Apatite Fission Track Evidence for the Thermal History of the Liupanshan Basin

Zheng, Dewen; Zhang, Peizhen; Wan, Jie; Yuan, Daoyang; Zhang, Guangliang; Li, Chuanyou

doi:10.1002/cjg2.637

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“…It is formed by the Haiyuan fault, Tianjingshan fault, and Yantongshan fault from south to north. Among them, the Haiyuan fault is the main fault which underwent different tectonic deformations, i.e., from extrusion by thrusting that began from approximately 8-10 Ma to a sinistral strike-slip motion at 5.4 Ma (Zheng et al, 2005(Zheng et al, , 2006Wang et al, 2013aWang et al, , 2014. The maximum strike-slip displacement was 14 km which was absorbed by the fold deformation and thrust fault located at the end portion of the fault IGCEA et al, 1990;Zhang et al, 1991;Burchfiel et al, 1991).…”

Section: Regional Tectonic Environment and Geometric Distribution Of mentioning

confidence: 98%

Dextral strike-slip of Sanguankou-Niushoushan fault zone and extension of arc tectonic belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau

Lei

Zhang

Zheng

et al. 2016

Sci. China Earth Sci.

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The kinematic characteristics of the Sanguankou-Niushoushan fault (SGK-NSSF) are of great significance to the understanding of the extension of the arc tectonic belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau. Using field surveys and various data collection methods, including large-scale geological mapping, measurement of typical topographies, and dating of sedimentary strata, it was determined that the SGK-NSSF exhibits obvious dextral strike-slip characteristics and thus is not a sinistral strike-slip fault, as believed by previous researchers. The results of this study show that the geological boundaries for the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras were all dextrally dislocated by the fault, with the faulted displacements being similar. The maximum strike-slip displacement of the fault, after elimination of topographic effects, was found to be 961±6 m. The Sanguankou fault at the northern section exhibits obvious characteristics of more recent activities, with a series of small gullies having undergone synchronized dextral writhing after traversing the fault. The average horizontal slip rate of the fault since the late Quaternary was determined to be approximately 0.35 mm/a. The pre-existing fold structures formed during the late Pliocene were dislocated by the fault and became ex situ, indicating that dextral strike-slip of the fault could not have occurred prior to the late Pliocene. The maximum displacements and average slip rates were used to estimate the onset time of the dextral strike-slip activities of the fault as being after 2.7 Ma. In this study, the understanding of previous researchers concerning the extension in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau was combined with analyses of the successive relationships between fold deformations and fault activities. This led to the finding that the extension in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau reached the vicinity of the SGK-NSSF during the late Pliocene (~2.7 Ma), causing regional uplift and fold deformations of the strata there. During the early Quaternary, the northeastern compression of the Tibet Plateau and the counterclockwise rotation of the Ordos block collectively resulted in the dextral strike-slip activities of the SGK-NSSF. This then formed the foremost margin of the arc tectonic belt extension in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau.

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Section: Regional Tectonic Environment and Geometric Distribution Of mentioning

confidence: 98%

Dextral strike-slip of Sanguankou-Niushoushan fault zone and extension of arc tectonic belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau

Lei

Zhang

Zheng

et al. 2016

Sci. China Earth Sci.

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“…The fission track ages and magnetostratigraphy data in the west of the Ordos Basin (including the Liupanshan Basin) also indicated the rapid uplift at around 8 Ma (Zhen, 2005;Li, 2007). The Sikouzi anticline in the Liupanshan structure belt consists of the Cretaceous as the core, with parallel unconformity contact with the Neogene, the wings of the anticline.…”

Section: Stage Of Structural Reverse Of the East And West (Late Miocementioning

confidence: 92%

“…Apatite fission track age of the sample taken from the Cretaceous near the Liupanshan fracture belts is 7.5±1.8 Ma, shown by a single peak in the age spectrum, and is consistent with the ages presented by Zhen Dewen in 2005. Zhen's fission track modeling showed that the sample was at the maximum depth, suffered total annealing with the temperature higher than 110 at 8 Ma and then experienced two uplift-cooling events at 8 Ma and 4-2 Ma (Zhen, 2005). Compared with previous stages, the east and south of the Ordos Basin widely deposited red clay sediments of the late Miocene to Pliocene, which overlay on the lower Cretaceous, Anding Formation, Zhiluo Formation of the middle Jurassic, Yan'an Formation of the early-mid Jurassic and Yanchang Formation of the late Triassic (successively from the west to east).…”

Section: Stage Of Structural Reverse Of the East And West (Late Miocementioning

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Characteristics of Later Different Reformation and its Significance in Occurrence of Multi-Energy Deposits in Ordos Basin

Hong-yan

Liu

Wang

et al. 2011

Energy Exploration & Exploitation

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Ordos Basin, rich in multi-energy resources of oil, gas and uranium, is a depression basin within the Late Triassic-to-early Cretaceous craton, which overlapps on the Paleozoic craton basin. The basin started its later reformation in the Late Cretaceous, which is of significant importance to energy deposits. Few studies have, however, been focused on ages of the reformation and its characteristics. Based on the analysis of the regional geological settings and Cenozoic sedimentary structures, combined with published and newly developed fission track ages, the reformation was divided into five stages with various characters, including 1) regional uniform uplift stage (Late Cretaceous to Paleocene); 2) different uplift and subsidence stage (Eocene to Oligocene); 3) different uplift stage of the east and west of the basin (Early-Middle Miocene); 4) structural reverses of the east and west of the basin (Late-Miocene to Pliocene); and 5) the formation of loessial plateau and the development of the Yellow River (Quaternary). These stages are consistent with development of the regional tectonic settings, which is closely related to the subduction of the Pacific Block to Euro-Asian Block and the collision of Indian Block to Euro-Asian Block. It has been indicated that there are good correlations among the petroleum formation, migration and the mineralization ages and the reformation ages. The later structural uplift, on the one hand, caused the strata erosion and the destruction of the petroleum pools and also the dissipation of the oil and gas. On the other hand, it decreased the pressure causing the escape of the gas dissolved in water, which is helpful to formation of the complementary gas resource and the secondary petroleum pools. Meanwhile, the later uplift and the petroleum migration to the northeast enabled the organic and inorganic interaction between reducing fluid and ore-bearing fluid, which is preferable for uranium deposits. The uplifted and eroded Mesozoic strata could be a new provenance, resulting in new mineralization and overlapped enrichment of uranium deposits.

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“…Recently, it has been emphasized that the critical tectonic event largely controlled the dynamic evolution and the multiple resources well-coexistence of a sedimentary basin [9 -15] . Therefore, the tectonic-event chronology of the dynamic-regime transition in relation to the multi-resources coexistence is becoming an important frontier for the tectonic research and resources exploration in the OB [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] .…”

Section: Based On the Analysis Of Apatite And Zircon Fission Track (Fmentioning

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Fission-track-age records of the Mesozoic tectonic-events in the southwest margin of the Ordos Basin, China

Chen

Sun

Zhou

et al. 2007

Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci.

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Based on the analysis of apatite and zircon fission track (FT), the FT age distribution and the peck-ages of the Mesozoic tectonic events in the southwest margin of the Ordos Basin (OB) were discussed.(1) The early event mainly occurred at 213-194 Ma with a peck-age of 205 Ma, and corresponded to the tectonic uplift and the mega-clastic deposit in the southwest OB during the Late Triassic. (2) The middle event included at least two episodes. One was at 165-141 Ma with a peck-age of 150 Ma, and the other was at 115-113 Ma with a peck-age of 114 Ma, corresponding to the over-thrusting and the megaclastic deposits in the southwest OB during the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. (3) The late event mainly demonstrated the regional uplifting and included at least two episodes. One was at 100-81 Ma with a peck-age of 90 Ma, and the other was at 66-59 Ma with a peck-age of 63 Ma. Additionally, the relationship analysis of the tectonic event and the mineralizing chronology revealed that the extreme environment of the peck-age event and the subsequent moderate activity could be the key factors of the multiple resources coupling and coexistence in the OB.Ordos Basin (OB), Mesozoic, fission-track (FT) age, unconformity, tectonic event Ordos Basin (OB) is a sedimentary energy basin with abundant multi-resources of oil, gas, coal and uranium deposits. Much more important progress has been made in the studies on the tectonic evolution and the Yanshanian tectonic-thermal event of the OB, as well as the petroleum generation and accumulation [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] . The exploration and research indicated that the OB was a Mesozoic depressive-basin dominated by polycyclic fluviallacustrine sediments, which had developed in the Paleozoic neritic-offshore marine sedimentary sequences of the North China cratonic-basin and experienced the later uplift reformation since the Late Cretaceous and the differential margin-faulted depression since the Paleogene. The coupling coexistence of the multi-resources as well as the coal and uranium mineralization and the petroleum charging were largely related to the Mesozoic tectonic evolution and the tectonic-thermal events of the OB. Recently, it has been emphasized that the critical tectonic event largely controlled the dynamic evolution and the multiple resources well-coexistence of a sedimentary basin [9 -15] . Therefore, the tectonic-event chronology of the dynamic-regime transition in relation to the multi-resources coexistence is becoming an important frontier for the tectonic research and resources exploration in the OB [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] .In recent years, the chronology of the Mesozoic thermal event in the OB has been discussed from different aspects through the apatite fission track (FT) analysis

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Apatite Fission Track Evidence for the Thermal History of the Liupanshan Basin

Cited by 19 publications

References 12 publications

Dextral strike-slip of Sanguankou-Niushoushan fault zone and extension of arc tectonic belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau

Dextral strike-slip of Sanguankou-Niushoushan fault zone and extension of arc tectonic belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau

Characteristics of Later Different Reformation and its Significance in Occurrence of Multi-Energy Deposits in Ordos Basin

Fission-track-age records of the Mesozoic tectonic-events in the southwest margin of the Ordos Basin, China

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