Cenozoic faults and faulting phases in the western Tarim Basin (NW China): Effects of the collisions on the southern margin of the Eurasian Plate

Li, Yuejun; Zhang, Qiang; Zhang, Guangya; Tian, Zuo-ji; Peng, Gang; Qiu, Bin; Zhi-bin, Huang; Luo, Jing; Liu, Wen; Zhao, Yan; Jia, Tie-Gan

doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.09.018

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“…The same reason as suggested for the thrusting time of the Kongquehe Fault, it can be fairly inferred that the end time of the thrusting of the Shajingzi Fault is end Triassic–beginning Jurassic. The Paleogene/Cretaceous unconformity and the normal faults in the Cenozoic are beyond the scope of this study and have been discussed by Li, Zhang, Zhang, et al () and Li, Zhang, et al ().…”

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“…Tarim Basin, located on the south of the South Tianshan Mountains, is a large Meso‐Cenozoic sedimentary basin on the Tarim Craton with Precambrian crystalline basement and Phanerozoic sedimentary cover. It is covered by the well‐known Taklamakan Desert (Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, ; Jia, Yang, Chen, & Wei, ; Jia, Yao, Gao, Zhou, & Wei, ; Li, Wen, Yang, et al, ; Li, Zhang, et al, ; Xiao, Han, et al, ). The South Tianshan is the southern branch of the Tianshan Mountains.…”

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“…Taking the F1 fault for growth index calcula- La, suggesting that the normal faulting ceased at mid-Cretaceous. The end Permian-Triassic thrusts were revealed only in the southern piedmont of the South Tianshan Mountains (Figures 1-3 Pre-Cambrian to Early Carboniferous (Charvet et al, 2011;Hao & Liu, 1993;Liu, Wang, & Zhang, 1996;Long, Gao, Xiong, & Qian, 2006;Wang, He, Li, Gao, & Lu, 1995;Wang, Wang, & Li, 1998;Yang, Gao, Li, & Zhang, 2005;Zhou et al, 2004), the ages of the blueschists in the South Tianshan ranging from Devonian to Carboniferous (Gao & Klemd, 2003;Gao, Zhang, & Liu, 2000;Liu & Qian, 2003;Tang, Gao, & Zhao, 1995;Xiao & Tang, 1992;Zhang et al, 2005;Zhou et al, 2004), the ages of the radiolarian faunas in the South Tianshan ranging from Late Devonian to Late Permian (Li et al, 2002;Li et al, 2005;Li, Yang, et al, 2009;Li, Zhang, et al, 2016;Liu, 2001;Liu, Wang, & Yao, 1994;Shu, Wang, & Zhu, 2007;Tang et al, 1995;Wang et al, 1990), the ages of the subduction-related magmatic rocks ranging from Carboniferous to Early Permian (Li & Zhang, 2004;Zhu, Zhang, Gu, Guo, & Zhou, 2005) and the collision-related Triassic foreland depositions (Liu, Guo, & Zhang, 2013;Li, Song, et al, 2001;Li, Sun, et al, 2004;Li, Wang, & Zhou, 2000;Xiao et al, 2009;Xiao, Pirajno, & Seltmann, 2008 The Jurassic-Cretaceous no...…”

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“…The tectonic elements of the Tarim Basin (modified after Li et al, ; Li et al, ; Wen et al, ; Xiao et al, ) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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“…Meanwhile, almost all the previous studies on the collision were undertaken within the South Tianshan Mountains and few within the related basins. Jia, Yang, Chen, & Wei, 2001;Jia, Yao, Gao, Zhou, & Wei, 1992;Li, Zhang, et al, 2016;Xiao, Han, et al, 2008).…”

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The collision‐related structures revealed in the northern Tarim Basin and their geological significance

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The South Tianshan on the southern margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is a collisional orogenic belt between the Tarim continent and Ili‐Central Tianshan volcanic arc. The initial time of the collision remains debated, with proposed timing from Early Devonian to Middle Triassic. Almost all the previous studies on this collision were carried out within the South Tianshan Mountains, few within the related basins. End Permian–Triassic thrusts and Jurassic–Cretaceous normal faults were discovered in the northern Tarim Basin where is the southern piedmont of the South Tianshan Mountains after careful and systematic seismic interpretation. The end Permian–Triassic thrusts are constituted by both basement‐involved and thin‐skinned thrusts. They are likely seen as the syn‐collision compressional structures of the South Tianshan collisional orogen. The syn‐collision thrusts constitute the main faults in the study area. Consistent with the Triassic/Permian and Jurassic/Triassic unconformities, two thrusting phases occurred, at end Permian–beginning Triassic and end Triassic–beginning Jurassic, respectively. The Jurassic–Cretaceous normal faults usually arrange into stair‐step or graben‐horst structures in profile and en echelon normal fault zones horizontally. They are attributed as the results of the regional extensional stage in the CAOB. This regional extension stage provides a good constraint for the ending time of the collision between Tarim and Ili‐Central Tianshan blocks. The normal faulting time is revealed by normal fault growth indexes. According to these observed syn‐collision compressional and subsequent extension structures, it can be fairly inferred that the collision between Tarim and Ili‐Central Tianshan was initiated at end Permian, lasted through the Triassic and ceased at end Triassic, and then evolved into the Jurassic–Cretaceous extensional tectonic stage.

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“…The tectonic elements of the Tarim Basin (modified after Li et al, ; Li et al, ; Wen et al, ; Xiao et al, ) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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A study of Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Tarim Basin with S‐wave receiver functions

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During the early Cenozoic, the collision and convergence between India and Eurasia resulted in the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and continuous northward compression, forming the Circum‐Tibetan Plateau Basin and Orogen System (CTPBOS). The Tarim Basin, located between the Tibetan Plateau and the Tianshan Mountains, plays a crucial role for studying the convergence‐driving strain propagation mechanism intra‐Asian continent during the growth processes of the Tibetan Plateau. Owing to the lack of accurate geophysical information on the deep structure of the Tarim crust，the mechanism of Cenozoic deformation in the Tarim Basin has been under debate. In this paper, the teleseismic data acquired by the broadband seismic profile across the Tarim Basin from south to north and the S‐wave receiver function method were used to obtain the depth of the Moho and the discontinuities in the lithosphere beneath the Tarim Basin. The SRF result shows that the Moho geometry has an abrupt relief under the Bachu Uplift, and Moho offset under the fault zone between the Kalashayi Fault and the Tumuxiuke Fault. The regional dip of the Moho under the Bachu area can be explained by the root of the Bachu basement‐involved uplift cutting across the whole crust and locally penetrating into the mantle lithosphere. The Bachu Uplift, located in the central Tarim terrane, has a relatively weak lithosphere. In the process of forming the Tarim large igneous province during the early Permian, the crust beneath the Bachu area was weakened and thinned by the thermo‐mechanical erosion from upwelling mantle plume. As the collision and convergence of India and Eurasia since the early Cenozoic, the convergence‐driving strain was propagated into the Tarim Basin. The pre‐existing weak Bachu Uplift was reactivated. The Tarim Basin absorbs Cenozoic compressional deformation through the crustal shortening and Moho offset of the Bachu Uplift.

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Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview

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Cenozoic faults and faulting phases in the western Tarim Basin (NW China): Effects of the collisions on the southern margin of the Eurasian Plate

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References 29 publications

The collision‐related structures revealed in the northern Tarim Basin and their geological significance

The collision‐related structures revealed in the northern Tarim Basin and their geological significance

A study of Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Tarim Basin with S‐wave receiver functions

Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview

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