藏北申扎地区早奥陶世地层的发现及意义

藏北地区从未发现过有可靠化石依据的中奥陶世以前的沉积地层 ,是否存在寒武纪到早奥陶世间的沉积地层是目前诸多地质工作者关注的问题。申扎地区 1/ 2 5万区域地质调查工作中 ,在原归属为前震旦系念青唐古拉群的一套浅变质岩中发现了世界性分布的下奥陶统阿雷尼格阶最底部笔石化石带代表分子 Tetragraptusapproximatus,首次确定了藏北地区有早奥陶世沉积地层的存在。新建下奥陶统扎扛组和他多组 ,完善了藏北地区早古生代地层序列 ,为研究青藏高原在古生代早期的构造活动、演化、古地理分布格局及古生物地理区划提供了资料 ,也为世界性生物地层划分对比提供了依据。

DISCOVERY OF THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN STRATA IN XIANZA COUNTY, TIBET AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

There is no any sediments contain fossils which formed earlier than Middle Ordovician in northern Tibet yet. It is very important whether have developed the Cambrian to Early Ordovician sedimentary strata. During geological mapping of Xainza County in 2000, Tetragraptus approximatus, the typical one of graptolite belts which cosmepolitically distributed in the Arenigian of Early Ordovician, was collected from the so-call Pre-Sinian Nianqingtanggula Group. So there is developped the Early Ordovician sediments and we have established Zakang Formation and Taduo Formation which perfected the Plaeozoic sequences in northern Tibet. According to these, we can realize tectonic control, palaeogeographic pattern as well as palaeobiogeographic distribution of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the early Paleozoic and also provided the materials to the cosmepolitical biostratigraphic contrast.