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LATE CENOZOIC TECTONICS ALONG THE NORTHWESTERN MARGIN OF THE TARIM BASIN: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE TARIM BASIN AND THE SOUTHERN TIAN SHAN, WEST CHINAgrants 4 98340 50and 4 9732 0 90fromtheNSFofChina;;andproject96 913 0 7 0 1fromtheMinistryofSci
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从地震信息看阿尔金断裂带构造和塔里木盆地花彩弧断裂体系 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
阿尔金断裂带由多条断裂组成,主要有阿尔金断裂、且末断裂、三危山断裂。其中阿尔金断裂为主断裂,它呈左旋走滑兼具逆冲性质,中生代—古近纪为左旋走滑,新近纪由东南向西北逆冲推覆。且末断裂和三危山断裂均具左旋走滑性质。且末断裂受统一的阿尔金断裂带左旋应力场控制,但又叠加了塔里木台盆区向南挤压的应力场,从而具有双重属性。塔里木盆地的断裂总体上组成古生界塔北花彩弧断裂束和塔南花彩弧断裂束,展布成全盆地的菱形断裂系统,且末断裂构成其东南边界。在该菱形断裂系统的北弧顶和菱形内的中央轴部为背冲式的构造断裂带,显示挤压特征;在花彩弧两翼转弯处展布正花状构造样式,显示走滑特征。阿尔金断裂带及其两侧,主要在柴达木、塔里木两大盆地发现了大油气田,两者都是由断层控制油气的垂向运移与分布。柴达木盆地具有双重断—坳的特点,但油气田只分布在中—新生界构造层内;塔里木盆地,南北翘板式的构造运动是其形成复式油气区的最重要的地质构造条件。 相似文献
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通过对黄土高原洛川、长武剖面最近35万年来陆生蜗牛化石的高分辨率研究,揭示出喜温湿和喜冷干蜗牛种类分别存在不同的变化周期:喜温湿类蜗牛化石所揭示的东亚夏季风的变化存在明显的41 000a和23 000a周期,与地轴倾角和岁差(低纬度太阳辐射)的变化周期有关;而反映冬季风变化的喜冷干蜗牛种类则表现出不同的变化特点,其主要为0.1Ma和41 000a的周期.冬、夏季风的变化与地轴倾角41 000a周期都存在很好的相关性,但与地球轨道的岁差(19 000～23 000a)及偏心率(0.1Ma)的周期没有一致的相关关系.在轨道尺度上冬、夏季风之间不存在此消彼长的简单变化模式. 相似文献
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塔拉斯-费尔干纳断裂带南端构造转换及其新生代区域构造响应 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
塔拉斯费尔干纳断裂(TF)为中亚最大规模的断裂,其向南是否贯穿塔里木盆地西部研究较少,带来对其新生代运动性质的争论。研究表明,TF断裂在喀什凹陷以小规模的右旋走滑断裂逐渐消失,断层东盘以逆冲断层系的水平缩短变形,调节新生代右旋走滑位移,与巴楚隆起的阻挡作用相关。区域构造分析表明,随着帕米尔北缘逆冲断层系向北扩展,喀什凹陷中新生代沉积形成密集分布的线性褶皱和逆冲断层带。帕米尔高原向北仰冲触发TF不同区段在新生代差异性构造复活,发生大规模右旋位移及其南端构造转换(逆冲带隆升和前陆盆地发育)。新生代大断裂差异性复活及其构造调节,造成帕米尔构造节东西两侧不对称的构造样式。 相似文献
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喀什凹陷西部位于塔里木盆地、帕米尔构造带和南西天山构造带的交接处,在新生代以来接受了大量来自于南天山和帕米尔的沉积物,并记录了新生代以来南西天山构造抬升的信息。本文选择了位于南西天山山前的铁热克萨孜晚新生代剖面开展磁组构研究。铁热克萨孜剖面晚新生代沉积序列自下而上为一套整体上粒度逐渐变粗的陆相沉积,由河流湖泊相逐渐变为扇三角洲相,并最终变为冲积扇相和洪积扇相。岩石磁学结果的分析表明剖面晚新生代沉积序列中的主要磁性矿物为赤铁矿,仅在帕卡布拉克组下部为以磁铁矿为主。磁组构结果表明该剖面的磁组构为早期的同沉积弱变形磁组构,指示了当时构造应力的方向和变化。在22.1Ma以来南西天山山前晚新生代磁组构所反映的构造应力整体上为N-S向挤压,这与帕米尔和南天山的南北向持续汇聚作用相一致。在安居安组和西域组时期,应力方向由N-S向挤压变为NNE-SSW向挤压,这一变化可能是由塔拉斯-费尔干纳断裂的活动所导致的。塔拉斯-费尔干纳断裂(Talas-Fergana Fault, TFF)的右行走滑活动可能吸收了南西天山晚新生代的部分应变量,使得南西天山山前的构造应变量相对TFF以东的南天山山前地区要更小,使得TFF以东的晚新生代山前冲断带活动相对TFF以西地区更为发育和活跃。 相似文献
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Sebastian A. Turner Jian G. Liu John W. Cosgrove 《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》2011,40(1):394-402
The Piqiang Fault is a prominent strike-slip (tear) fault that laterally partitions the Keping Shan Thrust Belt in the NW Tarim Basin, China. In satellite images, the Piqiang Fault appears as a sharp, NW-trending lineament that can be traced for more than 70 km. It is oblique to the general structural trend of the thrust belt and subparallel to the thrust transport direction. This paper presents a structural analysis of the Piqiang Fault, based on satellite image interpretation and field data. A net loss of Late Paleozoic sediment across the fault zone implies that it was initiated as a major normal fault during the Early Permian, and corresponds to widespread extension and magmatism during this period. Differential erosion across the fault resulted in the subsequent removal of sediment from the east relative