Consolidation of the American Cordilleras

The continental margin orogenic systems of the western Americas are enormous features that formed along the Pacific margins of the North and South American plates during late Mesozoic through Cenozoic time. There has been considerable debate concerning their origin, and they are often compared with intra-oceanic fringing arc-trench systems more typical of the Australasian margins of the Pacific Ocean, in that both involve the subduction of oceanic lithosphere, often with similar convergent relative motion vectors. The onset of orogenesis in the two Cordilleras, as shown in reversal of sedimentary polarity from sources generally on the continent to sources along the Pacific margin, seems to date from shortly after emplacement of the oldest oceanic crust in that part of the Atlantic Ocaen east of each continent — i.e., about 170 Ma, or Middle Jurassic, in the case of the Central Atlantic, and about 135 to 100 Ma, or Early to mid-Cretaceous, in the case of the South Atlantic. These ages also seem to mark the onset of westward motion of the two continents over the Pacific Ocean basin and subsequent crustal thickening and uplift, with development of thrust belts, foreland basins, and foredeeps. Prior to this prolonged westward drift, both margins had been convergent for at least several hundred million years, but no massive mountain building had taken place. Instead, the margins were tectonically “neutral”, with typically submarine fringing arc-trench systems or shallow marine to continental margin arcs which stood “outboard” of shallow marine platformal shelves or basins whose main sedimentary polarity was from the continent. Although accretion of “suspect” terranes, high rates of convergence, and age of subducting lithosphere all may have influenced particularly local tectonic response and/or phases of orogenic activity in the two chains, the absolute motion of the two continental margins over the Pacific Ocean basin is considered to have been the dominant factor in Cordilleran tectonic evolution.     

Transects of the ancient and modern continental margins of eastern Canada

Rocks of the west flank of the northern Appalachian Orogen (miogeocline) record the history of the late Precambrian-early Paleozoic passive continental margin of Eastern North America. The ancient margin was destroyed by ophiolite obduction and arc collision during the Ordovician Taconic Orogeny. The present sinuous form of the miogeocline is interpreted to reflect ancient promontories and re-entrants of a previous orthogonal margin bounded by rifts and transforms.Four major terranes are recognized east of the miogeocline in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. From west to east, these are the Dunnage, Gander, Avalon and Meguma. The Dunnage and Gander terranes were linked to the miogeocline during the Middle Ordovician Taconian Orogeny. The Avalon terrane arrived later, possibly during the mid-Paleozoic Acadian Orogeny. The Meguma terrane of southern Nova Scotia had docked with the Avalon terrane by Carboniferous time. The Dunnage terrane contains arc volcanics which lie above an ophiolitic substrate. The Gander terrane comprises a thick sequence of clastic sedimentary rocks, underlain by basement rocks with continental affinities. It has been interpreted as a continental margin, perhaps once on the eastern side of the Paleozoic Iapetus ocean. The Avalon terrane consists of belts of sedimentary and volcanic rocks which are probably underlain by Grenvillian basement. Its tectonic affinities are unclear. The Meguma terrane comprises a thick sequence of sediments, derived from the south-east. It is found only in southeastern Atlantic Canada. The boundaries between terranes are compressional in the west and steep, transcurrent faults in the east.The surface extent of the geological terranes is grossly correlative with deep structural zones, although no direct evidence exists for linking the two because most surface structures can be traced geophysically to only a few kilometres depth. A striking feature of the deep crustal structure is a lower, high velocity crustal layer beneath the Dunnage and Gander terranes.The modern margin of Atlantic Canada developed by rifting and by transform motion between adjacent continents. Stretching and thinning of the lithosphere, and the consequent production of basaltic magma that in places intrudes or underplates the thinned continental crust, are the most likely processes responsible for the evolution of the modern margin. These processes predict the observed deep sedimentary basins along the margin, the thinning of continental crust, and the high seismic velocities found within the ocean-continent transition zones.Rifting adjacent to Nova Scotia began in Late Triassic-Early Jurassic time between the present African and North American plates. These plate motions are also responsible for the major transform margin south of the Grand Banks. Separation between Iberia and the eastern Grand Banks occurred in mid-Cretaceous time, before the Late Cretaceous opening of the Labrador Sea. While the rifted segments of the margin exhibit deep sedimentary basins and thinned continental crust, the Grand Banks transform segment is characterized by a sharp transition zone and a relatively thin sediment cover. Numerous volcanic seamounts are built on the ocean crust adjacent to this transform segment.Mimicry of Paleozoic promontories and re-entrants by modern rift and transform margin segments, the location of Mesozoic sedimentary basins on ancestral Appalachian structures, and the reactivation and propagation of major Precambrian and Paleozoic structural boundaries during the latest phase of ocean opening attest to ancestral controls of the modern margins.The rift phase of both the ancient and modern passive margins is characterized by volcanism, mafic dike intrusion and by the development of basins filled with clastic sediments. The drift phase of both the ancient margin and the present Nova Scotia margin is marked by a change in sedimentary environment, such that carbonates replaced the rift phase clastic sediments. Two of the markers used to delineate the ancient ocean-continent transition zone; carbonate banks and steep gravity anomaly gradients, should be used with caution as the modern analogs of these markers may lie 100 km or more of this transition zone. Furthermore, it is naive to view the ancient transition as simple and narrow, for the modern margins exhibits complex transition zones between 30 and 300 km wide.In general, the evolution of the ancient and modern passive margins appear to be remarkably similar. Predictably, closing the present Atlantic will mimic the evolution of the Appalachian Orogen.     

