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Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution in Northwestern Qaidam Basin

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  • Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research,Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,China

Received date: 2009-10-21

  Revised date: 2010-01-12

  Online published: 2010-04-10

Abstract

The Qaidam basin with its unique geographical position and structural environment was controlled by three large size circumferential faults (Altun Tagh strike-slip fault, south Qilian fault and Kunlun fault) during its formation and evolution. The tectonic evolution and coupling relationship are very complicated. Based on fission track age dating of apatite and zircon, in combination with previous model of Altun Tagh strike-slip fault and structural feature of northwestern Qaidam basin, two tectonic events in northwestern Qaidam basin after last Mesozoic age were determined, corresponding to mid-Cretaceous and early Neogene, respectively. In these two tectonic events, the Altun Tagh strike-slip fault was shown as early ductile strike slip and whole extensive strike slip later, whereas there are two settings of  asynchronous structural types in the northwestern Qaidam basin.

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SUN Guo-Jiang, ZHENG Jian-Jing, SU Long, LIU Xin-Wang, YANG Xin, LIU Yu-Hu . Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution in Northwestern Qaidam Basin[J]. Natural Gas Geoscience, 2010 , 21(2) : 212 -217 . DOI: 10.11764/j.issn.1672-1926.2010.02.212

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