to the west. During the Middle to Late Cenozoic, contraction of the NW Tarim Basin and the formation of the Keping Shan Thrust Belt resulted in reactivation of the Piqiang Fault as a strike-slip (tear) fault. The fault has accommodated lateral differences in thrust density and spacing which have arisen due to the abrupt, pre-existing change in stratigraphic thickness across it. The Piqiang Fault provides an insight into the formation of oblique, strike-slip (tear) faults in contractional belts and demonstrates the importance of inherited basement structures in such settings. 相似文献
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Yong Yang Wen-Qian Yao Jia-Jia Yan Ying Guo Da-Qing Xie 《International Geology Review》2018,60(7):929-943
The Piqiang–Selibuya Fault is the most significant fault in the NW Tarim Basin, China. It has attracted increasing attention because of the discovery of a series of oil (gas) fields in and around the fault zone. The structural characteristics and evolution of the Piqiang–Selibuya Fault remain controversial. Field geological surveys and seismic data interpretation reveal that the fault has experienced three stages of activity. The thicknesses of the Permian and Miocene strata on opposing sides of the fault are clearly different, and these reveal that the fault has experienced two stages of significant thrusting. The first stage took place at the end of the Triassic and was associated with the Qiangtang Block amalgamated to the south margin of Eurasia. The second stage occurred at the end of the Miocene and might have been caused by the northwards overthrusting of the Pamir. These two stages of thrusting led to the lower–middle Cambrian detachment layer in the eastern part of the Keping thrust belt being 2 km shallower than in the western part. Since the Pliocene, the southern Tien Shan orogenic belt has been reactivated and thrust towards the interior of the Tarim Basin, and a series of ENE–WSW-trending thrust sheets have formed in the Keping thrust belt. Because of the different depth of the detachment layer on the opposing sides of the Piqiang–Selibuya Fault, the number and spacing of thrust sheets formed to the east of the fault differ from those to the west. This dissimilar deformation led to the strike–slip displacement on the Piqiang–Selibuya Fault. The three stages of fault activity record three important tectonic events in the NW Tarim Basin. Qualitative analysis of this activity helps us better understand the influence of the far-field effect of the collisions that occurred on the southern margin of the Eurasia plate on the structural deformation of the NW Tarim Basin. 相似文献
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大陆盆地的聚敛-闭合过程研究:以塔里木盆地为例 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
印度与欧亚大陆第三纪以来碰撞汇聚,造成亚洲大陆内部强烈缩短变形。塔里木盆地如何发生相应的变形调节和应变分解,成为中亚板内构造的重要问题。塔里木陆块新生代以来被板内造山带及走滑断裂系环绕,盆地内部以刚性为特征,未发生强烈构造变形。区域大断裂与塔里木盆地的冲断、走滑构造边界共同作用,形成盆地边缘复杂的构造系。其新生代构造变形主要集中于盆地的构造边界上,4条构造边界显示差异性的运动特征和构造交切关系。盆地边缘构造带叠加并向盆内扩展,造成盆地总体上水平缩短,并发生应变分解。盆地内部发生沉积-构造分异,发育前陆盆地、前缘隆起、复合前陆盆地、拉分盆地等单元。其中,盆地西北缘及西南缘发生陆内俯冲,形成前陆盆地及前陆冲断带,对盆内构造演化有重要影响。区域构造研究表明,塔里木盆地新生代主要发生了4期区域构造变形,第三纪以来还发生顺时针旋转。大陆盆地构造边界上的运动组合、盆内不均匀阻挡和滑脱拆离,造成其变形扩展方式的差异,并影响盆内单元构造演化。因此,塔里木盆地是认识大陆盆地聚敛与闭合过程的天然实验室。 相似文献
