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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (04): 739-749.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.04.10

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Control on Lead-zinc Mineralization Through Superimposing Structural Deformation in the Wuzhishan Area in NW Guizhou

YANG Xingyu1(), REN Houzhou1, LIU Yu2, SHAN Yongbo2, YANG Kunguang2, AN Qi1, LAN Anping1, TAN Hua3, WU Caijin1, XIAO Kai1, MO Lulu1   

  1. 1. 104 Geological Brigade of Geological Survey of Guizhou Province,Duyun,Guizhou 558000,China
    2. Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan,Hubei 430074, China
    3. Guizhou Geological Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development,Guiyang,Guizhou 550003,China
  • Received:2017-12-18 Revised:2018-04-20 Online:2018-08-10 Published:2018-09-19

Abstract:

The Wuzhishan lead-zinc ore district is located at the junction of Puding and Zhijin in Guizhou Province. The district is tectonically situated at the center of the Yangtze craton, close to the western margin of the Jiangnan orogen. Based on the field structural research, this study found that clear differences between the Sinian-Early Paleozoic and Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic structural deformation features, which were controlled or influenced by the Early Paleozoic Caledonian tectonic movement. The structural line of Sinian-Early Paleozoic is EW-trending, gently EW folded with south- or north-dipping cleavages, which shows the NS-trending compressive deformation. Two sets of NS-and NW-trending high-pitched faults were developed in the Sinian-Early Paleozoic, which were obviously restricted that did not crosscut the post-Late Paleozoic sequences. Sinian-Early Paleozoic interlayer gliding and faulting activities control the distribution of lead-zinc orebodies. Regional tectonic stress field was likely changed after the Late Paleozoic, from early NS-trending compression to early Yanshanian WNW-trending(ESE-dipping) thrusting, which superposed and deformed the Sinian-Early Paleozoic structures, and formed the regional NE-trending tectonic pattern. The late-stage fold axis dips mainly to ESE and the faults thrust to WNW, obliquely superposed on the early deformation. The Yanshanian faulting may have promoted the migration and enrichment of the lead-zinc ores.

Key words: Caledonian deformation, Yanshanian deformation, superposed structure, lead-zinc deposit, Wuzhishan anticline

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