“…Under this background, strike-slip faults are widely developed inside the Tarim craton, which in the eastern part are primarily in the Tazhong Uplift and its north, the Shuntuoguole Uplift, and the Tabei Uplift (Figure 1C). Primarily in the NNE-trending near-parallel faults in the Tazhong Uplift and its northern slope and the NNE-NNW trending X-shaped faults in Tuoputai-Halahatang area of the Tabei Uplift, the strike-slip fault system is mainly developed in the middle and lower Ordovician carbonate rocks formed by the tectonic movement in the middle Caledonian (He et al, 2006;Jia et al, 2007) and experienced multiple activities in the later period (Deng, et al, 2021b;Wu, et al, 2021). Superimposed by multistages of fluid reformation, large-scale reservoirs were formed in the Ordovician carbonate rocks in the northern slope of the Tazhong Uplift, the Shuntuoguole Low Uplift, and the Tabei Uplift of the Tarim Basin (Lu et al, 2017;Ding, et al, 2020;Qi, 2020), which played an important role in hydrocarbon accumulation.…”