扬子克拉通埃迪卡拉系陡山沱组构造-岩相古地理恢复及油气意义*

近年来,随着扬子克拉通埃迪卡拉系陡山沱组页岩气勘探获得重大突破,深入和细化陡山沱期构造-岩相古地理就显得迫在眉睫。基于大量野外露头和最新钻井资料,结合前人研究成果,作者对陡山沱期构造-岩相古地理进行了分析、研究和图件编制。研究认为: 扬子克拉通埃迪卡拉纪陡山沱期,受控处于罗迪尼亚超大陆西北边缘的古地理位置和超大陆大规模裂解之后的热沉降作用初期的成盆构造环境,其古地理特征总体呈现出西高东低、北高南低,四古陆剥蚀区(汉南、康滇、牛首山和江南古陆)、三台地区(上扬子、中下扬子和浙北台地)与四盆地区(扬子东南缘与北缘坳陷、万源—达州和湘鄂西内裂陷)相间的沉积面貌和格局。其中,台地区以局限—开阔台地,盆地区以台缘斜坡、陆棚和半深海等为主要优势相。4个古陆是扬子陡山沱组主要的碎屑物源区,下伏裂谷盆地构造和陡山沱期发育的同沉积断裂,共同控制了埃迪卡拉系陡山沱组构造-沉积特征。提出陕南、川东北、鄂西和湘黔渝临区是最有利的陡山沱组烃源岩分布区,其次是浙北—皖南地区。有利烃源岩分布区及其邻区是扬子深层—超深层常规天然气或页岩气勘探值得高度关注的区域。

Tectonic-lithofacies palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Yangtze Craton of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation and its oil and gas significance

Recently,great breakthroughs have been obtained in shale gas exploration in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Craton. Thus,the tectonic-lithofacies palaeogeography of the Yangtze Craton during the Doushantuo depositional period was in urgent need to be further studied. Based on a large number of outcrop sections,latest drilling data,numerous previous studies,we reconstructed the tectonic-lithofacies palaeogeography of the Yangtze Craton. The results indicated that,during the Ediacaran Doushantuo Period,the tectonic background of the Yangtze Craton was not only controlled by its palaeogeographic location(at the northwest of the supercontinent Rodinia),but also by the thermal sedimentation after the continental rifting. The tectonic-lithofacies palaeogeography of the Yangtze Craton generally showed higher terrain in the west and the north,and lower in the east and the south,with four oldlands developed namely the Hannan,Kangdian,Niushoushan and Jiangnan oldlands. The sedimentary pattern was featured by three platforms(in the Upper Yangtze,Middle-Lower Yangtze,and northern Zhejiang regions)alternated with four basins(in the Wanyuan-Dazhou,west Hubei-Hunan,southeastern and northern Yangtze margins). The three platforms were dominated by restricted-open platform facies; the four basins were dominated by platform margin slope,shelf and bathyal facies. The four oldlands(provided the main detrital provenance),together with the syn-depositional faults and the palaeostructure of the underlying rift basins,controlled the tectonic-sedimentary characteristics of the Yangtze Craton during the Ediacaran Doushantuo Period. The paper has proposed that the southern Shaanxi,northeastern Sichuan,western Hubei,and the adjacent area of the Hunan,Guizhou and Chongqing are the most favorable distribution areas of the Doushantuo source rocks;the northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui areas are the secondary favorable distribution areas. These favorable distribution areas and their adjacent areas are considered to be favorable regions for deepening the deep natural gas exploration in the Yangtze Craton.