Jurassic–Cretaceous terrestrial transition red beds in northernNorth China and their implication on regional paleogeography,paleoecology, and tectonic evolution
Jurassic–Cretaceous terrestrial transition red beds in northernNorth China and their implication on regional paleogeography,paleoecology, and tectonic evolution
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华北北部侏罗纪—白垩纪陆相过渡红层及其区域古地理、古生态和构造演化意义
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10.1016/j.palwor.2016.05.007
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2017
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彭楠
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许欢;柳永清;旷红伟;刘燕学;彭楠
2016AbstractThe Jurassic–Cretaceous terrestrial transition red beds in the northern North China Craton are associated with a number of major geologicalissues that remain controversial, such as paleogeography, biotic transition, and tectonic evolution. Based on previous studies and new progressrelated to stratigraphy, sedimentology, provenance, biotas, and tectonics, this paper performs a comprehensive review of the red beds in the northernNorth China Craton represented by the Tuchengzi/Houcheng/Daqingshan Formation (ca. 154–137 Ma) and offers some new perspectives. Basedon the 15 measured sections, five facies units including alluvial fan, fluvial, delta, lacustrine, and eolian facies have been recognized and describedin detail. Provenance analysis indicates that the red beds were derived from local sources. Deposits in the basins in the eastern Yinshan–Yanshanorogenic belt were derived mainly from volcanic rocks of the Middle–Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation and the Mesoproterozoic–Early Paleo-zoic carbonate, siliceous, and clastic rocks present around the basin, especially in the north. In contrast, sediments in the basins in the westernYinshan–Yanshan orogenic belt were provided predominantly by the Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic metamorphic rocks exposed mainly in thenorth of the basin. Paleocurrent features in different regions show characteristics of a localized convergent paleo-drainage system, suggest-ing that a series of relatively independent small- to mid-scale basins developed in the northern North China Craton. The east–west-trendingYinshan–Yanshan orogenic belt, formed in the late Middle Jurassic, uplifted successively and constituted a paleogeographic highland in northernNorth China during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition time. The presence of eolian deposits in the early Early Cretaceous indicates degradation ofthe severe arid and hot environment, which may have been an essential factor in the dying out of the Yanliao Biota. Combined with regional LateJurassic–Early Cretaceous A-type granites, mafic dykes, and metamorphic core complexes and rift basins, this suggests that the Jurassic–Cretaceoustransition red beds were formed in an extensional tectonic setting controlled by the post-orogenic collapse of the Mongol–Okhotskorogenic belt.