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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (04): 784-799.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.04.14

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Provenance and Tectonic Setting of Chang 10-Chang 8 Member in the Southern Ordos Basin

LI Yijia(), RUAN Zhuang(), LIU Shuai, CHANG Qiuhong, LAI Wei, YANG Zhihui   

  1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2019-10-17 Revised:2019-11-15 Online:2020-08-31 Published:2020-09-03
  • Contact: RUAN Zhuang

Abstract:

During the Middle-Late Triassic, all tectonic blocks surrounding the Ordos Basin were in different stages of tectonic evolution. Especially in the southern margin of the basin, the detrital source is still controversial. Provenance of the Yanchang Formation in the basin is still under much debate, especially the Chang 10 to Chang 8 section. In this study, the sandstone detrital component and geochemical statistics in the bottom of Yanchang Formation (Chang 10-Chang 8) are analyzed to unravel their provenance. The results show that the Chang 10-Chang 8 section have the characteristics of shallow-water, intermediate-proximal source deposition with weak oxidation. The major materials of the Chang 10-Chang 8 section may have formed in an island arc. Moreover, there are recycled-orogenic materials in Chang 8 in the western part of the southern margin. The Chang 10-Chang 8 member was likely originated from the Alxa block and Yinshan paleo-continent in the southern part of the basin, the Chang 10-Chang 9 member may have originated mainly from the Alxa block in the western part of the southern margin, whilst the Chang 8 member was likely a mixture of clastic materials from the Qilian and Qinling regions. This multi-source and varying material composition may have closely related to the orogenic activities around the Middle Triassic basin, indicating that this area is an ideal target to revel the source to sink system. Our findings can assist the reconstruction of the basin depositional environment, and the prediction of favorable reservoir sandbodies, which provides the theoretical basis for future oil and gas exploration in the study area.

Key words: Yanchang Formation, provenance analysis, Dickinson diagram, geochemistry, Ordos Basin

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