New paleomagnetic and magnetic fabric results for Early Cretaceous rocks from the Turpan intramontane basin,east Tianshan,northwest China
New paleomagnetic and magnetic fabric results for Early Cretaceous rocks from the Turpan intramontane basin,east Tianshan,northwest China作者机构:Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029 China Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029 China Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029 China
出 版 物:《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学(地球科学英文版))
年 卷 期:2004年第47卷第6期
页 面:540-550页
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基 金:This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40172081)
主 题:Turpan Basin, Early Cretaceous, paleomagnetism, kinematics.
摘 要:In order to further constrain the tectonic configuration of the Tianshan fold belt and the blocks of its northern and southern sides prior to the Eocene India/Eurasia collision and to reveal their general kinematic characteristics after the collision,we carried out pa- leomagnetic study for Early Cretaceous rocks collected from the Turpan intramontane basin of east Tianshan,northwest China.A high-temperature component (HTC)with dual polarities can be isolated from most samples after progressive thermal *** demagnetization behavior and some rock magnetic features of the samples indicate that this HTC resides mainly in *** positive fold and reversal tests suggest that the HTC may be a primary mag- netization acquired at or close to the time of formation of the *** to previous results obtained from Cretaceous rocks in western China,paleomagnetic results from the Turpan in- tramontane basin retain also the inclination shallowing relative to stable ***, the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS)measurements showed weak anisotropy degrees for Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou sandstones from the Turpan *** weak anisotropy degrees are independent of inclinations of the HTC,confirming that the effect of sedimentary compaction in most of these rocks can generally be neglected. Comparison of the Early Cretaceous results from Turpan with the coeval ones from Tarim, Junggar and stable Eurasia suggests that the Turpan intramontane basin displaced with no or slightly relative tectonic movement compared with Tarim but with a distinguishable latitudinal conver-gence relative to both Junggar and stable Eurasia since the India/Eurasia collision.