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Late Tertiary hypabyssal intrusions of the northern Cauca depression in the northwest Andes of Colombia provide anomalous paleomagnetic declinations of approximately northwest trend. Individual tectonic rotation mechanisms of folding or faulting alone are incapable of accounting for the observed dispersed inclinations in the northwestern trend. Combinations of mechanisms, including regional shear, folding, and thrusting, may explain the anomalous paleomagnetic vector directions. 相似文献
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库车坳陷沉降与天山中新生代构造活动 总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13
位于塔里木盆地北缘、天山南侧的库车坳陷为中新生代发育的构造单元。坳陷与天山造山带在成因上紧密相连，坳陷的沉降是由于天山山体隆升扩展引起的岩石圈挠曲响应。根据纵横向不同位置盆地沉降史的分析对比，该坳陷为典型的挤压盆地。推测中生代时期天山造山带以走滑和逆冲作用为主，新生代时期至少在库车坳陷北缘，天山造山带以向南冲断作用为主。库车坳陷强烈沉降时期并不对应于粗碎屑沉积，而对应于细碎屑沉积时期，即天山造山带构造强烈活动时期。天山造山带强烈活动造成库车坳陷强烈沉降，其主要原因与塔里木板块南侧的羌塘地体、拉萨地体、科西斯坦杂岩和印度次大陆的增生碰撞有关。 相似文献
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《International Geology Review》2012,54(5):430-433
This paper reviews and integrates new results on: (1) the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic evolution of Central Asia; (2) Cenozoic mountain building and intramontane basin formation in the Altay-Sayan area; (3) comparison of the tectonic evolutionary paths of the Altay, Baikal, and Tien Shan regions; (4) Cenozoic tectonics and mantle-plume magmatic activity; and (5) the geodynamics and tectonic evolution of Central Asia as a function of the India-Himalaya collision. It provides a new and more complete scenario for the formation of the Central Asian intracontinental mountain belt, compared with the generally accepted model of the “indentation” of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate. The new model is based on the hypothesis of a complex interaction of lithospheric plates and mantle-plume magmatism. Compilation and comparison of new and published structural, geomorphological, paleomagnetic, isotopic, fission-track, and plume magmatism data from the Baikal area, the Altay, Mongolia, Tien Shan, Pamir, and Tibet show that the main stages of their orogenic evolution and basin sedimentation are closely related in time and space. After a long period of tectonic quiescence and peneplanation, Central and Southeast Asia were strongly affected by India-Eurasia collisional tectonics. During the first collisional stage (60 to 35 Ma), a first series of high mountains formed in the Himalayas, southern Tibet, and, possibly, the southern Tien Shan. Eocene deposits, younging northward, formed coevally with the orogeny in the near-Himalaya trough, Tarim, Tajik depression, and Fergana Basin. During postcollisional convergence, new depressions formed over wide territories, from the Tarim to Baikal and Altay areas. However, intensification of the deformation and uplift later were propagated northward, with development of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (20 to 12 Ma), Tien Shan mountains (18 to 11 Ma), Junggar mountains and depression (8 to 5 Ma), and Altay, Baikal, and Transbaikal depressions and mountains (3 Ma). Northward propagation of the deformation front from the Himalayan collision zone is