造结为一楔入构造,由3个构造单元组成,南迦巴瓦群为元古宇;GPS监测获得高原北部地壳运动速率,发现两个涡旋构造;把高原岩石圈划分为3种类型,识别出3种地球化学端元;获得一批有关高原隆升、盆地沉积、地质年代等的新数据,对高原隆升及对气候影响等提出一些新认识。     

青藏高原古近纪-新近纪隆升与沉积盆地分布耦合

根据在高原及邻区近7年完成的1∶250000地质填图资料, 划分出青藏高原及邻区古近系-新近系残留盆地共92个.沉积范围大且序列完整的盆地分布在高原周缘和腹地.在高原的南、北和东缘, 沿区域性大断裂带分布许多走滑拉分盆地.古新世—始新世海相地层仅分布在藏南和新疆叶城地区.藏南半深海-深海沉积沿江孜-萨嘎-郭雅拉-桑麦一线分布, 其海水东浅西深, 西部为活动型, 反映新特提斯洋闭合的时间从东向西变新, 地壳抬升首先开始于东侧.晚白垩世隆起区主要分布在研究区东北部, 高原总体地貌格局为东北高, 西南低.古新世—始新世出现了腾冲-班戈、库牙克-格尔木新的隆起带, 西昆仑隆起带向东拓展, 祁连隆起带加宽, 松潘-甘孜隆起区范围向东有所萎缩.渐新世期间, 冈底斯和喜马拉雅带掘起, 昆仑-阿尔金-祁连的进一步隆起, 造成了整个高原的周缘为山系、而腹地为盆的宏观地貌格局.中-上新世期间, 冈底斯和喜马拉雅带、喀喇昆仑-西昆仑地区进一步较大幅度隆起;高原从渐新世及其以前的东高西低格局, 经历了中新世—上新世全区的不均衡隆升和拗陷, 最终在上新世末铸就了西高东低的地貌格局, 青藏做为一个统一的高原发生了重大的地貌反转事件.青藏高原新生代的隆升过程以多阶段、不均匀、非等速为特征, 具有强烈的时空差异性.      

青海贵德盆地晚新生代沉积演化与青藏高原北部隆升

青海贵德盆地发育巨厚的新生代地层,并含较丰富的重要哺乳动物化石,对确定盆地及周边相似地层的年代和研究高原隆升过程具有重要的科学意义。本文结合哺乳动物采用典型剖面精确古地磁测年为基础的时间框架,对近11 Ma BP以来盆地沉积相进行了分析,划分出19个沉积岩相和湖泊、三角洲、辫状河流、水下扇三角洲和水上洪积扇5个沉积环境,以及8个沉积演化阶段。通过盆地沉积对构造隆升的响应探讨表明:>11～7.65Ma BP为高原构造稳定期,7.65～3.6Ma BP高原具阶段性逐步隆升构造特征,3.6～>2.6 Ma BP为高原整体快速隆升,2.6Ma BP左右高原大规模挤压断陷,1.8 Ma BP左右高原大规模整体快速隆升并使贵德盆地古湖被切穿排干,黄河在此诞生。     

A Mechanism for the Building of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

l.IntroductionSinceArgand's(l924)recognitionthattheCenozoictectonicsoftheHighAsiaareprincipallytheresultoftheconvergenceofGondwanancontinentalfragmentswithLaurisic,therehasbeenageneralacceptanceoftheviewthattheHimalayasandQinghai-TibetPlateauhavebeenformedbyacollisionbetweentheIndianandTibetcontinentsalongtheIndus-Zangbosuture(MolnarandTapponnief,l975,Sengor,l979;ChenBingwei,l982;DengWanming,l978,HuangJiqing,l954;LoZhongshu,l982;PanGuitangetal.,l984,WangQianshenetal.,l982,Besseetal.…     

青藏高原的蛇绿岩与铬铁矿

综述了近年来青藏高原蛇绿岩、铬铁矿的调查研究进展及其成果。归纳了青藏高原蛇绿岩的展布特征,简述了蛇绿岩的时代、地球化学特征及其形成环境。在统计青藏高原铬铁矿床（点）的基础上回顾了一些典型矿床的勘查成果。最后讨论了青藏高原铬铁矿找矿的乐观前景。