珠江口盆地的沉积充填与珠江的形成演变

沉积物元素地球化学分析表明,南海北部地区沉积物渐新统与中新统明显不同,两者之间存在物源突变事件。这一沉积地质事件在时间上与南海扩张轴发生跳跃、滇西高原以及东喜马拉雅构造结的快速隆升等一系列地质构造事件十分吻合,是珠江以及珠江口盆地搬运—沉积—充填演化史上一次重大的转变。Ca/Si、CIA以及Al₂O₃等参数变化显示,珠江侵蚀区极有可能由渐新世近源硅酸盐为主的华南沿海地区拓展为中新世远达青藏高原东麓的云贵高原碳酸盐为主的地区,流域范围突然扩大。同时伴随沉积物供给增大,造成珠江口盆地从渐新世富砂为主的沉积堆积体系转变为中新世以来以泥为主的沉积堆积体系,显示出珠江的发育演化以及中新世以来的青藏高原隆升在南海北部的沉积充填演变中扮演了重要角色,对南海北部地区油气藏的形成影响深远。     

云贵高原河流水系演化与高原形成过程——基于现代河流沉积物示踪

云贵高原是进行现代河流沉积物分析示踪的天然实验室,研究其现代河流沉积物的对于认识青藏高原东南缘隆升与新生代地形形成演化具有重要意义。通过对云贵高原长江和珠江支流7件河流砂样重矿物分析、聚类分析和ATi与GZi等研究,揭示出长江流域河流沉积物呈现出搬运距离远,物源种类多,经历复杂次生作用等特点,明显区别于珠江流域河流沉积物搬运距离近、物源种类单一和近源等特点。珠江流域上游红水河物源与长江具有一定继承性,新生代晚期,由于青藏高原东向扩展生长与大型走滑断裂活动导致和河流水系特征,同时南盘江流域发生反转、袭夺,最终形成现今云贵高原"西高东低"地貌及其河流水系。     

南海北部古近纪沉积物碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄及物源演化

长期以来,由于地质资料的限制,有关南海早期裂陷过程中的沉积演化问题一直缺乏相对深入的认识与了解.采用碎屑锆石U-Pb定年方法,对南海北部古近纪沉积物进行"源-汇"对比分析.结果表明,该时期南海北部不仅接受来自北部河流搬运的陆源碎屑物质,同时还受到盆地内部局部隆升区物源的影响.其中,始新世沉积物以下白垩统物源为主,至早渐新世,琼东南盆地接受了来自海南岛及西沙隆起带的沉积物,珠江口盆地珠一坳陷同时期的锆石磨圆度较高,年龄谱系同华南沿海地区一致,说明很可能接受了来自华南沿海地区的陆源物质;而处于盆地南侧的白云凹陷同时期存在自形程度极高的锆石,反映其物源极可能为盆地内近源的局部隆起区.到晚渐新世荔湾凹陷沉积物中开始出现较多元古代锆石,与其北部同时期沉积物明显不同,琼东南盆地N6井也开始出现较多元古代锆石,其物源可能与南海西侧隆起有关.资料显示,在古近纪,现代意义上的珠江并未形成,其在早渐新世仅影响到珠一坳陷,到晚渐新世影响到珠二坳陷北侧.因此,珠江在古近纪具有从小到大逐步演化的特点.      

南海北部盆地新生代物源对周边主要河流演化的响应

源汇系统（Source- to- sink system）是将物源区的构造剥蚀、沉积物输送区的沉积物搬运和沉积区的沉积物堆积等视为一个完整系统。沉积物的源区恢复和附近水系重建是源汇研究的热点问题，沉积物碎屑锆石U- Pb定年是源汇系统研究的有效方法之一。南海北部与其周边地区构成了一个完整的源汇系统，通过源汇分析可获得南海北部各盆地沉积物来源及周边主要河流的演化历史。本文通过总结前人在南海北部主要盆地新生代沉积物碎屑锆石U- Pb研究成果，探讨珠江、红河和昆莺琼古河的新生代演化历史。珠江最早的支流北江和东江形成于早渐新世，晚渐新世溯源到西江上游的红水河、左江和右江，中新世溯源到西江中游柳江、桂江和上游的北盘江、南盘江。在晚白垩世—古近纪红河属于青藏高原东缘大型向东南或向南流河流的一部分，之后由于地貌变化形成现今红河。昆莺琼古河在早渐新世开始发育影响到珠江口盆地，在晚渐新世昆莺琼古河雏形已经基本形成，中新世起昆莺琼古河可能向西有一定程度的退缩。     

