指出潮水盆地与酒西盆地的中新生代构造具有很好的相似性:中生代盆地为走滑拉分盆地,发育张扭伸展断层系(边界走滑断裂,盆内伸展正断层),一级构造单元为断陷、断隆;新生代盆地是陆内前陆盆地,发育扭压逆冲断裂系,盆地一侧发育逆冲推覆体,一级构造单元为逆掩冲断褶皱区、坳陷、斜坡。认为可以利用酒西盆地的资料和勘探成果认识潮水盆地,借助酒西盆地的勘探经验指导潮水盆地的下一步勘探。

The structure of Chaoshui basin and Jiuxi basin have better comparability in Mesozoic and Cenozoic: the basins in Mesozoic are both skip and pull apart basins, the basin in Cenozoic are both intracontinental foreland basins, they both develop tenso-shear and extension fault systems in Mesozoic (the boundary is skip fault, the interior of basin is extension fault), they both develop shear-compression and thrust fault systems in Cenozoic, and develop thrust nappe on one side of the basin.