suggested by regular northward younging of mountains and intramontane basins. Evidence of this includes: (1) India thrusting under Tibet, resulting in the rotation of the latter (60 to 35 Ma); (2) subsidence of the Tarim ramp depression, the rise of the Tien Shan, and the migration of both the Tien Shan and Tarim to the northwest along the Junggar and Talas-Fergana strike-slip faults (35 to 8 Ma); (3) subsidence of the Junggar plate, counterclockwise rotation of the Mongolian and Amur plates (8 to 3 Ma); and (4) rise of the Altay, Hangai, and Transbaikal areas, clockwise rotation of the Amur plate, and rapid opening of the Baikal rift. There is a clear relation between tectonics (rotation of the Tibet and Amur microplates, displacement along plate boundaries) and plume magmatism. The effects of the latter on moving plates are deduced from migration of the Tien Shan volcanic area toward the Tibet area and of the South Mongolian volcanic migration toward the Hangai area. Magmatism and tectonic processes became synchronous just after India collided with the South Himalaya area (60 Ma) and the Pamirs (35 Ma). Plumes beneath the Asian plate are considered to be responsible for the rotation of the microplates and for the northward propagation of tectonic activity from the zone of collision. Mantle magmatism is lacking beneath the Altay. In this case, mountain-building processes and basin-formation mechanisms likely are related to external sources of deformation originating from the India-Pamir convergence. In addition, they also may be related to the general translation and rotation of microplates. 相似文献
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中国西南天山西域砾岩的磁性地层年代与地质意义* 总被引：11，自引：5，他引：11
西域组是我国西部一重要并广泛引用的晚新生代地层,关于其年代和成因至今尚存争议。在西南天山喀什远源盆地喀什-阿图什褶皱带不同构造部位选择有代表性的5~6个晚新生代地层剖面开展了详细的沉积学、磁性地层年代学对比研究,据此限定了不同构造的起始变形时间以及西域砾岩的沉积年代。西域砾岩并非一年代地层单位,作为一岩石地层单位,其底界具有穿时特征,从山体(北)向喀什前陆盆地(南)逐渐变新。其底界年龄在盆地北部近源区约为15.5Ma[1],在盆地中部中源区约为8.6Ma[1],在盆地南部远源区的阿图什背斜为1.9Ma,喀什背斜为1.6~0.7Ma。这一穿时的砾岩沉积楔体的起始堆积起因于盆地北部边界逆冲断层(KBT)的活动。构造变形是由北南脉冲式迁移扩展的,其速率是非均匀的,在约15.5Ma至4.0Ma期间为1.4~3.4mm/a,在约4.0Ma以来剧增至>10mm/a。西域砾岩沉积前缘向南进积速率与构造变形前缘迁移速率有很好的一致性,但在时间上较构造变形可能滞后2.0Ma。这表明构造变形前缘向南的脉冲式扩展是西域砾岩进积并发生侧向和垂向上岩相突变的主因。 相似文献
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藏北改则新生代早期逆冲推覆构造系统 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
藏北改则及邻区新生代早期发育大型逆冲推覆构造系统,由不同方向的逆冲断层、不同时代的构造岩片、不同规模的飞来峰和构造窗、不同类型的褶皱构造组成。羌塘中部发育羌中薄皮推覆构造,石炭系板岩和二叠系白云质灰岩自北向南逆冲推覆于上白垩统与古近系红层之上,形成大型逆冲岩席和弧形逆冲断层,原地系统古近纪红层下伏三叠系—侏罗系海相烃源岩。羌塘南部发育南羌塘薄皮推覆构造,导致班公—怒江蛇绿岩、三叠系—侏罗系海相地层及侏罗纪混杂岩自北向南逆冲推覆于古近纪红层与下白垩统海相沉积岩层之上,形成三条蛇绿岩片带、大量飞来峰和厚度较大的构造片岩。中新世早期火山岩层和湖相沉积呈角度不整合覆盖逆冲断层、褶皱构造和逆冲岩席,不整合面上覆火山岩年龄为23.7～19.1Ma,指示中新世早期改则及邻区基本结束了强烈逆冲推覆构造运动。估算羌中逆冲推覆构造的推覆距离约100～115km,南羌塘逆冲推覆构造的推覆距离约82～110km;新生代早期改则逆冲推覆构造系统近南北方向逆冲推覆总距离为182～225km,对应地壳缩短率为(50.3±2.7)%。 相似文献
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Chris J.L. Wilson Brenton A. Worley Shefa Chen Mathew J. Harrowfield Liu Shugen Luo Zhili WT ”BX 《地学前缘》2000,(Z1)
DEFORMATIONAL AND METAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL LONGMEN MOUNTAINS, SICHUAN CHINA1 ArneDC ,WorleyBA ,WilsonCJL ,etal.Differentialexhumationinresponsetoepisodicthrustingalongtheeasternmar ginoftheTibetanPlateau[J] .Tectonophysics,1997,2 80 :2 39～ 2 56 .