南海北部沉积物特征及其对珠江演变的响应

采用沉积地球化学、沉积物矿物成分分析等手段研究发现,自渐新世以来,南海北部沉积物成分具有阶段性改变的特征.在早渐新世,沉积物反映出其母岩以花岗岩和区域变质岩为主;到晚渐新世,母岩中区域变质岩类型消失,而以花岗岩、沉积岩和接触变质岩为特征;进入中新世,沉积物主要反映出碳酸盐岩等沉积岩为主的源区特点.这种沉积物成分演变特征与南海北部盆地基底及珠江流域不同区域物质组成特征极为一致,反映出珠江流域演化与南海北部沉积充填之间的对应关系.因此,通过这种研究方法,可以更好地理解32Ma以来南海北部沉积物成分发生改变的原因.同时,可以通过对比南海北部古珠江来源沉积物各时期的成分特点,建立珠江流域的侵蚀-搬运-沉积过程,探讨珠江流域演化历史.     

珠江口盆地白云凹陷渐新世/中新世地质事件的碎屑组分响应

南海北部渐新世/中新世之交发生了物源突变地质事件。利用珠江口盆地白云凹陷渐新统珠海组和中新统珠江组砂岩薄片镜下计点法统计技术,详细研究了碎屑组分的变化特征。结果表明:珠海组砂岩碎屑组分中,岩屑以深成的岩浆岩屑占绝对优势,长石和沉积岩屑含量也相对较高,与该期物源主要来自华南沿海近源以燕山期花岗岩为主的母岩区相一致;而珠江组砂岩中,岩屑以变质岩屑占优势,同时也含有一定量的岩浆岩屑、沉积岩屑和较多的长石,显示珠江组具有更多的物源供给区。随着渐新世/中新世之交各种地质事件发生,尤其是伴随青藏高原隆升引起的大陆风化及侵蚀程度增强,珠江口盆地沉积物源区向华南古陆内部古老的沉积-变质岩区和青藏高原东麓扩展,碎屑组分变化应该是该期各种地质事件的综合作用结果。     

南海北部古河流演变对欧亚大陆东南缘早新生代古地理再造的启示

欧亚大陆东南缘早新生代古地理演变包含了华南沿海中生代山脉的逐步消减与南海的逐步扩张形成等重大事件。南海北部始新统—下中新统“源-汇”路径研究发现,南海沉积物物源在该时期发生了巨大改变。在始新世和早渐新世,源自南海西部古隆起的“昆—莺—琼”河流系统向南海东部地区输送了大量沉积物,包括珠二坳陷在内的南海北部南侧大部分地区受南海西部物源的控制,仅在珠一坳陷接受来自华南大陆珠江的沉积物;晚渐新世,南海西部物源逐步被北部珠江物源取代;到早中新世,珠江来源沉积物全面越过番禺低凸起进入珠二坳陷,大量来自华南内陆的沉积物被珠江运输至南海盆地,“昆—莺—琼”古河流进一步萎缩,仅在南海西部琼东南盆地分布,并且由西向东沉积物源区昆嵩地块逐渐被海南岛取代。南海西部自晚中新世以来发育的中央峡谷正是该古河流的残余。南海新生代早期“昆—莺—琼”河流系统的发现及珠江演变过程的构建,对于深刻认识该地区新生代早期古地理特征、整个欧亚大陆东南缘的古地貌重建以及盆地的油气勘探均具有重要意义。     