Ancient continental margins and comparative analysis of their oil-and-gas bearing

Analysis of peculiarities in the distribution of hydrocarbon accumulations within the basins of Phanerozoic continental margins, which had completed their evolution, and complicated peripheral regions of ancient Laurasian and Gondwanian platforms nowadays, has enabled us to reveal certain regularities related to two stages in the evolution of sedimentary basins. The first stage of evolution of sedimentary basins (period of existence of the continental margin proper) is related to large accumulations of fluid and gaseous hydrocarbons in the margins of continents belonging to the Laurasian megablock; for the margins of continents belonging to Gondwana, this period was reflected in the formation of large gas accumulation only (in the Permian). At the second stage of sedimentary basin evolution, large oil and gas accumulations were formed in areas associated with fore deeps, which were laid in the boundary of the Gondwanian platforms and fold belts. In comparison, in fore deeps that emerged in the marginal parts of Laurasian platforms, less significant accumulations of fluid and gaseous hydrocarbons were found (Table 1). The results of comparative analysis in oil-and-gas bearing basins located in the margins of the Laurasian and Gondwanian megablocks would help in purposeful exploratory works for oil and gas.     

秦岭造山带泥盆纪的沉积体系与古地理格局演化

秦岭造山带以商丹断裂带为界分为南秦岭和北秦岭。南秦岭在早古生代是扬子板块的被动大陆边缘,在志留纪末曾因垂向隆升变为古陆。因其南缘长期处于地幔上涌的构造薄弱带,所以到泥盆纪首先从这里开始扩 张,并逐渐演化成有限洋盆,与扬子板块分离,成为独立的板块,内部也因拉张形成裂陷盆地与块断隆起相间的环境格局。其自南而北依次为安康古陆→旬阳-镇安盆地→小磨岭古陆→刘岭盆地。在盆地内堆积了从陆相到海相,从浅水到深水的各种沉积体系,组成向上变细和变深的充填序列。而在北侧,该板块仍在向华北板块下面俯冲。北秦岭南缘的弧前沉积体系记录了这种俯冲作用的演化。这种与早古生代十分不同的古地理格局标志秦岭造山带已进入了新的演化阶段。     

中国潜质页岩形成和分布

我国页岩盆地发育的大地构造背景复杂,板块规模偏小且地质活动性较强,彼此之间相互影响且在中、新生代以来受外缘板块环境影响较大,表现为南海北陆、南早北晚、南升北降等重大差异,在东西方向上,也由于塔里木与华北板块之间的演变差异而出现较大区别。中国页岩的分布主要受控于板块特点及构造、沉积之间的相互匹配,板块及其相互之间的相对运动造成了不同时代沉降沉积中心的迁移变化。塔里木、华北、华南三个板块均发生了四次沉降沉积中心的转移,但总体上表现为早古生代海相时期的由东向西转移、晚古生代海陆交互相时期的背离板块汇聚中心式转移、中生代陆相和海陆交互相时期的由东向西转移、新生代陆相时期的由西向东转移。潜质页岩及页岩气主要发育在中部地区,具有时代交替、南海北陆、东西分异、时空变迁等特点。南方下古生界海相页岩气原始地质条件优越,但有机质热演化程度高且后期改造强,页岩气的有利区分布既受控于构造与沉积条件,也更决定于构造与沉积两者的相互匹配;晚古生代为主的海陆交互相页岩分布范围广、累积厚度大,常与砂岩、煤系及灰岩频繁互层,有机质热演化程度较为适中,是我国页岩气进一步勘探开发的重要目标层系。北方以中新生代陆相为代表的页岩分布受控于盆地结构,是我国页岩油发育的主体区域。针对各套潜质页岩特点,页岩气勘探宜分别考虑。     

非活动大陆边缘的天然气水合物及其成藏过程述评

非活动陆缘是板块活动相对较弱的地区，也是水合物发育的有利地区。通过对世界各地非活动陆缘地区水合物富集情况的系统分析，发现断褶组合构造、底辟构造以及“麻坑”地貌（Pockmark)与水合物的关系密切。尽管模拟海底反射层（Bottom Simulating Reflector,简称BSR，下同）是最重要的水合物识别标志，但水合物与BSR之间并不存在严格的一一对应关系。非活动陆缘具有丰富的烃类物质来源和适宜的温压条件，而断裂－褶皱组合构造、垒堑式构造和底辟构造等则为烃类气体的运移、富集和成藏提供了有利的构造环境，便于最终形成水合物。非活动陆缘的深水区往往发育有多期叠合盆地，因其物源、温压、构造和沉积条件的内在关联性，常常形成深部石油、中部天然气、浅部水合物的“三位一体”烃类能源结构模式。     

华北陆块新元古代-中生代沉积盆地划分及其构造演化

在华北陆块区进行构造-地层区划的基础上,对华北陆块中元古代-新元古代、早古生代、晚古生代、三叠纪-早侏罗世、中侏罗世-白垩纪5个大地构造阶段不同构造-地层区内的沉积盆地类型、充填序列和时空演化过程进行了分析、讨论.中-新元古代是华北周缘裂谷发育期.寒武纪-早、中奥陶世,华北广泛发生沉降并接受海侵,形成几乎广布全华北的碳酸盐岩台地.晚奥陶世-泥盆纪,华北整体抬升,遭受剥蚀,沉积缺失.石炭纪-二叠纪,华北陆块再次发生沉降并接受海侵,形成广阔的陆表海海陆交互相沉积,至晚二叠世华北陆块进入陆相盆地发展阶段.中生代,华北陆块陆内构造运动活跃,普遍形成与火山活动相伴的断陷盆地、坳陷盆地和拉分盆地.      

共轭被动大陆边缘的基本类型及其特征

随着被动大陆边缘勘探的需求日益增加,为了更好的概括全球共轭被动大陆边缘的基本特征,本文试图在广泛调研全球具有代表性的12对大陆边缘的基础上,从大地构造背景、裂解时限、空间变化3个方面,系统总结12对共轭被动大陆边缘,进而得到4种基本类型：伊比利亚—纽芬兰型、加蓬—巴西南部型、新斯科舍—摩洛哥型、几内亚湾—巴西东北部型。伊比利亚—纽芬兰型是最常见且分布最广泛的类型,具有板缘造山带型、窄边缘型、长裂谷期型特征,地壳厚度及沉积物厚度小。结构呈明显分段性特征,裂谷时间充足,地幔剥露并发生蛇纹石化。加蓬—巴西南部型以板缘造山带型为主,具有窄边缘型、中裂谷期型特征,沉积厚度大,盆地发育大型高角度正断层控制沉积,并发育丰富的盐构造,边缘与古缝合带不重合。新斯科舍—摩洛哥型以板缘造山带型为主,具有宽边缘型、中裂谷期型特征,具有不对称裂解模式和洋盆生长模式,地壳结构和沉积物在共轭边缘呈现明显不对称性;发育反转构造,生长断层,走滑断层等多种类型构造。几内亚湾—巴西东北部型以板缘非造山带型为主,具有窄边缘型、短裂谷期型特征,发育多个转换边缘盆地,受张剪性的深大断层控制,地壳厚度及沉积物厚度的变化很大,具有裂谷—剪切边缘过渡特征。     

雅鲁藏布中新生代深水沉积盆地形成和演化(Ⅲ)——喜马拉雅被动大陆边缘构造沉降分析

喜马拉雅特提斯中、新生代属印度板块北部被动大陆边缘。对充填这个被动大陆边缘的沉积物用“反剥法”(backstrippiog)进行研究,恢复了从被动大陆边缘到前陆盆地的抓降史。对分离出的盆地构造沉降曲线与McKenzie模式图版进行对比相关性分析,判断认为被动大陆边缘成熟期主要为热耗散沉降,前陆盆地时逆冲推覆动力为主要影响因素。     

