The author initiated and adopted the single factor analysis and multifactor comprehensive mapping method as a new methodology of quantitative lithofacies palaeogeography in order to reconstruct quantitative lithofacies palaeogeography By meaning， single factors are the factors which can independently reflect some characteristics of sedimentary environments of a stratigraphic interval of a section in an area Presence or absence as well as high or low percentage of single factors can all independently and quantitatively reflect some characteristics of sedimentary environments of the interval of the section in the area, such as water depth, water energy, nature of the sedimentary environments, etc The thickness of the interval and its specific rock types, texture constituents, mineral composition, chemical composition, fossils and their ecological assemblages, etc, can all be taken as single factorsThe single factor analysis and multifactor comprehensive mapping method include three steps First, an indepth petrological and lithofacies study of each section, especially fundamental section, should be made in order to obtain various reliable firsthand qualitative and quantitative data, especially quantitative data, and to understand the characteristics of sedimentary environments of each interval of each section Second, according to the mapping units, from the quantitative data of each section, select those factors which can independently reflect the characteristics of sedimentary environments, ie the single factors Then the statistics of the percent contents of various single factors of each mapping unit of each section in the area are made Based on these percentage data, the various quantitative single factor maps, mainly isoline maps， are composed These single factor maps can quantitatively reflect the characteristics of sedimentary environments of the mapping unit of the area from different aspects This is the single factor analysis Third, through superimposition and synthesis of these quantitative single factor maps, combined with other quantitative and qualitative data of this mapping unit of the area, with the dross discarded and the essential selected, with the false eliminated and the true retained, the quantitative lithofacies palaeogeography map of the mapping unit of the area can be composed This is the multifactor comprehensive mappingThe core of this methodology is quantification That is, based on the quantitative single factor data of each section, starting from analysis of various quantitative single factor maps, through superimposition and comprehensive analysis and judgement, finally the quantitative lithofacies palaeogeography map can be composed In such palaeogeography map, the definition of each palaeogeographic unit is based on quantitative data and quantitative single factor maps Therefore, such lithofacies palaeogeography maps are no longer sketchy and qualitative, but quantitative instead Quantification is the most important character of the author's lithofacies palaeogeography maps This makes lithofacies palaeogeography map and lithofacies palaeogeogaphy develop into the quantitative stage This is an important development in palaeogeography