Geological age and tectono-sedimentary setting of the Tang Wangling Conglomerate
Huang Jian-Song1,2, Guo Wei1,2, Yang Ping3, Yi Gang3
1 Exploration and Development Research Institute of Changqing Oil Field Branch,PetroChina,Xi’an 710018,China; 2 National Engineering Laboratory for Exploration and Development of Low Permeability Oil & Gas Field,Xi’an 710018,China; 3 Changbei Operation Company of Changqing Oil Field Branch,PetroChina,Xi’an 710018,China
Abstract：Since the discovery of the Tang Wangling Conglomerate in 1960s,its depositional age and sedimentary environment have been controversial. Based on strata contact relationship,lithology and palaeontological data between its upper and lower strata on several outcrops and combined with drilling results of two wells in the west part of the Weibei Uplift,this paper defines its geological age as the Hirnantian Stage of the Late Ordovician. The Tang Wangling Conglomerate was deposited in a submarine fan at the base of the foreland slope in the northern North Qinling island arc under a steep bank background of a foreland basin. The basin was continuously uplifted and undergone collapse and erosion during the latest Ordovician. The result is consistent with the continuous uplift of North Qinling island arc after the Middle Ordovician. The northern slope of the Northern Qinling island arc and its Paleozoic and other older strata were continually overturning to the north and subjected to varying degrees of metamorphism and denudation. The back-arc basin between North Qinling Mountains and North China landmass evolved into a foreland basin and gradually closed. There are other supporting evidence such as the coarsening upward depositional cycles and a large number of gravity flow deposits in the Tang Wangling Conglomerate such as debris flows,grain flows,and turbidity currents. This paper not only clarifies the geological age of the Tang Wangling Conglomerate and the Dongzhuang Shale,but also establishes a foundation for its tectonic evolution during the Caledonian orogeny and for petroleum geology research in the foreland basin between North Qinling Mountain and the west part of the Weibei Uplift area.
Huang Jian-Song,Guo Wei,Yang Ping et al. Geological age and tectono-sedimentary setting of the Tang Wangling Conglomerate[J]. JOPC, 2019, 21(4): 557-576.
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