Evolution of Cenozoic Sedimentary Basins in Western China
Song Bowen
Xu Yadong
Liang Yinping
Jiang Shangsong
Luo Mansheng
Ji Junliang
Han Fang
Wei Yi
Xu Zenglian
Jiang Gaolei
Abstract：During the Cenozoic,strong multi-stage tectonic events occurred in western China,which experienced a complex tectonic-geomorphic evolution history.Tectonic setting and geodynamic process determined the tectonic-geomorphic evolutions in the continent of western China.Sedimentary basin-orogen belt systems are the dominant basic structural pattern in western China during the Cenozoic.Basin-range pattern is the major geomorphic unit in western China.According to the geometric,dy-namic features of tectonic evolution of basins,the Cenozoic sedimentary basins in western China fall into four tectonic catego-ries:contractional basin,faulted basin,strike-slip pull-apart basin and remnant sea-foreland basin.These closed geomorphic basins in western China were surrounded by orogenic belts,which are divided by active compressive faults (thrust fault and strike-slip fault).Both the Indian-Eurasian plate collision and the intracontinental subduction play significant role in the forma-tion and evolution of sedimentary basins in western China.There is a close relationship among the tectonic lithofacies paleogeo-graphic evolution of sedimentary basins,plate movement and tectonic uplift.
Keywords：western Chinasedimentologytectonicsbasin evolutionCenozoic
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：17( 1035-1051 )