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Evolution, Migration, Controlling Factors and Forming Setting of Mesozoic Basins in Western Shandong

Evolution, Migration, Controlling Factors and Forming Setting of Mesozoic Basins in Western Shandong Abstract The distinctive topography in western Shandong province consists of several NW‐WNW‐trending mountain ranges and intervening basins. Basins, in which late‐stage sediments to the south have progressively overlapped the earlier sediments and “basement” rocks of the hanging‐wall block, are bounded by S‐SW‐dipping normal faults to the north. Basin analysis reveals the Jurassic‐Cretaceous sedimentary rocks accumulated both within the area of crustal extension and during extensional deformation; they contain a record of a sequence of tectonic events during stretching and can be divided into four tectonic‐sequence episodes. These basins were initially developed as early as ca. 200 Ma in the northern part of the study area, extending dominantly N‐S from the Early Jurassic until the Late Cretaceous. Although with a brief hiatus due to changes in stress field, to keep uniform N‐S extensional polarity in such a long time as 130 Ma requires a relatively stable tectonic controlling factor responsible for the NW‐ and E‐W‐extensional basins. The formation of the extensional basins is partly concurrent with regional magmatism, but preceded magmatism by 40 Ma. This precludes a genetic link between local magmatism and extension during the Mesozoic. Based on integrated studies of basins and deformation, we consider that the gravitational collapse of the early overthickened continental crust may be the main tectonic driver for the Mesozoic extensional basins. From the Early Jurassic, dramatic reduction in north‐south horizontal compressive stress made the western Shandong deformation belt switch from a state of failure under shortening to one dominated by extension and the belt gravitationally collapsed and horizontally spread to the south until equilibrium was established; synchronously, the normal faults and basins were developed based on the model of simple‐shear extensional deformation. This may be relative to the gravitational collapse of the Mesozoic plateau in eastern China. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) Wiley

Evolution, Migration, Controlling Factors and Forming Setting of Mesozoic Basins in Western Shandong

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Wiley
Copyright
2005 Geological Society of China
ISSN
1000-9515
eISSN
1755-6724
DOI
10.1111/j.1755-6724.2005.tb00918.x
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Abstract

Abstract The distinctive topography in western Shandong province consists of several NW‐WNW‐trending mountain ranges and intervening basins. Basins, in which late‐stage sediments to the south have progressively overlapped the earlier sediments and “basement” rocks of the hanging‐wall block, are bounded by S‐SW‐dipping normal faults to the north. Basin analysis reveals the Jurassic‐Cretaceous sedimentary rocks accumulated both within the area of crustal extension and during extensional deformation; they contain a record of a sequence of tectonic events during stretching and can be divided into four tectonic‐sequence episodes. These basins were initially developed as early as ca. 200 Ma in the northern part of the study area, extending dominantly N‐S from the Early Jurassic until the Late Cretaceous. Although with a brief hiatus due to changes in stress field, to keep uniform N‐S extensional polarity in such a long time as 130 Ma requires a relatively stable tectonic controlling factor responsible for the NW‐ and E‐W‐extensional basins. The formation of the extensional basins is partly concurrent with regional magmatism, but preceded magmatism by 40 Ma. This precludes a genetic link between local magmatism and extension during the Mesozoic. Based on integrated studies of basins and deformation, we consider that the gravitational collapse of the early overthickened continental crust may be the main tectonic driver for the Mesozoic extensional basins. From the Early Jurassic, dramatic reduction in north‐south horizontal compressive stress made the western Shandong deformation belt switch from a state of failure under shortening to one dominated by extension and the belt gravitationally collapsed and horizontally spread to the south until equilibrium was established; synchronously, the normal faults and basins were developed based on the model of simple‐shear extensional deformation. This may be relative to the gravitational collapse of the Mesozoic plateau in eastern China.

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Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)Wiley

Published: Aug 1, 2005

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