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南天山褶皱冲断带西段变形空间差异性及控制因素 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
新生代早期印度板块与欧亚板块持续碰撞汇聚导致欧亚板块内部发生大规模的陆内变形,天山造山带再次隆升,并向塔里木盆地大规模逆掩推覆,形成了现今南天山褶皱冲断带,其变形表现出明显的空间差异性。本文以南天山褶皱冲断带西段为研究对象,通过对不同构造带的地震剖面解释、运用平衡剖面技术恢复出各演化阶段发育过程并计算出相应的变形量,分析本区构造带的空间差异性及其控制因素。通过分析认为南天山褶皱冲断带西段可以进一步划分为巴什布拉克构造段,乌恰-阿图什-喀什构造段和柯坪西缘构造段。其中,巴什布拉克构造段变形特征主要呈一系列对冲构造和背驮盆地样式。乌恰-阿图什-喀什构造段变形特征表现为深、浅两个层次:深部发育堆垛构造和构造楔,浅部发育断层传播褶皱和逆冲断层改造的褶皱带。柯坪西缘构造段变形更加强烈,也表现为深、浅两个层次:深部发育堆垛构造,堆垛程度更大,浅部也发育断层传播褶皱和逆冲断层改造的褶皱带以及反冲断层系。结合该研究区的地质概况进一步分析,本文认为南天山褶皱冲断带西段构造变形的差异性可能与新生代以来帕米尔块体向北推进、塔拉斯-费尔干纳右行走滑断裂的活动、先存断裂的活化与韧性滑脱层的影响有关。 相似文献
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藏北低速体存在的地震学证据——INDEPTH4宽频地震结果 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
位于青藏高原东北部的INDEPTH-IV地震探测剖面,始于柴达木盆地南缘,穿越东昆仑造山带、金沙江缝合线,终止于羌塘地体.本文作者利用天然地震体波完成了该区的三维走时残差反演,勾划出了青藏高原东北部的深部构造格局.研究区最显著的现象则是分布在昆仑地体、可可西里地体、羌塘地体北部下地壳、上地幔中的低速体.对其成因,有可能... 相似文献
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ABSTRACT At the end of the Cenozoic, western Turkey was fragmented by intense intra-continental tectonic deformation resulting in the formation of two extensional areas: a transtensional pull-apart basin systems in the northwest, and graben systems in the central and southwest areas. The question of the connection of this Late Cenozoic extensional tectonics to plate kinematics has long been an issue of discussion. This study presents the results of the fault slip data collected in Bak?rçay Basin in the west of Turkey and addresses changes in the direction of extensional stresses over the Plio-Quaternary. Field observations and quantitative analysis show that Bak?rçay Basin is not a simple graben basin that has evolved during a single phase. It started as a graben basin with extensional regime in the Pliocene and was transformed into a pull-apart basin under the influence of transtensional forces during the Quaternary. A chronology of two successive extensional episodes has been established and provides reasoning to constrain the timing and location of subduction-related back-arc tectonics along the Aegean region and collision-related extrusion tectonics in Turkey. The first NW–SE trending extension occurred during the Pliocene extensional phase, characterized by slab rollback and progressive steepening of the northward subduction of the African plate under the Anatolian Plate. Western Turkey has been affected, during the Middle Quaternary, by regional subsidence, and the direction of extension changed to N–S, probably in relation with the propagation of the North Anatolian Fault System. Since the Late Quaternary, NE–SW extension dominates northwest Turkey and results in the formation and development of elongated transtensional basin systems. Counterclockwise rotation of Anatolian block which is bounded to the north by the right-lateral strike-slip North Anatolian Fault System, accompanies to this extensional phase. 相似文献
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JIANG Mei XUE Guangqi SU Heping QIAN Hui WEI Suhua DONG Yingjun Institute of Mineral Resources CAGS Beijing China E. KISSLING ETH-Hongebeg Institute for Geophysical CH- ZURICH Switzeland G. POUPINET LGIT-IRIGM Univercite Joseph F 《Continental Dynamics》2000,(1)
1. IntoductionSponsored by the National 305 Program, China, a teleseismic experiment was performed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and the French Scientific Research Center in Tian Shan area from June 1997 to February 1998. The array was mostly deployed along the main road, starting from Karamay in the north to Kuqa in the south. Geologically, the 700 km-long profile covers the Junggar basin, the Tian Shan Mts., the Bo-A Fault and the Korla Fault, ending in nort… 相似文献
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Palaeozoic collisional tectonics and magmatism of the Chinese Tien Shan, central Asia 总被引：31，自引：0，他引：31