白云运动：南海北部渐新统-中新统重大地质事件及其意义

提要：南海北部及珠江口盆地渐新统-中新统界面（约23．8Ma）代表一个重大地质事件：在南海乃至东亚地区出现了一次大规模的构造运动，本文定名为“白云运动”。研究证实，白云凹陷23．8Ma以前为浅海陆架沉积，但随着南海扩张脊向南跃迁使得23．8Ma以来白云凹陷深部地幔上隆产生强烈的热沉降，陆架坡折带由23．8Ma以前位于白云凹陷南侧突变式地跳跃到凹陷的北侧；白云凹陷也由渐新世晚期的浅海陆架环境转为陆坡深水环境。沉积物地球化学的研究揭示，该构造事件也是本区沉积物源突变的主控因素，造成珠江三角洲和珠江深水扇系统在23．8Ma界面发生明显突变。32～23．8Ma的珠江流域范围可能以华南花岗岩地区为主，之后受喜马拉雅隆升的影响，珠江流域范围向西扩展，沉积物中明显存在着来自喜马拉雅东翼的物质。23．8Ma渐新统-中新统重大构造事件从根本上影响和改变了珠江流域的格局、南海北部沉积物的组成、沉积作用、海平面变化和油气成藏特点。     

珠江深水扇系统沉积和周边重要地质事件

最近的研究发现了位于南海北部珠江口外白云凹陷陆坡深水区的珠江深水扇系统。珠江深水扇系统以珠江为沉积物源、以持续深沉降的白云凹陷为沉积古地理背景、以与全球海退型海平面相反的相对海侵型海平面变化的沉积层序构成了其发育演化的特殊性,并留下了控制沉积的周边重要事件的记录。23.8 Ma等界面沉积速率和岩石地球化学特征均有突变,反映出物源区的变化,可能折射出与青藏高原隆升、南海扩张有关的重要事件,使得古珠江骤然向西部高原拓展,甚至较今天的珠江流域范围还广阔;承载珠江深水扇系统的白云凹陷持续沉降形成了陆坡内盆地,导致21~10.5 Ma BP多个层序深水扇垂向叠置充填的特殊沉积建造;根据60多口井资料建立的相对海平面变化曲线,具有与全球海平面变化相一致的三级旋回和不一致的二级旋回。如果能对珠江深水扇系统实施综合大洋钻探获取更为全面和准确的资料,开展珠江深水扇沉积作用与白云凹陷沉降的深部机制、珠江流域演化、海侵型相对海平面变化的耦合性等研究,将有利于揭示南海扩张、边缘海沉积、海平面变化、中国西部高原隆升事件的相关联系和形成机制。     

南海北部渐新世末的构造事件

ODP1148站以及珠江口盆地沉积物均记录了渐新世末发生的重大地质构造事件, 这一构造事件在时间上与南海扩张轴发生跳跃的时间十分吻合, 是渐新世以来南海构造演化史上最为重大的构造事件, 涉及到南海扩张、盆地类型转化、沉积物源变迁等一系列相关联的重大地质事件.伴随这一地质构造事件, 南海北部沉积物成分发生剧烈改变, 出现渐新世-中新世地球化学成分上的跳跃, 在深海沉积中发生沉积间断及滑塌事件, 并使珠江口盆地由断陷型盆地转为坳陷型盆地, 白云凹陷由渐新世晚期的浅水陆架环境转为中新世以后的深水陆坡环境.可以认为, 这次构造运动奠定了我国现代的地理格局, 也标志着我国东部陆相盆地最佳烃源岩形成期的结束, 在南海乃至东亚地区影响深远.      

Evolution of the Pearl River and its Implication for East Asian Continental Landscape Reversion

As the link connecting the South China Continent and the northern South China Sea(SCS),the Pearl River is the focus of sedimentology and petroleum geology research.Its evolutionary process and controlling factors are of great significance in revealing the East Asian continental landscape reorganization during the Late Cenozoic.Based on published data,’source-to-sink’provenance analyses allow systematic deliberation on the birth and evolutionary history of the Pearl River.Close to the Oligocene/Miocene boundary,an abrupt shift in the sedimentary composition indicates significant westward and northward expansion of the river’s watershed area,followed by the establishment of a near-modern fluvial network.This sedimentary change generally concurred with a series of regional geological events,including the onset of the Yangtze throughflow,large-scale development of the loess plateau,and formation of the northwestern arid zone and Asian Monsoon system.These major changes in the geology-climate-ecoenvironment system are in close response to the process of the Cenozoic Xizang(Tibetan)Plateau uplift.Consequently,the East Asian continental landscape and most of midCenozoic drainage systems underwent critical reversion into east-tilting,or east-flowing networks.     