南大西洋两岸被动陆缘盆地结构差异与大油气田分布

以板块构造演化为基础,利用地震、地质等资料,再现南大西洋两岸共轭型被动陆缘盆地原型盆地形成演化过程。首次依据盆地结构差异及沉积充填特征,将研究区被动陆缘盆地进一步划分为“三段”“四类”;结合对已发现大油气田的解剖,搞清了每类盆地大油气田成藏规律,并分别建立了其大油气田成藏模式。认为两岸“三段”“四类”盆地都经过了早期陆内裂谷、过渡期陆间裂谷及漂移期被动陆缘三个原型阶段。南段为下伏裂谷层系比较发育的“断陷型”盆地,上覆坳陷沉积厚度较薄,仅作为区域盖层,形成“裂谷层系构造地层型”大油气田。中段为裂谷、坳陷层系都比较发育且过渡阶段有盐的“含盐断坳型”盆地,以过渡期陆间裂谷盐岩充填为特征,其上、下的漂移期海相及裂谷期湖相页岩均可形成有效烃源岩,海相页岩及盐岩分别作为优质盖层,形成了“盐下碳酸盐岩盐上重力流扇体型”大油气田。北段为裂谷层系分布范围小、坳陷沉积范围广且厚度大的“坳陷型”盆地,受 “窄”陆棚、“陡”陆坡控制,坳陷层系重力流扇体自始至终比较发育,源于坳陷层系下部海相页岩中的油气直接充注于本身内部裙边状分布的重力流复合扇体之中,形成“漂移期重力流扇体群型”大油气田。另外,研究区还发育尼日尔、福斯杜亚马逊、佩罗塔斯三个具有独特构造沉积特征的 “三角洲型”被动陆缘盆地,其特殊性体现在三角洲层系由于沉积速率极高,从陆向海形成生长断裂带-泥岩底辟带-逆冲断裂褶皱带-平缓斜坡带四大环状构造带。除了前三角洲层系可以作为有效烃源岩之外,本身也可以形成自生自储自盖型组合,形成独特的“四大环状构造带型”大油气田,即在由陆向海生长断裂带-泥岩底辟带-逆冲断裂褶皱带-平缓斜坡带四大环状构造带上都可以形成大油气田。     

弧陆碰撞背景下沉积物轴向与横向搬运转换*

板块俯冲碰撞拼合带是盆山相互作用最为强烈的地区,发育有弧前、弧间及弧后多种类型的盆地,沉积物的剥蚀搬运作用极为活跃。证据显示,沉积物搬运充填过程在构造—古地理控制型盆地中具有一定的演变规律,伴随盆地演化,沉积物轴向搬运与横向搬运呈此消彼长的互动关系。南海南北两侧均发育了大型板块俯冲拼合带及相关的沉积盆地,在盆地发育早期沉积物沿盆地长轴方向分别形成昆莺琼古河和巽他古河,以轴向搬运的方式分别把越南中部及马来半岛沉积物由西向东输送到南海,形成大型三角洲及前三角洲深水扇沉积,河流发育位置均在板块拼合转折地段。在盆地发育的成熟阶段,沉积物以横向搬运的方式进入盆地,与轴向搬运沉积物形成混合堆积。轴向搬运是洋陆碰撞拼合盆地中一种重要的沉积物搬运途径,主要受盆地形成时的构造古地理控制。     

Doming in the southern foreland of the Dabieshan (Yangtse block, China)

In China, the foreland of the Dabieshan is characterized by E–W trending domes and basins. From South to North the Wugongshan, Jiulingshan, Lushan and Dabieshan domes consist of Proterozoic metamorphics unconformably covered by late Proterozoic to Triassic sediments. Ductile and brittle extensional structures are described along the margins of the metamorphic domes. Along the N–S striking lineation, kinematic indicators show divergent top-to-the-north and -south shear in the north and south flanks of the domes, respectively. The superposition of Proterozoic phyllite over Permian–Triassic carbonates is reinterpreted as extensional allochthons formed by tilting, shearing and sliding on the layers. Plate convergence is responsible for continental subduction in the Dabieshan and deep-seated thrusting in the Yangtse plate. As compression continued, the thrust contacts were folded and several antiformal stacks developed. Domal uplift induced the formation of gravity-driven extensional structures.     

