Evolution of Sedimentary Basins in the Upper Yangtze during Mesozoic
Wei Yi
Zhang Zongyan
He Weihong
Wu Nianwen
Yang Bing
Abstract：The geotectonic environments are reconstructed and presented in this paper.Firstly,the Mesozoic sedimentary for-mation of the Upper Yangtze is studied in detail,then the basin features are analyzed based on the lithology of each unit (for-mation)and the space distribution framework of basins is established.Eventually,three stages of tectonic evolution of the Up-per Yangtze are summarized by means of detailed analysis of chronostratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlations,paleogeogra-phy of biology,lithofacies and tectonics.The Upper Yangtze region rose continuously,water of which became shallow,and a series of clastic-carbonate epeiric sea and platform-interplatform basin sedimentary basin formed because of Indosinian orogeny during Early-Middle Triassic.When it came to Late Triassic to Early Jurassic,the Upper Yangtze collided with the Tethys do-main block or arc-basin collisional zone in its west,the paleogeographic environments in the southwest and north of which turned to foreland basin and peripheral foreland basin,while the Xuefeng uplift turned orogeny.After middle Jurassic,with the subduction of paleo-Pacific plate to Asia plate,the south Upper Yangtze came into continental orogenic stage that mainly devel-oped a series of downwarped basins to the east of Xuefeng Mountain and a large-scale depressional basin to the west.
Keywords：the Upper YangtzeMesozoicsedimentologybasin-evolutiontectonics
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：14( 1065-1078 )