The Chinese Tien Shan range is a Palaeozoic orogenic belt which contains two collision zones. The older, southern collision accreted a north-facing passive continental margin on the north side of the Tarim Block to an active continental margin on the south side of an elongate continental tract, the Central Tien Shan. Collision occurred along the Qinbulak-Qawabulak Fault (Southern Tien Shan suture). The time of the collision is poorly constrained, but was probably in in the Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous. We propose this age because of a major disconformity at this time along the north side of the Tarim Block, and because the Youshugou ophiolite is imbricated with Middle Devonian sediments. A younger, probably Late Carboniferous-Early Permian collision along the North Tien Shan Fault (Northern Tien Shan suture) accreted the northern side of the Central Tien Shan to an island arc which lay to its north, the North Tien Shan arc. This collision is bracketed by the Middle Carboniferous termination of arc magmatism and the appearance of Late Carboniferous or Early Permian elastics in a foreland basin developed over the extinct arc. Thrust sheets generated by the collision are proposed as the tectonic load responsible for the subsidence of this basin. Post-collisional, but Palaeozoic, dextral shear occurred along the northern suture zone, this was accompanied by the intrusion of basic and acidic magmas in the Central Tien Shan. Late Palaeozoic basic igneous rocks from all three lithospheric blocks represented in the Tien Shan possess chemical characteristics associated with generation in supra-subduction zone environments, even though many post-date one or both collisions. Rocks from each block also possess distinctive trace element chemistries, which supports the three-fold structural division of the orogenic belt. It is unclear whether the chemical differences represent different source characteristics, or are due to different episodes of magmatism being juxtaposed by later dextral strike-slip fault motions. Because the southern collision zone in the Tien Shan is the older of the two, the Tarim Block sensu stricto collided not with the Eurasian landmass, but with a continental block which was itself separated from Eurasia by at least one ocean. The destruction of this ocean in Late Carboniferous-Early Permian times represented the final elimination of all oceanic basins from this part of central Asia. 相似文献
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《International Geology Review》2012,54(7):818-829
Sedimentary provenance studies based on detrital zircon ages have proved to be a powerful tool for elucidating detailed patterns of erosion and sediment dispersal on and adjacent to the continents. This approach is commonly used to examine processes that occur over discrete intervals of geologic time, but it can also be used to address fundamental questions concerning the longer-term evolution of the continental crust. Central Asia, for example, consists of a Palaeozoic accretionary collage that contrasts with the cratonal cores of continents such as North America, which were fully consolidated during the Proterozoic. Detrital zircon provenance may thus provide important insights on the comparative evolution of these distinctly different styles of continental growth. The Tarim sedimentary basin is interpreted to be underlain by a micro-continental block that accreted to central Asia during the late Palaeozoic. Detrital zircon in pre-Permian strata of the northern Tarim basin includes Precambrian grains derived from Tarim basement, and Palaeozoic grains related to active tectonism along its margins. During this phase of tectonic amalgamation, overall sediment maturity increased up-section, consistent with similar observations from other cratons. However, in Tarim these trends reverse dramatically in Mesozoic and Cenozoic strata deposited after amalgamation of Tarim with central Asia. Palaeozoic zircon grains derived from the Tian Shan become dominant, Precambrian grains drop to trace abundances, and sandstone composition shift abruptly to immature litharenite. Moreover, a progressively increasing temporal gap occurs between zircon age and depositional age, reflecting the near absence of post-amalgamation magmatic or high-grade metamorphic rocks within the Tian Shan. Collectively, these observations support a model of Tarim and other central Asian basins as islands of long-lived tectonic stability, within an orogenic collage that has remained mobile for >250 million years. 相似文献