PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION ON THE PRE-DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN KIANGSI
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION ON THE PRE-DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN KIANGSI
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1964
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C. Chang;C. Uang
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C. Chang;C. Uang
The Pre-Devonian strata of southern Kiangsi have been studied by many geologists.Opinions regarding the geological ages of these strata have been conflicting,since no fos-sils were found in them before 1960. Early in 1943,Prof.K.C.Hsu assumed that the Pre-Devonian strata of southernKiangsi included formations ranging from Sinian to Lower Palaeozoic in age,but othersheld that they might be all of Pre-Sinian in age. Since 1957,the faculty of the Geological Department of Nanking University re-peatedly visited southern Kiangsi and in 1960 and 1961,during the course of systematicgeological survey of this area,they found abundant fossils,including graptolites,trilobitesand Protospongia,from several horizons in these strata.On the basis of this discovery,the existence of Sinian to Lower Palaeozoic formations in this area is confirmed.Ac-cording to the result of our study,the Pre-Devonian strata in this area exceed 12,000meters in total thickness,and belong to typical geosynclinal sediments. In this paper the Pre-Devonian formations of this area are summarized in ascendingorder as follows: 1. Pre-Sinian(Lower Proterozoic) (1) The Dayu Group.It is the oldest formation in this area,composed of schists,phyllites,schistose,marbles,quartzites,phyllitic slates,etc.,with a total thickness of morethan 2,017 meters. (2) The Lichun Group.It is of light gray and grayish green metamorphic felds-pathic-quartzose sandstone(graywacke)and sericite-phyllite with scattered magnetite cry-stals,with a total thickness of more than 3,471 meters.The contact between the LichunGroup and the Dayu Group has not yet been defined. 2. Sinian——The Guting Group:This formation is composed of grayish black anddark gray-green graywacke,black carbonaceous and siliceous slate intercalated with flintlayers,and thin limestone lenses in the upper part and basic extrusive rocks at the top,with a total thickness of about 1,707 meters.The contact between the Guting Groupand the Lichun Group has not yet been defined. 3. Lower Cambrian——The Hetang Formation:It is mainly of grayish blacksiliceous and carbonaceous slate and siltstone,intercalated with grayish green graywacke inthe upper part,and stony coal and thin-bedded flint layers in the basal part,with a thick-ness of 428 meters.In the blackish slates Protospongia occurs in abundance.Thisformation lies disconformably upon the Sinian Guting Group. 4. Middle and Upper Cambrian——The Bazhan Group:It is a typical flysch forma-tion,consisting characteristically of grayish green and grayish black graywacke,siltstone and slate,with a total thickness of 2,237 meters.Abundant well-preserved fossils ofProtospongia were obtained from the lower part of the Bazhan Group.This formationconformably overlies the Lower Cambrian Hetang Formation. 5. Lower Ordovician (1) The Yinzhubu Formation:It is composed of light gray and grayish green silt-stone interbedded with slate,having microrhythmic structure,with a thickness of 467—637meters.This formation lies conformably upon the Middle and Upper Cambrian,and isalso conformably succeeded by graptolite-bearing Ningguo Formation.Thus this formationis considered to be of early Lower Ordovician in age,and is equivalent to the YinzhubuFormation of western Chekiang and the Tremadocian of the British region. (2) The Ningguo Formation:This formation is composed of light gray and grayishgreen siltstone,grayish black siliceous and carbonaceous slate,with a thickness of 887—967 meters.It is especially characterized by abundant fossils of graptolites,includingDidymograptus hirundo,D.abnormis,Amplexograptus confertus,phyllograptus anna,Tetragraptus bigsbyi var.latus,Pterograptus sp.,Sinograptus sp.,Nicholsonograptus sp.,Climacograptus forticudatus,Cryptograptus tricornis,C.sh(a|¨)feri,Pseudoclimacograptus sp.,Glossograptus sp.,Glyptograptus sp.,Orthograptus sp.,etc.These fossils may be cor-related with the Amplexograptus confertus zone and Didymograptus hirundo zone ofwestern Chekiang and southern Anhwei. 6. Middle Ordovician——The Hulo Formation:It is of black siliceous slate andflint layers interbedded with carbonaceous slate,with a thickness of more than 89 meters.This formation contains also abundant fossils of graptolites,including Dicellograptus sex-tans var.exilis,D.smithi,Pseudoclimacograptus sckarenbergi,Didymograptus euodus,Orthograptus cf.calcaratus,Climacograptus sp.,Trigonograptus sp.,Glyptograptus sp.,etc.all equivalent to the Nemagraptus gracilis zone of western Chekiang and southern Anhwei.and belong to the early Middle Ordovician.It overlies conformably the Ningguo Forma-tion. 7. Upper Ordovician——The Shachun Group:This formation,possessing apparentrhythm of flysch,consists of grayish black graywacke and banded slate,with a basal con-glomerate of 15 meters.Abundant fossils,including graptolites,trilobites and ostracods.occur in them.The total thickness of this formation is estimated at more than 1,300meters.The contact between the Shachun Group and the underlying formation may bean angular unconformity.