Denudation History of South China Block and Sediment Supply to Northern Margin of the South China Sea

On the basis of apatite fission track (AFT) analyses,this article aims to provide a quantitative overview of Cenozoic morphotectonic evolution and sediment supply to the northern margin of the South China Sea (SCS).Seventeen granite samples were collected from the coast to the inland of the South China block.Plots of AFT age against sample location with respect to the coastline show a general trend of youngling age away from the coast,which implies more prolonged erosion and sediment contribution at the inland of the South China Sea during post break-up evolution.Two-stage fast erosion process,Early Tertiary and Middle Miocene,is deduced from simulated cooling histories.The first fast cooling and denudation during Early Tertiary are recorded by the samples along the coast (between 70 and 60 Ma) and the inland (between 50 and 30 Mu),respectively.This suggests initial local erosion and deposition in the northern margin of the SCS during Early Tertiary.Fast erosion along the coast ceased since ca.50 Ma,while it had lasted until ca.30 Ma inland,indicating that the erosion was transferred from the local coastal zone initially toward the continental interior with unified subsidence of the northern margin,which resulted in the formation of a south-dipping topography of the continental margin.The thermal stosis in the South China block since ca.30 Mu must det'me the time at which the northern margin became dynamically disconnected from the active rifting and stretching that was taking place to the south.The lower erosion rate is inconsistent with higher sedimentary rate in the Pearl River Mouth basin during Late Oligocene (ca.25 Ma).This indicates that the increased sedimentation in the basin is not due to the erosion of the granite belt of the South China block,but perhaps points to the westward propagation of the paleo-Pearl River drainage related to the uplift of the eastern margin of Tibet plateau and southward jumping of spreading axis of the South China Sea.The socond erosion acceleration rate of the Middle Miocene (ca.14 Ma) cooling could have been linked to the long-distance effect of uplift of the Tibet plateau or due to the enhanced East Asian monsoon.     

华南东部陆缘新生代隆升历史及其动力学机制

华南陆缘在新生代期间经历了千米量级的上覆盖层剥蚀和山脉隆升;同时,其东侧的东海陆架盆地经历多次构造应力场的反转并发育多期反转构造。东海陆架盆地内的构造反转与华南陆缘隆升的发生时间和触发机制是否一致有待研究。为此,本文对浙江地区的岩石样品进行磷灰石裂变径迹测试和热演化史反演分析其隆升历史,并通过地震剖面分析东海陆架盆地的反转时间及其反转所导致的地层剥蚀量;最后,将二者进行对比分析并研究其动力学机制。结果发现,华南东部陆缘地区至少存在晚始新世(34. 5～33. 5Ma)、中中新世(16～11. 5Ma)、上新世以来(5～0Ma)三期明显的快速隆升事件,三期隆升导致的地层剥蚀量分别为227m、593m和865m;东海陆架盆地经历了古新世末-始新世初(～56Ma)、始新世末-渐新世初(～32Ma)和晚中新世(～10Ma)三期构造反转,三期反转导致的局部地层最大剥蚀量分别可达1200m、1300m和2000m。在时间上,东海陆架盆地的始新世末-渐新世初(～32Ma)和晚中新世(～10Ma)的构造反转分别滞后于浙江的晚始新世(34. 5～33. 5Ma)和中中新世(16～11. 5Ma)的隆升时间,说明这两期挤压-剥蚀事件分别具有自西向东的迁移性,即印度-欧亚板块碰撞的远程效应可能是导致该迁移特征的原因;在强度上,东海陆架盆地的反转剥蚀量大于浙江境内的地层隆升量、挤压强度东强西弱,中新世晚期菲律宾海板块向西俯冲导致冲绳海槽弧后伸展产生向西的挤压力、这种挤压应力向陆内传递且强度变弱可能是导致该特征的原因。     

南海西缘新生代沉积盆地形成动力学探讨

通过对南海西缘新生代沉积盆地伸展作用、沉降、构造变形等特征分析,检查印支地块多条近北西向走滑断裂时间、幅度等特征以及与盆地之间联系,结果表明印度-欧亚碰撞引起的逃逸作用与南海西缘新生代盆地没有直接的成因联系;两个与俯冲有关的不同扩张机制与南海西缘新生代盆地有成因联系,即(1)太平洋板块在古新世到始新世的滚动后退,太平洋-欧亚板块汇聚速率的降低驱使这些盆地产生初始伸展作用;(2)渐新世到中中新世古南海南倾俯冲板块的拖曳力,进一步驱使这些盆地的伸展及接着的南海扩张.     

