Collisional successor basins of western China: Impact of tectonic inheritance on sand composition

Graham, Stephan A.; Hendrix, Marc S.; Wang, L. B.; Carroll, Alan R.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1993)105<0323:csbowc>2.3.co;2

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“…However, detailed provenance interpretation of lithic-rich sandstone petrofacies has long proven challenging because multiple discrete source terranes often contribute grain populations that are difficult to distinguish using conventional point-counting techniques (cf. Graham et al 1976;Dickinson 1982;Graham et al 1993). In a few cases this limitation has been overcome by careful petrographic subdivision of standard lithic-grain categories (e.g., Dorsey 1988;Marsaglia and Ingersoll 1992).…”

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Integrated Provenance Analysis of a Complex Orogenic Terrane: Mesozoic Uplift of the Bogda Shan and Inception of the Turpan-Hami Basin, NW China

Greene

Carroll

Wartes

et al. 2005

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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We employ petrographic and advanced geochemical techniques to better document the evolution of the Turpan-Hami basin based on the unique geologic histories of the arc terranes that served as potential sources of Turpan-Hami deposits. First, a provenance study of Permian through Cretaceous sandstone of the Turpan-Hami basin reveals temporal and spatial changes in dominant source terranes that provided detritus to the basin. points to the initial uplift and unroofing of the largely andesitic Bogda Shan to the north, which first shed its sedimentary cover as it emerged to become the partition between the Turpan-Hami and southern Junggar basins.Second, geochronological, trace-element, and Sm-Nd isotopic variations among granitoids in the late Paleozoic Tian Shan orogenic belt provide a further test of Mesozoic uplift of the Bogda Shan. On the basis of previous models of crustal compositions throughout the South, Central, and North Tian Shan, Bogda Shan, and East and West Junggar terranes, we infer that isotopically enriched granitic cobbles (average ⑀Nd i ‫؍‬ Ϫ0.50, n ‫؍‬ 6) contained in Lower Triassic deposits in the north-central Turpan-Hami basin were derived from the continental crustal Central Tian Shan terrane, south of Turpan-Hami, and not from the more oceanic North Tian Shan, Bogda Shan, and East and West Junggar terranes, north of the Turpan-Hami basin. We therefore infer that the ancestral Bogda Shan had not been uplifted by the Early Triassic, and that prior to this time, a unified Junggar-Turpan-Hami basin existed during Late Permian deposition of extensive lacustrine deposits.

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Integrated Provenance Analysis of a Complex Orogenic Terrane: Mesozoic Uplift of the Bogda Shan and Inception of the Turpan-Hami Basin, NW China

Greene

Carroll

Wartes

et al. 2005

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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“…Upper Cretaceous strata are absent in the Jiuquan Basin and in many other basins in northwestern China and Central Asia, such as in the Eastern Tarim Basin, Qaidam Basin, Beishan Basin group, Ordos Basin, and Karakum Basin (Jia et al, 2003;Xiao et al, 2005). The Late Cretaceous is characterized by intensive tectonic activities in this region resulting from the collision of the Kohistan-Dras Island Arc and Lhasa Block 80-70 Ma (Graham et al, 1993;Hendrix et al, 1992). Thus, Upper Cretaceous strata was not deposited or eroded away.…”

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Sedimentation of the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation and its response to regional tectonics in the Qingxi Sag, Jiuquan Basin, NW China

Chen¹,

Wang²,

Wei³

et al. 2014

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a b s t r a c tUnder the constraint of an isochronous sequence stratigraphic framework, sediment infill of the Xiagou Formation reflects the overall control of dynamic tectonic movements and episodic sedimentations in the Qingxi Sag. Structure reactivity during post-depositional processes could cause stratigraphic variations in longitudinal time and lateral space. This study documents sediment infill features and their response to the tectonic evolutions of the Qingxi Sag. The data sets include comparison of cores, well drilling, 3D seismic, inter-well correlation, wave impedance inversion profiles, original strata recovery data, sedimentary facies spatial evolution and their superimposition with paleogeomorphology.The Jiuquan Basin is a Mesozoic-Cenozoic superposition basin comprising an early rifting graben phase and a later compression phase. Since the Early Cretaceous, the basin has undergone four major tectonic episodes: 1) extension during the Early Cretaceous, 2) tectonic inversion caused by northwest-southeast contraction from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene, 3) weak extension from the Eocene to the Miocene and 4) contraction from the Miocene to the present. Therefore, the Jiuquan Basin is the product of taphrogenic, collisional and shearing movements.Seismic interpretations of sequence and maximum flooding surface divide the Xiagou Formation into three third order sequences: SQK1g 0 , SQK1g 1 and SQK1g 2þ3 . Five sedimentary facies associations are identified: the shoreland plain, fan delta dominated sedimentary systems, turbidite deposits, shallow lakes and half-deep lake systems. From K1g 0 to K1g 2þ3 , decreased sandstone percentages in three fan delta areas indicate a continuously transgressive process, which shows the transition from proximal to distal sites in most statistic wells and an obvious decrease of fan delta scales. The northeast-southwest faults control the lakeward distributions of delta fronts and turbidite fans.The correspondence of sedimentary infill and its response to tectonic movements have been demonstrated in the Qingxi Sag. The more active eastern part of the northeastern boundary fault has an important influence on the northeastward migration of depocenters in the Xiagou Formation. The topography developed continuously from K1g 0 to K1g 2þ3 , but the diminished subsidence indicates the dominant geological process varying from intense fault rifting in an early period to relatively gentle and overall subsidence in a later period during the Early Cretaceous.

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“…During the Neogene, the Pacific plate subducted to the W-WNW at a rate of 6.9-10.6 cm/yr and the Philippines plate moved toward the north (Wan, 2004;Zhang, 1995). In the west, the China plate was mainly influenced by the collision of the Indian continental block with Asia beginning about 45Ma (Hendrix et al, 1992;Graham et al, 1993). During the Paleocene to the early Eocene, the Indian plate subducted under China in a north/northeast direction at a rate of 17cm/yr (Lee and Lawver, 1995).…”

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Cenozoic Tectonic Characteristics, Evolution and Geodynamics of Dongpu Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Chen¹,

Tan²,

Qi³

et al. 2011

New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - General Problems, Sedimentary Basins and Island Arcs

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Collisional successor basins of western China: Impact of tectonic inheritance on sand composition

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Integrated Provenance Analysis of a Complex Orogenic Terrane: Mesozoic Uplift of the Bogda Shan and Inception of the Turpan-Hami Basin, NW China

Integrated Provenance Analysis of a Complex Orogenic Terrane: Mesozoic Uplift of the Bogda Shan and Inception of the Turpan-Hami Basin, NW China

Sedimentation of the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation and its response to regional tectonics in the Qingxi Sag, Jiuquan Basin, NW China

Cenozoic Tectonic Characteristics, Evolution and Geodynamics of Dongpu Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China

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