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| Danghe area (western Gansu, China) biostratigraphy and implications for depositional history and tectonics of northern Tibetan Plateau | |
Wang, XM; Wang, BY ; Qiu, ZX; Xie, GP; Xie, JY; Downs, W; Qiu, ZD; Deng, T; Wang, XM (reprint author), Los Angeles Cty Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Explosit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA.
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| 2003-03-30 | |
| 发表期刊 | EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
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| ISSN | 0012-821X |
| 卷号 | 208期号:3-4页码:253-269 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | The Danghe area in western Gansu Province is at the focal point of interaction of the northeastern end of the left-lateral Altyn Tagh Fault and growing ramp thrusts of the Danghe Nanshan Mountains along the northern rim of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. With a thick sequence of Tertiary sediments and associated fossil records, the Danghe area is one of few places on the Tibetan Plateau that can offer integrated studies of its tectonic history, depositional environment, and biological records, including vertebrate and plant fossils. Past studies, however, have not been able to capitalize on the paleontological data or were often misguided by an outdated notion of regional chronology. Incorrect age estimates in these studies often have profound effects on tectonic interpretations. We present new stratigraphic and paleontologic evidence from the Danghe area and demonstrate a new chronologic scheme that indicates a much younger age for the majority of the sediments. We recognize three packages of sediments in the Danghe area: (1) Oligocene Paoniuquan (new name) Formation, basal, predominantly fine-grained, dark purple mudstones and siltstones that include the classic Yindirte Fauna, which forms the basis of the Tabenbulukian mammal age; (2) early Miocene to early late Miocene Tiejianggou (new name) Formation that contains a new platybelodont proboscidean in a coarsening-upward sequence terminating in a massive conglomerate; and (3) an unnamed late Neogene formation that contains another coarsening-upward sequence. In light of our new stratigraphic framework, we reinterpret a previously published magnetic column for the middle sequence in Xishuigou as representing chrons C6n through C4Ar corresponding to a span of about 20-9.3 Ma, much younger than has been realized so far. This new chronological framework suggests a depositional history of the Danghe Nanshan that spans at least the early Oligocene through late Miocene, to possibly Pliocene. Early depositions during the Oligocene through middle Miocene are dominated by fine-grained sediments indicating a distant source of sedimentation. Paleontological data suggest a relatively dry environment, as is typical of northern China today. By late Miocene (around 9-12 Ma), the Danghe area began to receive coarse sediments and was much closer to the mountain front. The new stratigraphic framework indicates an earlier onset of sedimentation than has generally been assumed, but also suggests the presence of sediments much younger than many have realized. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.; The Danghe area in western Gansu Province is at the focal point of interaction of the northeastern end of the left-lateral Altyn Tagh Fault and growing ramp thrusts of the Danghe Nanshan Mountains along the northern rim of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. With a thick sequence of Tertiary sediments and associated fossil records, the Danghe area is one of few places on the Tibetan Plateau that can offer integrated studies of its tectonic history, depositional environment, and biological records, including vertebrate and plant fossils. Past studies, however, have not been able to capitalize on the paleontological data or were often misguided by an outdated notion of regional chronology. Incorrect age estimates in these studies often have profound effects on tectonic interpretations. We present new stratigraphic and paleontologic evidence from the Danghe area and demonstrate a new chronologic scheme that indicates a much younger age for the majority of the sediments. We recognize three packages of sediments in the Danghe area: (1) Oligocene Paoniuquan (new name) Formation, basal, predominantly fine-grained, dark purple mudstones and siltstones that include the classic Yindirte Fauna, which forms the basis of the Tabenbulukian mammal age; (2) early Miocene to early late Miocene Tiejianggou (new name) Formation that contains a new platybelodont proboscidean in a coarsening-upward sequence terminating in a massive conglomerate; and (3) an unnamed late Neogene formation that contains another coarsening-upward sequence. In light of our new stratigraphic framework, we reinterpret a previously published magnetic column for the middle sequence in Xishuigou as representing chrons C6n through C4Ar corresponding to a span of about 20-9.3 Ma, much younger than has been realized so far. This new chronological framework suggests a depositional history of the Danghe Nanshan that spans at least the early Oligocene through late Miocene, to possibly Pliocene. Early depositions during the Oligocene through middle Miocene are dominated by fine-grained sediments indicating a distant source of sedimentation. Paleontological data suggest a relatively dry environment, as is typical of northern China today. By late Miocene (around 9-12 Ma), the Danghe area began to receive coarse sediments and was much closer to the mountain front. The new stratigraphic framework indicates an earlier onset of sedimentation than has generally been assumed, but also suggests the presence of sediments much younger than many have realized. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Tertiary Mammals Stratigraph Tectonics Tibetan Plateau |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences |
| URL | 查看原文 |
| 关键词[WOS] | ALTYN-TAGH FAULT ; HUI AUTONOMOUS REGION ; JIUXI BASIN ; NORTHEASTERN TIBET ; HEXI CORRIDOR ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; QILIAN-SHAN ; MIOCENE ; SYSTEM ; EVOLUTION |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| WOS类目 | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000181954800011 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3737 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） 古低等脊椎动物研究室 古哺乳动物研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | Wang, XM (reprint author), Los Angeles Cty Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Explosit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA. |
| 作者单位 | 1.Los Angeles Cty Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Acad Sinica, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Ganzi Prov Museum, Dept Nat Sci, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, Peoples R China 4.Cultural Rel Archaeol Inst Gansu, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, Peoples R China 5.No Arizona Univ, Dept Geol, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, XM,Wang, BY,Qiu, ZX,et al. Danghe area (western Gansu, China) biostratigraphy and implications for depositional history and tectonics of northern Tibetan Plateau[J]. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,2003,208(3-4):253-269. |
| APA | Wang, XM.,Wang, BY.,Qiu, ZX.,Xie, GP.,Xie, JY.,...&Wang, XM .(2003).Danghe area (western Gansu, China) biostratigraphy and implications for depositional history and tectonics of northern Tibetan Plateau.EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,208(3-4),253-269. |
| MLA | Wang, XM,et al."Danghe area (western Gansu, China) biostratigraphy and implications for depositional history and tectonics of northern Tibetan Plateau".EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 208.3-4(2003):253-269. |
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