从东海油气勘探谈台湾海峡油气地质

上海海洋地质调查局从1974年开始对东海进行了包括反射地震、重力、磁法、测深、浅地层剖面等多种疗法的综合调查,基本上建立了东海的新生代地层层序、构造分区及其构造演化历史。台湾海峡在地理上位于东海陆架的西南延伸部位,但其地质演化既具东海陆架盆地早第三纪构造演化的特点,又深受渐新世至中新世南海深海盆扩张的影响。根据地震资料和钻井资料之对比,台西盆地至少经历了古新世、始新世和中新世三次海侵,从而使其既区别于南海之珠江盆地,又有别于东海陆架盆地。     

North‐eastward subduction followed by slab detachment to explain ophiolite obduction and Early Miocene volcanism in Northland,New Zealand

Oligocene–Miocene models for northern New Zealand, involving south‐westward subduction to explain Early Miocene Northland volcanism, do not fit within the regional Southwest Pacific tectonic framework. A new model is proposed, which comprises a north‐east‐dipping South Loyalty basin slab that retreated south‐westward in the Eocene–earliest Miocene and was continuous with the north‐east‐dipping subduction zone of New Caledonia. In the latest Oligocene, the trench reached the Northland passive margin, which was pulled it into the mantle by the slab, resulting in obduction of the Northland allochthon. During and after obduction, the slab detached from the unsubductable continental lithosphere, inducing widespread calc‐alkaline volcanism in Northland. The new model further explains contemporaneous arc volcanism along the Northland Plateau Seamount Chain and sinking of the Northland basement, followed by uplift and extension in Northland.     

Meso‐Cenozoic Evolution of Earth Surface System under the East Asian Tectonic Superconvergence

The East Asian geological setting has a long duration related to the superconvergence of the Paleo‐Asian, Tethyan and Paleo‐Pacific tectonic domains. The Triassic Indosinian Movement contributed to an unified passive continental margin in East Asia. The later ophiolites and I‐type granites associated with subduction of the Paleo‐Pacific Plate in the Late Triassic, suggest a transition from passive to active continental margins. With the presence of the ongoing westward migration of the Paleo‐Pacific Subduction Zone, the sinistral transpressional stress field could play an important role in the intraplate deformation in East Asia during the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic, being characterized by the transition from the E‐W‐trending structural system controlled by the Tethys and Paleo‐Asian oceans to the NE‐trending structural system caused by the Paleo‐Pacific Ocean subduction. The continuously westward migration of the subduction zones resulted in the transpressional stress field in East Asia marked by the emergence of the Eastern North China Plateau and the formation of the Andean‐type active continental margin from late Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (160‐135 Ma), accompanied by the development of a small amount of adakites. In the Late Cretaceous (135‐90 Ma), due to the eastward retreat of the Paleo‐Pacific Subduction Zone, the regional stress field was replaced from sinistral transpression to transtension. Since a large amount of late‐stage adakites and metamorphic core complexes developed, the Andean‐type active continental margin was destroyed and the Eastern North China Plateau started to collapse. In the Late Cretaceous, the extension in East Asia gradually decreased the eastward retreat of the Paleo‐Pacific subduction zones. Futhermore, a significant topographic inversion had taken place during the Cenozoic that resulted from a rapid uplift of the Tibet Plateau resulting from the India‐Eurasian collision and the formation of the Bohai Bay Basin and other basins in the East Asian continental margin. The inversion caused a remarkable eastward migration of deformation, basin formation and magmatism. Meanwhile, the basins that mainly developed in the Paleogene resulted in a three‐step topography which typically appears to drop eastward in altitude. In the Neogene, the basins underwent a rapid subsidence in some depressions after basin‐controlled faulting, as well as the intracontinental extensional events in East Asia, and are likely to be a contribution to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau.