To better understand Mesozoic tectonic transition processes in Eastern China,this paper offers a comparison of...
Z.LI~1,Y.LI~2,J.-P.ZHENG~3 & D.HAN~1 1 Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029, China 2 Shengli Oil field,SINOPEC,Dongying 256504,China 3 China University of Geosciences,Wuhan 420073,China
Similar to compositional evolution of sandstone modes and detrital heavy minerals from different profiles in the Kuqa Depression, Northwest China, major element analysis of whole sandstones from the same profiles shows four discontinuous depositional interfaces or periods, respectively corresponding to Lower Triassic\Middle Triassic, Upper Jurassic\Lower Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous\Paleogene and Miocene\Pliocene, and indicates five-phase evolution during Mesozoic-Cenozoic: (1) From the first to fifth phase, a depositional suite changes from maroon and coarse clastic, through grey-dark grey and fine, red and coarse, red-mottled, interlayered by gypsum, to brown and coarse clastic assemblages, accompanying detrital component evolution in unstable-stable-unstable-very unstable-very unstable assem- blages. It is indicated that carbonate and complex detritus gradually dominate in sandstones in post-Late Jurassic, with rapid reduction of compositional maturity. (2) For major element geo- chemical parameters of whole sandstones, CaO and Fe2 O * 3+MgO contents show a change sequence in high-low-high-higher-highest values, with rapid increasing in post-Late Jurassic. (3) Contra some aggregative indicators for weathering indexes of sandstone detrital component, Al2O3/(CaO+Na2O) and ln(Q/(L+CE)), show a change sequence in low-high-low-lower-lowest ratios, with rapid decreasing in post-Late Jurassic. It is found that sandstone samples of the first, second and later three phases may be distinguished from the A-CN-K and A-CNK-FM diagrams respectively. Therefore, in the Kuqa Depression-Tianshan, the most important discontinuous depositional interface recording paleotectonic and paleoclimatic transition occurred in Early Triassic\Middle Triassic and Late Jurassic\Early Cretaceous, respectively, and, however, tec- tonic differentiations of basin-range system finally result in distinct depositional systems but similar detrital weathering indexes across the Lower Cretaceous\Paleogene and Miocene\ Plio- cene interfaces, respectivel
LI Zhong1, GUO Hong2, WANG Daoxuan3 & LIN Wei1 1. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China 2. Tarim Oilfield Branch, CNPC, Korla 841000, China
