Characteristics of China’s oil and gas pool formation in latest geological history

1 Introduction China’s continent is a mountain-building zone made up of numerous micro-continental blocks and mini- continental blocks[1,2]. The continent has been sub- jected to the processes and evolution of three continual geodynamic systems of Paleo-Asia Ocean, Pa- leo-Tethys Ocean and Pacific Ocean[3]. The structural framework of China’s continent had been gradually finalized in the Neogene-Quaternary period owing to the India-Eurasia collision and its continuous com- pression[3], …