Active faulting at the Eurasian, North American and Pacific plates junction

The active faults known and inferred in the area where the major Pacific, North American and Eurasian plates come together group into two belts. One of them comprises the faults striking roughly parallel to the Pacific ocean margin. The extreme members of the belt are the longitudinal faults of islands arcs, in its oceanic flank, and the faults along the continental margins of marginal seas, in its continental flank. The available data show that all these faults move with some strike-slip component, which is always right-lateral. We suggest that characteristic right-lateral, either partially or dominantly, kinematics of the fault movements has its source in oblique convergence of the Pacific plate with continental Eurasian and North American plates. The second belt of active faults transverses the extreme northeast Asia as a continental extension of the active mid-Arctic spreading ridge. The two active fault belts do not cross but come close to each other at the northern margin of the Sea of Okhotsk marking thus the point where the Pacific, North American and Eurasian plates meet.     

弧陆碰撞背景下沉积物轴向与横向搬运转换*

板块俯冲碰撞拼合带是盆山相互作用最为强烈的地区,发育有弧前、弧间及弧后多种类型的盆地,沉积物的剥蚀搬运作用极为活跃。证据显示,沉积物搬运充填过程在构造—古地理控制型盆地中具有一定的演变规律,伴随盆地演化,沉积物轴向搬运与横向搬运呈此消彼长的互动关系。南海南北两侧均发育了大型板块俯冲拼合带及相关的沉积盆地,在盆地发育早期沉积物沿盆地长轴方向分别形成昆莺琼古河和巽他古河,以轴向搬运的方式分别把越南中部及马来半岛沉积物由西向东输送到南海,形成大型三角洲及前三角洲深水扇沉积,河流发育位置均在板块拼合转折地段。在盆地发育的成熟阶段,沉积物以横向搬运的方式进入盆地,与轴向搬运沉积物形成混合堆积。轴向搬运是洋陆碰撞拼合盆地中一种重要的沉积物搬运途径,主要受盆地形成时的构造古地理控制。     

Intra-oceanic settings of the western Mexico Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous arc sequences. Implications for the Pacific-Tethys geodynamic relationships during the Cretaceous

Abstract

The Guerrero suspect terrane composed of Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequences, extends from Baja California up to Acapulco and is considered to be coeval with the Late Mesozoic igneous and sedimentary arc sequences of the Greater Antilles, Venezuela and Western Cordillera of Colombia. New geological, petrological and geochemical data from central and southern Mexico, led us to propose a new model for the building of the Alisitos-Teloloapan arc. This arc, partly built on the Pacific oceanic lithosphere and partly on continental fragments, could be related to the subduction of an oceanic basin - the Arperos basin - under the Paleo-Pacific plate. This subduction was dipping southwest.

At the beginning of the magmatic activity of the oceanic segment of this arc, depleted tholeiitic basalts were emitted in a submarine environnement below the CCD. While subduction was going on, the arc magmas evolved from LREE depleted tholeiites to slightly LREE enriched tholeiites and then, to calc-alkaline basalts and andesites enriched in LREE and HFSE. Concurrently, the arc sedimentary environment changed from deep oceanic to neritic with the deposition of Aptian-Albian reefal limestones, at the end of the arc building. In the continent-based segment, the arc magmas are exclusively differentiated calc-alkaline suites depleted in HREE and Y, formed of predominantly siliceous lavas and pyroclastic rocks, emitted in a sub-aerial or shallow marine environment.

Thus, taking into account this above mentioned model, the Cretaceous volcanic series, accreted to the margins of cratonal America, in Colombia, Venezuela, Greater Antilles and Mexico, could be related to the same west-south-west dipping subduction of oceanic basins, fringing the North and South American continental cratons and connected directly with the inter-American Tethys. While the subduction was proceeding, this magmatic arc drifted towards the North and South American cratons and finally, collided with the continental margins at different periods during the Cretaceous.     

