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Three-stage Mesozoic intracontinental tectonic evolution of South China recorded in an overprinted basin: evidence from stratigraphy and detrital zircon U–Pb dating

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Huimin Ma Open the ORCID record for Huimin Ma [Opens in a new window] ,
Yu Wang ,
Yajuan Huang  and
Yueting Xie
Huimin Ma
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China
Yu Wang*
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China
Yajuan Huang
Affiliation:
Guangdong Bureau of Coal Geology, Guangzhou 510440, PR China
Yueting Xie
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China
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*Author for correspondence: Yu Wang, Email: wangy@cugb.edu.cn
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Abstract

The NE–NNE-trending Yuan-Ma Basin in central South China, an overprinted basin, is important for understanding the transition in Mesozoic intracontinental deformation in South China from compressional to extensional settings. A detailed sedimentary and structural cross-section across the basin reveals the Upper Triassic – Lower Jurassic black coal-bearing shale, greyish-green sandstone and brick-red claystone, and the Middle Jurassic brick-red sandstone, pebbly sandstone and conglomerate in the eastern segment of the basin. The Lower Cretaceous brick-red coarse sandstone, pebbly sandstone and siltstone occurred in the western and central segments, as well as fault breccia and Lower Cretaceous sandstone at the western margin of the basin. Detrital zircon U–Pb dating by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry shows that the magmatic and metamorphic zircons yield significant age clusters at 900–700, 500–350 and 300–150 Ma, as well a minor age cluster at 120–100 Ma. Synthesizing the stratigraphic sequences, structures, isotopic dating results and palaeocurrent data, we infer that the Yuan-Ma Basin experienced three evolutionary stages and tectonic settings: (1) during Late Triassic – Early Jurassic time, the Yuan-Ma Basin was related to the diachronous progressive intracontinental deformation as a result of the early Mesozoic Xuefeng intracontinental orogeny in South China; (2) during Middle–Late Jurassic time, the Yuan-Ma Basin was related to intracontinental compression in South China; and (3) during late Early Cretaceous time, the Yuan-Ma Basin was constrained by the intracontinental extension that occurred in eastern China. These three stages, a result of various tectonic regimes, caused the intracontinental deformation that was controlled by the evolution of the continents and their margins.

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Mesozoic intracontinental deformationYuan-Ma Basinstructural cross-sectiondetrital zircon geochronologytectonic evolution
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Geological Magazine , Volume 156 , Issue 12 , December 2019 , pp. 2085 - 2103
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