扬子板块东南边缘海西-印支期边缘前陆盆地演化及南方大地构造问题

序言前陆盆地是由板块碰撞引起侧向挤压,进而形成冲断推覆体(thrust mass)加载于大陆边缘,使大陆地壳周缘前陆隆起(peripheral forebulge)形成的一种不对称盆地,它的一侧与发育周缘前陆隆起的克拉通大陆为邻,另一侧靠近冲断推覆体。靠近冲断推覆体侧的一端主要发育陆源碎屑沉积,而靠近克拉通大陆的一边则发育成为碳酸盐台地。由于碰撞后大陆岩石圈的持续俯冲,造成冲断推覆体跨过先前被动大陆边缘,进而向克拉通陆内迁移发展,致使碳酸盐台地最终全被陆源碎屑掩埋。最初,冲断推覆体位于海平面之下,随着冲断推覆体叠加而成山链,加载于大陆边缘薄的外部地壳之上,沿缝合线形成一个深而狭长的边缘海槽地,接受陆源泥和深海沉积物沉     

On sheared passive continental margins

Studies in intra-continental and intra-oceanic shear zones reveal structures that may be developed during the formation of a sheared passive continental margin.During the intra-continental shear stage of margin development, rapid vertical movement of the crust may occur resulting in small, tectonically-active basins containing thick sedimentary sequences. At deeper levels in the continental crust, more plastic deformation may lead to a zone of strongly sheared rocks that widens downwards. The tectonic fabric in this zone may exert some control over the subsequent development of the continent-ocean transition under the influence of regional stresses.The thermal event related to asthenosphere upwelling at sheared margins is a transient one and thus of less effect than the event on rifted margins. Nevertheless, following the event the cooling and contraction of oceanic crust against the continent may throw the oceanic crust into tension and lead to normal, block faulting in the oceanic regions analogous to the faulting seen in oceanic fracture zones. The subsidence of oceanic crust as it ages at the margin will either drag down the adjacent continental crust or, more likely, cause the oceanic crust to slip down by normal faulting along the continent-ocean boundary. The kinds of compressional features observed in oceanic fracture zones may also occur at sheared margins.     

从南大西洋裂解过程解密大陆漂移的驱动力

南大西洋裂解造成的非洲和南美洲的大陆分离到了广泛认可,该区域也与大陆漂移学说的诞生密切相关。但大陆漂移的驱动力从其提出至今一直存在争议,定量化分析大西洋裂解过程中板块运动的驱动力显得尤为重要。我们研究了南大西洋两侧被动大陆边缘盆地区域的两条深反射地震勘探剖面,在构造地质解译基础上,详细估算了非洲大陆的莫霍面倾角,得到了沿莫霍面地壳重力滑移剪切力的大小,用于解释大西洋裂解过程中非洲大陆运动的动力机制。结果说明,非洲大陆板块在地幔上涌形成的倾斜界面上能够产生强大的重力滑移力,且南部驱动力大于中部。大陆板块依靠连续的地幔热上涌和重力滑移力会持续漂移。该模型能够合理解释大西洋上诸多线状分布的大陆残片的成因机制,也能合理解释南大西洋南部宽度大于中部的内在原因,最后对南大西洋的打开过程进行了精细的构造演化史恢复。该研究为板块运动提供了一个新的动力模式,为认识板块运动驱动力提供了更为精确的约束信息。     

盆山耦合与前陆盆地成藏区带分析

经济全球化导致油气勘探全球化,板块学说在理论上提供全球油气勘探基础,亚洲大陆与北美大陆盆山体系在实践上提供全球油气勘探经验。盆山耦合体系存在3类造山带与3类前陆盆地即:(1)俯冲造山带与弧后前陆盆地;(2)碰撞造山带与周缘前陆盆地;(3)陆内造山带与陆内前陆盆地。前陆盆地成藏区带勘探中,在空间上应将造山带前麓褶皱—冲断带层与前陆盆地作为统一应变场,在时间上应将前冲断作用沉积层序,同冲断作用沉积层序和后冲断作用沉积层序作为整体来进行勘探。     

试论中国南北大陆的碰撞造山带

中国北方的中朝克拉通与南方的扬子克拉通无论在基底年代及盖层发育程度、沉积环境及古生物群上都有差异。它们是两个构造发育史不同的大陆。这两个古大陆之间的大洋究竟有多宽？是何时关闭的？合并时的构造运动强烈程度？在挽近地质历史时期有无相类似的情况？这些问题一直是中外地质学家所关注，并在不同程度上讨论过的问题。近年来的地质工作，提供了一些可据以回答上述问题的成果，但全面可靠地回答上述全部问题还有待今后的努力。笔者在过去的文章（1-3）曾讨论一些有关问题。本文，拟就近期国内外的研究成果，发表一些评论，并提出作者的看法